Tuesday, October 07, 2008
Soul Influence is a downloadable card game where the players are recruiters for either heaven or hell. You could also think of it as Coaches Tressell and Rodriguez recruiting for TOSU and UM.
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Tuesday, October 07, 2008
For Victorian gaming fans, here’s a page with articles from the Illustrated London News from the mid 1800s.
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Monday, October 06, 2008
Here’s a neat set of instructions for turning ordinary jars and dollar store finds into horrible jars of monstrous specimens. These would be great props for a horror role playing game.
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Monday, October 06, 2008
Battle of Red Gate is a Crusades scenario featuring the Franks and Damascenes in 1106.
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Sunday, October 05, 2008
Here are some paper models of “Terrors of the Deep”—aquatic horrors to threaten your heroes.
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Sunday, October 05, 2008
Tom’s Spaceship Miniatures / Games List offers a nice resource for people getting into this type of gaming. FWIW, Silent Death is one of my all time favorite games.
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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.
