Sunday, October 12, 2008
House of Horrors is a free, downloadable card game that uses the same mechanics as Avalon Hill’s Atlantic Storm naval game.
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Tuesday, October 07, 2008
Soul Influence is a downloadable card game where the players are recruiters for either heaven or hell. You could also think of it as Coaches Tressell and Rodriguez recruiting for TOSU and UM.
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Punch is a print-and-play card game about boxing.
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Monday, September 15, 2008
1930! is a board game of diplomacy, conflict and economics. It’s designed to work like Diplomacy, but with more chrome.
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Monday, August 25, 2008
Valor and Victory is a free hex-and-counter World War II squad level board game. The rules are professionally done, as are the counters, maps and such. This is a major piece of work.
Thanks to reader FNH for the heads up!
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Sunday, August 24, 2008
Book Ranger has a card game based on the World War I Battle of the River Plate, involving an attempt by the British to sink the marauding Admiral Graf Spee battlecruiser.
Thanks to reader FNH for the heads up!
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Space Junkyard is a free tile / boardgame in which the players attempt to collect resources in a space junkyard to improve their ships. The graphics are very well done and the gameplay looks like a lot of fun.
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Monday, August 11, 2008
Pacific Storm is a one-page hex and counter board wargame that simulates the island hopping campaigns of WWII.
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Saturday, August 09, 2008
The Battle of Talana Hill was part of the Boer War of 1899. This is a traditional hex and counter game. Just download and print!
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Tuesday, August 05, 2008
The Battle of Meiktila is a free, downloadable hex and counter wargame. From the site:
Prolific game designer Paul Rohrbaugh designed A Master Stroke: The Battle for Meiktila, March 5-14, 1945 to cover the battle in Burma that resulted in the final liberation of Mandalay and Rangoon. Not a fight in the impenetrable jungle, this was a mobile battle featuring tanks in the armor-friendly central plain of the country.
What follows is a complete desktop-published board wargame; all that you the player have to do is download, print, assemble and provide the six-sided die, plus a coffee cup to hold the activation markers. What you do not have to provide is money, as A Master Stroke is 100% free.
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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.
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