Looking for old tabletop war rules - online

[Banquo's Ghost]

I've used the rules of the Society of Ancients for more years than I can count. They have a set of links here which might yield some free rulesets - or you can buy the SoA rulesets for a pittance.

Amusingly, we used these rules at Sandhurst (in a semi-official way - and remember, this was way back when a gentleman bought his commission )

[Adrian II]

Thanks for all the suggestions. My boys wil definitely have a 'those were the days' memory with all the rules I found and the other stuff that's out there, plus a couple of outrageously expensive purchases we envisage - we just have to have those 15mm grenadiers, you see, so I'm mortgaging the house. We are still negotiating with the missus what carpet we are gointg to cut up to build the landscape.

I found some Edwardian toy soldier rules that promise at first sight to be excellent for both simplicity and depth. The Wells rules are good to falll back on, but there is much, much more.

For those interested here are some sites that (besides the one mentioned by our esteemed Sandhurst alumnus) deliver goodies:

Historical Miniatures Wargaming Resource Site
Old Trousers

Pretty soon we want to to be set up more or less like this:

[Captain Fishpants]

You might find http://www.freewargamesrules.co.uk/ worth a click.

The site does exactly what the name suggests. Lots of periods, lots of rules. All free.