Thursday, April 26, 2007
Ball Game of Death
Ancients
Here’s an amazing site on the MesoAmerican - Mayan ball game where the losers are killed.
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Thursday, April 26, 2007
Here’s an amazing site on the MesoAmerican - Mayan ball game where the losers are killed.
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Warhammer Historical’s latest is the Age of Arthur book. Here’s the errata for the rules.
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Saturday, March 10, 2007
The Othismos ancient wargaming blog has a Warhammer Ancients scenario for the battle of Tanagra from 457 BC, in which the Spartans faced the Athenians.
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Saturday, February 17, 2007
Othismos is a new blog focusing on wargaming ancient Greece. Give it a visit.
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Thursday, January 25, 2007
From the Red Rampant site comes an article on Roman Vexilla (flags, or standards). Useful information for anyone building a Warhammer ancients army of Romans.
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Friday, January 19, 2007
I’ve noticed a growing interest in playing Mongols—perhaps due to the introduction of some new 25mm / 28mm figure lines. Vince’s Homepage (yes, that’s the site’s name), has some photos of a nicely painted Mongol Army and a useful Mongol Army list for Warhammer Ancients.
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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.