Basic Impetus

Impetus is a set of wargame rules that aims to simulate battles with miniatures in the ancient, medieval and renaissance period. Basic Impetus is a free, simplified, version of those rules. The aim of Basic Impetus is to accompany you on your first steps towards the world of Impetus, giving you a chance to play immediately with a smaller number of miniatures.

Being just a “taste” of the full rules we have left out a lot of the elements that are the fundamental characteristics of the original rules, to which you are referred for a more structured and exciting game.

– Basic Impetus introduction

Designer: Lorenzo Sartori
Publisher: Dadi & Piombo
Status: In Print
Contents: Available online (Wargame Vault) (64-page PDF)
Basing: BASIC IMPETUS uses a basing system that is compatible with the most popular rules. An IMPETUS base (a Unit) has a double frontage compared to DBM or DBA and quite similar to one adopted by Armati.

Base depth is not critical so you can use already based armies.

– publisher's website

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Ancients
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This entry created by Editor in Chief Bill on 18 November 2016. Last revised by Editor in Chief Bill on 22 December 2016.

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Miniature Wargame Rules - Ancients - Medieval - Renaissance

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Editions

Current version is second edition (2016).

Supplements

Basic BAROQUE

This is not a new set of rules but an Expansion (yet a developing draft) of Basic Impetus and Impetus for the European warfare in late XVI Cent to early XVIII Cent. (Marlborough).
– Basic BAROQUE introduction

3-page PDF