MiniatureWargaming

Builting A Trench Section / Emplacement

Terrain Thralls has a tutorial on making a trench section or gun emplacement.

French Uniforms 1250 - 1806

The New York Public Library’s Uniforms Collection has its vast collection of color uniform plates for the French Army 1250 - 1806 available on line. Those dates, of course, include quite a bit of Napoleonic uniforms.

Unternehmung 25 Postcard Wargame

Here’s a great concept: an entire hex and counter style board game on a post card:

The second V-Mail Postcard Game, UNTERNEHMUNG 25, chronicles the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941. The basic game system is similar to the of its predecessor, Malaya. New elements include German mountain troops, Panzer Corps, air support, and the bombing of Belgrade, as well as the effects of mountain and river terrain. Hungarian and Italian troops also make an appearance.

Can you, as the Germans, make a lightning-fast assault and capture Belgrade in time to release units for the upcoming invasion of Russia? As the Yugoslavs, can you derail the German timetable and buy time for the Allies to react? It’s all up to you.

18 counters at the Corps and Army level and a full-color map of Yugoslavia- all on a 5x8 inch postcard!

Dark Ages Eye Candy

The Veni Vidi Vici site has some great photos of Dark Ages miniatures. I’m painting a variety of Dark Ages armies and always like to reference other peoples’ painting projects. These are really good.

Mustangs Air Combat Rules

Mustangs is a classic Air Combat game from Avalon Hill which, like most of their great systems is long out-of-print. Warflag, however, has a set of rules for playing the game in miniature.

Campaign Rules For DBA Wars of the Roses

Here are a nice set of campaign rules for the Wars of the Roses, using DBA as the core system.

Painting Plastic Army Men

The OddBattles Site has as nice article on the author’s efforts to paint plastic army men.

Stourbridge Modern Jets Rules

The Stourbridge Modern Jets Rules are a set of free wargames rules for simulating ... well, modern jets, of course.

Stourbridge Modern Jet Rules (SMJR) are a beer-and-pretzels game of modern fighter combat intended purely to get some nice 1:144 model aircraft on the table and have a knock-about game that owes more to arcade flight sims than any real world events. Aircraft are kept purely generic so that players can field models based on their “supercoolshinywow!” factor rather than any real world
abilities or weaknesses.

Altitude is factored into the game length and the assumption that it is not vitally important to modern jets with thunderous rates of climb and dive is made mainly in order to remove the need for fiddly height differences and the difficulty inherent in creating flight bases for such.

Paper Star Wars Storm Troopers and Sand Troopers in 28mm

Here’s a site with paper miniatures of Star Wars Storm Troopers and Sand Troopers in 1/50 scale—around 28mm. You have to sign up with the site to download, but its free.

World War I Aircraft Website

Fans of the Wings of War may find The Aerodrome useful and interesting. It has a wealth of information on the planes and pilots of the period.