Saturday, March 12, 2011
The Wargaming Site Blog has an interesting post on how to make loaded dice. I haven’t tried it, but it looks like it might work.
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Monday, January 17, 2011
Fantasy Flight has posted some play variants for its Dungeon Quest reprint.
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Sunday, January 09, 2011
The Vintage Wargaming blog has a post worth sharing with scans of a 1966 newspaper photo story about local wargamers.
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Saturday, January 08, 2011
Irregular Magazine is a free downloadable magazine chock full of wargaming goodness. The latest issue is out now.
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Saturday, January 08, 2011
It doesn’t really relate to anything wargaming, but I think geeks like myself would appreciate a visual history of the Batmobile.
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Sunday, January 02, 2011
The Judges Guild offers a free pdf blank hex sheet.
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Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Here’s a photo gallery of a huge collection of dice; some quite unusual.
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Sunday, December 05, 2010
I’ve got a new gallery of photos up from the game day at Fort Meigs, Ohio on Nov. 6, 2010. It’s a great little convention, held in the conference rooms of the visitor’s center and museum at historic Fort Meigs. The organizers had a dozen games running across two sessions, as well as a Flames of War demo and a Wings of War session running continuously. The games all were very well organized, and everyone seemed to be having fun.
The best part of the convention, however, is how open it was to kids. The Colby Street Irregulars ran some small kid specific games—Monster Squash, Heroscape, a drag race game, a Giant Monsters game and others—and nearly all of the events were labeled “kid friendly.” Hats off to them!
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Here’s a photo tutorial on using hollow core doors to make a foldable, easily storable wargames table.
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Sunday, October 17, 2010
Irregular Magazine, a well-produced gaming magazine, is out with its latest issue.
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Poll #3:
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.jpg&w=205&sx=1&sy=1&zc=1 "54mm War Of 1812 (5 Of 9)")
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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