Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Assault on Belgium is a traditional hex-and-counter board game free for the downloading. It simulates the German invasion of that country in 1940.
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Sunday, July 20, 2008
By the Walls of Constantinople is a one-page board game simulating part of the seige of the city by the Sultan Mahmet II. To play the game, you just download one of the listed images and print.
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Friday, July 18, 2008
Druid’s Duel is a strategy card game—played with a poker deck—for two to four players. It simulates a duel between shape-shifting magicians.
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Friday, July 11, 2008
WarpSpawn offers Commodore, a two player card game of Napoleonic fighting sail.
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Wednesday, July 09, 2008
While looking for educational games to play with my AP Government classes this next year, I found this unique board strategy game simulating the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s.
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Sunday, July 06, 2008
Pocket Civilization is a free, downloadable solo civilization building game that’s advertised as being compact enough to play on an airplane.
It looks very cool, and the Board Game Geek reviews are favorable.
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Sunday, June 22, 2008
Outpost Gamma was one of Dwarfstar Games’ old micro games. It simulates man-to-man combat in a science fiction setting.
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Monday, June 16, 2008
Off The Beach is Brian Gill’s board game based on the D-Day landing on the Beaches of Normandy in 1941. The Americans are trying to get off the beach and clear the Dog Green section of the beach of German resistance. The winner is the last player that has men on the board.
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Monday, June 09, 2008
Book Ranger offers a solo science fiction trading game called Free Trader. He writes:
“Free Trader” is a solitaire game with a theme of trading between planets trying to make the first four payments on your recently bought space ship.
Inspired by the “Traveller” RPG and the 80s computer game “Elite” you will explore the planets of the galaxy looking for and making the most of trading opportunities.
But the void between the planets is not safe. You’ll find it inhabited by Pirates willing to attack you and take your burnt out spaceship as salvage. So you’ll need to upgrade your ships defences while struggeling to meet the payments.
With the huge cost of defenses and ship upgrades will you be tempted to risk carrying illegal cargos? If you risk it, you’ll have to watch out for the Interstella Police who patrol the unfriendly space above the skies of many planets.
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Friday, May 30, 2008
Hoyuk is a tile laying game about the building of prehistoric cities. The author writes:
You will play a Clan which settles its families with other Clans to erect a village. Höyük is a game of building and placement played without a board. The replica of a village is built on the table using small square pieces representing houses. They can be stacked on each other, giving a vivid representation of what could have been these prehistoric cities.
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Poll #3:
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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.
For pictures, visit the gallery.
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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