Historical Wargames
Vikings, knights, musket lines and the world wars. Miniature games set in real history, give or take.
17 of 17 games
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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
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Brethren
Matthew Sutton-O'Connor's 28mm historical skirmish game for the Ancient and Dark Age eras. Heroes give orders to the troops around them, from shield walls to charges, and the smallest games play in about half an hour. Free Quick Start Guide.
Skirmish · 2–4 players · Mini-agnostic · $9
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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
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Ravenfeast
Little Wars TV's free Viking Age skirmish game and beginner's guide to historical wargaming. A dozen or so figures a side, shield walls, six-sided dice and under six pages of rules, with the full 44-page book free as a PDF.
Skirmish · 2+ players · Mini-agnostic · Free rules
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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
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Blood & Plunder
Firelock Games' 28mm historical skirmish game set in the 17th-century Caribbean during the golden age of piracy. Battles on land, at sea, or both at once, driven by a deck of activation cards and d10s.
Skirmish · 2 players · Own minis line · $99
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Bolt Action
Warlord Games' 28mm World War II game, now in its Third Edition. Command a company of infantry, heavy weapons, artillery and tanks, and fight it out one Order Die at a time.
Army · 2+ players · Mini-agnostic · $149
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Devilry Afoot
Nic Wright's folk horror skirmish game from Irregular Wars Wargaming. A small band of flawed hunters goes out at night in 16th and 17th century Europe to hunt witches, ghouls and worse, with the monsters run by the rules.
Skirmish · 1+ players · Mini-agnostic · $13
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FIRE! Modern Combat
Ricardo Ponz's squad-level modern warfare skirmish game from SEN Games in Spain. Command Points, actions and reactions, and a dozen or so models a side in games of under an hour.
Skirmish · 2 players · Mini-agnostic · $33
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Here's the Ruckus
Mike Peters' medieval skirmish game from Wargames Illustrated. Twelve figures a side, card-driven activation, and narrative games set in the Wars of the Roses. Inspired by Never Mind the Billhooks, but standalone.
Skirmish · Mini-agnostic
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Konflikt '47
Warlord Games' weird-war WWII game, relaunched with a new edition in 2025. It's 1947, Rifts have torn reality open, and the war never ended: powered armour, jump troops, walkers, and monsters, run on an Order Dice system built from Bolt Action.
Army · Own minis line · $152
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Lion Rampant
Daniel Mersey's medieval wargame from Osprey. Lead a warband of about six units through raids, escorts and ambushes, anywhere from the Fall of Rome to the Hundred Years' War. Winner of the 2023 Origins Award for Best Miniatures Game.
Army · Mini-agnostic · $21
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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
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Port Royal
Firelock Games' campaign skirmish game set in the ruins of Port Royal after the 1692 Jamaica earthquake. Companies of 4 to 10 pirates, privateers, and colonial forces fight over plunder on a 2' × 2' table, with d10s, Fortune tokens, and reactions.
Skirmish · 1+ players · Own minis line · $99
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The Barons' War
Andy Hobday's medieval skirmish game, now in a Second Edition from Wargames Atlantic. Lead a baron's retinue of knights, serjeants and levy through raids, sieges and civil war in the England of Magna Carta.
Skirmish · 2 players · Mini-agnostic · $145
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The Silver Bayonet
Joseph A. McCullough's skirmish game of Napoleonic gothic horror from Osprey Games. A small unit of monster hunters fights vampires, werewolves, and rival nations, solo, co-op, or head to head, across a campaign.
Skirmish · 1+ players · Mini-agnostic · $25
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Pillage
Early medieval skirmish from Victrix, written by Guillaume Rousselot. Vikings, Saxons, Normans, and more raiding villages from Lindisfarne to Hastings. Protect the village, or burn it to the ground.
Skirmish · 2 players · Mini-agnostic · $53
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