Skirmish Rules for Sword fights

[fusilierdan]

I'm looking for a set of rules that covers individual combat and is played on a grid. Searching this form hasn't brought up anything. I'm sure I read about them here and I thought I had saved the link to the site that sold them. I can't remember the name and they may have been a Fantasy set.

Any thoughts, recommendations?  Thanks for the help.

Dan

[SJWi]

From memory several of the Roman gladiator rulesets are grid based and at the end of the day they are about "individual sword fighting", if a tad period specific. The Society of Ancients game is certainly grid based.

[Hobgoblin]

I'm looking for a set of rules that covers individual combat and is played on a grid. Searching this form hasn't brought up anything. I'm sure I read about them here and I thought I had saved the link to the site that sold them. I can't remember the name and they may have been a Fantasy set.

Any thoughts, recommendations?  Thanks for the help.

Dan

Melee by Steve Jackson Games? It uses a hex grid, and it's free, so you can't go wrong.

It's a great game!

[Gibby]

The Fantasy Trip is another one, I think? Is it essentially the same game as Melee?

[tikitang]

The Fantasy Trip is another one, I think? Is it essentially the same game as Melee?

Melee is basically the combat system from the RPG The Fantasy Trip, but released as a game in its own right.

[Hobgoblin]

Yup: The Fantasy Trip is Melee + Wizards + additional background, monsters and skills, etc.

[Gibby]

I suspected so - I mentioned it mostly because it may have been the name that fusilierdan had seen it under on here. Pretty sure tikitang had a thread with it in action.

[tikitang]

Pretty sure tikitang had a thread with it in action.

I don't recall, but I doubt it...I had plans to do something with it but like most of my ideas they failed to materialise!