Fantasy Wargames | The Hobbinomicon

Painted box art of a muddy battle in the rain: a red-haired knight in steel and furs crosses swords with a blond knight in gold armour holding a red shield with a gold lion, while a huge bearded warrior swings a greatsword, red-armoured soldiers fight on the left and a grey wolf snarls in the bottom right corner

A Song of Ice and Fire: Tabletop Miniatures Game

CMON's rank-and-flank mass battle game set in George R. R. Martin's Westeros. Regiments on trays fight for victory points while your characters work a shared Tactics Board behind the lines. The full rules are a free PDF, and the cards are updated every season.

Army · 2 players · Own minis line · Free rules

Argatoria

Spellcrow's 10mm fantasy rank-and-flank wargame. Barbarian tribes, reptile-folk and orcs fight in big blocks, with alternating activations, prayers and heroes instead of shooting.

Army · Own minis line · $70

Blood Eagle

The Ministry of Gentlemanly Warfare's Dark Ages skirmish game. Vikings, Saxons and Gaels raid and fight across 9th and 10th century Northern Europe, with trolls, Draugr, Wyrd powers and Christian miracles if you want the legends too. Three to fifteen miniatures a side.

Skirmish · Mini-agnostic · $8

Bushido

GCT Studios' fantasy skirmish game set in the Jwar Isles, a world drawn from Japanese and East Asian myth. Two players field warbands of samurai, ninja, monks, oni and stranger things, and fight over scenario objectives on a 2' × 2' table.

Skirmish · 2 players · Own minis line · Free rules

A painted Conquest sorceress in a blue and teal robe stands in the grass holding a small goblin-like creature, while behind her a huge purple monster with a gaping, tooth-lined mouth charges forward between ranks of blurred archers and red-armoured soldiers

Conquest: First Blood

Para Bellum's dark fantasy skirmish game, set in the world of Conquest. Warbands of 5 to 20 models fight 30 to 60 minute battles with the same miniatures as the mass-battle game, The Last Argument of Kings. The core rules are free.

Skirmish · 2 players · Own minis line · Free rules

A painted Conquest battle on a rocky table: a huge tiger-headed warrior in silver armour with a crown of flames strides forward, surrounded by regiments of fiery spirits and ranked infantry on square stands, with blue-cloaked cavalry in the foreground

Conquest: The Last Argument of Kings

Para Bellum's dark fantasy rank-and-flank mass battle game. Regiments of multi-model stands, a hidden command stack that sets who acts when, and reserves that arrive in waves. The core rules are free, and the miniatures also play the skirmish game First Blood.

Army · 2 players · Own minis line · Free rules

Three bases of painted 10mm goblin warriors with spears, bows and shields on a grassy table, one carrying a horned skull standard, with more goblin bases and green bushes behind them

Fantastic Battles

Nic Wright's fast-play fantasy mass-battle rules from Irregular Wars Wargaming. Build any army from base profiles and traits, use any multi-based figures at any scale, and fight through randomised initiative and command friction.

Army · 2+ players · Mini-agnostic · $11

Guild Ball

Steamforged Games' fantasy sports miniatures game of medieval mob football. Two teams of six fight and score their way to 12 victory points. Retired in 2020, it came back in 2024 as made-to-order resin and free 3D-printable starter teams.

Skirmish · 2 players · Print / STL · Free rules

Kings of War

Mantic Games' fantasy mass-battle game, designed by Alessio Cavatore. Blocks of troops clash across the world of Pannithor, and units fight on until their Nerve breaks. The Fourth Edition came out in December 2025.

Army · 2+ players · Own minis line · Free rules

SAGA

Studio Tomahawk's skirmish game of warlords and warbands, best known for its Viking Age roots. Each faction gets its own battle board of abilities fuelled by custom SAGA dice. Historical supplements run from Alexander to the Crusades, and Age of Magic covers fantasy.

Skirmish · Own minis line · $18

Sellswords & Spellslingers

Andrea Sfiligoi's solo and co-op fantasy miniatures game from Ganesha Games. One to six players build a party of adventurers and take on a scenario, while a deck of cards runs the monsters.

Skirmish · 1–6 players · Mini-agnostic · $8

Sludge

Sean Sutter's grim fantasy wargame for two players, set in a black powder age of line infantry, armoured knights and dark magic. Miniature agnostic, built around 28mm historical kits and conversions, with gore on the table that breaks your troops' nerve.

