Wednesday, March 23, 2005
Alain Padfield & Rich Jones have written a pair of “dueling reviews” on Warhammer Historicals’ new rules set, Legends of the Old West.
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Sunday, March 13, 2005
I know a lot of people who now are getting into wild west skirmishes, thanks to the Warhammer Old West rules set. If you’re going to build your own Victorian west town for miniatures skirmishes, you’re going to need signs and wanted posters. Wargames Foundry is offering these free here.
For inspiration, you could take a look at pictures of the wild west town that I built seven or eight years ago.
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Monday, December 13, 2004
It’s not a miniatures game, but it looks like a lot of fun. David Allen offers “Harvest The Wind”, a free board game about the plains indian wars. There are several scenarios, including Wood Lake (1862), Wagon Box Fight (1867), Beecher Island (1868), Washita River (1868), Massacre Canyon (1873), and Reno’s Defense (1876).
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Monday, November 29, 2004
Fred Diamond has a simple set of free wargames rules for playing the Indian Wars in the America of the late 19th century.
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Wednesday, November 10, 2004
Over on the Lord of the Rings Yahoo group, Terry Maltman has posted a review of Warhammer Historicals' new "Legends of the Old West" game. Apparently it is not, as I feared, a 40K variant, but rather a Lord of the Rings variant, with some Mordheim/Necromunda stuff thrown in. You can read the review below.
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Poll #1:
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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.
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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