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Commercially published systems from specialist presses and larger houses. This is a growing, sourced catalog of rule families and notable editions.
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Publication year identifies the listed edition or first release. A later edition appears separately when it marks a substantial new version.
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2024 · Reisswitz Press / TooFatLardies · First edition
Heroes and warrior bands fight battles inspired by history, legend and fantasy, from Troy and Hastings to Arthurian and Norse settings. Reputation rewards heroic deeds and reverses, while scale-agnostic forces, sorcery, flying creatures, scenarios and force-building rules support varied collections.
2017 · Green Dragon Hobbies · Version 4.1
Individual-soldier WWII rules for squad and platoon actions. Suppressive fire, spotting, defensive fire, and separate training and experience ratings shape the infantry fight. Documentation-based Battleward review examines the publisher sample.
Ostfront Publishing
Company- to battalion-level combined-arms rules with platoon infantry bases, armor, artillery, reconnaissance, and support. An optional campaign links tabletop outcomes to map operations. Review based on publisher documentation.
Dadi&Piombo · First-edition supplement · 2015 v1.7 document examined
Supplement to the original Impetus rules: amendments, clarifications, competition procedures, ambushes, advanced deployment, and flank marches. Requires the original base rules; it is not standalone or current Impetus Second Edition errata.
2017 · Capitan Games · Third edition
Grand-tactical WWII rules with company units grouped into formations. Command-point spending, coordinated activations, and enemy response actions make leadership and combined arms central. Review examines the publisher sample.
2019 · Ostfront Publishing
Naval miniature rules for small to medium fleet actions. Mandatory wind-dependent sailing precedes alternating ship activations; crew checks determine available orders. Review examines the publisher sample and broad historical coverage.
2022 · Old Dominion GameWorks (ODGW) · Core rules v2.1b update
Company-level combined-arms battles with individual vehicles and alternating platoon activation. Optional Drop-In modules add infantry, artillery, engineering and air support; the rules support micro armor through 15mm figures.
Old Dominion GameWorks (ODGW) · Third edition
Naval miniature rules covering surface gunnery, torpedoes, radar, damage control, aircraft and submarines. Campaign tools include weather, logistics, shore bombardment and amphibious operations, with streamlined alternatives for air and submarine combat.
Old Dominion GameWorks (ODGW)
Battalion- and regimental-level rules for conflicts including the English Civil War, Seven Years War, Napoleonic Wars and American Civil War. Morale, disorder and ammunition shape unit effectiveness; optional modules cover command, cavalry, skirmishing, artillery and fortifications.
Old Dominion GameWorks (ODGW)
Zombie-survival miniature scenarios in which players guide survivors toward safety while fighting the undead. ODGW provides a dedicated rules forum and product-download support alongside its historical miniature systems.
2024 · Reisswitz Press / TooFatLardies · Second edition
Dave Brown’s second edition puts battalions within brigade commands, using ADC taskings and limited personal interventions to make divisional and corps command a matter of priorities.
1968 · Z&M Publishing Enterprises
A detailed early approach to WWII armor and infantry with HO and micro armor; one of the small-publisher titles that helped define historical miniature gaming.
1971 · Guidon Games
Medieval miniature battles with a fantasy supplement; its reach extends into the origins of role-playing games.
1971 · Guidon Games
Chart-rich armor combat from the early micro-armor era, with attention to individual vehicles and weapons.
1975 · Richard R. Sartore / SEEKRIEG · First release; fourth edition 1981
A specialist naval system that grew through several editions; the 1981 fourth edition covers the age of the battleship in depth.
1981 · Game Designers’ Workshop
Ground combat for 15mm Traveller forces, including vehicle design and a serious treatment of future combined arms.
1983 · Games Workshop
Mass fantasy battles built around armies, heroes and a setting that became a giant in the miniature hobby.
1983 · Adventure Games
John Hill’s regimental Civil War rules, known for battlefield detail and a long life across later editions.
