Thursday, May 19, 2005
Miniature Wargamer offers a miniature wargaming specific internet directory. Unlike mine, though, you can’t add your own site.
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Tuesday, May 03, 2005
Wes Rogers has create a nice online tool for making wargames maps. To use it, you’ll need to have IE 5.5 or later.
Wes writes:
Have you ever wanted to write up an article about a battle you have played? How did you make the map? Unless you have a specialized tool such as GameMapr or CyberBoard, you probably made a sketch map of the game table and either scanned it in or just included it as-is with your article text. Let’s be honest: Maps like that don’t really look all that good.
But what if you could re-draw your sketch map using standardized symbols, then save it off as an image file? What if you could easily move the symbols on the map around, saving each phase of the game to a new image file. It would suddenly be a lot easier to write your article, don’t you think?
That is the purpose behind “Gbgen”. I am hoping that gamers will use it to create good-looking, maybe even professional-looking maps of their battles, then include them in articles or campaign diaries.
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Tuesday, May 03, 2005
Ed Allen maintains a database of wargamers to help you find an opponent.
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Friday, April 01, 2005
If you’re into gaming the Mexican American war, or if you just have an interest in things Texas in general, you’ll find this map archives useful. There are a number of historical maps for you to view online:
Texas Revolution, 1835-1836 - Text Description (120K) [p. 47]
Texas Revolution, 1835-1836 - The Defense of the Alamo, February 23 - March 6, 1836 (75K) [p. 47]
Texas Revolution, 1835-1836 - The Major Movements of Texan and Mexican Military Forces, February - April, 1836 (119K) [p. 47]
Texas Revolution, 1835-1836 - The Battle of San Jacinto, April 21, 1836 (145K) [p. 47]
Texas Frontier Development, 1841-1843 (97K) [p. 48]
Mexican War Battles in Texas and Northern Mexico, 1846-1847 - Text Description (127K) [p. 49]
Mexican War Battles in Texas and Northern Mexico, 1846-1847 - The Battle of Palo Alto, May 8, 1846 (62K) [p. 49]
Mexican War Battles in Texas and Northern Mexico, 1846-1847 - The Battle of Resaca De La Palma, May 9, 1846 (50K) [p. 49]
Mexican War Battles in Texas and Northern Mexico, 1846-1847 - Taylor’s Campaign, March 1846 - February 1847 (69K) [p. 49]
The general Texas map link is here.
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Sunday, March 13, 2005
The March 2005 issue of the fine gaming magazine Fictional Reality is out. In this issue:
Battle Reports: Warmachine (Cygnar vs Menoth); Ragnarok (Wolfen vs Griffon)
Miniature Reviews: Reaper; Rackham ; Thunderbolt Mountain; Magnificent Egos ; Hasslefree Miniatures
Game Reviews: We Can Be Heroes; Nin-Gonost ; Gangs of Mega-City 1 ;
RPG Reviews: Noir; The Foundationists; Hamunaptra ; Advanced Beastiary; Blood & Relics
Industry News: Excelsior Entertainment
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Monday, February 21, 2005
Dennis Barrett has announced the opening of his new wargames hobby site, The Foxhole. Take a look, especially if you’re a fan of the “We Can Be Heroes” rules set.
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Thursday, December 23, 2004
The problem with play by mail games and campaigns has always been verifying dice rolls. You had to trust the person you were playing with to correctly report the result, or rely on a neutral solution, like stock market numbers. This site has a clever solution: it generates numbers and then emails the results to your opponent.
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Thursday, October 21, 2004
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Tuesday, September 14, 2004
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Poll #3:
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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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