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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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
This is not exactly free, but its so neat that I just have to pass it on. The Game Crafter is a site that offers publish on demand games. You upload all the printed materials, and they provide the boxing, pieces, etc. There’s no minimum, and they’ll even sell the game for you on their site. You just create the game, and sit back and collect royalties.
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Friday, August 14, 2009
The History Channel has an online, flash game about African Exploration. You roll dice (virtually), and try to accumulate miles and supplies, and avoid hazards. Its fun, and I can see a way to turn this into a neat miniatures game ... I’m sure my friend Bob from Ann Arbor could pull it off.
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Collecting Citadel Miniatures is a wiki that focuses:
on the miniatures produced by Citadel Miniatures (later Games Worshop) and is being developed by members of the Yahoo group CollectingCitadelMiniatures.
While there is comprehensive information on out of production Citadel Miniatures available from Stuff of Legends, many of the figure ranges were not well documented in the various catalogues, flyers and other publications. A large number of figures were not released, released only briefly or in limited circumstances or released with a number of variants in pose, head or weapons.
Our objective is to research these figures and ranges and publish the information found as a resource for collectors everywhere.
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Thursday, June 11, 2009
RPG Game Find is a site that wants to help you find a role playing game to participate in.
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Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Gunners Wargaming is a new wargames blog that is having a very nice start.
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Monday, April 06, 2009
Mapsymbs is Tom Mouat’s page featuring NATO Military Map Marking Symbols as TrueType Fonts, and other Military related Resources. This is really useful stuff for creating your own board wargames, or for creating orders of battle for your miniatures games.
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Saturday, February 07, 2009
Google’s got a new subset of its search engine that features 1.5 million books available for the reading and downloading. They’re all in the public domain and there are some really useful titles for miniature wargamers—especially in the history and adventure sections.
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Thursday, October 09, 2008
The Clash of Steel website has an interesting work-in-progress in its database of battles.
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Saturday, October 04, 2008
The Tabletop Teasers Archive offers a downloadable collection of Charles Grant’s classic Tabletop Teasers—a series of articles he wrote for various magazines over the past 30+ years. each a military conundrum in the form of a scenario. They’re terrific.
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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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