If you've ever spent a Saturday afternoon trying to work out whether to start Necromunda, Frostgrave or that intriguing indie skirmish game your mate keeps banging on about, a new fansite wants to make that decision easier.
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Start organising for freeSkirmish Codex launched recently as a community-curated database for tabletop skirmish games, the small-scale miniature games where each model represents an individual fighter rather than a unit. Wargamer describes it as essentially IMDb for the corner of the hobby that lives between full wargames and dungeon crawlers.
The catalogue currently covers 129 games. Anything with a published rulebook is fair game, including self-published PDFs, but homebrew documents are off limits. The big names are all there: Necromunda, Kill Team, Frostgrave, Trench Crusade, Infinity, Five Parsecs from Home and the post-apocalyptic Gaslands: Refuelled. Filters let you sort by complexity, model count, publisher, year and rating.
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Find events near youReviews are user-submitted, though the section is currently empty as the site finds its feet. Notable absentees include Mordheim, the Games Workshop classic with a devoted quarter-century following (no word on why it's missing), but the site accepts community submissions so the gaps can be filled in. Trench Crusade is already there, which suggests the curators are tracking what's actually on tables right now.
For groups looking to start a skirmish league, this is genuinely useful. Convincing your Saturday crew to commit £100 each to a new system is a hard sell, and side-by-side filters on rules complexity and model counts mean you can size up the buy-in before anyone has to paint a thing. If your local club's after a fresh project and you need a few more painters around the table, find a group near you and pitch it.
Sources: Wargamer | Skirmish Codex
