Wednesday, April 12, 2006
With the release of the Warhammer Ancients’ supplement Vlad The Impaler, you may want to take a look at this photo tour of some of the military sites in Transylvania.
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Friday, November 25, 2005
Here’s a new twist on battle reports: a DBA battle illustrated in Flash animation. You computer needs tobe able to handle flash animations with the swf extension.
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Thursday, November 24, 2005
My brother is in the process of painting a couple of Aztec-era armies. Here are a couple of links with some nice eye candy: An Aztec army, and a Mixtec and Zapotec army.
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Wednesday, November 23, 2005
UNRV History is a nice site about Roman history.
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Friday, October 14, 2005
Chronofus has written a guide to wargaming the Aztecs. This is a major work, with information on the various troop types, and comes complete with color illustrations
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Monday, September 26, 2005
Bob Nedwich has compiled a good reading list / bibliography of materials for the bronze age gamer. Each title is accompanied by a paragraph or two describing the work.
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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.
