List of miniature wargames


Miniature wargames are a form of wargaming designed to incorporate miniatures or figurines into play, which was invented at the beginning of the 19th century in Prussia. The miniatures used represent troops or vehicles. The games may reflect historical situations and armies, or may be futuristic or fantasy-based.
This list compiles published miniature wargames categorized by their subject matter, genre, or time period covered in their rules.
Where known, the publisher is given, as well as the date of first publication.

Ancients

A Fistfull of Miniatures Age of Battles Age of Hannibal Age of Heroes - Biblical Era V 6 Ancient & Medieval Wargaming Ancient Empires Ancient Warfare Ancient Warfare Ancient Warfare Arcane Warfare Armati Basic Impetus Battlestandard Ancient Rules Clash of Empires Classical Hack Classic Warfare Conquerors and Kings Crusader De Bellis Antiquitatis De Bellis Magistrorum Militum De Bellis Multitudinis Fast Play Rules for Ancient Warfare Field of Glory Gordian Knot Greek Naval Warfare Hail Caesar Hex Command Ancients Holy Hack First Edition Holy Hack Second Edition Homeric Hack Hoplon Impetus In Death Ground Infamy, Infamy! Justified Ancients King David L'Art de la Guerre Legion Lost Battles Macedon and Rome V 6 Melees Gloriosus Might of Arms Mortem et Gloriam Peltast and Pila PMG Ancients Salamis Ad Actium Shieldbearer Swordpoint Tactica The Art of War The Shock of Impact To the Strongest! Vis Bellica War & Conquest Warfare in the Ancient World War Games Rules 1000 B.C to 500 A.D War Games Rules 1000 B.C. to 1000 A.D. War Games Rules 3000 B.C - 1250 A.D War Games Rules 3000 BC to 1485 AD Wargames Rules - Ancient Period Warhammer Ancient Battles Warlord Warmaster Ancients Warrior Warrior Kings
  • ''Wars Ancient''

Early Middle Ages

A Fistfull of Miniatures Ancient & Medieval Wargaming Ancient Warfare Arcane Warfare Armati L'Art de la Guerre The Art of War Basic Impetus Battlelust Battlestandard Ancient Rules Clash of Empires Comitatus Conquerors and Kings De Bellis Antiquitatis De Bellis Magistrorum Militum De Bellis Multitudinis Dux Brittaniarum Field of Glory Hack In the Dark Hail Caesar Hoplon Impetus Might of Arms Mortem et Gloriam Saga Dark Ages The Shock of Impact Swordpoint To Me! V 6:Computer Moderated Miniature Wargames Rules To the Strongest! War & Conquest War Games Rules 1000 B.C. to 1000 A.D. War Games Rules 3000 B.C - 1250 A.D War Games Rules 3000 BC to 1485 AD Warhammer Ancient Battles Warlord Warmaster Ancients Warrior
  • ''Warrior Kings''

Middle Ages

A Fistfull of Miniatures Ancient & Medieval Wargaming Arcane Warfare Armati followed by Armati II L'Art de la Guerre The Art of War Basic Impetus Battlestandard Ancient Rules Chainmail Clash of Empires Crusader De Bellis Antiquitatis De Bellis Magistrorum Militum De Bellis Multitudinis Ex illis Field of Glory HAVOC: Tactical Miniature Warfare Impetus Knight Hack Medieval Campaign and Battle Rules, 2nd Edition Might of Arms Mortem et Gloriam Retinue Medieval Skirmish Rules Shattered Lances Swordpoint Tactica Medieval To Me! V 6:Computer Moderated Miniature Wargames Rules To the Strongest! WarChu War Games Rules 3000 B.C - 1250 A.D War Games Rules 3000 BC to 1485 AD Warhammer Ancient Battles Warheads: Medieval Tales Warlord II Warmaster Ancients Warrior
  • ''Warrior Kings''

Renaissance

Basic Impetus De Bellis Renationis Field of Glory: Renaissance Flashing Steel Forged in Blood Impetus Pike & Shotte Rulettes for 16th Century Naval Warfare Samurai Warfare Sword And Pistol The Road To Osaka The Universal Soldier Wargames Rules - Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Century Wargames Rules For Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries
  • ''Warlord II''

