Tuesday, May 31, 2005
The Ancient Battles site offers a nice article on building a Warhammer Ancient Battles mercenary hoplite unit for a Persian army (for use with the Alexander The Great supplement). The author uses a variety of painting techniques, and there are some nice photos.
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Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Luke Ueda-Sarson has a very useful page detaling Greek shield designs. He has 200 shield designs for periods ranging from 700 to 300 BC.
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Wednesday, March 09, 2005
Bill MacGillivray has a nice gallery of his Shang Chinese DBA army, and a Dragon Tail banner for you to save and print on your inkjet.The banner is in 15mm, but I’m going to resize it and use it for my Boxer Rebellion armies in 28mm.
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Friday, January 21, 2005
So you’ve got a Khemri army for Warhammer Fantasy—or a New Kingdom Eqyptian army—or are setting up a skirmish game set in Egypt using the Chaos In Cairo or other adventure gaming rules. You’ve constructed a bunch of buildings and temple ruins, but are at a loss for what to do about those intricate decorations on the walls. Here’s a solution. This site has jpeg images of egyptian walls designed to be cut out and pasted to your structures.
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Monday, January 10, 2005
The Wargames Journal has an article on Boudica’s revolt against the Romans in AD 61. There’s also a couple of army lists for use with Games Workshop’s excellent Warmaster rules.
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Monday, January 03, 2005
Terry Gore of SAGA Publishing has written a quick painting guide for ancients miniatures. The techniques are of use for either 15mm or the 25mm - 28mm sort.
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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.
