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Friday, April 01, 2005

Vikings Quest Online Game

Medieval

Vikings Quest is a decision making game from the BBC. In it, you take on the task of outfitting a Viking raiding party and . Along the way, you’ll also learn quite a bit about Viking life.

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Friday, April 01, 2005

Texas Map Archives

Wargaming Sites

If you’re into gaming the Mexican American war, or if you just have an interest in things Texas in general, you’ll find this map archives useful. There are a number of historical maps for you to view online:

Texas Revolution, 1835-1836 - Text Description (120K) [p. 47]

Texas Revolution, 1835-1836 - The Defense of the Alamo, February 23 - March 6, 1836 (75K) [p. 47]

Texas Revolution, 1835-1836 - The Major Movements of Texan and Mexican Military Forces, February - April, 1836 (119K)  [p. 47]

Texas Revolution, 1835-1836 - The Battle of San Jacinto, April 21, 1836 (145K) [p. 47]

Texas Frontier Development, 1841-1843 (97K) [p. 48]

Mexican War Battles in Texas and Northern Mexico, 1846-1847 - Text Description (127K) [p. 49]

Mexican War Battles in Texas and Northern Mexico, 1846-1847 - The Battle of Palo Alto, May 8, 1846 (62K) [p. 49]

Mexican War Battles in Texas and Northern Mexico, 1846-1847 - The Battle of Resaca De La Palma, May 9, 1846 (50K) [p. 49]

Mexican War Battles in Texas and Northern Mexico, 1846-1847 - Taylor’s Campaign, March 1846 - February 1847 (69K) [p. 49]

Mexican War Battles in Texas and Northern Mexico, 1846-1847 - Stephen Kearny’s Campaign in New Mexico and A.W. Doniphan’s Campaign in Chihuahua (147K) [p. 49]

The general Texas map link is here.

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Friday, April 01, 2005

War of the Triple Alliance website

19th Century

Ulysses Narciso has created a page with information on South America’s War of the Triple Alliance. He writes in his introduction:

The Triple Alliance War is one of the most controversial and less known event of Latin America History.  The war was a conflict that pitted the Argentine Confederation, the Republic of Uruguay and The Brazilian Empire against the Republic of Paraguay. The war raged for 5 years (1864-1870) and was marked by some of the fiercest military campaigns of Latin America History. Large armies were involved during the conflict and, in Paraguay’s case, the entire population was engaged in supporting the war efforts.

This was a very bitter war that few know about. Some estimates are that Paraguay lost as much as 20% of its population—including 50% of its male population.

I did see a 15mm manufacturer a few years ago who made figures for this war, but for the life of me, I can’t remember the name of the company now.

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Thursday, March 31, 2005

Pro Gloria Seven Years War Rules

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Pro Gloria! is a set of rules for 15mm and 25/28mm wargaming in the age surrounding the Seven Years War.

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Thursday, March 31, 2005

Late 1700s and Early 1800s Uniform Guide

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I can’t read German, so I don’t really know what it’s about, but this page has some excellent antique plates of european uniforms from the late 1700s and early 1800s. (The dates actually range from 1697 to 1867). It’s worth a look if your doing wars of that period. There are quite a few Napoleonic period plates in here.

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Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Seventh Sanctum Random Name Generators

General Stories

Back in the heady days of first edition D&D, there were a lot of small companies publishing books that essentially were nothing more than lists of names, treasures, monsters, etc. During a game, you used these lists to randomly generate filler for your adventures.

The Seventh Sanctum is essentially a computerized version of these old random generator books. There are random generators here for just about anything you can imagine: pirate ship names, character names for a variety of settings, superhero powers,, equipment lists, dark rituals, several evil sounding name generators, a magical girls, a martial arts move generator, and more!

I spent way too much time playing with this one.

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Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Pro Patria Napoleonics Rules

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Adam Stone offers Pro Patria, a set of Napoleonic wargaming rules for 15mm and 28mm figures. Adam writes:

These rules involved a rewriting of the Elan Napoleonic rules (2002) by Phillip Jones and also owe a certain history to the WRG rules 1685-1845 (1978) by Phillip Barker. As with all rule sets there is a balance between attempting to achieve historical accuracy and to develop a simple but fun game. Pro Patria! may not meet the historical accuracy required by some people nor the simplicity of play for some gamers, but I do hope you enjoy playing with these rules for what they are rather than what they aren’t.

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005

Instructions For Building A Dark Ages Long House

MedievalTerrain Buildings

Dan Becker has some instructions and photos on building a long house for your 28mm Vikings, Saxons, Germans and other dark ages wargames armies. It’s a terrific looking piece.

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005

Greek Village Model

Terrain Buildings

Eye candy time. Greg Kelleher has built a nice greek village for DBA.

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Monday, March 28, 2005

Ship’s Hull Templates

Terrain Outdoor

The NuGamers of Kingswood, Texas offer this templage for making a ship for your miniature wargames.. It’s designed so that you build the ship up in wedding cake fashion, one layer at a time. The instructions don’t say what period it’s for, but it looks pretty generic.

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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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