1986 · Game Designers’ Workshop
Frank Chadwick’s battalion-level WWII system puts command and coordination above the detail of every individual tank shot.
1987 · Games Workshop
The first edition of the tabletop system that developed into the dominant science-fiction miniature game.
1989 · Avalon Hill
Grand-tactical Napoleonic rules that let players command substantial formations rather than resolve every company’s fire.
1990 · Wargames Research Group
Compact armies, standardized bases and short games helped reshape ancient and medieval competition.
1990 · Quantum Printing
Brigade-level Civil War battles with a celebrated maneuver table and an emphasis on the ebb and flow of formations.
1994 · Game Designers’ Workshop
Large battles from the musket era on practical tables, with stands representing substantial units.
2002 · Battlefront Miniatures
Company-level WWII battles supported by an extensive miniature range and national force books.
1991 · Ground Zero Games
A flexible starship miniature system with a fast basic game and optional detail for larger fleets.
2006 · Test of Battle Games · Later edition
The later Command Decision line continues the focus on battalion command and historically grounded combined arms.
2007 · SkirmishCampaigns
Aircraft maneuver and campaign scenarios with plotted moves, designed for substantial multiplayer air actions.
2009 · Warlord Games
A broad framework for large tabletop battles across the black-powder era, with an emphasis on spectacle and pace.
2011 · Gripping Beast / Studio Tomahawk
Warband battles shaped by faction-specific battle boards, keeping small forces tactically distinct.
2012 · Warlord Games / Osprey
Platoon combat with random order-dice activation; a widely played accessible WWII system.
2013 · TooFatLardies
Patrols, leaders and uncertain activation make platoon command the center of the game.
2014 · To the Strongest!
Grid-based large battles dispense with measuring while retaining command risk and decisive maneuver.
2012 · Ares Games
Accessible aerial combat with maneuver decks and model aircraft, continuing the Wings of War family.
2015 · Battlefront Miniatures
A hypothetical late-Cold-War land fight in the Flames of War family, built for tanks, helicopters and infantry.
2024 · Games Workshop
A return to ranked fantasy armies and the Warhammer world, with a contemporary edition and model line.
2024 · Warlord Games / Osprey · Third edition
The current major edition of the order-dice WWII platoon game; listed separately so edition history stays clear.
2015 · Osprey Games
Flexible warbands, monsters, and magic bring fantasy battles to the Rampant family of rules. Unit profiles support an assortment of miniature collections without requiring one proprietary setting.
2022 · Osprey Games
A setting-independent large-skirmish system supports science fiction, weird war, and post-apocalyptic forces. Its unit options make it useful for assembling armies from an existing collection of figures.
2019 · Osprey Games
Small-unit actions cover North American warfare from colonial conflicts to the Civil War. Officer development and flexible company forces provide a framework for linked skirmish campaigns.
2016 · Osprey Games
Large skirmishes cover nineteenth-century colonial conflicts, with leadership and troop behavior shaping activation. The subject suits scenario-driven games with different force types and uneven battlefield situations.
2017 · Osprey Games
Companies of infantry and cavalry fight raids and skirmishes in the pike-and-shot era. An officer’s campaign career adds continuity between games without turning every action into a full army battle.
2015 · Osprey Games
A set of eighteenth-century battle rules centered on the Seven Years’ War. Command, movement, firing, and morale provide a framework for fighting historical engagements with formed armies.
2013 · Osprey Games
Small groups of warriors fight in feudal Japan, with individual combat choices giving encounters their character. A skirmish option for samurai, soldiers, and other fighters rather than massed armies.
2016 · Osprey Games
Individual fighters trade shots and sword blows in swashbuckling encounters. The rules emphasize small groups and dueling decisions, making them suitable for adventure-style scenarios.
