Sunday, April 23, 2006
Two Hour Wargames offers an introductory scenario called “Dog Soldiers.” The scenario is designed to teach you the Chain Reaction miniature wargaming system as though you were at a convention. It’s based on the horror movie of the same name.
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Wednesday, January 11, 2006
The Sword In the 20th Century is the Jackson Gamers’ variant of Larry Brom’s versatile Sword and the Flame colonials rules. The authors write:
This is an adaptation of TSATF to cover the various skirmishes and small wars of the 20th cen. up through the 1930’s. Most forces are armed with bolt action rifles with smokeles powder. Native forces may still be armed with black powder single shot breech loaders and even muzzle loaders. The fierce native charge may still occur, but machine guns rule the battlefield, and light automatic weapons and grenades are making their appearance. I would hope these rules could be used for various skirmishes such as East Africa WWI, RCW, NWF 1919-1938, SCW, China between the wars and the Banana wars to name a few.
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Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Jim Wallman has written a set of rules called Go!Go!Go!, which he says is loosely based on the computer game “CounterStrike”.
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Thursday, December 29, 2005
Peter Pig’s AK 47 Republic rules are a lot of fun as a campaign game. Set in the turbulent near once and future Africa, there are rules for designing an army, political maneuvering, morale, adn more. Its your chance to run your own little despotic African nation.
But I’ve always thought that the combat rules were a little lacking. Or maybe its just better tos ay that they just aren’t to my style.
Apparently I’m not the only one who had this thought. Steven Thomas has written a set of guidelines for converting AK47 Republic forces to the Crossfire rules by Arty Conliffe.
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Wednesday, December 21, 2005
Crushing is a set of free wargames rules designed to allow players to create battles between gangs driving armed automobiles. The rules have a seriously 1970s look and feel, with fat fonts in the headlines, and drawings of hip cats with serious ‘fros. The rules are available in both French and English, and are very well done. The only little quibble I have is that in the English version, some of the background material still is in French.
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Saturday, October 29, 2005
Boots, Tracks and Rotors is a set of free miniature wargames rules for hypothetical 1980s Nato v Warsaw Pact warfare.
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Sunday, October 23, 2005
Action Figures Close Quarters battle is a set of free wargames rules for fighting battles with three inch action figures. The author writes:
I designed this game to be a fast and simple game to use with action figures. I prefer Stikfas© and you will see that this game is sort of biased towards them. You and use other figures around 3” tall if you have them, as Stikfas© can be kind of expensive. The 1/18th scale BBI figures are excellent as well as the 3 3/4” GiJoes. I have kept the weapons ranges low because I wanted to be able to play on a kitchen table or within a 3 ~ 4 ft. square area, and using the range cards could get messy and time consuming if you laid down too many. Damage is high, guns will kill your figure just like in real life. So planning, cover, and a little luck is needed if your figure is to survive. You can use whatever you like for ‘terrain’. I made some buildings out of some small boxes and the walls in a ‘Paint’ program. Have fun and don’t fight about the rules. Be FAIR.
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Thursday, September 29, 2005
Another in a body of work by wargamer Mike Adams, Tour of Duty is a set of free wargames rules for the Vietnam War. It’s based on Charles Grant’s Battle! rules for World War II.
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Monday, May 09, 2005
Deep Fried Happy Mice offers Medals of Valor, a set of free miniatures wargames rules for modern firefights.
Extra Crispy writes:
Medals of Valor is our system for recreating skirmish and tactical combat during the 20th
Century. These are low intensity rules designed for fast play and fun. We have tried to maintain
a feel for realism while understanding that a comprehensive detailed system would be very slow
and cumbersome.
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Friday, April 15, 2005
21st Century Skirmish is a set of free wargames rules for platoon level skirmishes. The game is designed to be used with either 28mm models (1:48) or 15mm models (1:72).
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Poll #3:
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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