Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Miniature Wargames—that venerable wargaming print publication—now is offering several issues of the magazine free online.
I hope this is just the forefront of a revolution in the delivery of wargames magazines. There needs to be a price discount for the digital-only version, though. No dead trees + no ink + no delivery = lower costs
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Thursday, December 09, 2010
I’ve enjoyed the d6 Generation podcasts. They cover miniatures, board, card, and rpg games.
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Sunday, November 07, 2010
Portable Quest is a small, text-based adventure (like classic Zork) designed to be played on a Kindle
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Arthur’s Classic Novels is a nice collection of free e-books in a variety of genres. There are quite a lot of free history books there.
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Saturday, October 02, 2010
British Battles is an informative website with loads of information about .... well, British Battles.
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Sunday, July 11, 2010
Radio Rivendell is an online radio station playing fantasy themed music 24/7. Great, inspirational stuff.
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Monday, February 15, 2010
Hark, A Stranger is a site with funny, historically based cartoons.
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Thursday, December 10, 2009
Grognardia is an interesting blog about role playing in general.
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Wednesday, December 09, 2009
Robert E. Howard is one of my favorite writers—I particularly love the Solomon Kane cycle. The Cimmerian is a blog dedicated to the Texas pulp writer and his works.
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Friday, August 28, 2009
Irregular is a new—and good looking—general purpose wargames magazine. The summer 2009 is available for downloading here.
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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.
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