Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Here’s a paper model of a medieval watchtower in 1:140 scale. The site is in German and the babelfish that I used wasn’t very good in translating it, so I can’t tell you much more. 1:140 scale is probably not good for most miniature wargames, but you could easily scale them up when you print.
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Monday, August 15, 2005
Southern Front ‘05, TSS’s 35th annual gaming event.
To be held Sept. 30th -October 1st and 2nd; Friday noon to Sunday 5.PM.
Cost: $12 pre-reg, $15 at the door.
Website: http://www.trianglesimsociety.org
Point of contact: eamohrmann@mindspring.com or 919-245-3894.
Location: Raleigh NC at the Crabtree Valley Holiday Inn. There’s a link to the hotel’s reservation system on our website. There’s also a pre-reg form which can be downloaded and completed, and either snail-mailed or e-mailed.
Events can be submitted on our website using the script placed there for that purpose.
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Monday, August 15, 2005
Admiralty is a set of free miniatures rules for the age of fighting sail. Its designed for 1/2400 miniatures. The authors write:
Admiralty is a set of miniature wargame rules that re-create battles from the age of the fighting sail. The game concentrates of the core features of period naval combat including sailing, cannon fire and boarding actions. The rules are geared to allow large battles to be fought over realistically scaled areas of “sea” as player struggle to pummel, dismast and capture their opponent’s vessels. The rules are split into six sections, each of which deal with a particular aspect of the game. Playing aids such as ship log, firing arc and the all-important combat chart can be gotten on the main Admiralty home page.
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Sunday, August 14, 2005
Mini Combat is another attempt at creating a set of generic wargames rules. Shaun Austin writes:
Mini Combat is a generic rule set for massive battles using small scale miniatures. The rules are generic enough to play historical, fantasy and sci-fi battles. It is also possible to play across genres. How would fantasy Orcs fare against the American Confederate army or WWII Nazis against the Alien horde? These rules can be used stand alone where you can pick and choose what sections you will use or they can be used with Source books that define the rules, army lists and objectives of the battles. The miniature scale was designed for 1:300 (6mm) to 1:1000 (2mm) although we have played with 1:185 (10mm) for Fantasy and 1:5000 for Naval combat.
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Saturday, August 13, 2005
I’ve been working on a 15mm fantasy project for a long time now. Bits and pieces are painted, but mostly I’ve been collecting figures—from the Old Grenadier 15mm line to newer ones Black Raven Foundry. I’ve also admired the Demonworld line.
Now, the Demonworld rules are available as a free download. There also is a file of components and some mapsets.
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Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Ray Trochim offers a set of free miniatures rules called “Little Battles.”
Ray writes:
Little Battles is a fun and simple game system designed towards smaller battles and/or skirmishes using 25mm or 15mm figures. Little Battles is a set of miniature rules that can be used for gaming a variety of historical periods ranging from about 1750 to 1885. In an attempt to keep the rules trim, Little Battles has been written for the more experienced players in mind, and as a result, some of the little subtleties about miniature wargaming are absent from the rules. That is not to say that a novice gamer could not pick up and read Little Battles, and after playing a game or two will have a full understanding as to how they are used.
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Tuesday, August 09, 2005
Here is a step-by-step quide to building a 25mm - 28mm Aztec pyramid.
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Monday, August 08, 2005
Secret Government Labs has some paper models of a wood shack and a metal shack in the 25mm - 28mm scale. They’re pretty good looking.
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Sunday, August 07, 2005
Secret Government Labs has a free set of paper models of saurians for your 25mm - 28mm science fiction games. There’s also a nice set of space marines.
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Saturday, August 06, 2005
Dark Future is one of those short-lived, but pretty good games that games Workshop has put out over the years (such as Man O’ War, Talisman, etc.). I didn’t think that there weas anyone who still played it, but here’s a site dedicated to the game.
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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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