Thursday, May 15, 2008
Angels 1-5 World War II Air Combat Game
Rules Aircraft, Rules WWII
Angels 1-5 is a game of air combat over Britain in 1940
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Thursday, May 15, 2008
Angels 1-5 is a game of air combat over Britain in 1940
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008
MiniBlaze has an article on one of the most basic of miniature wargaming activities: flocking your figures’ bases.
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Creature Feature is an innovative role playing game in which the players collaboratively build a monster movie script and play it out to the end.
Game play is split into two phases: script-writing and filming. In script-writing you develop the elements you’ll need for filming: cast, sets, tropes and sub-plots. Filming occurs in 3 acts, and before each act, the group has a script-writing session. Each act consists of several scenes. An act is over when all the tropes for that act have been satisfied. Once all the acts are over, the movie goes into the climax, and either the monster or the cast meet their demise.
I think that there are some interesting elements in this game that could be used to create a truly memorable miniatures game experience.
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Monday, May 12, 2008
The Random Thoughts and Senseless Pastimes Blog has an article on building a 3D gameboard for the classic Wiz War game.
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Sunday, May 11, 2008
Terrain Thralls has a tutorial on making a trench section or gun emplacement.
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Saturday, May 10, 2008
The New York Public Library’s Uniforms Collection has its vast collection of color uniform plates for the French Army 1250 - 1806 available on line. Those dates, of course, include quite a bit of Napoleonic uniforms.
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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.
