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Saturday, August 07, 2004

Gang Warfare Battle and Campaign Rules

Rules Sci Fi

Years ago, I played in a play-by-mail game called "Its a Crime." In that game, you were in charge of a street gang and tried to wrest control of city blocks from the other gang leaders (players). These free wargames rules from the Lincoln Miniature Warfare Society allow you to do the same thing on the miniatures gaming tabletop.

 

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Thursday, July 22, 2004

Jump Trooper Sci Fi Rules

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Jump Trooper is a set of free wargames rules for 15mm science fiction by Ty Beard. Each stand represents a four man fireteam. The players move through a turn sequence that looks a bit like Squad Leader, with a covering fire (prep fire) phase, and a final fire phase, etc.

 

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Tuesday, July 20, 2004

A Sky Full of Ships

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A Sky Full of Ships, is one of Dan Abbott's "Fast and Simple" free wargames rules. Like all good science fiction fleet rules, it uses a movement system that takes into account momentum, and allows gamers to design a wide variety of ships. Dan writes: Continued...

 

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Sunday, July 18, 2004

Assault Squad rules

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Assault Squad, by Marios Damoulianos, is a set of free wargames rules for playing squad vs squad miniatures battles. The rules are very professional, and have some great illustrations. One of the best things is that there is a set of basic rules that can be added to in a modular fashion until you have a game that satisfies your need for complexity. Marios writes: Continued...

 

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Tuesday, July 06, 2004

Expanding Space Hulk

Games Workshop,  Rules Sci Fi

Game Workshop's Space Hulk game is one of the best it's every produced. Every game is fraught with tension, as the marines attempt to maximize their scarce action points in the face of an increasing onslaught of genestealers. With good players, this game is nearly always a near run thing. Unfortunately, like so many of their efforts, the Evil Empire hasn't continued to support it. Expanding The Hulk is a website dedicated to continuing the Space Hulk game. It's got rules for using many of the other races in the Games Workshop universe, including Chaos, Eldar, Dark Eldar, Necrons, and Orcs.

 

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Friday, July 02, 2004

Dark Age Rules

Rules Fantasy,  Rules Sci Fi

Dark Age is a miniature wargame based on the artwork of the acclaimed artist Brom. Set in a dark science-fantasy world (now there's an original thought), the game features some really interesting-looking miniatures. In a smart marketing move, the rules are available free for the downloading.

 

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Friday, June 25, 2004

Starship Troopers Rules

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Kurt Bowker has written a set of free wargames rules set in the Starship Troopers movie universe. I'm not sure where you would get the miniatures to go with these -- perhaps Ground Zero Games has something that could be used.

 

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Friday, June 11, 2004

Net Epic

Games Workshop,  Rules Sci Fi

Net Epic is a set of free wargames rules based on the old Games Workshop Second Edition Space Marine.

 

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Sunday, June 06, 2004

Road Warriors rules

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Michael Taylor has written Road Warriors, a set of free wargames rules that uses Matchbox cars for games set in a post-apocalyptic future, ala Mad Max.

 

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Saturday, May 22, 2004

Starmada demo rules

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The Starmada demo miniature wargaming rules are available from Majestic 12 games:
Starmada is a simple (but not simplistic) board game of starship combat, in which players square off in a general attempt to blast each other's fleets into just so much space junk. While the universe of the Imperial Starmada and its major adversaries is fully detailed in the rulebook, Starmada is much more than just another game, tied down to its own background. Instead, Starmada can be played in just about any science fiction setting you can imagine. There are dozens of optional rules, exotic special equipment items, and menacing weapons that can be used or discarded at your discretion, to create the type of game you want to play!

 

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About the Miniature Wargaming Hobby

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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