Monday, June 16, 2008
Off The Beach is Brian Gill’s board game based on the D-Day landing on the Beaches of Normandy in 1941. The Americans are trying to get off the beach and clear the Dog Green section of the beach of German resistance. The winner is the last player that has men on the board.
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Sunday, June 15, 2008
Zombie games seem to be all the rage. Here’ some inspiration: The Zombie Daily blog, which features a new zombie drawing each day.
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Saturday, June 14, 2008
One Monk offers a 2.5D paper model of a red dragon in 30mm scale. There’s also an uncolored version.
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Friday, June 13, 2008
Fine Scale Modeler has an article on building a 1/350 scale patrol boat.
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Thursday, June 12, 2008
Damned Human Race is a set of free miniature wargaming rules for the period 1865 to 1910
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Patrick Todoroff offers Firefight 2050, a set of rules for 1/72 figures in a near future setting.
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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.
