Wednesday, August 01, 2007
Displaying game rules information on a white board at a convention is a great idea that I’ve seen done on a number of occasions.
Unfortunately, white boards can be very expensive. Here’s a set of instructions for building cheap ones. Heck, at those prices, you can put up a whole wall of white boards in your basement for the kids to draw on.
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Monday, June 18, 2007
Manybooks is a website dedicated to free ebooks. There are quite a large number in many different categories, and they’re available in a wide variety of formats
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Sunday, May 20, 2007
Suppose that you’re writing a set of rules for Vikings and the Dark Ages. You’re going to need a set of rune fonts, right. Well here they are.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Every wargamer I know also is a bibliophile. We’ve got dozens, if not hundreds of books that we’ve read and set aside as we moved from period to period. So here’s a way to get rid of some of the books you no longer want and pick up some others that you do.
BookMooch is a site that facilitates the online trading of books. You sign up, type in the books you want to give away and get points when you mail them out. You can then spend the points to request books of your own.
Neat idea.
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Monday, May 07, 2007
The tenth episode of the Meeples and Miniatures podcast is out. I’ve enjoyed listening to them on my mp3 player.
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Monday, December 25, 2006
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Monday, December 25, 2006
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Saturday, February 11, 2006
Short on rulers? Too cheap to buy some? Or out of time? Surf on over to Vendian, where they have a large number of imperial and metric rulers in pdf format. The neat thing about the pdf is that you can resize. So if you are playing a 25mm game in 15mm, or vice versa, you can just resize the rulers instead of converting the scale.
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Sunday, July 31, 2005
As much as we’d like to, my group has never been able to get a regular wargames campaign going. Keeping track of all those resources, maps, etc. is just too much for a bunch of 40ish gamers with wives, kids, homes and jobs.
A good alternative, though is the “narrative campaign”, which is essentially a set of linked encouters that depend upon the outcome of tabletop battles.
Here’s a dummies guide to creating one.
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Friday, July 29, 2005
Peter Hunt has written a review of Phil Barker’s “Damn Battleships Again” rules. I guess I was sleeping when these came out because this is the first I’ve heard of them.
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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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