Friday, August 26, 2005
Norman Langerak has written a set of rules for playing miniatures games based on the Half Life Computer Game.
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Thursday, August 25, 2005
I got an email from the organizers of Runic-Con.
Runic Con is a FUN 3-day (October 21, 22, 23 2005) game convention with miniatures, RPG’s, CCG’s, board games and more! Runic Con has more cash and prize tournaments than ever! 2005’s special guest is Sean Reynolds author of many works including several D&D books. Visit http://www.runic-con.com for up to date info and plan to attend Runic Con 2005!
The ODGW crew will be back again, as well as the head of the National Kentucky Historical Gaming Society. The terrain will be a must see in itself.
We’re less than 2-hours from Columbus OH, Cincinnati OH and Dayton OH. Only 1.5 hours from Lexington KY, 45 minutes from Charleston WV and 15 minutes from Huntington WV
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Wednesday, August 24, 2005
The 6mm Wargaming site is a nice general site on the scale.
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Tuesday, August 23, 2005
Paper Terrain has a very nice sample of one of the buildings from their 15mm World War II line. Of course it also could be used for any number of European conflicts.
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Monday, August 22, 2005
Pro Or Con is a great miniatures convention held every fall in southeastern Michigan. This year, it’s being held at the University of Michigan’s Fairlane Center in Dearborn, Michigan on October 22. There’s plenty of parking, lots of nearby food, and the convention hall itself is a great facility.
You can find out more by visiting their website. You can also register to run a game online.
The organizers also tell me that they are looking for a couple more historical dealers for the convention. If you’ve got a shop and are in driving distance, it may be worth a shot. The convention is generally well-attended, and I’ve seen people spending money (heck, I spent more than a hundred the last time I was there). You can contact the organizers through their website.
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Sunday, August 21, 2005
Small Cuts offers a game called Castle Chelmsford 3D. Owing its flavor to such computer first person shooter games such as Castle Wolfenstein 3D, it involves colonial types breaking out of a nasty prison. There are lots nof ince touches, including some really neat character sheets and loot cards. Here’s what the author writes about it:
... it should be pretty obvious to you that this game is a First Person Shooter simulator for miniatures. It’s named in honor of the FPS classic, Castle Wolfenstein 3-D, the game that pretty much defined the FPS genre before the term FPS was even coined.
The basic story and some elements are shamelessly borrowed from Wolfenstein. The other defining influence was the control system in Red Faction II, which is rather similar to the one in HALO, but I haven’t really played HALO. In fact, I pretty much burned out with the FPS genre after the original Quake, only returning to Red Faction II after a long pause.
This game was designed (if that isn’t too fancy a word for something I wrote in a couple of hours) for a RopeCon demo. It’s meant to accommodate several players, players joining in the middle of a game and the rules are intentionally light but with a few gimmicks you’ll hopefully like.
It’s also intended to be light entertainment instead of hardcore competition. That’s one reason why the players are co-operating against the game system, dispassionately operated by the GM. It lets the GM adjust the difficulty on the fly and hide the possible loopholes in the game rules.
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Saturday, August 20, 2005
Pictors Studio has a tutorial on building bug tunnels for your Starship Troopers games. They are constructed out of pink insulation board and look quite nice.
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Friday, August 19, 2005
Ok. This isn’t about Miniature Wargaming, but I’ve found that miniature wargamers often are lovers of fantasy and science fiction stories. The Baen Free Library has online versions of lots of Baen novels, including works by David Drake, Eric Flint, Andre Norton and more.
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Thursday, August 18, 2005
Pictors Studion has an English Civil War rules adaptation of Games Workshop’s Warmaster rules.
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Wednesday, August 17, 2005
I played a lot of Avalon Hill’s MBT game when it first came out. Now you can get new maps and scenarios depicting terrain/actions found in the fictional WW3 novel “First Clash” by Kenneth Macksey.The premise of the book revolved around the Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group defending its sector in West Germany in the opening days of WW3 against attacking Soviet tank/motor rifle regiments.
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Poll #3:
Cast your vote and then join the discussion to tell us why.
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.
For pictures, visit the gallery.
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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