Friday, August 15, 2008
Napoleonic Battle is a one page hex and counter wargame free for the downloading and printing. Someone with more knowledge of the period than I is going to have to identify the particular battle.
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Thursday, August 14, 2008
John Acar and Andrew Damon offer Ancients D6, designed to be a quick playing game that still allows nuances between the different armies of antiquity.
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008
En Avant is one of Jim Wallman’s “One Brain Cell” rules, this time for Napoleonic warfare. It allows you to conduct a brigade sized engagement in about 20 minutes using 25mm - 28mm figures. Just scroll down to find the links.
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008
I’m not at all sure I need this kind of realism on my tabletop, but the Curdled Milk site has some instructions for making bloody snow effects.
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Monday, August 11, 2008
Pacific Storm is a one-page hex and counter board wargame that simulates the island hopping campaigns of WWII.
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Sunday, August 10, 2008
Terragenesis has a tutorial on making a nice looking fuel depot from the green floral foam.
I always knew there were wargames applications for that stuff.
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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.
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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.
