Monday, October 10, 2005
Charger has some instructions for building a repair bay for your BattleTech MechWarrior miniature wargames.
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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.
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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.
Nice work. Like some of my stuff for 40K, the effort involved always seems to be greater than the resulting game. That is, the game is something of an anticlimax.
Piece of advice? Try to create generic terrain if you can. Too specific, and your work’s usefulness will expire with the game it serves as centerpiece for.
Also, I am not sure why you built the ‘Mech bay into the side of that hill. Was it supposed to be disguised from the air? I always envisioned a repair bay as being quite a bit bigger, but suppose this might be the best you can do on, say, a hotly contested low-tech planet.
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