Historical Miniature Wargaming
Refighting real battles with painted miniatures — Napoleonic, Ancient, Medieval, English Civil War, WWII and beyond.
What is Historical Miniature Wargaming?
Historical Miniature Wargaming is the vast hobby of refighting real historical battles with painted miniatures — from Marathon to Waterloo to Kursk. Its roots lie in the 19th-century Prussian Kriegsspiel training kits and, for the modern civilian hobby, H.G. Wells's 1913 Little Wars. Countless rulesets cover every period and scale — DBA/DBM for Ancients, Sharp Practice and Blucher for Napoleonic, Command Decision for WWII, and hundreds more.
Quick facts
Category
Miniature Wargames
Type
Individual
Players
2–6
Where played
both
Country of origin
🇩🇪 Germany
Estimated origin
19th-century Prussian Kriegsspiel — modern hobby: H.G. Wells's 'Little Wars' 1913
Olympic
No
Popularity
regional