Here’s an amazing list of hundreds of spaceship games. Compiled by Tom Granvold, it includes board, miniatures, dice, card and role playing games. If you like such things, check out it out.
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Point of No Return Starship Rules
Point of No Return is a set of free wargames rules for starship combat with simple vector movement and inertia.
Task Force Zeta Starship Rules
Task Force Zeta is a set of free wargames rules for starship combat.
Pundits will tell you that representing space combat in 3 dimensions is a wasted exercise in mathematics, and that two ships fighting can be equally well represented on a 2-dimensional plane. What happens when you have three ships? ten? Did their captains all just conveniently forget about attacking/defending from the z axis?
Task Force Zeta allows you to fight battles against opponents in a representation of real (3-D) space using vector movement – without doing complex math every time you move or fire. Fourteen different ship classes are provided, along with fighters and bases, as well as basic rules for ship construction – design your own factions or convert ships from your favorite movies/TV shows!
Heroscape Blank Card Maker
One of the joys of Heroscape is that you can use literally any 25mm / 28mm figures. You just have to make up cards for them. This has led to efforts by a large number of people to duplicate the look of Milton Bradley’s double hex unit cards. Here’s one such effort. Its a .tif file in layers that you import into your favorite graphics editor. Be warned, though. It’s a big file at 13.4 megs.
Ruination Science Fantasy Game
Ruination is a set of free wargames rules for science fantasy skirmishes.
Such ruin, such destruction, such misery and woe has been visited upon this land. Empires have fallen, kings have deserted their thrones and faith has forsaken the Church. The champions of old have been defeated. Ancient alliances lie in ruins. Now new heroes are rising up, seeking a new path, forging their own destiny. Power is unguarded and is ready to be grasped by those daring enough to seize it.
Ruination is a game of duelling heroes – implacable warriors, cruel sorcerers, devious rogues and other lone champions intent on battling their way across this devastated landscape. Now is the time for action, now it is time to unleash your inner Hero, to find your path to greatness and the glory that awaits you!