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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Monday, July 20, 2009
Steven’s Balagan website offers a rich page of information on gaming the Rif War of 1893 - 1927.
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Friday, July 17, 2009
Stephen Thomas offers a DBA variant for New Zealand Colonials Wars. The author writes:
These rules are intended to refight the battles of the New Zealand Colonial Wars, 1840-1872. They do not cover skirmishes They are based on DBA, and influenced by the article by Ed White on DBA and the Seven Years War (WI65), and Clive Clapson’s article on the Maori Wars (WI63). As in Ed’s article there are two assumptions:
1. The first round of close combat also includes short range small-arms and artillery fire.
2. Troops potency depended on their ability to deliver close range volleys or cold steel.
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Valley of Fire is a free campaign system for the Northwest Frontier. The authors write:
This is a fictional colonial campaign set in the Northwest Frontier during the late 1880s. A British fort is under siege and a relieving force has exactly one month to break the siege! The villages in the valley and mountain passes go into revolt, adding more and more foces to the siege and to block the British advance. The system features hidden movement, is of moderate complexity, and is designed to be run with or without a referee. The PDF contains rules, counters, a planning map, and log sheets.
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Thursday, June 11, 2009
Give some flavor to your Zulu war games with a campaign. You can get the Assegai rules, and map for free.
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Monday, March 30, 2009
Empress Miniatures offers a set of free wargames rules called Damned Wobbly Gentlemen, designed for recreating battles of the Zulu War.
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Friday, January 09, 2009
Bob Berman offers a set of free fast play wargames rules for the Indian Mutiny, based on “a number of sources, including “From MacDuff to the Frontier” and “The Sword and the Flame.” They are designed for fast play, with all players on one side.”
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Sunday, December 21, 2008
Here are a set of houserules called Fields of Honor. I can’t tell whether they’re houserules FOR the Fields of Honor set, or a set of houserules BASED on Fields of Honor. I lean toward the latter. They look like a fairly complete set that bears more than a passing resemblance to the original Fields of Honor set published a decade or so ago by Pinnacle.
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Monday, November 10, 2008
Legendary Gamer Larry Brom offers “Brom Geste!”, a set of rules for the French Foreign Legion in North Africa in the 1890s. It’s a 1-1 rules set with order chips.
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Saturday, December 15, 2007
Bob Cordery offers a set of rules for playing Colonial games on Heroscape Terrain.
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Poll #3:
Cast your vote and then join the discussion to tell us why.
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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