Upload the rulebook
Scanned pages or photos of the charts. The AI pulls out the unit roster, terrain, combat results table and victory conditions, and admits what it is unsure about.
Rulebook in, table out
Bring the rulebook.
Hexforge runs the table.
Upload a hex-and-counter wargame's rules and Hexforge turns them into a game you can actually play: the map, the counters and every chart become part of the engine. Your family and friends only ever see the decisions — and a plain-English account of how each one turned out.
- Rigid zones of control
- Battalions that touch an enemy must fight or hold
- 1 unit per hex
- Strict stacking, exactly like the paper game
- Combat results table
- Odds, column shifts and the die — resolved for you
Napoleon at Waterloo · 18 June 1815Turn 3 · French
French Anglo-Allied
5 legal movesThe first game Hexforge was built around
Conversion
A rulebook is a dataset nobody has parsed yet.
Hexforge treats the paper game as the source of truth: the charts stay exactly as printed, they simply move into the engine where they belong.
Correct the draft
Talk to the AI about anything it misread — a column shift, a movement allowance, a supply rule. Each correction becomes part of the saved ruleset.
Invite your table
Start a session and share the link. Everyone claims a side, the counters are set up, and each turn syncs for the whole table in seconds.
The engine
What the computer takes off your hands.
Everything a newcomer dreads about the hobby — the tables, the modifiers, the sequence of play — lives behind the board.
Only legal orders
Illegal moves aren't rejected — they're never offered. Reachable hexes and valid attacks are the only things you can click.
Combat resolved for you
Odds are calculated, terrain shifts the column, the die is rolled and the result is applied to the board. Nobody argues about a chart again.
Results in plain English
Ae, Ar, Dr, De, Ee mean nothing to a first-time player. Every resolution comes back as one sentence about what happened and why.
Rules on call
Ask a rules question mid-turn, in your own words. The answer comes from the ruleset the game was built from.
First game
Napoleon at Waterloo, and the battles that never happened.
The ridge at Mont-Saint-Jean, a wet morning, and an afternoon of French attacks that came close enough to change the century. The interesting part was always what could have gone differently — a Guard attack that broke through, a Prussian column that arrived an hour late.
That is exactly what a wargame lets you test. Hexforge keeps the historical setup and the printed charts honest, and lets your family find out whether the line holds.
Scenario notes
- Ground
- Mont-Saint-Jean ridge, mud, and the walled farm of Hougoumont
- Forces
- French corps against the Anglo-Allied line, Prussians on the march
- Victory
- Break the enemy army — 40 strength points destroyed
- Play
- One counter per hex, zones of control that freeze a unit in place