Sunday, November 16, 2008
Iron and Steel is a set of miniatures rules for gaming the ironclad battles of the American Civil War.
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Sunday, November 09, 2008
Stuart Jordan offers a set of rules for playing American Civil War ironclads miniature wargames using Games Workshop’s Man O’ War rules.
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Friday, October 17, 2008
War at Sea is David Child-Dennis’ design for playing World War II fleet actions in about three hours. Each game turn is calculated to be about 15 minutes and 1000 yards equals one inch on the game table. This game scale works best with 1:3000 scale models
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Friday, October 03, 2008
Sadly long out of print, the rules for Wooden Ships and Iron Men have been posted on the internet by Hasbro(!?). Here’s a page that has taken it a step further by also offering counters, boards and playsheets.
Wooden Ships and Iron Men game download
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Sunday, September 21, 2008
The Ironclad Gunboat Rules from Jackson Gamers is designed for 1/1200 scale models. I’ve got a bunch of Houston’s ships in a box; I should get them out and do some Civil War river actions.
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Friday, September 19, 2008
The Jackson Gamers have a page with everything you need to know to start gaming Civil War Ironclads
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Wednesday, September 03, 2008
Galleon is a set of wargames rules for naval combat in the 1400s and 1500s—the Spanish Armada period.
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Sunday, August 24, 2008
Book Ranger has a card game based on the World War I Battle of the River Plate, involving an attempt by the British to sink the marauding Admiral Graf Spee battlecruiser.
Thanks to reader FNH for the heads up!
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Friday, July 11, 2008
WarpSpawn offers Commodore, a two player card game of Napoleonic fighting sail.
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Saturday, May 31, 2008
Book Ranger offers a basic set of WWII ship rules.
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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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