Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Dark Future was a Mad-Max apocalyptic future game put out by Games Workshop back in the 1980s. Like every one of their games outside the core 40K and Warhammer Fantasy, they cancelled it far too quickly. The rules, however, are still available for downloading at the Specialist Games Site.
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Monday, August 25, 2008
Valor and Victory is a free hex-and-counter World War II squad level board game. The rules are professionally done, as are the counters, maps and such. This is a major piece of work.
Thanks to reader FNH for the heads up!
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Sunday, August 24, 2008
Book Ranger has a card game based on the World War I Battle of the River Plate, involving an attempt by the British to sink the marauding Admiral Graf Spee battlecruiser.
Thanks to reader FNH for the heads up!
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Saturday, August 23, 2008
For fans of Games Workshop’s Epic 6mm game set in the Warhammer Universe, there’s Epic: Raiders, a fan supplement designed to fill in gaps in the system.
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Friday, August 22, 2008
The Victorian Web site has a wealth of articles on life in the Victorian era. You could spend a very long time reading the material there.
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Thursday, August 21, 2008
Steampunk Wallpaper is a site that offers—computer wallpapers with a steampunk theme.
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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.
