The World At War is the latest in the Command and Colors line of free miniature wargames rules from Rudi Geudens. Geudens writes:
The “World at War” is another rules set in our card driven colour coded hexbased series “COMMAND BY COLOUR”. Although it was one of our first projects, it has taken us nearly two years to finish, since mechanized warfare is quite different from e.g. colonial or ACW. Our main objective was to write a set of rules that would allow a fast, yet as realistic as possible wargame. In order to keep the actual number of rules pages as low as possible, we have opted for a system that could be compared with “Lego”. You may have a huge pile of Lego blocks at hand, yet to build a house you will only use the ones you need. In our system, the “unit cards” stand for the Lego blocks: there is a huge choice of different units for each nation, yet you will only need those you actually have units for in the game. The number of COMMAND CARDS is similar to the other games.
So far, we have finished the D-Day to Berlin units for Germany and the USA. The rest is to follow later. Enjoy!
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.
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