Sunday, March 21, 2010
PDQ stands for Prose Descriptive Qualities, and is an innovative RPG system from Atomic Sock Monkey Games. I think there are some ideas here that could be lifted for a character driven miniatures game.
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Saturday, March 20, 2010
The World Of Gainar is a massive work—a complete RPG system set in a post-apocalypse fantasy world. This is no Gamma World, however. From my reading, it seems to be more of a traditional fantasy—with dwarves and elves (fey), swords and shields, but also with gunpowder and steam tech. For those who just want the background, there’s a stripped down version that’s just the world book.
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Saturday, March 20, 2010
Panzer Gruppe is a set of free wargames rules for corps/army sized battles in World War II.
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
Legion Wargames has a Fire and Fury Scenario for Chickamauga.
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Martin Rapier offers Rifle and Kepi, a set of free wargames rules for large scale battles of the 19th Century.
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
RKAA Brigade Commander is a set of free wargames rules for brigade sized encounters in World War II on the Eastern Front.
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Monday, March 15, 2010
CUADRO GOLPEANDO! is a variant of Peter Pig’s Square Bashing rules for the Spanish Civil War
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Sunday, March 14, 2010
Legion Wargames has a tutorial on painting 6mm figures.
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Saturday, March 13, 2010
The Damfpanzerwagon Blog has a nice series of articles on making a set of quasi-napoleonic buildings for the Flintloque game.
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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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