Early Modern

1644 Age of Musket Bayonet and Ideology Before I was a Marshal, I was a Grenadier Black Powder Black Powder Battles Blenheim To Balaclava Blood & Plunder Blood, Bilge, and Iron Balls Carnage & Glory Carnage & Glory II Cavaliers and Roundheads Classic Napoleonics Close Action Column, Line, & Square Corps d'Armee: Napoleonic Rules for Large Scale Wargames De Bellis Renationis Divisional Commander Don't Give Up The Ship! '''t Give Up The Ship!Tactical Studies RulesDutchman Spaniard Switzer Swede Empire Empires, Eagles, and Lions Ever Victorious Armies Field of Glory: Napoleonic Final Argument of Kings File Leader! Forlorn Hope Form Line of Battle Frappé From Valmy to Waterloo Game of War Napoleonic and 18th century Grand Battles Napoleon Grande Armée Grand Manoeuvre Great Captains - Linear Warfare V 6 Gunpowder Revolution - Renaissance Warfare V 6 Guns of Liberty Gå På Habitants and Highlanders Honours of War Imperial Lances In the Heart of Africa In the Name of Glory Iron Duke - Napoleonics V 6
  • It is Warm Work- Age of Sail Naval John Company King of the Battlefield King's War Kiss Me Hardy Koenig Krieg La Grande Armée La Grande Armée Lasalle Le Feu Sacré Le Petite Armee v4.1 Marlburian Commander Matchlock; ECW Rules for 1/300th scale Might & Reason Napoleon's Campaigns in Miniature, A wargamers' guide to the Napoleonic Wars 1796-1815 Napoleonic Wargaming, Airfix Magazine Guide 4 Napoleonic Wargaming Napoleonique Napoleonique Encore Napoleon's Battles Pas de Charge! Patrols in the Sudan Pike Hack Road to Dunbar Piquet Pirates & Buccaneers Pirates of the Spanish Main Principles of War Rank and File Regiment of Foote Republique Rocket's Red Glare Rough Riders
  • Rebels and PatriotsSenso Shako I & II Spanish Fury The British are Coming The British Are Coming, Second Edition,, The Last Days of the Grande Armée The Sword and The Flame The Thin Red Line To Glory We Steer Free RulesTo the Banners To the Sound of the Guns Tricolor Tricorne''

American Civil War

A Glint of Bayonets Altar of Freedom American Civil War American Battlelines

Colonial

A Good DustingAge of EmpiresBlood and SandColonial Adventures by Two Hour WargamesImperial Wars, Colonial Warfare Rules 1860-1900 Little Wars By H. G. Wells Rules for Wargames in the 1880 Period Including Colonial Wars Savage Wars of Peace Science versus Pluck, or "Too Much for the Mahdi"Soldiers of the Queen Sons of the Desert The Colonial Skirmish Wargame Rules, C. 1850-1900 The Sword and the FlameThe New Zealand Wars Muskets & Tomahawks
  • ''The Men Who Would be Kings ''

Industrial

Bugles, Boots and Saddles Chassepot & Needlegun Grande Bataille, Grande Victoire Gutshot Hey You in the Jail! Ikonki - Russo-Japanese Land Wars Imperial Splendour V 6 In Her Majesty's Name Legends of the Old West Once Upon a Time in the West: Rules for Gunfight Wargames Pony Wars, or 'B' Troop Ain't Coming Back Red Actions Santa Anna Rules! Sebastopol, Sadowa, and Sedan Six-Gun Sound: Blaze of Glory The Genuine and Original Old West Skirmish Rules, 1816-1900, 3rd Edition Tombstones n' Tumbleweeds Warpaint Western Gunfight Wargame Rules Yellow Ribbon The Great Powers - Post-Napoleonic Warfare V 6
  • ''They Died For Glory''

World War I

  • A War Transformed: WWI on the Doggerland Front Age of Dreadnoughts Air War 1918 Aces at Dawn Algernon Pulls it Off Blue Max Phil HallCanvas Eagles Challenge & Reply! WW1 Naval Contemptible Little Armies Cordite and Steel Desert Column V 6 Dogfight Over Flanders, WWI Aerial Combat Rules Dogfight! Fear God & Dread Naught Fleet Action Imminent Grand Fleets Great War If the Lord Spares Us Mein Panzer WW1 Data Book October Revolt Over the Top Price of Glory Square Bashing 1914–1918 Tanks & Yanks WWI Late War 1917 to 1918 The Last Crusade Trench Trench Storm Trench Wars Triumph and Tragedy Triumph of the Will World War 1 Wargames Rules
  • ''Westfront''

