Saturday, January 03, 2009
Firepower is a set of free wargames rules for playing naval games in the period 1900 - 1950.
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Friday, January 02, 2009
Age of Heroes is a set of simple skirmish rules for playing skirmish games in the Bronze Age. These originally appeared in Wargames Illustrated.
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Thursday, January 01, 2009
Dave’s Games site has some of the best paper models I have seen available for free on the internet. Check out the cabins he offers: Garden Shed, Wood Cabin, Roadside Shrine, Number Twenty Two, Number Thirteen and Hermit’s Hovel.
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
The New York Public Library has made online a vast collection of period plates of German uniforms from the 1400s through the early 1900s. Want to know what a Wurtemberger in 1860 would wear? That’s the place to find out.
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Monday, December 29, 2008
Tripoli Bel Sol D’Amore by Riccardo Affinati is a set of fast play rules for game set in the early 1900s, including the Italian Turkish War. It’s designed for a variety of figure scales.
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Sunday, December 28, 2008
The late Terry Gore was known for his deep knowledge of ancient warfare. Here’s a set of fast play rules for Ancient Warfare from the master. They’re a variant of his Medieval Fast Play rules, which won an Origins Award in 1998.
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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.
