Sunday, October 21, 2007
Wargaming The Dark Ages
Medieval
David Sullivan offers a great article on wargaming the Dark Ages.
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Sunday, October 21, 2007
David Sullivan offers a great article on wargaming the Dark Ages.
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Thursday, October 18, 2007
The Fanaticus Site has a set of Crusader banners for you to download and print. They’re in 15mm scale.
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Friday, April 20, 2007
Here’s an article on Late Medieval Bosnian Armies for Warhammer Ancient Battles.
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Warhammer Historical’s latest is the Age of Arthur book. Here’s the errata for the rules.
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Saturday, January 20, 2007
Kurtis Brown offers a one-page painting guide to Vikings.
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Monday, January 01, 2007
Early Blazon offers illustrations of hundreds of coats of arms through the Crusades.
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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.
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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.
