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Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Mars Or Die! Foreign Legion on Mars rules

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Regiment Games offers a free set of miniatures rules called Mars or Die for playing French Foreign Legion engagements on Mars. There are rules for all of the necessary things, such as giant four armed, green martians and flyers. And there is also a special events card system which looks like a lot of fun.

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Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Vis Imperia Victoriana RPG

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Vis Imperia Victoriana is another rpg that may be useful for converting to miniature wargaming. Vis Imperia Victoriana PDF file

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Friday, January 27, 2006

Vaporoare RPG

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Vaporoare is a role playing game, but as is the case with such, it’s full of ideas for skirmish type miniatures games. The author writes:

Vaporoare is a role-playing game of weird science and mad magi in Victorian-era Europe. It imagines a world where Jules Verne wrote technical manuals for ether machines instead of fiction; Mary Shelley penned the autobiography of Dr. Frankenstein, and H. P. Lovecraft didn’t know what he was getting into. It is the world described by Edgar Allan Poe, Lord Dunsany and J. R. R. Tolkien. Europe is alive with races of fiction: elves dwarves and gnomes. These people have lived together since the beginning of time, and now they face their greatest challenge: the Industrial Revolution. Magick is dying, and technology is on the rampage.

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Thursday, January 26, 2006

Steamworld Daleth

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For those of you looking for a different setting (indeed, a different world) for your steampunk games, you could take a look at Steamworld Daleth. The author writes:

Steamworld Daleth is a gothic world on an alien planet. Call it an imaginary country, a geofiction or a follie. During the many years I have worked on Daleth (now over 20 years) the world has become what she is now: a steampunk/gothic world where the echo of the Victorian Age still sounds, but where many odd things are yet to be discovered. It’s a mix of fantasy and reality, a dreamscape of my imagination. Daleth can be used as a setting for the role playing game Intrigue & Illusions, but is not developed as such. Daleth is much more than a mere setting for a RPG. It’s a world with its own dynamics.

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Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Beneath The Waves Naval Rules

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Planned Movement Production offers Beneath The Waves, a

simple fast played board game where you battle steampunk submarines against each other. The game involves crew management, planned movement, all sorts of weapons and more.

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Monday, January 23, 2006

Kraken: Victorian Man Against Sea Monster

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Matthew Hartley has a game called Kraken, inspired by the man against sea monster scene in Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Beneath the Sea

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Saturday, January 21, 2006

Dirigible Battles For Sky Galleons Of Mars

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James Cambias has written an article on using dirigibles in the Sky Galleons of Mars rules.

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Thursday, January 19, 2006

Soldier’s Companion Website

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Frank Chadwick’s Space: 1889 franchise included a great set of miniatures rules called The Soldier’s Companion. Sadly, it died with the rest of the project. You can still get the rules at various place online, though. If you already own a set, you might be interested in the Soldier’s Companion fansite, which has houserules, scenarios and battle reports.

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Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Forgotten Futures Role Playing Game

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Forgotten Futures is Marcus Rowland’s role playing game of scientific romance. It’s been around for quite a while, having been available on the web for years, before being published by the Heliograph. That company now has discontinued the product, and it again is available on the web. I have a printed copy, and have really enjoyed it. There are plenty of ideas there for miniature wargamers, especially if you like games with a role playing flavor.

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Monday, January 16, 2006

Iron Frontier Landships Rules

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The Iron Frontier is a set of rules for conducting battles with massive steam driven landships. The game is played on a grid, and includes rules for field forces and constructing your own landships.

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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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