Sunday, February 14, 2010
Here’s a good tutorial on using the GIMP to make nice RPG style maps. The GIMP is a free, open-source Photoshop imitator.
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Friday, February 12, 2010
Warfare 1917 free flash based RTS game where you deploy units into the trenches, and control their actions as they advance against the enemy. Fun.
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Saturday, January 30, 2010
Here’s an online unit calculator and army builder for sizing up your Warmachine and Hordes forces.
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Monday, January 11, 2010
Battle Chronicler has been updated.
If you missed the first post on the program, it’s an interesting piece of software that helps you create great looking battle reports.
Battle Chronicler aims to make it quick and easy to produce great looking battle reports that other gamers will want to read. Using the latest developments in Windows technology Battle Chronicler delivers fantastic graphics and a ultra modern user interface.
So if you are miniatures wargamer looking to enhance your hobby with some cool software then you have come to the right place.
Why you need it
There are lots of reasons to write a battle report; share tips and tactics with other players, or to publicize your best victory on the web.
Table top games are about positioning and movement and words are not enough. You also need diagrams for a good battle report. Making plans and diagrams of a game is hard to do, which is why very few games every get recorded in a battle report. That was until now.
Battle Chronicler has been designed to do this one task and to do it well.
Saturday, January 09, 2010
Warfare 1944 is a free flash based RTS game where you deploy units into horizontal zones on a battlefield, and control their actions as they advance against the enemy. Fun.
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Sunday, October 25, 2009
Zombie in My PC is a small, tile based zombie game that plays like a dungeon crawl. Go to a room. Fight the monsters. Take their treasure.
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Friday, October 23, 2009
Alien Assault is a free computer game for Windows that for all intents and purposes is a clone of the old Space Hulk computer game. The game description:
An intense and dynamic turn-based strategy putting the player as the commander of a squadron of heavily armed troopers battling against hordes of aliens to save mankind within the cramped confines of abandoned space stations and colony habitats.
* Turn based squad tactics game
* Top-down graphics and retro feel
* Tense and atmospheric gameplay
* Over 50 pre-included missions
* Built-in easy to use level editor
* Extensive support for user-made modifications
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Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Too cheap (or poor) to buy a copy of PaintShop, PhotoPaint or PhotoShop. Try Sumo Paint instead. It’s free, online and may just have enough tools to suit your task.
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Thursday, June 25, 2009
Battle Chronicler is an interesting piece of software that helps you create great looking battle reports.
Battle Chronicler aims to make it quick and easy to produce great looking battle reports that other gamers will want to read. Using the latest developments in Windows technology Battle Chronicler delivers fantastic graphics and a ultra modern user interface.
So if you are miniatures wargamer looking to enhance your hobby with some cool software then you have come to the right place.
Why you need it
There are lots of reasons to write a battle report; share tips and tactics with other players, or to publicize your best victory on the web.
Table top games are about positioning and movement and words are not enough. You also need diagrams for a good battle report. Making plans and diagrams of a game is hard to do, which is why very few games every get recorded in a battle report. That was until now.
Battle Chronicler has been designed to do this one task and to do it well.
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Sunday, June 07, 2009
Tilt Shift Maker is a site that lets you manipulate your regular photos so that they look like photos of tiny models. There just HAS to be a use for this in miniature wargaming. I just can’t figure out what it is ...
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Poll #1:
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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