Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Games Workshop’s site has a tutorial on making a Dwarf Gateway for your Lord of the Rings games. It also would be useful for the new Warhammer Fantasy game.
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Tuesday, March 21, 2006
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Sunday, March 19, 2006
I think that one of the most striking parts of the Lord of the Rings movies were the mines of Saruman below Isengard. Game Workshop has a modeling tutorial for creating your own mines.
I’ve got this vision, though, of a game called Orcs vs Waves, in which you play bands of goblins and orcs scurrying to find high ground as a huge wave crashes through.
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Wednesday, March 15, 2006
I’ve been painting Gripping Beast Vikings with the idea of having them do double duty as Rohirrim in Rohan v Uruk Hai batttles. The Vikigns are close to finished. I’m going to use this Uruk Hai painting guide when I start with the orcs.
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Tuesday, January 03, 2006
The battle between Gandalf and the Balrog is one of the most memorable moments in The Lord of the Rings. Now you can recreate this battle with a mini-game from Games Workshop.
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Monday, January 02, 2006
Games Workshop has published rules for an “experience-based” campaign called “Battle Companies: GW writes that the new rules:
allow The Lord of The Rings Strategy Battle Game players to play campaigns using small warbands of models. As players’ characters fight, so their renown grows, allowing them to develop into heroic warriors of legend!
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Sunday, December 11, 2005
I really like Games Workshops Black Gobbo online magazine. For me, it is a shining example of how a good web presence can enhance a company’s bottom line. There is no doubt that instead of handing out all of their modeling tips and scenarios for free, they could put them into books for sale. And fanboys no doubt would buy them. But in giving the material away, I think (and apparently, they do too) that they gain more from increased interest than they lose in book and magazine sales.
But enough of the proseltyzing. The latest goodie from Black Gobbo are some instructions for building Rivendell scenery: a bridge and a gazebo.
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Thursday, December 08, 2005
Fans of Games Workshop’s Lord of the Rings game will find these paper models of a Gondorian house particularly useful. There also is a short extension, and a long extension which will allwo you to make a huge number of variations.
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Monday, December 05, 2005
A new Yahoo group is up for developing variants on Games Workshop’s Lord of the Rings system. They’re currently working on Star Wars, Gladiator, Samurai, Napoleonic and Pacific War versions.
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Monday, November 07, 2005
There’s nothing nicer than seeing a miniature wargaming battlefield laid out as a miniature diorama, replete with debris, fences, shrubbery (no Monty Python jokes, please) and other items. Games workshop has several nice tutorials on making fences, broken columns and a small outpost.
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Poll #1:
Cast your vote and then join the discussion to tell us why.
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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