Army · 2 players · Mini-agnostic · $10

Song of Blades and Heroes

Andrea Sfiligoi's fast fantasy skirmish rules from Ganesha Games. Five to ten models a side, three measuring sticks instead of a tape, and games that last 30 to 45 minutes with any miniatures you already own.

Skirmish · Mini-agnostic · $8

Painted Elder Scrolls: Call to Arms miniatures in a mossy rock cave: an armored Draugr with a shield, a Draugr raising a greatsword and two skeleton archers, facing a robed figure wreathed in purple magic at the cave mouth

The Elder Scrolls: Call to Arms

Modiphius's licensed Elder Scrolls miniatures game, set in Skyrim. Lead a small party into Draugr-haunted tombs solo or co-op against card-driven adversaries, or fight the civil war head-to-head. The core rulebook is a free PDF.

Skirmish · 1+ players · Own minis line · Free rules

Warcrow Adventures

Corvus Belli's co-op fantasy dungeon crawler for 2 to 4 players, set in the Warcrow world. A party of heroes works through an app-driven campaign around the fog-bound city of Hawthorn Point, with energy cubes and an initiative dial running the fights.

Board game · 2–4 players · Own minis line · Free rules

Painted Doom Warriors on the Outpost at Meerbridge scaffold towers, one on top, an archer below, a pale fog rolling in under a blood-red sky

1490 DOOM

A grimdark medieval skirmish game from Buer Games. Three warriors a side climb a tower above a rising fog of death, and games take 30 to 45 minutes.

Skirmish · 2+ players · Mini-agnostic · $25

Painted art of an adventuring party led by a blue-skinned robed mage raising a staff, with a fairy, an elf and an armoured warrior, in a swirling teal cavern

Age of Fantasy: Quest

OnePageRules' free solo and co-op fantasy adventure game. A party of 2 to 4 heroes plays through campaign missions against AI-run enemies, earning XP, gold, loot, and injuries along the way.

Skirmish · 1–4 players · Mini-agnostic · Free rules

Painted art of a horned, skull-armoured centaur warlord raising a glowing green skull over a field of giant bones under a pale moon

Age of Fantasy: Skirmish

OnePageRules' free fantasy skirmish game by Gaetano Ferrara. Two pages of core rules, a free army builder, and 10 to 15 models a side in games of under an hour.

Skirmish · 1–2 players · Mini-agnostic · Free rules

Bellwoken

Bellwoken is a 28mm fantasy army of 3D-printable STL miniatures by Ben Baez (benbam works): souls bound into bells and brass relics, built for miniature-agnostic games, with ready-made lists for Hobgoblin and Greathelm.

Army · Mini-agnostic · $59

Blood Bowl

Games Workshop's game of fantasy football. Two coaches, eleven players a side on a gridded pitch, and a lot of violence between the end zones. The current version is the Third Season Edition, released in November 2025.

Skirmish · 2 players · Own minis line · $112

Cover painting from the second edition rulebook: a hooded badger with a staff, a hare with a spear, a squirrel archer in a green hood, and an armoured mouse knight with a sword, against green hills

Burrows & Badgers

Michael Lovejoy's skirmish game of anthropomorphic animals in the kingdom of Northymbra. Build a band of 2 to 10 mice, badgers, otters and more, kit them out, and take them through a campaign. Second edition from Osprey Games, 2025.

Skirmish · 2+ players · Own minis line · $25

Painted artwork of a Venetian canal under a green, lightning-filled sky: a Guild gondolier and fighters clash with a fish-headed Rashaar creature rising from the water, while a masked, armoured figure and a woman with a spear lunge forward in front of a stone bridge and a glowing church

Carnevale

TTCombat's narrative skirmish game set in a drowned, monster-haunted Venice in 1795. Gangs of around ten characters climb, jump, swim, and drown each other across a table that's a third water, with free rules and d10s.

Skirmish · 2–4 players · Own minis line · Free rules

Cyber Savage

Benjamin and Jared McClure's miniature-agnostic Laser-Sorcery skirmish game. Build any character from classes and traits, fight with 3 to 12 models on a 2x2 ft table, and resolve everything with dice pools.

