Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Assault on Belgium is a traditional hex-and-counter board game free for the downloading. It simulates the German invasion of that country in 1940.
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Monday, July 21, 2008
This Tudor styled half-timbered house can be used in a variety of wargames settings.
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Sunday, July 20, 2008
By the Walls of Constantinople is a one-page board game simulating part of the seige of the city by the Sultan Mahmet II. To play the game, you just download one of the listed images and print.
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Saturday, July 19, 2008
Dr. Faust has a tutorial on painting a Games Workshop Eldar Fire Prism model. It has lots of great tips for painting any larger mechanical model.
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Friday, July 18, 2008
Druid’s Duel is a strategy card game—played with a poker deck—for two to four players. It simulates a duel between shape-shifting magicians.
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Thursday, July 17, 2008
For fans of Victorian Science Fiction, here’s a downloadable paper model of a steam walker.
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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.
