Sunday, October 16, 2011
Ancient World Online
Ancients
The Ancient World Online is a blog that contains many thousands of useful links to information on the ancients.
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Sunday, October 16, 2011
The Ancient World Online is a blog that contains many thousands of useful links to information on the ancients.
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Saturday, July 16, 2011
The Dark Age Wargaming Blog has a nice (long) article (in multiple parts) on the historical Age of Arthur. Doing an historical Arthur skirmish game has been one of my longtime goals.
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Thursday, December 23, 2010
An Hour of Wolves and Shattered Shields has some free decals for ancient Persian shields. Just print on decal or regular paper and stick them on.
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Wednesday, December 22, 2010
An Hour of Wolves and Shattered Shields has a set of free printable decals for Ancient Greeks. You can print these on decal paper, or on regular paper and glue them to the models.
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Monday, December 20, 2010
An Hour of Wolves and Shattered Shields has a set of free Roman Shield designs for decals. Just print them out on decal paper, or on regular stock and glue them to the models. I should think that a hobby product called Modge Podge would handle that task well.
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Saturday, December 18, 2010
An Hour of Wolves and Shattered Shields has a selection of free flags and bannners for ancient Persians
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Friday, December 17, 2010
An Hour of Wolves and Shattered Shields offers a set of free flags for the Chinese Warring states period.
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Thursday, March 04, 2010
Legio Wargames has a nice scenario for the Battle of Pharsalus, from the Roman Civil War, August 9, 48 BC. In this, an outnumbered Caesar faced Senate forces under Pompey in Greece. In spite of having just 22,000 to Pompey’s 45,000, Caesar’s veterans of the Gallic Wars, and his skillful use of a reserve won the day.
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Ian H. revives an old, but worthy idea with Portable Gladiators. Basically, it’s a playing surface, rules and figures all contained in a single large round metal tin—a cookie or biscuit tin.
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Friday, May 08, 2009
If you’re wondering about the Osprey Publishing Field of Glory rules, here’s a nice photo replay of a Roman Civil War game using the set. The Field of Glory: Ancient and Medieval Wargaming Rules rules set is available commercially.
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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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