Friday, January 06, 2006
The Black Amazons In King Solomon’s Lost City Of The Diamond Mines In The Elephant’s Graveyard At The Source Of The Nile (aside from being the longest title ever for a game) is a set of free miniatures rules by Chris Ferree for running groups of explorers through quests in Darkest Africa.
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Friday, January 06, 2006
Dream Dollars is a site purporting to tell the story of Nadiria, the Lost Colony of Antarctica. It actually seems to be a front for selling art prints of the lost colony’s currency, but the background story is pure Victorian Adventure fantasy. I spent a great deal of time reading all of this. And then I began thinking how I could turn it into a wargame. Maybe with some of those Copplestone figures ...
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Friday, January 06, 2006
The Recon In Force site has battle reports with pictures of several Victorian Science Fiction engagements, mostly featuring the Sky Galleons of Mars rules set. The reports are nicely done, with period flavor and good photos.
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Thursday, January 05, 2006
Basement Generals has a general miniature wargaming site with an extensive victorian science fiction section featuring battle reports of their Master of the World Campaign, plus photos of their figures and models.
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Wednesday, January 04, 2006
Microtactix offers a free paper model that is sure to warm the hears of every victorian science fiction gamer: Professor Laddamore’s Steamcoach Cannon. Heck, since you print it yourself, you can have a whole battery of the things.
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Wednesday, January 04, 2006
Phil Foglio’s Girl Genius comic is a Victorian steam fantasy “with all the Adventure, Romance and Mad Science you can stand. “ You can buy it at comics stores, I suppose, but you can also read it online. Its insane steampunk fun.
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Poll #1:
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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.
