Wednesday, April 27, 2005
Lou Coatney offers Stalingrad Attacked, a free, complete board wargame. Coatney is a veteran game designer with a number of published designs, including Dark Crusade.
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Wednesday, April 06, 2005
Neo Stalinist Reality Wargames Collective (what a great name!) offers Hurrah Stalino, a set of free wargames rules for 6mm figures. The collective writes:
Hurrah Stalino! is a revolutionary set of rules (for 6mm scale figures) designed to allow players to fight large scale battles on the Russian Front during World War Two. The basic tactical unit is the battalion whilst the basic formation of manoeuvre is the division. Divisions are then grouped in to Corps and Corps are then grouped into Armies. Because of this Hurrah Stalino is a game of strategy rather than tactics and the rule mechanisms reflect this.
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Thursday, March 03, 2005
MG Wittman offers a set of World War II rules called Panzer Combat II, which, he says is:
suitable for all scales as distances are measured in multiples of the length of a Sherman tank. In 1:48 scale, which found renewed interest from manufactures like TamiyaTM and Gaso-lineTM, the Sherman length corresponds to 10 cm.
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Friday, January 28, 2005
This guide to Soviet Artillery is incomplete, but still useful. I wish that I had found this back when I was trying to figure out how to assemble properly a bunch of 15mm soviet field pieces for a painting commission that I was undertaking.
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Sunday, January 16, 2005
25mm 15mm 10mm 6mm .... All of these, I’ve heard of. But 2mm ? Where did that come from. At any rate, here’s a set of free wargames rules for 2mm figures.
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Tuesday, November 16, 2004
The Jim Bowens Disturbia Yahoo Group has free rules for the Gotterdammerung WWII-Horror game.
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Tuesday, November 09, 2004
Another game from the Oculus Website: Easy Company, a set of free wargames rules for World War II skirmish games. Oculus writes:
Easy Company is designed to put you in the place of an officer leading a squad of men. The rules are intended to simulate the fact that the officer spends most of his time giving orders and co-ordinating or cajoling the men to do what he wants.
This is the first release of the rules and future releases will include additional rules to cope with vehicles and special weapons.
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Wednesday, October 06, 2004
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Monday, October 04, 2004
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Thursday, September 16, 2004
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Poll #3:
Cast your vote and then join the discussion to tell us why.
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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