Saturday, July 30, 2011
Dinosaur Cowboys is a set of role playing / miniatures rules that reminds me of the old comic Cadillacs and Dinosaurs. It looks like a lot of fun.
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Friday, July 29, 2011
WorldWorks Games offers a set of free wargames rules for science fiction ships called Wormhole.
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Sunday, July 24, 2011
One Page Fleet is Mike Wikan’s set of free wargames rules for starship combat.
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Sunday, July 10, 2011
The Way of the Wargamer has alternate rules for Battle Tech / Mech Warrior.
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Sunday, June 26, 2011
Railgun 2000 is a set of free wargames rules for science fiction armored combat. You need the Fistful of TOWs rules to play.
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Monday, June 20, 2011
The French games company Rackham is gone, but its AT-43 game rules are available here.
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Monday, June 13, 2011
From the prolific Jim Wallman, First Contact is: A role playing game about the first contact between alien cultures. Designed to be run by a game controller and 4 - 10 players. Do not read the materials if you intend to play!
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Saturday, June 11, 2011
Dunger Derby is a miniatures game of racing little wasteland beasties called Dungers. You really have to take a look to get it.
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Friday, June 10, 2011
Skank Games offers Warlord 2085, a set of free wargames rules for fast play science fiction miniatures.
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Scotia Grendel now offer their classic Kryomek science fiction skirmish rules as a free download.
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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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