All games are freeware and can be re-distributed as long as the copyright information is retained. For most games, hex maps will be required and the counters will need to be made.
Stellar Wars is an introductory game of tactical space combat between fleets of space battleships. Each unit in the game represents a single ship. The game is designed to be quick and playable, with accuracy left in the game. Care was taken not to bog the game down in cumbersome rules.
Players design their own ships and battle situations. There are a number of pre-designed ships and battle scenarios included in the rules as examples and to provide a quick start to learning the game.
Full Text of Rules Here
Designer Notes
The idea behind the first Minimal Combat game was this:
What is the smallest amount of rules need to do a fair
job of gaming
I've also done a minimal space combat game called
"Minimal Space Combat." The idea behind the game is this:
what is the smallest amount of rules needed to do a fair
job of gaming space combat. So, here is my try at this.
Full Text Rules Here (msc.txt)
I've worked on a strategic version of MSC and called
it "Minimal Space Combat: The Strategic Game (MSC:TSG)".
Full Text Rules Here (msc_tsg.txt)
This is a PDF file with all of the MSC games and articles,
including MSC, The Strategic game, the solo rules, a new
Tutorial, designer notes, and "Applying Naval Tactics to
Space Combat" article.
Minimal Tank Combat covers tank combat from WWII through the
future.
Full Text Rules Here (mtc.txt)
Minimal Mech Combat covers fights between large robots.
Based on various Japanese cartoons like RoboTech, Macross,
etc..
Full Text Rules Here (mmc.txt)
Minimal Melee Combat covers the hack 'n slash combat
of the Middle Ages. It requires no board and moves are
made by determining your next thrust or parry.
Full Text Rules Here (melee.txt)
I've written an article on applying Naval tactics to
Space combat. Since both types of combat involve terrainless
battlefields, I feel that similar enough for the tactics to apply.
There are no sources on tactics for Space combat, but there are a
number for Naval combat. I've used these Naval sources as a
baseis for my Space combat tactics. Please feel free to comment
on the paper.
Minimal Space Combat
Minimal Space Combat: The Strategic Game
Minimal Space Combat: The Book
Mimimal Tank Combat
Minimal Mech Combat
Minimal Melee Combat
Applying Naval Tactics to Space Combat