Sunday, December 19, 2004
In issues 294 - 296, White Dwarf outlined the rules for using Battle Companies in Games Workshop’s Lord of the Rings Battle Game. Now, the Black Gobbo site has rules for Dwarf and Goblin battle companies in the mines of Moria.
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Saturday, December 18, 2004
Thanks to their sashimonos and army banners, Samurai are among the most colorful of miniature wargames armies. Here’s a site with samurai banners for you to print, cut out and use. I wish I’d had these when I was painting my Samurai armies.
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Friday, December 17, 2004
I like to make terrain that can be used in a variety of games. Life’s too short to do custom work for every game. You can’t go wrong with making a bunch of wattle and daub timber framed houses. Here are some instructions.
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Friday, December 17, 2004
Its one of the biggest conundrums in miniature wargaming. Either your hills can look like wedding cakes, and your figures can stand on them, or they have realistic slopes and your figures fall down go boom. This site claims to have a solution to the problem.
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Thursday, December 16, 2004
Caitlin has some instructions for building a corrugated metal building. This would be useful for any number of modern or science fiction scenarios.
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Thursday, December 16, 2004
The Age of the Kings is a unofficial, free, very high quality supplement for Games Workshop’s Lord of the Rings Battle game. Written by Stewart Gibbs and Alan Harrison, it comes in a pdf format, and can be downloaded here.
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Wednesday, December 15, 2004
Grey Goat studios has this tutorial on airbrushing your wargaming miniatures.
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Wednesday, December 15, 2004
A review of Vis Magica is over at the Wargames Directory. Painting a couple of 15mm fantasy armies has been an on-and-off project of mine for several years. The figures are mostly old Grenadier 15s, although I’ve also found that the Black Raven Foundry figures from 19th Century Miniatures also are very good.
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Tuesday, December 14, 2004
Jeff Herbert offers “Round Table,” a set of rules for a DBM Arthurian campaign. This would be a really interesting game, considering the fine Romano British figures now out from Gripping Beast and others.
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Tuesday, December 14, 2004
Sean K Reynolds has written a nice piece on speed painting. The theory is that what you want to do is put 100 figures on the table, not create 100 individual masterpieces. In recent years, I’ve done much more of the “good enough for the table” figures, and far fewer of the “showcase quality” types.
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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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