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 War, Rules 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
Modeling, Paper 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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