2015 · Osprey Games
Fleet battles in the age of sail emphasize maneuver and the collective fighting ability of squadrons. A naval miniature system for larger actions rather than an exhaustive record of each sailor and gun.
2021 · Osprey Games
Corporations deploy fleets to complete contracts in interstellar space. The first-edition rules link combat to the cost of committing ships, so winning a firefight is not automatically a profitable decision.
2020 · Osprey Games
Wizards and their hired warbands explore a ruined magical city. Treasure hunting, spells, and campaign development connect small encounters, with survival and advancement providing reasons to return.
2021 · Osprey Games
A captain and first mate lead a small crew through dangerous salvage and mission encounters. Campaign advancement and flexible character choices suit collections drawn from several science-fiction miniature ranges.
2021 · Osprey Games
Small Napoleonic-era teams encounter monsters and supernatural threats. Historical uniforms supply the setting, but the premise is horror adventure rather than a simulation of conventional brigade warfare.
2019 · Osprey Games
Armed vehicles race and fight through a ruined future. Movement templates and vehicle customization make converted toy cars central to the hobby appeal, with collisions and hazardous maneuvers shaping play.
2020 · Osprey Games
Fantasy armies fight within a framework of kingdom building and campaign warfare. Different peoples can be combined within a kingdom, encouraging armies assembled around a setting rather than a single faction aesthetic.
2020 · Osprey Games
Scavenger crews venture into an anomalous exclusion zone for salvage. Hostile encounters and campaign development support small forces and terrain-heavy games with a survival-horror atmosphere.
2015 · Osprey Games
Small teams conduct modern covert missions where stealth and alarms affect the action. The rules offer a different battlefield problem from a straightforward meeting engagement between visible forces.
Ambush Alley Games / Osprey Publishing
Modern engagements emphasize troop quality, reaction, and mission objectives. The Ambush Alley/Osprey system covers conventional and asymmetric situations, making scenario context important to the balance of a game.
2012 · Osprey Games
Element-based armies fight in post-Roman Britain, with leadership resources influencing battlefield performance. A compact route into the era’s shieldwalls, mounted troops, and rival war leaders.
2014 · Osprey Games
Small groups reenact martial-arts and action-film encounters with gunplay, stunts, and extraordinary fighters. This is a cinematic skirmish game, with narrative possibilities taking priority over military realism.
Osprey Games
Small forces fight across a magical version of the Great War, where changed coastlines and awakened powers alter the battlefield. Campaign play mixes military equipment with supernatural threats.
Osprey Games
Animal warriors form small warbands in the troubled kingdom of Northymbra. Individual equipment, spells, and developing characters make the campaign as important as a single skirmish.
Osprey Games
Rival fantasy gangs compete for power in the streets of Ordinsport. Playing cards and bribery add uncertainty to small encounters between criminals and enforcers.
Osprey Games
Survivor groups search for supplies while hostile humans and zombies threaten their plans. A campaign tracks the group between encounters, making losses and scarce resources matter.
Osprey Games
Posses clash in an alternate American West under supernatural rule. Gunfights, occult factions, and campaign development combine familiar frontier weapons with monsters and magic.
Osprey Games
Small-scale infantry, vehicles, aircraft, and walking machines fight combined-arms battles. The rules use flexible force construction so players can field models from different miniature ranges.
Osprey Games
Players build small crews with individual traits and equipment rather than large armies. Missions and an activation system support clashes between bounty hunters, pirates, traders, and other spacefaring characters.
Osprey Games
Street operatives fight for money and influence in a cyberpunk city. Hacking and technological upgrades add another layer to missions fought by small, customized crews.
TooFatLardies
Each player commands one or more tanks in small World War II engagements. Command dice limit the actions available to a crew, so acquiring a target and completing the shot depend on more than a weapon rating.
Osprey Games
Small bands fight encounters in the Crusader states. A campaign develops individual fighters and follows the fortunes of a force through the hazards of medieval warfare.
