Saturday, June 14, 2008
One Monk offers a 2.5D paper model of a red dragon in 30mm scale. There’s also an uncolored version.
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Thursday, January 03, 2008
Eye Candy Time. (Heh Heh)
My gaming buddies often laugh at me about the strange materials I use in scratchbuilding terrain. I once built a western town with pasta (a spaghetti western, get it?). And I’ve never stopped getting grief over that one.
But these guys take the cake (heh heh). They’ve built a Battle of Pelennor Fields game out of gingerbread and candy.
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Friday, November 30, 2007
Merlin Larson has a well researched scenario for wargaming the Battle of the Five Armies from The Hobbit.
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Saturday, November 17, 2007
Doug Larsen has a nice article and scenario for fighting the battle of Helm’s Deep. He has obviously spent a lot of time studying the source material for both the maps and the forces.
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Monday, October 08, 2007
Labyrinth Lord is a free “throwback” style RPG.
I’m old school, so I’m going to give this a serious look.
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Sunday, October 07, 2007
The Encyclopedia of Arda is an illustrated online hypertext encyclopedia of Tolkien’s worlds.
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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.
