Friday, August 05, 2005
The Landships of Mogdonazia is:
A homemade scientific romance add-on for The Sword and The Flame. Rules for building your own landships that should syncronise perfectly with TSATF. Currently only contains rules for land based vehicles, but imagine what tomorrow might bring…
There’s also a set of vehicle sheets.
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Thursday, August 04, 2005
John Bell’s contribution to the colonial wars genre is called Fixed Bay’net an’ Uncovered ‘elmet . It’s based on another of his rules sets called The Breaking of Nations.
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Wednesday, August 03, 2005
John Bell has written a set of rules called “The Breaking of Nations” which he says is designed to:
emulate 25 mm skirmish actions during the Great War. It can also be used for an alternative or Sci-Fi vision of WWI.
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Tuesday, August 02, 2005
The Alternate Realms site has several nice cardstock buildings, including some huts and a chapel. The page also has a couple of tanks and a science fiction walker vehicle. Finally, there’s a model of St Michaels tower on Glastonbury Tor (sp?).
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Monday, August 01, 2005
John McEwan of Reverisco offers a free paper model of a lugger rigged fishing boat. It’s the kind that you might find crusing the Nile, or even the Ganges. It would be incredibly useful for a wide variety of 28mm games.
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Sunday, July 31, 2005
As much as we’d like to, my group has never been able to get a regular wargames campaign going. Keeping track of all those resources, maps, etc. is just too much for a bunch of 40ish gamers with wives, kids, homes and jobs.
A good alternative, though is the “narrative campaign”, which is essentially a set of linked encouters that depend upon the outcome of tabletop battles.
Here’s a dummies guide to creating one.
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Saturday, July 30, 2005
Tim Peterson has some instructions for building a small Spanish or Mexican style shrine for your 25mm 28mm figures.
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Friday, July 29, 2005
Peter Hunt has written a review of Phil Barker’s “Damn Battleships Again” rules. I guess I was sleeping when these came out because this is the first I’ve heard of them.
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Thursday, July 28, 2005
The Palantir website has an excellent photo tutorial on building a pond for your wargames table. Although the article is aimed at Games Workshop’s Lord of the Rings game, there isn’t a period in history that couldn’t use a pond.
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Wednesday, July 27, 2005
The War of the Ring website has a photo tutorial on making a ruined watchtower for Games Workshop’s Lord of the Rings miniatures game. It would be useful for all kinds of medieval or fantasy settings.
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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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