Friday, September 03, 2010
History of Highwaymen and Highway Robbery
18th Century
Stand and Deliver is a website dedicated to the history of highwaymen and highway robbery.
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Friday, September 03, 2010
Stand and Deliver is a website dedicated to the history of highwaymen and highway robbery.
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Thursday, June 03, 2010
Outlaws and Highwaymen is a terrific site loaded with information about English criminal history.
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Thursday, February 25, 2010
For many years, George’s Nafziger’s collection of orders of battle for conflicts dating from the 1600s to the 1900s have been a mainstay of the historical wargaming community.
Once available only commercially, Nafziger recently donated his collection to the Army’s Combined Arms Research Library.
The actual files are available as pdfs here. But as they’re numbered and not named, you’ll also want to consult the finding aid here. And a search function.
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Olicanalad’s Games has a nicely done watercolor of an Austrian Infantry 7 Years War Flag that will reproduce nicely for your units.
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Wednesday, April 01, 2009
Here’s a look at the fates of the signers of the Declaration of Independence ... the men who pledged “their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.”
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Miniature Revolution is a new blog focusing on 6mm American Revolution gaming.
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Friday, December 21, 2007
The New York Public Library’s Digital Collection has plates of Polish uniforms from 1633 to 1787.
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Monday, September 17, 2007
Les Uniformes de l’Armée Française contains a series of marvelous images that will work very well as a painting guide.
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Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Here are a few photos of our game recreating the battle of Eutaw Springs, fought on Sept. 8, 1781 in South Carolina. We used “The British Are Coming” for rules, and most of the figures are old Soldiers and Swords.
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Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Zippy’s Card Models has three terrific models that could be used in a Scottish highland setting: two crofts (one story stone houses), a stone barn, and a stone house that would be appropriate for a village. These might be especially interesting in a Jacobite Rebellion miniature wargame.
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Poll #1:
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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