Tuesday, May 10, 2005
This site offers a step by step, illustrated guide for painting a Games Workshop Warhammer 40K Terminator.
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Wednesday, April 13, 2005
I stopped buying Warhammer 40K stuff when they dropped the squats as a major race. In my basement workshop, I’ve got a horde of the stunties, in regular battle gear, on trikes, in exo-armor ... you name it. You can find an online squat codex in the War Vault.
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Wednesday, April 13, 2005
Here’s a page that has scans of Warhammer 40K Ork, Eldar and Space Marine banners from old White Dwarf magazines. Its all stuff you can’t find on the current Games Workshop website.
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Tuesday, April 05, 2005
Nikolaj Pilgaard Petersen offers Warhammer 40K / Warhammer Fantasy campaign management Software. He writes that it offers:
A complete strategical map campaign, where the battles are fought as miniature battles. Including resources, cities, special detachmenttypes etc. The computer game takes care of the campaign elements (i.e. you move your armies around the map in the computer game, etc.), but the actual battles are fought as WH40K/WHF miniature battles, and the results are then applied to the computer game. Alternatively, the computer can generate the battle results, and the game can then be played as a standard computer strategy game (i.e. without the use of miniatures).
The game can be played by e-mail, and thus allow a potentially unlimited number of players to play i the same campaign game (however, this version allows a maximum of 10 players).
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Thursday, January 06, 2005
Heroes In The Imperium is a “individual/commando” game system that the anonymous author says was heavily borrowed from the “Inquisitor” game system by Gavin Thorpe, “Maxim To Minimi” Skirmish Rules from 1900 to Today by Jason R. Weiser, “Platoon” Squad Level Rules for Vietnam Era Skirmish Games by Julian Davies, “Skirmish ‘90” Modern Wargames Rules 1915-2005 by Aaron Longbottom (1989), “Slammer” S.F. game system by Chris and Alex Nicole, “Void 1.1: Evolution or Extinction” by John Grant & other authors, “Where’s Charlie?” Platoon Level Vietnam Rules (V3.6) by Pete Jones, “Warhammer 40,000” series by Rick Prestley & other authors and “Waste World” RPG by Bill King. Whew. If you’re familiar with any of these rules, you know what kind of a rules set “Heroes” is. You can get them here.
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Sunday, December 26, 2004
Dark Millennium is intended as a set of alternate rules for Warhammer 40K. There are also a large number of army lists here, including all of the major races in Games Workshop’s setting.
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Friday, December 03, 2004
Here’s a site with propaganda posters for Warhammer 40K. You can print these out with an inkjet and stick them to the walls of your buildings.
I did the same thing a few years ago when I was building some terrain for a 25mm Stalingrad game. I found some Soviet WWII era posters in a book, scanned them, and printed them out. Everyone agreed that it was a nice touch that really added to the atmosphere. One player decided to have his NKVD troops make a last stand in front of the Comrade Stalin poster. It was a classic moment.
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Wednesday, November 24, 2004
Shantytowns, Hoovervilles, Shacktowns ... If you’re going to conduct miniature wargames set in the dark underbelly of civilization, you’re going to need appropriate terrain. Leondus has some advice, pictures and instructions for building realistic looking shacks. These would be useful for a wide variety of games, including moderns in Iraq, Afghanistan and Africa, Necromunda and other post apocalyptic games.
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Friday, November 19, 2004
The Warhammer rules have been adapted for every period under the sun -- some more successfully than others. Here's a set of modifications for Warhammer Napoleonics.
Update: The Nugamers link is dead. Here's another: http://www.3vwargames.co.uk/whammer/nb01.htm
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Wednesday, November 10, 2004
Over on the Lord of the Rings Yahoo group, Terry Maltman has posted a review of Warhammer Historicals' new "Legends of the Old West" game. Apparently it is not, as I feared, a 40K variant, but rather a Lord of the Rings variant, with some Mordheim/Necromunda stuff thrown in. You can read the review below.
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Poll #1:
Cast your vote and then join the discussion to tell us why.
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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