suggestions for fantasy skirmish rules

[petercooman]

Hey guys,

Got the new d&d boardgame (temple of elemental evil) delivered this morning. Now i started wondering, now that i have all 4 of the boardgames, i have a crapload of fantasy/d&d miniatures in 28mm. Would be a waste not to do some skirmish games with them!

Any one got some suggestions for nice (and cheap  ) rules for this? Song of blades and heroes is on sale on wargamevault at the moment, but wanted to see if there was something else. Looking especially something where i can put the 'd&d feel' in. Song of blade and heroes does that through the special rules i think, anyone got experience with them? It would of course be mostly heroes VS monsters.

Thanks in advance!

[fred.]

Songs of Blades and heroes is good. Its fairly simple but still has enough depth to it. It actually has a lot in common with Warband when it comes to mechanisms.

[wurrukatte]

SOBH Seconded.

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[petercooman]

Simple is good, means i can play it with the boy 

Anyway the bundle with the first 4 books, including the core book, is 25% off on wargame vault in case anyone is interested!

[toxicpixie]

I like SoBH, but there's a whole slew of possible stuff - Mordheim has a living rule book, there's Frostgrave just come out. Possibly Dragon Rampant as/when it's released? The old D&D miniatures was fun, IIRC...

Maybe even the old Pendraken fantasy dungeon crawl rules? Not quite skirmish, but a simple dungeon delve, where the boy can play the whole party versus the monsters?

[petercooman]

The old D&D miniatures was fun, IIRC...

What were those rules like? Map based?

[toxicpixie]

Yes, they used the D&D map sheets gridded out in squares with a very simplified "not quite 3.5 era" rules set as a straight tactical combat game...

[petercooman]

Interesting 

Will look at it when i get home from work

[kodiakblair]

There's Swordplay from Two Hour Wargames.  It's an easy system and works great for solo,added bonus is it's free.

Bear in mind it uses the 2Hr Wargames reaction system so there's a very good chance won't do what you want once
battle commences.

http://www.twohourwargames.com/swordplay.html

[petercooman]

There's Swordplay from Two Hour Wargames.  It's an easy system and works great for solo,added bonus is it's free.

Bear in mind it uses the 2Hr Wargames reaction system so there's a very good chance won't do what you want once
battle commences.

http://www.twohourwargames.com/swordplay.html

I have that one, but find it a bit confusing actually, Must read it again one time to see how it actually works.

[Matt J]

I hear GW have just released new fantasy skirmish rules... and they're free 

(they are also crap)

[petercooman]

I hear GW have just released new fantasy skirmish rules... and they're free 

(they are also crap)

I asked for a skirmish game, not a central table mosh pit 

[O Dinas Powys]

Savage Worlds' Showdown, click on the link here for the FREE pdf: https://www.peginc.com/product-category/savage-worlds/ or here direct to the pdf: https://www.peginc.com/freebies/Showdown/Showdown.pdf

Must admit I haven't used the Showdown rules per se, but have used the RPG rules for moderately complex combats. 

Showdown is basically a stripped-down version of the RPG, missing the skills and other less relevant systems. 

Cheers!

Meirion

[GrumpyOldMan]

Hello pc

From the Free Wargame Rules Wiki:-

http://freewargamesrules.wikia.com/wiki/Fantasy_Skirmish
http://freewargamesrules.wikia.com/wiki/GROMM_Fantasy_Skirmish
http://freewargamesrules.wikia.com/wiki/One_Page_Skirmish

All look like reasonably simple Fantasy skirmish systems.

Cheers

GrumpyOldMan

[petercooman]

Thanks all!

Much to look through!