Osprey Games
Investigators confront supernatural threats through linked tabletop encounters. Solo and cooperative play combine fighting with the discovery of clues and the development of a wider mystery.
Osprey Games
Roman armies and their opponents fight battles from the Samnite Wars through the conquest of Gaul. Army lists reflect changes in Republican warfare and include enemies such as Carthage and the Gallic peoples.
Osprey Games
Fleets of flying battleships contest the skies of an alternate early twentieth century. National fleet lists, scenarios, and campaign rules support engagements between aerial ironclads.
Osprey Games
Army-level Napoleonic battles emphasize the choices of high command rather than individual soldiers. Infantry, cavalry, and artillery work together as players manage formations across a larger battlefield.
Osprey Games
Fleets of classical galleys maneuver for decisive clashes from Salamis to Actium. Ship formations and the different strengths of ancient vessels shape the naval battle.
Osprey Games
Adventurers and villains pursue scenario objectives in the interwar years. Explorers, detectives, gangsters, and sinister masterminds can face each other across city streets or far-flung expedition settings.
Osprey Games
Hoplite armies compete for position and victory in ancient Greek battles. Players manage unit formations and leadership resources while coordinating the heavily armed infantry that define the period.
Osprey Games
Warbands operating in a mythical Roman world search for powerful artifacts and battle supernatural enemies. Familiar ancient troops meet monsters and magic in campaign-oriented skirmishes.
Osprey Games
Gods, legendary heroes, and mortal followers share the battlefield. A force draws on a chosen mythology, with the relationship between supernatural leaders and ordinary warriors influencing play.
Osprey Games
Pirates and their opponents fight encounters ashore and aboard ships. Crew motivation and leadership influence the actions of small forces during raids and boarding clashes.
Osprey Games
Detachments of Napoleonic infantry and cavalry fight small actions rather than full army battles. Unit quality and leaders help distinguish troops while scenarios provide objectives beyond casualties.
Osprey Games
Small forces fight conflicts of the turbulent years between the world wars. The rules provide a framework for historical campaigns and alternative encounters with irregular troops, vehicles, and scarce ammunition.
TooFatLardies
Roman detachments and tribal warbands fight on the frontiers of the empire. Leaders, ambushes, and differences between disciplined troops and tribal fighters shape the tactical choices.
Osprey Games
Pilots in armored machines search a ruined Earth for valuable salvage. Machine customization and campaign resources link battles, making the recovery of equipment central to a force’s survival.
Osprey Games
Small bands hunt dangerous horrors in a dying science-fiction world. Encounters place rival hunters and a monstrous threat on the same battlefield, creating competing objectives and uncertain alliances.
2024 · Warlord Games
Players command small platoons of individually crewed tanks, assigning actions for movement, aiming, loading and firing. Vehicle characteristics, terrain and developing crews support stand-alone battles and linked campaigns with British, German, Soviet and United States forces.
2025 · Osprey Games
Miniature-agnostic fantasy warbands fight large skirmishes using revised core rules, expanded magic and unit upgrades. Sample armies and varied scenarios support forces ranging from unruly orcs and undead hosts to barbarians, monsters and sorcerous champions.
2019 · Great Escape Games
Fast-play rules recreate a hypothetical NATO–Warsaw Pact conflict with armored formations, infantry and supporting weapons in any miniature scale. An action-and-reaction activation system and tactical-advantage cards keep commanders making decisions throughout large and multiplayer battles.
2015 · Honour
Players command brigades of infantry and cavalry with massed artillery in large historical or fictional Napoleonic battles. The Scharnhorst campaign system creates the battlefield through pre-battle maneuver, while optional unit cards allow play with or without miniatures.
2022 · Pendraken Miniatures
Combined-arms forces fight engagements from the postwar period into the modern era. The second edition supports multiple miniature scales with command rolls, tactical doctrines, artillery, aircraft and anti-tank guided weapons, backed by downloadable army lists.
