Sunday, February 25, 2007
Man O’ War may be the best miniatures game Games Workshop has ever produced. Unfortunately, it is long out of print. You can get a taste of what it was like by looking at this playsheet.
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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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Saturday, December 23, 2006
Subs and Sams is Phil Barker’s (he of DBA / DBM fame) prototype set of rules for naval warfare from 1960 to 2020.
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Andrew Walter offers a set of naval war games rules called Franklin’s Sea, which is designed to be played on your refrigerator (I kid you not). There are rules, game cards, and instructions for making the playing pieces.
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Sunday, December 03, 2006
Full Sail is an “age of fighting sail” variant of the Full Thrust starship rules. The one plane vector movement and area damage of the Full Thrust game seems perfect for Napoleonic naval games. It also offers something else to do with those WizKids Pirates collectable ship models.
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Friday, November 10, 2006
I have a large collection of 1/1200 Civil War Ironclads but have never played many games with them becuase I haven’t really found a set of rules I liked. I may give theis free set called Smoke on the Water a try.
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Sunday, October 08, 2006
Letters of Marque and Reprisal is a set of free wargames rules for replaying battles in the age of fighting sail. It’s meant for battles where each player would control one ship, rather than a squadron or fleet. It looks perfect for pirate battles.
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Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Jim Wallman offers a set of free naval wargames rules called La Felicissima Armada. It’s a Spanish Armada naval game designed to use 1/144 plastic ships on the floor.
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Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Matt Fritz has written a set of quick play rules called Day of the Dreadnaughts for recreating the Battle of Jutland. The set includes links to paper models, in case you want to try it, but don’t hvae the appropriate miniatures.
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Saturday, May 13, 2006
Pete Pellegrino has written a set of free miniature wargames rules called Damn The Torpedos. In the game, you customize your ironclad, and then take it out to fight in the Cvil War battle of Mobile Bay.
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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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