Saturday, August 30, 2008
In 1975, Don Lowry released a set of rules called Grand Army. Designed for 9mm ! and 15mm figures, it allows players to recreate large scale battles for Napoleonics and the American Civil War. Grand Army now is available online.
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Sunday, August 10, 2008
Here are a set of house rules for “fine tuning” Fire and Fury, the great American Civil War rules set.
I’m not sure I’m on board with all of these.
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Saturday, June 21, 2008
Mike Elliott offers High Water Mark, a set of free wargames rules for games set in the American Civil War:
This set of rules is designed to enable large battles from the American Civil War to be played as a wargame. A key concept was that the Battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863) should fit on a table area no more than 4ft square. To achieve a game that works at this level requires a considerable degree of abstraction. The basic unit is the division and individual bases are brigades.
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Sunday, March 23, 2008
From HMGS Mid-South and David Raybin come a set of free wargames rules called Flotilla, which are designed for ironclads in the American Civil War. I’ve got a bunch of ironclads, but have not played with them much because I’ve been so disappointed with existing rules sets. They’re either too complicated, or too simple. I may give these a try.
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Monday, December 11, 2006
Honor and Glory ias a set of rules for the American Civil War available at the Honor and Glory Yahoo group. It is a VERY complete and well done system designed for games where the smallest tactical unit is a regiment, which is represented by four bases. It’s playable in nearly all figure scales.
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Friday, November 17, 2006
The Cops.NU site has a Warhammer 40K variant for the American Civil War. I think it could work.
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Friday, November 10, 2006
I have a large collection of 1/1200 Civil War Ironclads but have never played many games with them becuase I haven’t really found a set of rules I liked. I may give theis free set called Smoke on the Water a try.
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Saturday, May 13, 2006
Pete Pellegrino has written a set of free miniature wargames rules called Damn The Torpedos. In the game, you customize your ironclad, and then take it out to fight in the Cvil War battle of Mobile Bay.
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Wednesday, May 10, 2006
The Civil War in 30 Minutes is a matrix game designed by Matt Fritz to help his students understand the American Civil War. If you haven’t looked into matrix games, you will find that they are useful in running meaningful campaigns.
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Friday, April 28, 2006
The Perfect Captain’s Battle Finder is a set of 64 cards—done in the usual high quality graphics—that you use to generate terrain for your miniature wargames battles. There also are rules for using the cards to create linear campaigns, and maneuver campaigns using the downloadable force counters, order and control markers. There are even revenue and siege rules.
Truly innovative stuff, and something that I’m going to use almost immediately.
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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.
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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