Tuesday, June 10, 2008
American Revolution Blog
18th Century, Wargaming Sites
Miniature Revolution is a new blog focusing on 6mm American Revolution gaming.
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Miniature Revolution is a new blog focusing on 6mm American Revolution gaming.
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Monday, June 09, 2008
Book Ranger offers a solo science fiction trading game called Free Trader. He writes:
“Free Trader” is a solitaire game with a theme of trading between planets trying to make the first four payments on your recently bought space ship.
Inspired by the “Traveller” RPG and the 80s computer game “Elite” you will explore the planets of the galaxy looking for and making the most of trading opportunities.
But the void between the planets is not safe. You’ll find it inhabited by Pirates willing to attack you and take your burnt out spaceship as salvage. So you’ll need to upgrade your ships defences while struggeling to meet the payments.
With the huge cost of defenses and ship upgrades will you be tempted to risk carrying illegal cargos? If you risk it, you’ll have to watch out for the Interstella Police who patrol the unfriendly space above the skies of many planets.
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Sunday, June 08, 2008
Tabletop Commander is a free computerized army building tool for Warmachine and Hordes. The authors say its just like the commercial Army Builder—but free. They have Windows, Mac and Linux!!! versions. Now what they need to do is to port it to Palm and other handhelds.
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Saturday, June 07, 2008
For fans of pulp adventures, here’ s a paper model of the Temple of the Forbidden Eye, the new Indiana Jones ride at Disney Land. The model has 56 pages to print out, and stands 21 inches tall. Even if you don’t build it, you should take a look at the photos.
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Saturday, June 07, 2008
MIG Alley Ace are rules for modern aircraft combat from 1945 to the missile age.
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Friday, June 06, 2008
Armada Models has two free paper models of a Roman Villa. The larger of the two likely would work as for 15mm wargames.
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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.
