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Friday, June 11, 2004

Net Epic

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Net Epic is a set of free wargames rules based on the old Games Workshop Second Edition Space Marine.

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Friday, May 14, 2004

Boat Building

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A while back I bought a bunch of Wargames Foundry's pirate figures. My idea was to make a bunch of boats and use them to play the Pirates! game from Flagship Games. I got sidetracked while trying to figure out a good way to make the ships. Now, Games Workshop has an article on building 25mm - 28mm boats.

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Monday, May 03, 2004

Light Dwarf

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The Light Dwarf website is a well done parody of Games Workshops' White Dwarf Magazine.

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Tuesday, April 27, 2004

Warhammer For Dummies

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I need this. Walter Dirix has created a guide to Warhammer for Dummies. Its not that these most ubiquitous of wargames rules are complicated, but all of the different units and such, each with their own powers can be confusing.

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Friday, April 23, 2004

Warhammer ‘Nam

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Games Workshop's Warhammer miniatures rules have been adapted to a wide variety of other periods. You can get the Warhammer 'Nam rules by joining the Yahoo Group.

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Saturday, April 17, 2004

Rules Crusade

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Rules Crusade is a complete rewrite of the Warhammer 40K, Mordheim and Necromunda wargames rules to use the old Milton Bradley Space Crusade system. Its well done, but I'm not sure why Sean Patten went to all the effort. I'm also not sure why GW's hordes of lawyers haven't descended upon him and turned him over to the Inquisitors.

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Friday, April 02, 2004

Games Workshop Painting Scandal

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Michael Morgan points out that White Dwarf Editor Paul Sawyer apparently uses Vallejo Paints. Isn't that heresy? Won't this confession bring out the Inquisitors? Sawyer's post from the Flames of War website forums:
I'd suggest a black undercoat for all FoW models - at this sclae [sic] the shading helps a lot. As for GW piants and Germans I'd recommend (and I can't believe I'm saying this!) that you don;t [sic] use GW paints for the uniforms (although our Desert Yellow makes a great Dunkelgelb and Terracotta a good substitute for the brick red camo pattern colour. The GW line is best served on allied armies. For the Germans I'd suggest you use the superb Vallejo colours ...
Personal Confession: I use both Vallejo and the GW paints. Both are very good. Michael Morgan's Small Victories website.

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Tuesday, March 30, 2004

Chambers Leaves GW?

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Jervis Johnson of Games Workshop left the following message on a GW forum:
I can confirm that Games Workshop and Andy Chambers have decided to part company. For reasons I'm sure you can appreciate, we never discuss employee's personal details or situations, so I can't provide any more information than this. I'm going to lock this thread now, as it really is off-topic for this forum. Best regards, Jervis Johnson Head Fanatic
My first reaction is that it's an April Fools' joke. We'll see.

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Tuesday, March 23, 2004

Turnsignals on a Land Raider

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Turnsignals on a Land Raider is a very funny, very professionally done cartoon satire of Games Workshop's Warhammer 40K. The strip focuses on a newly recruited group of plastic figures from "The Emperor's Pointy Sticks" chapter of Space Marines. There currently are 57 strips, with more promised several times a week. Turnsignals on a Land Raider

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About the Miniature Wargaming Hobby

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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