Saturday, December 30, 2006
Gorilla Warfare is a miniatures game of combat between ... well, gorillas, of course. Finally, a way to use those ape miniatures you have been collecting.
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Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Project Godsend is a set of free fantasy miniatures rules presented in a sort of blog format. The author writes:
Project Godsend is a freely available wargame that features mechanics comparable to classic boardgames and trading card games. the game itself is completely diceless and can be altered and expanded by the players as they wish. players take the roles of gods - competing to ascertain the king among them - through a divine game. Using miniatures (from any genre/manufacturer), a gameboard and several tokens they let their minions fight a power struggle to become the rulers of a fictitous world called the verse.
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Saturday, December 09, 2006
Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Barsoom novels are among my favorite guilty pleasures. Sean K. Reynolds has a page with material, including monster and character profiles from his d20 Barsoon campaign.
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Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Legends of Old Mars is a Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Barsoom variant of Games Workshop’s Lord of the Rings / Legends of the Old West game. I think that system is perfect for playing games involving John Carter, Tars Tarkas and the other denizens of Burrough’s Barsoom.
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Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Sanity Productions offers a set of fantasy rules called “Bellicose”.” It looks like quite a major work, with a largish rules book and a bunch of army lists.
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Sunday, October 08, 2006
Blight of the Living Dead is a set of free wargames miniatures rules for a fantasy zombie slaughter fest. It’s designed for the publisher’s one inch floorplans, but can be used with any floorplan sets you have, or adapted for use with rulers.
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Tuesday, September 12, 2006
The Dunken Company offers a set of fantasy rules called The Stomping Ground. The rules were developed for Dunken’s line of 25mm molds for fantasy figures, but can be used with any. The company says that The Stomping Ground is:
the fantasy miniatures battle system that just says no to hard to learn rules, imagination choking character classes, and Asystem supporting only figures. In other words, with Stomping Grounds, you get to play with the figurines that you want to play with, regardless of size, appearance, and intended purpose. This game is very easy to learn yet it allows the players to develop strategies and command armies.
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Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Once Upon A Time, there was a tabletop combat game called Dragon Dice, in which the dice themselves were the units. It was created at the height of the ccg mania, and thus, the game was collectable. In side of each box was a random mix of dice, with unique symbols printed on their sides, and coming in different sizes. All in all, it was a fun game, and I bought more than I should.
But the game disappeared like so many CCG efforts. I always thought, however, that it would be a lot of fun to play a dice game with ordinary dice—since they come in so many colors and sizes, it shouldn’t be too hard to distiinguish different units. At the very least, you could use the values on the dice to represent their strength.
Chuck Henry has created a game that does just this called Poly Wars. While the size and color of the dice don’t make a difference, he has created what looks to be a very original game for tabletop play.
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Saturday, August 26, 2006
De Bellis Toyus is a set of rules for using kid’s toys for wargames. The rules are loosely based on Phil Barker’s DBA.
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Sunday, August 13, 2006
Chuck Henry has created a game called Timber Wars that uses bits of dowel rod to represent the troops. It’s got some very interesting mechanisms, such as combat seeding and using a marble to represent missle fire.
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Poll #3:
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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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