Sunday, September 04, 2005
Cheapass Games has a free set of rules for using dice as miniatures called Roll Out The (Gun) Barrels. It’s based on their Button Men game. To play, each player needs to have a set of different sided dice of the same color.
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Saturday, September 03, 2005
There are some nice color plates on this site showing the uniforms of the German states in the 1700s. I don’t know German, but by looking at the plates, I think that they’re all from the Seven Years War. The first page is definitely Frederick the Great and his generals. Someone with more epertise in either the period or in German will have to provide more detail.
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Friday, September 02, 2005
The Flying Pigment site has some nice color plates for the French Army in the 1700s.
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Thursday, September 01, 2005
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Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Wargames-Etc. has an excellent page with color plates of Seven Years War Uniforms. There are uniform plates from Austria, France, Britain, Russia, Prussia and the minor German States.
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Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Award winning painter David Smith of MiniWars offers a very useful page of instructions for painting 25mm - 28mm figures. There’s lots of useful information here on black priming, painting faces and more in the “British” style of painting, with its exaggerated highlights, etc.
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Monday, August 29, 2005
One of the things that drives me nuts about Games Workshop is the way they will abandon previous armies in new editions of their rules books. Anyone still stuck with a now-unsupported Warhammer 40K squat army? I’ve got several thousand points worth of stunties on trikes and in exo armor. How about the original dinosaur like 40k Zoats. I’ve got those, too.
Fortunately, there are a lot of army lists out there on the ‘net for people to use in their “non sanctioned” games (I’ve never actually played in an “official” game). If you got a bunch of Halflings, you should check out this hobbit army list for the newest Warhammer Fantasy.
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Sunday, August 28, 2005
Games Workshop’s Specialist Games website has republished the Necromunda rules as a free download. In addition to the main rulesbook, there are sourcebooks on Hive Primus, campaigns and scenarios, and Underhive rulebook, Kal Jerico and Scabbs, Enforcers, Gang Leadership, Treacherous Conditions, Ratskin Renegades, the Wyrd and the Wonderful and Scavvies.
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Sunday, August 28, 2005
The Warseer forums have an interesting thread on using Games Workshop’s Lord of the Rings battle game to run Warhammer 40K skirmish games.
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Saturday, August 27, 2005
Warring Tribes is a miniatures game by Norman Langerak based on the board game ‘Tal des Mammuts’. In it, cave men gather resources, build structures, develop technology and go to war. Of course, in that sense, it’s also like a lot of computer games in the explore, exploit and eliminate genere, like Civilization.
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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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