Skirmish · 2–4 players · Mini-agnostic · $12

Painted miniatures in a ruined village at night: a hooded necromancer with a skull-topped staff, an armoured skeleton and a floating reaper face a sword-armed warrior, an archer and a villager, with red and blue ten-sided dice on the table

Deth Wizards

A mini-agnostic solo, co-op and versus skirmish game from Snarling Badger Studios. You play an immortal necromancer, raise an undead horde from any models you like, and scheme your way across the land of Deth.

Skirmish · 1+ players · Mini-agnostic · $13

The Second Edition cover: a horned warrior swinging a warhammer clashes with a green orc as a huge red dragon breathes fire behind them and an orc horde surges forward

Dragon Rampant

Daniel Mersey's fantasy battle game from Osprey, the fantasy sibling of Lion Rampant. Field a warband of a handful of units from whatever fantasy miniatures you own, with magic, monsters and a campaign system in the Second Edition.

Army · Mini-agnostic · $25

Six painted fantasy miniatures face off in a ruined courtyard: samurai-styled warriors and a fox-tailed spellcaster on snowy bases against an armoured knight with a shield, a fire mage, and a spear-wielding caster in purple robes

Eldfall Chronicles

A high-fantasy skirmish game from Freecompany in Slovenia. Parties of 3 to 6 adventurers, d20 rolls, and an action and reaction system where the other player can answer every move. Free core rules.

Skirmish · 2 players · Own minis line · Free rules

Painted art of two sword-wielding adventurers fighting a huge pale beast with a tentacled maw in a torchlit stone hall

Five Leagues from the Borderlands

Ivan Sorensen's solo and co-op fantasy adventure wargame, published by Modiphius. You run a warband of adventurers through a campaign the book generates for you, one random table at a time.

Skirmish · 1–2 players · Mini-agnostic · $25

Christian Quintot's cover art: a pack of hooded green goblins with knives and picks rushes three torch-bearing adventurers in a firelit underground hall

Five Leagues from the Borderlands: Deep Below

Ivan Sorensen's standalone underground spin-off of Five Leagues from the Borderlands, published by Modiphius. A solo warband game about looting the ruins of a fallen underworld kingdom, and your characters can cross over to the main game and back.

Skirmish · 1+ players · Mini-agnostic · $15

Guards of Traitor's Toll

Graham Davey's semi-cooperative skirmish adventure game from Grey For Now Games. You run a Guard Captain and five guardsmen patrolling a crowded fantasy city, chasing suspects and making arrests without angering the citizens.

Skirmish · 1–4 players · Mini-agnostic · $68

Hag28

T. M. Cibelius's dark and goofy miniature-agnostic skirmish game. Two rival hags spend Pretties on Minions and Goodies and fight over a hamlet on a 3x3 ft table with a handful of d6s.

Skirmish · 2 players · Mini-agnostic · $15

Hametsu

Doug Cundall's solo and co-op monster hunting game from Black Site Studios. Four Hunters track Oni and bosses from Japanese myth across a feudal Japan wrecked by the Cataclysm.

Skirmish · 1–4 players · Print / STL · $30

Painted fantasy regiments on rectangular movement trays, skeleton spearmen, cavalry, and beastmen, facing off in front of ruined stone walls lit in teal and purple

Hobgoblin

Mike Hutchinson's rank-and-flank fantasy mass battle game from Electi Studio. No preset factions: you stat your own army from any fantasy miniatures you own, and a battle is done in under two hours.

Army · 1–2 players · Mini-agnostic · $20

Malediction

Loot Studios' fantasy skirmish game where your army is a deck of cards. Summon units, cast spells and fight over relics, with standees in the box and STL files to print the miniatures yourself.

Skirmish · 2–4 players · Print / STL · $68

Malifaux

Wyrd's gothic horror skirmish game, now in its Fourth Edition. A Fate Deck instead of dice, cheating fate from your hand, and secret schemes that decide the game more than body count.

Skirmish · 2 players · Own minis line · Free rules

Midgard

James Morris's heroic battle game from Reisswitz Press, the TooFatLardies imprint. Shield walls, single combat and reputation, from the Bronze Age to the Medieval period, with sorcery and monsters if you want them. Works with any miniatures at any scale.

