Friday, October 21, 2005
Peter Guenther offers BrickMech, a
d6-based game where Mechs built of LEGO® bricks vie for ultimate control of the battlefield. Constructed in a unique modular system, Mechs can scavenge parts blown off other Mechs to improve their stats. The game is designed to be a rich gaming experience that’s simple to play.
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Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Rob Goodfellow offers No Future, a set of free wargames rules for science fiction gang warfare. He writes:
No Future is a skirmish game representing battles between small gangs on the inner city streets of a lawless tomorrow. It gives a playable, fun skirmish game, allowing for an element of roleplay in the campaign rules. I suggest that you field no more then ten or twelve figures per side at the most, gangs of five to eight members seem to work best.
I imagine the type of gang warfare No Future represents would consist of a lot of gunfire but few hits with the combatants’ confidence and morale being tested to the limit as the bullets fly and they start to take wounds. I’ve tried to balance this with playability, so more often than not your gang leader will charge in, laying waste to all about him, but sometimes the circumstances will be too much for him, his confidence will crack, and he’ll run away, crying like a baby!
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Friday, September 16, 2005
I never got into Inquisitor. Frankly, the very large figures and their very large price tag were too much for me. But for those of you who are keeping the flame alive, Games Workshop offers the Inquisitor rules book as a free download from their Specialist games site.
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Thursday, September 15, 2005
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Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Ed Walker has written a set of free wargames rules called Tabletop Titans. He writes:
BAM - POW - KAZOWEE. These are the sounds of super heros in action. Who could forget the wild brawls we all envisioned while reading our favorite super hero comics? Tabletop Titans is a game of miniature combat where players create super heros to do battle. Designed to be played on any tabletop or with one of the many types of terrain systems on the market Tabletop Heros provides all the rules necessary to create a unique super hero and pit it in combat against other superpowered beings. Tabletop Titans uses the ACTION combat system.
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Friday, September 09, 2005
This site offers a set of rules for using the Star Fleet Battles rules set for playing games set in the BattleStar Galactica universe.
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Tuesday, September 06, 2005
Ed Walker offers a set of free miniatures rules for starship combat called Spacefarer Starship Simulator.
The author writes:
Spacefarer Starship Simulator is a miniatures game of combat between spacecraft. In the Spacefarer system movement occurs in a fast paced manner that simulates the flexibility and rapid changes of a dogfight. Miniatures can be used on any surface. A grid or other playing mat is not required for this game system.
The rules are presented with preprinted counters although any sort of miniature may be used.
Currently we are offering 4 items for download:
Spacefarer Fighter Quick Start which is a fast playing version of the full rules allowing players to learn combat and tactics without having to wade through ship design and complicated weapons choices. This game allows players to choose one of three fighter variants that come pre-equipped. A perfect learning tool.
Spacefarer Starship Simulator in which you can design ships ranging in type from small fighters to kilometer wide Dreadnoughts. Rules for design, ship combat and boarding combat using marines are included.
Ship Log A PDF verison of just the ship log. Use this to print out as many ship logs as you need without having to open the entire rules file.
Spacefarer Campaign Supplement CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD. The universe of the Stellar Federation is detailed to provide ongoing campaign play using the Spacefarer rules. Races and their homeworlds are detailed. Combat arenas provided at different ports are detailed to allow more challenging combat.
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Monday, September 05, 2005
Interformic Games offers a free miniatures game called Turn or Burn. The authors write:
Turn or Burn is a fast-paced game of space fighter combat for 2 to 8 players. To start a game, you design your fighter from a deck of system cards. Each turn you play a system or maneuver card facedown to plot the action your fighter will take. The game uses vector movement, so you must plan ahead! When everyone has plotted, all players reveal their actions simultaneously. Fighters move, guns fire, stuff explodes, and it’s on to the next turn.
There also are several modules for more detail.
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Sunday, August 28, 2005
Games Workshop’s Specialist Games website has republished the Necromunda rules as a free download. In addition to the main rulesbook, there are sourcebooks on Hive Primus, campaigns and scenarios, and Underhive rulebook, Kal Jerico and Scabbs, Enforcers, Gang Leadership, Treacherous Conditions, Ratskin Renegades, the Wyrd and the Wonderful and Scavvies.
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Sunday, August 28, 2005
The Warseer forums have an interesting thread on using Games Workshop’s Lord of the Rings battle game to run Warhammer 40K skirmish games.
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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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