

Sure enough, the company offers two free starter rules sets for both the budding Space Marine (or gold-armoured fantasy equivalent).īy ‘starter’ we mean an abbreviated version of the full commercial (and very pricey) set, with all the necessary core rules to play your first game. Here, then, are the Warhammer 40K 9th edition core rules and the Warhammer Age of Sigmar Core Rules, both free. Given that Games Workshop offering anything for cheap (much less free) is somewhat akin to the Second Coming, I just had to check this out. No, these are not necessarily free supplements, like the Impetus collection in Wargames Vault, but actual playable rules for test drives and full gaming. So, here is my list of the best free (or damn close to free) rules you can download. But the big guys also play in this arena, normally because they are releasing a new version of said rules and want to pique your interest, have a line of related miniatures they want you to buy or they are simply good folks who want to give back to the hobby.Īdmittedly, sometimes these offers are fleeting – such as when Warlord Games offered free PDF downloads of Black Powder/Hail Caesar/Pike & Schotte back in May 2018 – but they do happen. However, these are usually gamers with some desktop publishing experience penning their own personal dream set of rules for their own personal dream period of history. He said why not concoct a list of all the best free tabletop wargaming rules? Thus was it ordered, thus shall it be done.įree miniature wargaming rules are not rare, and there are several websites that host multitudes of such downloads. Then in a typical, blazing moment of inspiration, the Boss had a better idea. When the Boss asked me what I was going to write about, I suggested a review of a new set of miniature wargaming rules provided free as part of my Wargames Illustrated Prime subscription.