Army · Mini-agnostic · $52

Moonstone

Goblin King Games' whimsical fantasy skirmish game for 2 to 4 players. Troupes of fairytale characters race to dig up moonstones before dawn, with melee and magic settled by cards and bluffing instead of dice.

Skirmish · 2–4 players · Own minis line · Free rules

A painted 28mm infantry unit with blue kite shields, plumed helmets, and a tall blue banner stands on square bases, facing a block of dark-armoured spearmen with red spears in the foreground

Oathmark

Joseph A. McCullough's fantasy mass-battle game from Osprey. You build a kingdom, raise an army of dwarves, elves, humans, goblins, or a mix of them from its territories, and fight a campaign to grow it. The Second Edition came out in 2026.

Army · 2 players · Mini-agnostic · $25

Painted demon miniatures on a cracked stone table under red light: armoured horned warriors and grey chained brutes face a band of huge red horned demons, with six- and twelve-sided dice between them

Reign in Hell

Snarling Badger Studios' first game: a fast, mini-agnostic skirmish game where your cabal of demons fights for the ruins of Hell, with a campaign that grows each demon through Titles, Relics, and Essences.

Skirmish · 2 players · Mini-agnostic · $10

Painted miniatures on a ruined industrial table: a horned demon with a chain and a hunched spiny beast face a blue war robot and a smaller armoured robot, with twelve-sided and six-sided dice between them

Reign in Iron

Demons against robots for the fate of Earth. A mini-agnostic solo, co-op, or head-to-head skirmish game from Snarling Badger Studios, with warband building and a territory campaign.

Skirmish · 1–4 players · Mini-agnostic · $11

Painted miniatures on a ruined-temple table under red light: armoured warriors with swords face red-haired cultists, with twelve-sided dice and a tape measure between them

Repent! Ye Foolish Gods

A mini-agnostic solo and co-op skirmish game from Snarling Badger Studios. Build a sept of four cursed warriors, raid the dark gods' shrines, and work your way up to killing a god.

Skirmish · 1+ players · Mini-agnostic · $14

Sun Rot

Smashbash's GM-led co-op grimdark adventure game by Matt Ross and Dylan Melisko. Build a party, roll a die, then flip a card to find out if it went well. Race a dying sun in under an hour.

Board game · 2–5 players · Mini-agnostic · Free rules

Sword Weirdos

Casey Garske's fantasy skirmish game, the sequel to Space Weirdos. Five to ten models a side, stats as dice, 5-inch sticks instead of a tape measure, and the whole game in a 24-page zine.

Skirmish · 2 players · Mini-agnostic · $5

Warcrow

Corvus Belli's medieval fantasy wargame, set in the world of Lindwurm. Small companies of warriors, creatures, and spellcasters fight over objectives, with free rules and alternating activations run off a turn counter dial.

Skirmish · 2 players · Own minis line · Free rules

Warcry

Games Workshop's warband skirmish game for Age of Sigmar. Three to fifteen fighters a side, a 30 × 22 in board, lots of climbing, and free rules for nearly every faction.

Skirmish · 2+ players · Own minis line · Free rules

Embergard box art: a hooded Stormcast Eternal with a crackling sword and dagger faces a snarling Skaven with a glowing green warp-blade, a crossbowman and Skaven machinery behind them in a fiery cavern

Warhammer Underworlds

Games Workshop's two-player arena game for tiny Age of Sigmar warbands. A hex board, a 32-card deck, and three short rounds. The current edition started with Embergard in 2024.

Skirmish · 2 players · Own minis line · $100

Black and white engraving-style art of a comet streaking across the night sky above the spires and crowded rooftops of a medieval city

Wyrdcry

Johan Markström's free, fan-made hack of Warcry set in the ruins of Mordheim. Warcry's fast initiative-dice battles, bolted to a Mordheim-style campaign of injuries, experience and wyrdstone.

Skirmish · 2+ players · Own minis line · Free rules

Ink illustration of a winged siren with a crown of yellow halos embracing an armoured warrior under a pale moon

Forbidden Psalm

A grim, solo-friendly skirmish game by Will RD, set in the dying world of MÖRK BORG. Five models, a d20, a doomed campaign, and a Mad Wizard hunting for the Psalm.

