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Tuesday, May 04, 2004

Painting Napoleonic Ships

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Ray Trochim has a guide to assembling and painting the miniature ships for your Napoleonic wargames.

 

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Thursday, April 29, 2004

25mm Old Glory Napoleonic French Line Review

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Andy Thorpe reviews 25mm Old Glory French Napoleonic Line figures. Old Glory simply has some of the best values in wargames miniatures.

 

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Sunday, April 25, 2004

AB Miniatures Duchy of Warsaw figure review

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Dallas Gavan has reviewed AB miniatures' line of 15mm Duchy of Warsaw Napoleonics wargames figures.

 

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Saturday, April 24, 2004

Napoleon’s Military Maxims

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Advice from the Great One.

 

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Wednesday, April 21, 2004

Waterloo game

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The BBC has this Flash-based, online battle of Waterloo game. Its' very simple, but fun and instructive.

 

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Friday, April 16, 2004

Hougoumont

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Here's a page with information on one of the most famous bits of terrain in history: the Hougoumont Farm on the Waterloo Battlefield. Its long been a dream of mine to do a skirmish wargame in 25mm centered around an accurate model of this estate.

 

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About the Miniature Wargaming Hobby

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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