Friday, January 12, 2007
Bloodybacks is a set of American Revolution rules for larger scale (25mm - 30mm) figures. Originally designed by Stephen Jones in 2002, they were updated by Mike Taber, Mike Frank and Bob Henry.
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Thursday, December 21, 2006
Scum of the High Seas is Rudi Geudens set of hex-based. card driven rules for playing games of Pirates on the high seas. Like others in this series, they’re based loosely on Richard Borg’s Battle Cry system.
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Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Here’s a mini board game about siege warfare called Dig, Damn You, Dig.
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Sunday, December 03, 2006
Full Sail is an “age of fighting sail” variant of the Full Thrust starship rules. The one plane vector movement and area damage of the Full Thrust game seems perfect for Napoleonic naval games. It also offers something else to do with those WizKids Pirates collectable ship models.
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Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Here’s a variant of Warhammer Ancient Battles for the American Revolution. No. Really. It could work.
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Friday, October 20, 2006
Phil Johnson and Les Benoot offer a pdf download of fog of war rules for the horse and musket era. These are a generic add on for other horse and musket rules sets, and are intended to reflect the problems offered by visibility and scouting on command control.
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Thursday, October 19, 2006
Legends of the Wilderness is a variant for the Warhammer Historicals Legends of the Old West game, which is in itself a variant of Games Workshop’s Lord of the Rings game.
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Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Jimi Tubman offers a Warhammer English Civil War variant for the American War of Independence. It comes complete with army lists and troop stats. I imagine that the same rules also would be perfect for use with French and Indian War battles.
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Monday, October 16, 2006
Cold Steel is a set of free wargames rules for the period 1690 to 1950 offered by Historic Enterprises. The first release offers the basic rules, plus specific addendums for the Wars of Napoleon and the War of 1812. The nice thing about the rules is that they offer a flexible scale system, with each figure representing between 5 and 60 men. This should allow you to fight a wide variety of battles with the same rules set.
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Friday, September 22, 2006
Another River To Cross is a set of free campaign rules for the Seven Years War using Piquet.
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Poll #1:
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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.
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