Skirmish · 1+ players · Mini-agnostic · $15

aRU-MOR's Second Edition cover art: a hooded wizard hurls purple lightning at a young wizard behind a golden shield while soldiers brawl in snowy ruins

Frostgrave

Joseph A. McCullough's wizard warband game from Osprey. Rival wizards, their apprentices, and a handful of hired soldiers loot the frozen ruins of Felstad for treasure and lost magic.

Skirmish · 2+ players · Mini-agnostic · $25

Sean Sutter's cover art: armoured knights in red and blue surcoats clash in a trench below a besieged castle with burning siege towers

Greathelm

A micro-skirmish game of chivalric fantasy by Malev. Six knights a side on a sheet of paper, a clever dice-as-actions system, and games that take twenty minutes.

Skirmish · 1–2 players · Mini-agnostic · $25

Painted Mordheim miniatures among the ruined card buildings from the 1999 boxed game

Out of Print

Mordheim

Games Workshop's 1999 warband skirmish game, set in the ruins of a city destroyed by a comet. Long out of print, still played everywhere, and free to learn.

Skirmish · 2+ players · Own minis line · Free rules

Barrett Stanley's cover art: a hooded ranger with a sword walks into a red-shadowed pine forest as bats scatter

Rangers of Shadow Deep

Joseph A. McCullough's solo and co-op miniatures adventure game. You play rangers on missions into the Shadow Deep, a creeping darkness swallowing the kingdom of Alladore.

Skirmish · 1–4 players · Mini-agnostic · $19

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Brawl Arcane 28

A wizard-duel skirmish game by Brett Evans. Two wizards, a few summoned minions, a baying crowd, and random spells every turn, all on a chessboard. Pay what you want.

Skirmish · 2 players · Mini-agnostic · Free rules

Motley Crews

Grid-based tactical fantasy skirmish for two players, played on a regular 8×8 chessboard with any miniatures you like.

Skirmish · 2 players · Mini-agnostic · Free rules

Monster Friends: Battle for New Florida

An indie skirmish game where every monster is mechanically novel and intentionally broken. The design pitch is flavor over balance.

Skirmish · 2 players · Own minis line · $100

Warmachine

Large-scale army miniature game built around steam-powered warjacks, warlock-driven warbeasts, and a small resource pool that every army has to spend wisely each turn.

Army · 2 players · Own minis line · $400

Relicblade

Indie tactics-RPG skirmish for two. 4 to 6 characters per side on a 2'×2' board, around 30 minutes a game, with party building by good/evil alignment rather than fixed factions.

Skirmish · 1–2 players · Own minis line · $60

Kal Arath

Sword-and-sandal OSR fantasy adventure RPG by Castle Grief. 2d6 mechanics, exploding damage, classless characters. Plays solo, co-op, or with a GM.

RPG · 1+ players · Mini-agnostic · $5

Ømen Tide

Skirmish wargame of zealotry and cosmic maritime horror. Three models per player on a 16×16 inch board, with a deck of poker cards in place of dice and an Omen Zone that rewrites which suit rules each round.

Skirmish · 2 players · Mini-agnostic · Free rules

A Song of Ice and Fire: Tabletop Miniatures Game

Argatoria

Blood Eagle

Bushido

Conquest: First Blood

Conquest: The Last Argument of Kings

Fantastic Battles

Guild Ball

Kings of War

SAGA

Sellswords & Spellslingers

Sludge

Song of Blades and Heroes

The Elder Scrolls: Call to Arms

Warcrow Adventures

1490 DOOM

Age of Fantasy: Quest

Age of Fantasy: Skirmish

Bellwoken

Blood Bowl

Burrows & Badgers

Carnevale

Cyber Savage

Deth Wizards

Dragon Rampant

Eldfall Chronicles

Five Leagues from the Borderlands

Five Leagues from the Borderlands: Deep Below

Guards of Traitor's Toll

Hag28

Hametsu

Hobgoblin

Malediction

Malifaux

Midgard

Moonstone

Oathmark

Reign in Hell

Reign in Iron

Repent! Ye Foolish Gods

Sun Rot

Sword Weirdos

Warcrow

Warcry

Warhammer Underworlds

Wyrdcry

Forbidden Psalm

Frostgrave

Greathelm

Mordheim

Rangers of Shadow Deep

Brawl Arcane 28

Motley Crews

Monster Friends: Battle for New Florida

Warmachine

Relicblade

Kal Arath

Ømen Tide

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