Wednesday, August 06, 2008
Although they’re called space Pirate Ships, these paper models bear an eerie similarity to the Eldar ships for Battlefleet Gothic. To get them, scroll down the center of the page.
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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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Monday, August 04, 2008
Terragenesis has a photo tutorial on making a cave system. It’d be good for a cave, a mine, a tomb or a hobbit hole.
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Sunday, August 03, 2008
Here are some rules for using the Ogre/GEV rules for playing World War 2 games.
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Saturday, August 02, 2008
Here’s some advice on applying decals to your miniatures wargames figures.
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Friday, August 01, 2008
Pharaoh Rides To War is a set of rules for 20mm battles between Egyptians and Assyrians.
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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.
