Friday, October 31, 2008
Here’s a fabulous Cthulhu paper model free for the downloading. It’s sure to spice up your horror miniatures games.
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Friday, October 31, 2008
First World War dot Com is a good resource for doing research into the war to end all wars.
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Thursday, October 30, 2008
Corpse Craft is a beautiful and addictive game that combines a Tertris like puzzle with a building strategy game. In it, you accumulate the resources of blood, flesh, scrap and energy by completing a Tertis like puzzle. When you have enough resources, you can then unleash different types of Zombies to take down your mad scientist rival.
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Thursday, October 30, 2008
The Agency is an RPG where
players take on the roles of 60’s secret agents fighting the supernatural. It’s the Austin Powers meets Buffy the Vampire slayer, or the Avengers and Hammer Horror. It’s designed to be a simple, light hearted system with lots of opportunity for heroics. It’s ideal for short, minimum-prep games, for conventions.
The game uses a dice pool system for resolving actions.
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Thursday, October 30, 2008
Musket and Saber is a set of rules for the Seven Years War:
This is a game of warfare in 18th Century Europe using 20-25mm size model soldiers. Each model = 25 infantry in 3 ranks, 20 cavalry in 2 ranks, 4 artillerists, or 2 cannon. 1” = 15 paces (about 12 yards). Time scale is undefined. Dice: 6-sided (D6). Distances: Inches. Troops: Infantry, heavy cav (HC), med. cav (MC), light cav (LC), and light, field, or heavy artillery. Units are battalions of infantry, groups of 1-4 squadrons of cavalry, or batteries of 2-4 gun models, each with 4 crew models. Morale grades: A, B, C, or D. The rules measure damage by removing models (hits). Units fight until down to 25% strength (shattered). Formations: Column (1-8 inf or 1-6 cav models wide), line (wider), square, limbered, manhandled. Pre-measuring distances is Ok.
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Here’s a page with a paper model of the Torre Del Cielo—the tower that sits outside the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction at Disneyland. If scaled properly with your printing software, it would make a really attractive addition to a wargames table.
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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.
