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Category Archives: War Games

Autoduelling and Site-Updating

Sunday, February 6, 2011

In a comment on my article Road-Warring, Michael P. Owen, the Webmaster of the Seattle Washington Autoduel Team Headquarters (or SWAT HQ) was kind enough to share this link of gaming resources: Automotive Combat Tabletop Game Systems. There is much to explore on that page, and I am grateful for the work it must have [...]

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Axles & Alloys 2nd Edition

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Speaking of post-apocalyptic automotive combat games, there is a new edition of Axles & Alloys being playtested, Axles & Alloys II – Dork Future, the PDF of which is available as a free download at… Axles & Alloys II – Dork Future. Again, I think it would be great to play both on the same [...]

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Road-Warring

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Being a fan of movies such as Mad Max and Mad Max 2 (also known as The Road Warrior) as well as a gamer, I have an endless fascination with games of that genre. Car Wars (especially the 5th edition), Axles & Alloys, OverDrive Arena, Q Cars, and Atomic Highway are all in my collection. [...]

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Miniature Review

Monday, October 11, 2010

Miniature Review is a Web log with news and interviews pertaining to miniatures and miniature war games. Photographs are plentiful. Enjoy.

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Dispatch War Rocket AJAX

Saturday, October 9, 2010

According to a Starship Combat News update from 14 August, Hydra Miniatures has released the rulebook for their retro-futurist spaceship war game, War Rocket. The product description states, “You can play a game of War Rocket with fleets of 10-20 ships in less than 90 minutes with minimal use of tokens and absolutely no paper [...]

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Stepping upon the Field of Glory

Thursday, April 16, 2009

I neglected to mention this earlier, but I finally purchased Field of Glory and subsequently ordered and purchased two expansions, Rise of Rome: Republican Rome at War and Legions Triumphant: Imperial Rome at War. And so another addiction is added to my maladies, or rather two addictions: Field of Glory expansion books and historical miniatures. [...]

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War and Fudge

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

I have neglected to mention this here before, but one of my projects is a modern-ish miniature war game utilizing plastic soldiers and Fudge. Yes, those plastic soldiers. (Perhaps my favorite of all console games is Army Men 3D, which is fully half the inspiration for this project — the other half being the plastic [...]

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Support Your FLGS

Monday, March 2, 2009

I just came across a site as I was doing a search for specific game shops in my vicinity called Wargames.com, a directory of known game shops in the United States. This could be very handy indeed. Game shops need all the help they can get even in the best of times, so support your [...]

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A Rule Book for Each Player

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Have you ever noticed that board games come with one rule book, but they are typically designed for two to four players? Why? They come with more than one token — one for each player. Why not include more than one rule book — how about one for each player? What would be served by [...]

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Field of Glory Is Here

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Somehow, I missed the arrival of Field of Glory, the ancient & medieval war game by Osprey Publishing, despite having reported its imminent release. I discovered it quite by accident on a shelf at work, and although it is too early to write a review (having neither read nor played it yet), I will say [...]

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War of 1812 Battlefield to Become War Zone, Figuratively Speaking

Thursday, October 30, 2008

The World at War: Miniature War Gaming Day will be held again at Fort Meigs on 1 November 2008, co-sponsored by the Historical Miniatures Gaming Society Great Lakes Chapter: Come fight the War of 1812, World War I, and World War II all in one room! Miniature war gaming experts help you play more than [...]

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Monsterpocalypse

Friday, November 16, 2007

I just learned in this Dr. Rotwang article that Privateer Press will be releasing a collectible miniatures game inspired by Japanese giant monster movies: Monsterpocalypse. I do not ordinarily have any interest in collectible miniature games (preferring to know exactly what I am spending my meager earnings on), but I must confess this looks tempting. [...]

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