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Monday, April 12, 2004

Pictoral History of Costume

Painting

Braun and Schneider's "History of Costume" was published from 1861-1880 in Munich. This website has the translated text and the original color plates, with more than 500 costumes. This is a great miniatures painting guide, especially for the "contemporary" (i.e., 1880s) plates of peoples in Europe, Africa and Asia.

 

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Sunday, April 11, 2004

AWI Figure Comparison

Figures

Dan Foley has a review and comparison of wargaming figures from several miniature manufacturers' American War of Independence lines.

 

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Sunday, April 11, 2004

Metallics Painting Tutorial

Painting

Who needs that crazy non-metal metallic (NMM) miniatures painting style. Slave to Paint studios has this tutorial on painting metallics on your wargaming miniatures the traditional way: with metallic paint.

 

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Sunday, April 11, 2004

Nik Gaukroger’s DBM Site

AncientsWargaming Sites

A useful DBM / DBR site from Nik Gaukroger. Most interesting are his reviews of the armies that he fields.

 

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Saturday, April 10, 2004

Saxon Dogs

Rules Medieval

Martin Hogg has written "Saxon Dogs" a set of free wargames rules for Dark Age warbands. Much of the set centers around unit motivation and attempts by the leader to hold them in line until the right moment.

 

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Saturday, April 10, 2004

Figure Painting Tutorial

Painting

Craig Davey has a figure painting tutorial.

 

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Saturday, April 10, 2004

THE GREAT AMISH RAKE FIGHT GAME

Wargaming Sites

A website for the notorious Amish Rake Fight miniatures game. I am not sure whether to classify this as heresy or humor, or both. wink

 

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Saturday, April 10, 2004

No Quarter Fantasy Rules

Rules Fantasy

From Chris Gilders comes No Quarter Fantasy Rules. These free wargames rules are a massive work, with 83 pages in the main rules book alone. There also are a large number of army lists, which is the real strength of the set. Like many fantasy games, figures are defined by a model profile, detailing combat stats, actions, strength, toughness and wounds. This is an amazingly comprehensive work for a free rules set, covering every aspect of fantasy warfare you could want.

 

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Friday, April 09, 2004

Skjaldborg skirmish rules

Rules Medieval

From Shieldwall Games, Skjaldborg is a set of free wargames skirmish rules for ancients through medievals. They look like they'd be best for dark ages -- and especially Vikings! It is very professionally presented in a pdf file and has some interesting rules mechanisms. My favorite part is how all of the charts work the same. You start in a base column and then shift left or right depending upon the situation. The modifiers are presented below the appropriate chart, with little arrows telling you which way to shift. I've saved this one to my hard drive. It's a must-try in my Viking project.

 

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Friday, April 09, 2004

Scratch-Building Wargames Terrain

Chris Brantley has a page with advice on scratch-building wargames terrain. It's aimed at newbies in general, and DBA players in particular.

 

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In addition to miniature wargaming, do you also play paper and pencil role playing games (RPGs)

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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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