Tuesday, November 29, 2011
International Pay A Blogger Day
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I am of course, totally in favor of this one.
I do take donations:
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Saturday, October 22, 2011
About MiniatureWargaming.Com
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MiniatureWargaming.Com is a catalog of the best, most interesting and useful gaming material on the web. It includes links to free wargames rules, paper figures and terrain, free board games and RPGs, painting and modeling tutorials, and other gaming related materials. The site is updated daily, and currently contains more than 5,000 pages of material, including some 1,500 rules sets. The links are categorized, and fully searchable, making it easy to find what you want.
The site started in 2004, when I decided to find a better way to categorize and organize all of the links to wargames resources that I had acquired over the years. I chose the ‘blog format because: 1) it allowed me to enter the links and descriptions as time permitted 2) I could easily group things into categories 3) the links and descriptions were searchable and 4) I could access the links from anywhere I had an internet connection.
Over the years, MiniatureWargaming has evolved into a massive project, with more than five thousand links to free wargames resources, including free wargames rules sets, figure painting and modeling advice, terrain construction tips, free paper figures and terrain, battle reports, product reviews and more.
Each of the links is categorized, and the database is fully searchable. So if you’re looking for free wargames resouces, this is the place to start.
If you have a link you’d like to have publicized, use the contact form. The only caveat is that the main page only offers links to free material. If you have a commercial announcement, feel free to register in the forums and post there under “Commercial Announcements”. Your posts there are published immediately and the headlines show up on the sidebar on all 10,000+ pages of the site.
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Friday, April 03, 2009
MiniatureWargaming.Com Has Sixth Birthday
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Happy Birthday to MiniatureWargaming dot Com!
MiniatureWargaming has entered its sixth year of operation.
I started MiniatureWargaming as an attempt to organize and share all of the miniature wargaming related links in my favorites folder. It has since taken on a life of its own. There are, as of this writing, 3,672 categorized, indexed and searchable blog entries. Each entry contains a link to a useful—and free—wargaming resource, and a brief description of what you’ll find there. There are links to free rules, painting guides, terrain tips, modeling hints, scenarios, paper figures and terrain, historical resources and other fun and useful stuff.
In addition, the Miniature Wargaming Directory lists more than 30,000 wargaming related websites in 3629 categories. There’s also a gallery, a wiki and a forum that has some very helpful and friendly people as regulars.
Here are some other numbers for the last five years:
* 3, 672 blog posts
* 30,321 sites listed in the directory
* 6, 954, 995 Visitors
A new focus for this year is a special section of the forums for businesses to post about miniature wargaming related product release, sales and so forth. The headlines of the most recent entries appear on all of the pages of the blog. It’s free and I hope will be a useful new way for wargaming businesses to promote their products in these hard financial times.
Thanks to everyone who has taken the time to visit. The fact that so many have found the site useful is a source of never ending amazement and pride.
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009
A Review of Walkerloo Cardboard Napoleonic Soldiers
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I’ve just added a review of the Walkerloo Napoleonic Toy Soldiers to the Dispatches pages
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Sunday, March 08, 2009
MiniatureWargaming.Com Recovers (Finally) From Hack
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After two weeks of work, MiniatureWargaming.Com is back and fully functional! (I hope)
The initial problem began with a hacker’s attack two weeks ago. Fortunately, I had a recent mysql database backup, and the site was initially back up in less than 24 hours.
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Saturday, March 22, 2008
MiniatureWargaming dot Com Has Fifth Birthday
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Happy Birthday to MiniatureWargaming dot Com!
MiniatureWargaming heads into its fifth year of operation today.
I started MiniatureWargaming as an attempt to organize and share all of the miniature wargaming related links in my “favorites” folder. It has since taken on a life of its own. There are, as of this writing, 3,264 categorized, indexed and searchable blog entries. Each entry contains a link to a useful—and free—wargaming resource, and a brief description of what you’ll find there. There are links to free rules, painting guides, terrain tips, modeling hints, scenarios, paper figures and terrain, historical resources and other fun and useful stuff.
In addition, the Miniature Wargaming Directory lists more than 30,000 wargaming related websites in 3629 categories. There’s also a gallery, a wiki and a forum that has some very helpful and friendly people as regulars.
Here are some other numbers for the last four years:
* 3,264 blog posts
* 30,321 sites listed in the directory
* 192, 746, 357 Hits
* 4, 818, 674 Visitors
Thanks to everyone who has taken the time to visit. The fact that so many have found the site useful is a source of never ending amazement and pride.
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Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Miniature Wargaming Search Engine
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It’s a hobby first! The Miniature Wargaming Dot Com Seach Engine!
Through the magic of Google, I’ve created the first miniature wargaming specific search engine. It works just like a regular search engine—in fact, it runs on Google—but it returns results only from the 3,214 websites that I have identified as being of interest to miniature wargamers.
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Monday, June 05, 2006
MiniPedia Update
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I’ve upgraded the software for the Miniature Wargaming Wiki. Its now running off the same membership system as the forums. So if you have a forum membership, you also can add and edit material in the Miniature Wargaming MiniPedia.
The Minipedia an online, collaborative encyclopedia in which miniature gamers can add and edit articles with helpful advice and information for other wargamers. Technically, it’s a “wiki” like the famous Wikipedia.
The best part of it is that anyone can participate. Just visit the site, and find an area in which you’d like to add to the collective knowledge. If there’s already a page, you can click “edit” and add more information, or edit the information that’s already there. If there isn’t an appropriate page, you can easily create a new one.
To format the text, you can use basic HTML code.
There are already a bunch of articles on the site. You can edit and add to these, or create new ones of your own.
Give it a try. I’ve high hopes that by tapping the collective knowledge of thousands of wargamers, we can create a truly useful encyclopedia.
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Saturday, February 04, 2006
VSF Month After Action Report
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Now that it’s the weekend, I’ve had a chance to look at the numbers for VSF month at http://www.miniaturewargaming.com , and the results were terrific:
MiniatureWargaming set a new site record during VSF Month with 112,290 visits from 43,350 unique individuals. That’s an average of 3,622 pages delivered to 1,398 unique visitors each day.
For those of you who count things in the “hits” statistic, the site had 1,165,461 hits in the month of January. (Hits are less meaningful and are higher because “hits” include each element of the page as it’s loaded. Each time a page with 3 photos, two blocks of text and a banner ad is loaded by a visitor, that counts as 6 hits).
During the month, I posted 45 links to VSF related sites, as well as 32 links to resources for other miniature wargaming genres. That brought the total number of posts on the site up to 1,434. There also are more than 30,000 links to related sites now listed in the sites directory.
Remember that you can always find older links on the site by using the search, or browsing through the various categories.
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Friday, February 03, 2006
What Other Miniature Wargaming Bloggers Are Saying
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I’ve created a new experimental section on the site to help publicize other Miniature Wargaming bloggers. I’ve taken their RSS and Atom feeds and have posted them on a series of three pages. Now you can browse their headlines in one place, and then visit the sites that interest you. It’s a good way to discover some new and truly worthy blogs.
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