2022 · Grey For Now Games
Small forces of commandos, resistance fighters and sentries conduct night raids against guarded objectives. Alert, stealth, patrol routes and sudden ambushes shape missions with roughly five to twenty 28mm figures per side.
2016 · Honour
Players command divisions, corps or armies while company- and battalion-sized units fight across miles of battlefield. Air power, engineers, reconnaissance, mobile reserves and scenario-building rules put operational choices at the center, with unit cards allowing play with or without miniatures.
2024 · Osprey Games
Brigades and regiments fight large American Civil War battles with command decisions, formation, terrain and battlefield friction emphasized over individual weapon detail. The rules support historical scenarios and original engagements in multiple miniature scales.
1972 · Gamescience / Lou Zocchi
Lou Zocchi's scarce early starship-combat game puts players in command of Enterprise, Klingon and Romulan vessels. Players allocate power to movement, shields, sensors, life support and weapons, then estimate an exact firing bearing and stretch a string from a 360-degree ship template to determine whether the shot crosses its target. Published without Paramount authorization and withdrawn after an objection, it preceded Alien Space Battle Manual and the later Star Fleet Battle Manual; it is distinct from Task Force Games' Star Fleet Battles.
2025 · Spectre Miniatures
Small forces conduct conventional, special-operations and covert missions using infantry, vehicles, air support, drones, electronic warfare and artificial intelligence. A D10-based momentum system lets elements combine movement, fire, breaching and reactions while awareness, stress, night fighting and campaign rules shape the wider operation.
2021 · Modiphius Entertainment / Nordic Weasel Games
A player builds a small crew of human, alien and robotic adventurers, travels between colonies and resolves jobs through procedurally generated tabletop battles. Campaign events, injuries, experience, equipment, contacts and ship upgrades connect each miniatures-agnostic skirmish into an evolving solo narrative.
2022 · Reisswitz Press / TooFatLardies
Large ancient armies fight fast-resolution battles on a modest table, with the rules emphasizing the appearance and command of massed formations in small-scale miniatures. Twenty army lists and ten scenarios cover conflicts from the Marian reforms through the height of Imperial Rome, extending from Britannia and Germania to North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean.
2015 · Osprey Publishing / Bloomsbury Publishing
Small teams of spies, mercenaries, criminals, hackers and special forces conduct raids, surveillance and extraction missions under a card-driven activation system. Stealth and detection shape the opening moves before a firefight develops, while the rules can also support World War II, Cold War and near-future settings.
2020 · Osprey Games / Bloomsbury Publishing
Bandits, mercenaries and military teams explore a hazardous Exclusion Zone in fast-playing skirmishes over abandoned artefacts and scarce salvage. Miniatures-agnostic warbands gain weapons and specialisms while campaign progression, dangerous terrain and environmental hazards connect each firefight to a longer struggle for survival.
2018 · Little Wars TV
Armies of antiquity fight large battles with flexible miniature basing and terrain cards that shape the battlefield. Historical scenarios, army-building options, and siege rules support games from the Greco-Persian wars through the Roman era; the pictured rulebook is the revised second edition.
2012 · Ares Games
Players plan aircraft maneuvers with cards, then move miniature planes and resolve aerial combat. The World War II system models differing aircraft speeds and firepower; the pictured Battle of Britain Starter Set supplies a complete entry point with aircraft, maneuver decks, and playing accessories.
The War Times Journal
Free online miniature rules for commanding corps and armies in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Regimental and brigade assaults combine volley fire, melee, and unit reactions, with separate command, maneuver, artillery, skirmishing, and panic rules. WTJ supplies combat charts, troop lists, leader ratings, and historical orders of battle, and also offers Republique 5.0 as a beta edition.
The catalog covers commercially released miniature rules, including small-press titles. It is not a claim that every published system has been found; uncertain dates and publishers are left out until checked.
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