The Games: Blood and Spectacle is a set of free wargames rules for gladiatorial combat in ancient Rome.
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Wrath of the Gods Fantasy Skirmish Game
Wrath of the Gods is a set of free wargames rules for skirmishes with a classical mythological flavor.
Justified Ancients Rules
Justified Ancients is a set of free wargames rules for simple ancients battle games. The author writes:
Justified Ancients is a fast paced element based wargame that takes simple mechanics to produce a beleivable result. Easy to learn they are percet for filling in that last half hour before the Pub or playing a huge battle in two hours.
Wargames Research Group Ancients – 5th Edition
Wargames Research Group has a page with lots of their older sets available, including the Fifth Edition Ancients, which were the standard for many years.
Bronze Age Skirmish Photos: Israelites vs Philistines
Here’s a photo montage of our recent game featuring Israelites vs Philistines in a bronze age skirmish. The rules were a home made variant of Games Workshop’s Lord of the Rings Skirmish Rules.
The Philistines had superior numbers and were better in hand-to-hand combat. The Israelites had a high percentage of missile troops (bow and sling) who were poor in close combat, but were led by Judges (as in Gideon and Ehud, not Dredd). It was a near thing, but in the end, the might of the Judges prevailed.