Friday, January 20, 2012
Star Mogul once was a commercially available rules set about intergalactic salvage crews. Now, it’s been added to the ever growing collection of free wargames rules. You can get them here:
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
Aetherverse is a universal rules system that was a commercial product a couple of years ago. The author writes:
Aetherverse is a miniatures game I published a number of years ago. It was nominated for an Origins Award for Best New Miniatures Game when it came out, though I had to stop working on it due to financial difficulties at the time. I’m casually working on a second edition as time permits, though, with the intent of making it a free digital release with the option to buy a nicely-printed physical copy.
Key features of the first edition:
Highly flexible army design system allowing the use of pretty much any miniatures line in existence (though focused primarily on 25-30mm scale minis)
Keeping character in the player-designed armies as opposed to just creating a bunch of numbers (such as was the case in a number of other games with a similar system)
“Weighted Random” activation system that keeps both players involved at all times during the course of a turn rather than forcing one player to sit around watching the other move stuff around
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Here’s a collection of color photos from around the world taken by French banker Albert Khan as he toured the world—in 1909!
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Here’s an interesting idea about using an old children’s board book as a base for making terrain. I think there’s lots of other uses for this readily available source of thick cardboard.
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Monday, January 16, 2012
Its for the Kindle, but since you can read it on practically any platform these days ... I’ll be reading it on my Android tablet. Also, it says “buy,” but that’s just a euphemism. I just “bought” it for nothing.
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Monday, January 16, 2012
Donald Bailey’s Pith Helmet 2 are “are an innovative set of rules that are condensed onto a single Quick Reference Card to play with. Mr Bailey has kindly made his system available for download on this site. The link has an archive or resources and the QRF and rules and much more.”
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Sunday, January 15, 2012
Barking Irons has a photo tutorial on making a stone barn for 28mm figures.
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Saturday, January 14, 2012
Maiwand Day has a nice photo essay on making a wargames mountain with a vertical profile. It’s really great looking, and is on my list of future projects
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Friday, January 13, 2012
Massive Voodoo has an article on using acupuncture needles to make more realistic arrows in 28mm.
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Thursday, January 12, 2012
The classic rules set Loose Files and American Scramble has been republished on the Wargames Illustrated Site.
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Poll #3:
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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