Thursday, December 28, 2006
Tony Cullen offers a set of rules for fighting naval battles in the Middle Ages called Away With Honour.
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Tuesday, December 26, 2006
The Lincoln Miniature Warfare Society has a set of amendments to allow you to use Warmaster Ancients to fight the Wars of the Roses.
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Monday, November 13, 2006
Rudi Geudens has released a siege supplement to his card driven Lords and Levies miniatures rules.
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Monday, September 11, 2006
Paul Galley offers “You’ll Have Someone’s Eye Out With That,” a set of skirmish rules for the ancients through renaissance periods. The combat system uses 2d6 with a base chance of 7+ to hit at combat range. I like 2d6 systems because they offer an average base chance, with the possibiilty of out-of-the-ordinary results.
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Thursday, June 29, 2006
Ryan Scow offers a set of free medieval siege rules.
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Saturday, May 20, 2006
GMT Games offers a free download of a Battle of Agincourt game. If you’re familiar with their commercial board war games, you’ll know that they have wonderful graphics and gameplay, both of which are on display here.
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Sunday, May 14, 2006
Ed Mueller offers a fast play medieval card game called Chevauchee. The game is well-designed, with good lookign cards and extensive rules. You need to join the Yahoo group to download.
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Friday, April 28, 2006
The Perfect Captain’s Battle Finder is a set of 64 cards—done in the usual high quality graphics—that you use to generate terrain for your miniature wargames battles. There also are rules for using the cards to create linear campaigns, and maneuver campaigns using the downloadable force counters, order and control markers. There are even revenue and siege rules.
Truly innovative stuff, and something that I’m going to use almost immediately.
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Monday, March 27, 2006
Tsuwamono No Michi is a set of free wargames rules for samurai battles during the age of the country at war. The rules are in pdf format.
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Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Heimskringla – Viking Naval Warfare in the Age of the Sagas is a set of free wargames rules from the Red Guard Wargames Collective. This is an interesting set of rules in that I don’t think its a subject that has ever been done before. Turns consist of archery, movement and boarding action phases. There’s also a good explanation of Viking warfare based on the sagas.
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Poll #1:
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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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