Friday, January 19, 2007
Kenzer and Company have created a series of scenarios for Heroscape based on the Knights of the Dinner Table’s Meat Grinder. I will confess to not following all of the “in jokes” in these scenarios.
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Thursday, January 18, 2007
HS Codex is a fine web magazine for all things Heroscape. The second issue features the following articles:
A Journey to Better Games
Bluff and Flank Strategic Manoeuvres
Brain Teasers - solve these tactical puzzles
Battle for Valhalla - New HS Campaign
Creating House Rules
Implementing True Flying rules
Heroscape Underground rules
Custom Unit Philosophy: More Unit-Less Custom
Custom unit Combinations
Halls of Valhalla - first three inductees
Spotlight On - Shade
Creating Custom Figures for HS
Creating a Standard Bearer
Building a Better Map
Cartography with Oogie
Denrick’s Quest - scenario/map and review
Mimring’s Keep - scenario/map and review
The Prisoner - scenario/map and battle report
The Island - new map
The Grass is always Greener - new map
TeaTime of the Living Dead Part I
The Nine Thousand Deaths of DW9000
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007
While the plastic hexes that come with Heroscape aren’t bad looking, there apparently is a thriving cottage industry in making customized terrain hexes. A check on Ebay turns up quite a few. Here are some instructions for creating your own.
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Try your hand at some REAL fantasy football with these scenarios called Monday Night Glyphball.
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Monday, January 15, 2007
Need some standard Heroscape bases for your non standard figures? Heroscapers has a photo tutorial on using fiberglass resin to cast your own.
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Sunday, January 14, 2007
The Heroscape Card Catalog is an open source software program that Allows the creation of official looking unit cards for the Heroscape game. It features automatic fogging, target icons, point calculator, and advanced text tools
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Poll #1:
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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.
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.