World War II

1-48COMBAT 1944, 3rd Edition Action Stations Air Combat Air War 1940 Ambush Blitz! Angriff! Arc of Fire Art of Tactic Armour & Infantry 1925 - 1950 Assault Gun Axis & Allies Miniatures Axis & Allies Naval Miniatures: War at Sea ADMIRAL Bag the Hun Battlefield Evolution: World At War Battlefront WWII Battlegroup Blitzkrieg BlitzkriegCommander
  • "Bullet"
  • Bolt Action Chain of Command Combined Arms Command Decision followed by version 2 and 3 and Command Decision: Test of Battle Command at Sea Vols I-VII Crossfire Disposable Heroes & Coffin for Seven Brothers Easy Eight's Battleground WWII eRules World War II The Face of Battle Fast Micro-Armour Rules for World War II Fast Rules Final Combat Final Round Firefly Flames of War The Fletcher Pratt Naval Wargame G.I. Commander General Quarters General Quarters 2 General Quarters Great Battles of World War II Grey Storm, Red Steel Guts 'N Glory Hour of Glory I Ain't Been Shot Mum! Iron Tigers V 6 Jagdpanzer Jagdpanzer, 2nd Edition Kampfgruppe Lacquered Coffins Korps Commander - The Road to Berlin Lightning War - Red Storm v3 Look Sarge No Charts Mein Panzer Mein Panzer Core Rules Micro Armour: The Game - WWII Micro Tactics: Brightly Illustrated, Simplified rules for 1:144 Scale Armor Naval Action: A Simple Combat Resolution System for Model Fleets of the 1898-1945 Era Naval Warfare '39--'45 Nuts! Operation Warboard Ostfront Panzer Marsch! Panzer Miniatures PanzerTruppe Panzer Warfare Patrol: WWII Poor Bloody Infantry and Poor Bloody Infantry 2 Rapid Fire! Rules of Engagement Salvo! WW2 Naval Schwere Kompanie Spearhead Spitting Fire Sturmovik Commander Tactical Commander; Rules for World War II Skirmish Wargames The Wargame Battletracker Tide of Iron Tigers and Stalins—Micro Armor Tank Rules Tractics Troops, Weapons & Tactics T-34 Victory at Sea Victory at Sea War Games Rules Armour & Infantry 1925-1950, World War II Infantry Action
  • ''Hex Command Mechanized''

Modern

Armis Armis Board GameForce on Force A Fistful of TOWs AK47 Republic Ambush Alley! Armour & Infantry 1950 - 1975 Boocoo Fire Mission Battlegroup Bulldogs Away Charlie Company Combined Arms Command Decision Conflict 2000 Cold War Commander Cornered Wolf Corps Commander - Operational Manoeuvre Group Desert Whirlwind V 6 Dogs of War Flashpoint Vietnam Fox Two Harpoon Hind & Seek Land and Airborne Assault Lethal Skies Megablitz Mekong...Vietnam The Men of Company B Micro Armour: The Game - Modern Missile Threat Modern Ops Modern Spearhead Operation Nam Phoenix Command Sand, Oil, and Blood, Armored Combat in the 1990s SeaTac Shipwreck Special Forces TacForce Team Yankee Tractics

Other historical/alternate history

.45 Adventures All Things Zombie Ambush Z! Apocalypse: Earth Open source rules under development by JM GamesBattlelust

Abstract/generic/multiple time periods

  • Brikwars Digital Empires Fistful of Lead Full Command Gear Krieg PUMMEL! Sharp Practice! Skirmish Wargaming ShockForce Tempus Mortis The Portable Wargame generic/multiple time periods Uses hex and square grid system.
  • "Table Top Battles" generic/multiple time periods Uses a 2" and 4" grid system. 2nd Edition generic/multiple time periods
  • "Wings at War"

Science fiction

2184 Generation War 5150 Aeronautica Imperialis Aeronef

Fantasy

A Fistfull of Miniatures