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Thursday, July 02, 2009

Making Wooden Crates

Modeling

Terragenesis has a good illustrated article on making wooden crates for 25mm / 28mm gaming.

 

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Wednesday, July 01, 2009

When Dreadnaughts Ruled The Sky Victorian Science Fiction Rules

Rules Steampunk

When Dreadnaughts Ruled The Sky is a nicely done set of rules for Victorian Airships. Unfortunately, you have to join the Military Army Campaigns Yahoo Groups to get it.

 

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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Sources For Pirate Ships

Modeling

Pirates are my next big project, so I was happy to find that Cianty’s Tabletop Wargames Blog has an article on sources for pirate ships for gaming.

 

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Monday, June 29, 2009

Beyond the Saale Seven Years War Campaign System

Rules 18th C

Beyond the Saale is a set of campaign rules for the Seven Years War.

 

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Sunday, June 28, 2009

Making Miniatures With Shrinky Dinks

Modeling

Make magazine (I subscribe—it’s one of the coolest magazines ever) has a blog post on making miniatures out of Shrinky Dinks.

 

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Saturday, June 27, 2009

Napoleon’s Battles Labels For Wagram

Napoleonics

A set of stand labels for a Wagram scenario for Napoleon’s Battles

 

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Friday, June 26, 2009

Flames of War Desert Campaign

Flames of WarRules WWII

Running a “campaign” can add context and interest to a miniature wargame. Here’s a Tobruk Desert Campaign for Flames of War.

 

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Thursday, June 25, 2009

Battle Chronicler Battle Report Creator

Software

Battle Chronicler is an interesting piece of software that helps you create great looking battle reports.

Battle Chronicler aims to make it quick and easy to produce great looking battle reports that other gamers will want to read. Using the latest developments in Windows technology Battle Chronicler delivers fantastic graphics and a ultra modern user interface.

So if you are miniatures wargamer looking to enhance your hobby with some cool software then you have come to the right place.

Why you need it

There are lots of reasons to write a battle report; share tips and tactics with other players, or to publicize your best victory on the web.

Table top games are about positioning and movement and words are not enough. You also need diagrams for a good battle report. Making plans and diagrams of a game is hard to do, which is why very few games every get recorded in a battle report. That was until now.

Battle Chronicler has been designed to do this one task and to do it well.

 

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Thursday, June 25, 2009

Free Textures For Paper Buildings

ModelingPaper Figs Terrain

CG Textures has a terrific collection of textures you can download and use to design your own paper buildings. There area bricks, doors, windows and more. I’m going to use them to create some photorealistic 15mm buildings for an upcoming zombie game.

Thanks to reader Troy for the tip!

 

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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Valley of Fire Northwest Frontier Campaign

Rules Colonial

Valley of Fire is a free campaign system for the Northwest Frontier. The authors write:

This is a fictional colonial campaign set in the Northwest Frontier during the late 1880s. A British fort is under siege and a relieving force has exactly one month to break the siege! The villages in the valley and mountain passes go into revolt, adding more and more foces to the siege and to block the British advance. The system features hidden movement, is of moderate complexity, and is designed to be run with or without a referee. The PDF contains rules, counters, a planning map, and log sheets.

 

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About the Miniature Wargaming Hobby

Miniature Wargaming is part of the "adventure games" hobby, which includes r ole p laying and board games. Wargamers recreate battles on the tabletop with toy soldiers, like a more complicated game of chess. Models range in height from 6mm to 28mm tall, with 15mm and 25mm being the most popular. There also is a growing interest in toy soldiers and military models, such as the 1/32 and 1/35 scale plastic soldiers from Conte, and Marx.

The most popular miniature wargames are fantasy and science fiction based, such as Warhammer, Warhammer 40K, Warmachine and The Lord of the Rings. World War II games such as Flames of War and Axis and Allies are new favorites. Other favorite historical periods include Napoleonics, the American Civil War, and ancients, such as Romans or Greeks. Other gamers enjoy miniature naval wargames, recreating battles like Trafalgar, Jutland and the Coral Sea.

Hobbyists research historical periods and paint their tiny soldiers in accurate uniforms. Others develop "historically realistic" rules sets or build scale battlefield terrain using model railroad techniques.

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Some of the bigger hobby companies are Games Workshop, which produces Warhammer, Wargames Foundry and Old Glory Miniatures. Wizards of the Coast produces several lines of pre-painted miniatures games, such as the Star Wars and Dungeons and Dragons miniatures games, and a historical game with pre-painted miniatures: The new Axis and Allies game. Wizkids produces a fantasy collectable miniatures game, such as the Mage Knight and Heroclick fantasy games, the science fiction games MechWarrior and Rocketmen, as well as the quasi-historical Pirates of the Spanish Main.

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