Simple Fantasy Skirmish is a set of free wargames rules designed to bring kids and beginners to the tabletop miniatures gaming hobby.
Rules: Fantasy
Fantasy Warriors Free Wargames Rules
EM4 Miniatures offers a free download of the old Grenadier Fantasy Warriors rules by Nick Lund. This a nice set that I’ve played on a number of occasions. I actually have a couple of the original big box sets of Fantasy Warriors, complete with plastic miniatures.
Cinema Tactics
Cinema Tactics offers rules, scenarios and more.
From the rules introduction:
Cinema Tactics is a game of sword fighting, bow shooting, and spell casting in party level fantasy engagements. It can be played with two dice, a deck of playing cards, and a piece of paper. Players lead heroes against forces marshaled by the Overlord or bands of heroes may be pitted against each other.
Salvation and Steel Fantasy Skirmish Rules
Salvation and Steel is a set of free wargames rules for fantasy skirmishes. The author writes:
Salvation and Steel is a turn-based fantasy skirmish game designed to be played with 28mm miniatures on a 3′ x 3′ board with around 8 to 14 models per side. All materials needed to play Salvation and Steel, including the rules, are FREE or can easily be proxied.
The basic rules for Salvation and Steel aim to keep things relatively simple, and they’ve been written with a big focus on balancing the complexity of unit stats (attributes) and rules, in order to make things tactical and competitive without the players having to rules-check more than play during a game.
Simply put, the basic rules were not only written for new players, but also for younger players wanting to get into miniatures games and do something rather than read about it for longer than 5-10 minutes.
The advanced rules are, for the most part, an expansion rather than a replacement of the basic rules.
Age of Fantasy Regimental Rules
Age of Fantasy: Regiments is a set of free wargames rules for simple fantasy Regimental actions. The rules fit on one page, and there are “army books” for various races.