Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Hordes of the Empire is a set of free wargames rules for playing 19 century colonial battles. It’s a variant of Hordes of the Things (HotT), which itself is a variant of DBA.
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Friday, June 25, 2010
Joseph Morschauser’s wargames are designed to be played on a square grid. The Frontier Wargames set is for colonial games.
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Monday, May 31, 2010
The Tyneside Wargames Club offers their free wargames rules for Colonial skirmishes.
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Sunday, May 09, 2010
Peter Morffew offers Rorke’s Drift, a set of free wargames rules for the classic stand in Africa. Morffew writes:
Suiteable for any figure scale from 2mm upwards and where either side can win.
These rules have been specifically designed for a scaled battle of Rorkes Drift where 4000 Zulu’s attacked the missionary station defended by 140 British Troops on 22nd January 1879 following the ill fated defeat at Isandhlwana of the British invasion force of Zulu Land the same day.
Rorkes Drift has a special place in British Military History because 11 Victoria Crosses were awarded to those who fought at Rorkes Drift, more than in any other battle fought by British Troops and 9 Distinguished Conduct Medals.
British casualties were 17 killed and 10 wounded whiles the Zulu’s lost 400 deadThese rules have been loosely adapted from the film “Zulu” and I do not apologise for any similarities.
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Sunday, December 13, 2009
Empress Miniatures offers Damned Wobbly Gentlemen, a set of “lite” Zulu War rules.
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Bob Cordery offers “Eres To You Fuzzy Wuzzy,” a set of free wargames rules for recreating battles for British Empire in the Sudan.
The author writes:
ETYFW relies upon the use of both average dice (AvDs produce more predictable results) and normal dice
(D6s produce less predictable results) to reflect the following features of the Sudanese Campaign:
• British and Egyptian firepower could destroy Mahdist attacks if they got enough warning;
• British and Egyptian forces moved slowly but surely about the battlefield;
• British and Egyptian forces might be beaten in close combat by the sheer ferocity of the Mahdist
attack;
• Mahdist forces has less predictable firepower than the British and Egyptians;
• Mahdist forces moved in a less formal and therefore more rapid manner on the battlefield than the
British and Egyptians.
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Restless Natives is a set of free wargames rules for playing wargames in the colonial period. They’re intended for 15mm figures, and use a card-based movement and special events system.
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Monday, September 21, 2009
Hordes of Dervishes is a set of free wargames rules for fighting battles in the Sudan. They’re based on the DBA system and are intended for 15mm figures.
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Sunday, September 20, 2009
When Empires Clash is a set of free wargames rules for fighting out large scale battles in the 19th Century colonial era.
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Thursday, September 10, 2009
Take That Camel Up The Khyber Pass is a set of rules for colonial British versus Afghans in 1894.
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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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