Thursday, January 10, 2008
Smitty 14 has some house rules for awarding medals for use with Two Hour Wargames’ FNG Vietnam skirmish rules.
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Thursday, January 03, 2008
Hordes of the Things (HOTT) for moderns is an adaptation of the much-liked fantasy DBA variant. It was written by Bruce McFarlane of the Canadian Wargamers Group and now exists only on the Wayback Machine. In the interests of preservation, I have reproduced it below. No challenge to Mr. McFarlane’s copyright is intended.
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Monday, December 17, 2007
Evan Moore offers Counterattack, a set of skirmish rules for modern miniature wargames.
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Friday, November 02, 2007
Iraqi Roads is a set of free wargames rules for playing games set during the recent unpleasantness in the Middle East. The site also includes links to paper soldiers that can be used in the game.
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Saturday, October 27, 2007
Contre Les Viets is a Vietnam variant of Arty Contliffe’s Crossfire. You need the original rules to play.
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Sunday, September 02, 2007
Maxims and Mausers is a set of free wargames rules for European Wars from the 1870s. From the website:
Maxims and Mausers covers European Wars at the moment. Inclusion of Colonial Conflicts is planned. These are very simple rules. That may be played either as a board game on a hex map or as a miniaturtes game on large hexagons decorated as terrain.
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Friday, August 24, 2007
Tet A Tet is Pete Jones’ rules for house clearing operations during the Vietnam Tet Offensive. The game is played on a 2 foot by 3 foot table.
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Sunday, August 19, 2007
Rat Six is Mark Hanan’s game of underground combat in Vietnam. It’s a solo game, but could be adapted to group play.
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Sunday, July 29, 2007
Modern Lightning War is a set of free modern wargames rules for 1/72 scale figures. Each player in the game starts with six platoons. The rules are interesting in that they acknowledge that in modern warfare, on a regular tabletop, EVERYTHING is in range.
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Monday, July 23, 2007
Andy Watkins offers a set of free wargames rules called Brigade Commander, for games set in Cold War Germany. Given the equipment used, I suppose it also would be useful for gaming some other scenarios in which the combatants have old NATO and Warsaw Pace equipment.
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Poll #1:
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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