Sunday, January 24, 2010
Glave is a set of fantasy battle rules that:
can be used with any style or type of miniatures. The system uses 6 sided dice to resolve all combat outcomes. Each player gets a certain amount o f"training points” to train and equip his army with.
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Monday, December 28, 2009
Return to Lilliput 2.0 is a set of rules by Walt O’Hara in which, twenty years after Gulliver, a band of pirates arrives at Lilliput.
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Friday, November 27, 2009
Games Workshop offers Brewhouse Bash, a free set of rules about Orcs brawling in a bar. A game board is included. You’ll also want some miniatures, though.
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
Marathon is a fantasy race game where
Players take the roles of Gods, secretly influencing six Heroes as they strive to complete the mythical Marathon race. You must be subtle as you influence your Heroes: once a God’s favorite Heroes are known the other Gods will work to thwart them! At the end of the race, the God whose favorites have moved the furthest wins the game!
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Hasslefree Miniatures has a trial set of their Twilight Small Scale Skirmish miniatures rules.
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Monday, October 12, 2009
The Battle of Ayrene is a free print and play board game featuring a battle between dwarves and elves.
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Monday, September 14, 2009
Dino Hunt is exactly what the title says: a set of dinosaur hunting rules for 25mm - 28mm figures. Some of the dinos in that scale have to be huge.
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Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Howard Whitehouse’s Battle Troll rules are available at Wargames Factory. This set covers man-to-man combat between Vikings in the Icelandic Sagas.
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Friday, August 07, 2009
The Lost Worlds game books are a classic game where two players face off against each other using illustrated booklets that cross index the results of their combat moves. These rules are for using miniatures with the Lost Worlds books.
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
Dungeoneer is a set of free wargames rules for an evening of dungeon bashing fun. The author writes:
These are a set of very simple dungeon-bashing rules for youngsters and the young at heart. This is classic kick-in-the-door, kill the monsters and steal their treasure stuff. One player is the Overfiend. He creates the layout of his dungeon, populates it with monsters and treasure and then runs the game. The other players, best between three and five, must guide their Dungeoneers through the dungeon hopefully to emerge victorious, alive and laden down with treasure at the end. Obviously it would be easy for the Overfiend to kill the Dungeoneers very quickly, just by placing a dragon behind every door. This is not his objective however. His job is to provide a fun evening that challenges the Dungeoneers, but may yet kill the occasional foolish or unlucky one.
Dungeoneer is about having a good laugh with your friends. If you play often then each player who wants to can have a turn as the Overfiend. This keeps things fresh and allows the regular Overfiend the chance to kick some monster ass.
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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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