Tuesday, March 25, 2008
What do you do with all of those leftover Easter candies like marshmallow peeps and jelly beans? Play a wargame, of course. Invisible City Productions has rules for just such a scenario, called Peep War
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Friday, March 21, 2008
The Mainly 28s site has the original Rules By Ral fantasy rules sets.
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Thursday, March 20, 2008
EM4 Miniatures offers a free download of the old Grenadier Fantasy Warriors rules by Nick Lund. This a nice set that I’ve played on a number of occasions. I actually have a couple of the original big box sets of Fantasy Warriors, complete with plastic miniatures.
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Alkemy is a set of free fantasy wargames rules designed for small skirmishes. The authors write:
Alkemy is a strategy game that takes place in a medieval fantasy world. During your Alkemy games, you will control a group of fighters represented by miniatures and you will manage them in scenario-driven encounters against an enemy group. You can play using the basic scenario provided at the end of this booklet or create your own scenarios and stories.
Alkemy is a skirmish miniature game. You will usually play with between 10 and 15 miniatures.
All Alkemy games are driven by a scenario.
The game system works on a turn basis, with a system of Action Points and alternated activation of Cards. The order in which you will activate your cards being very important.
Most interesting is the use of “combat cards” that offer some additional bluff and strategy for the combat systems.
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Friday, March 14, 2008
The complete, final edition of the Dungeons and Dragons Miniatures Battle rules are available at the Wizards of the Coast site.
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Saturday, March 01, 2008
Warcrabs is perhaps the most unusual “miniatures” game of all time:
Warcrabs is a simple wargame designed to be played in the workplace. In the game, you take on the role of an AssHoTech worker, creating and managing one or more crabs, collecting the spoils of victory, and attempting to become the best crabfighter in the building.
This is a true pen-and-paper game. To play, you will need to print a Crab Character Sheet and record the data about your crab on it. But there are no maps, and no figures. The playing field is your own home or office – where a simple desktop can become an arena of courage and death for a few genetically-altered crustaceans.
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Big Game Hunt is a game of dinosaur hunting. Really.
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Friday, December 28, 2007
Splatball is a set of miniatures rules that pits two teams of neighborhood kids against each other. The set also comes with paper figures and some terrain. You need to scroll to the bottom of the page to find them.
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Wednesday, December 26, 2007
The Martial Arts Card Engine (MACE) is a system for recreating fantastic martial arts battles. The rules system has a lot of potential applications.
The author writes:
MACE is a game for 2 - 4 players. MACE simulates the fantastic martial arts battles common to fighting games and anime. Each player is represented by a Fighter, a master of the martial arts complete with vicious Strikes and powerful Blasts of energy. The goal is to Knock Out all other players Fighters, with the last one standing the winner.
MACE uses a deck of playing cards, a hex sheet and some tokens, so is easy to play and requires no book keeping. MACE also features a unique order mechanic called Momentum, which allows you to choose when you act.
If you are interested in anything anime or martial arts and like a fun simple system, then check out MACE!
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Saturday, December 22, 2007
Dragon Racing is a board and miniatures game where you play dragons racing through a maze, trying to be the first to reach the hoard and get back out.
The game comes complete with rules, paper dragon miniatures, and a printable maze. It’s quite a nice piece of work.
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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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