The Great War Syndicate

Written in 1889, The Great War Syndicate is about a cabal of wealthy businessmen who plan to start a war between European states so they can profit from selling weapons to both sides.

Count this one as a “wars of futures past.”

free ebook on The Gutenberg Project

Away Boarders War of 1812 Great Lakes Naval Rules

Away Boarders is a neat little game for a little-considered theatre of war: The Great Lakes in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The author also includes some nice 2-D paper models of the ships, as well as counters.

Warmaster Paper Counters

A League of Ordinary Gamers has sets of paper counters for Warmaster armies including: New Kingdom Egyptians, Assyrians, Brettonian, Chaos, Dark Elves, Dwarf, Empire, High Elf, Lizardmen, Orcs, Skaven, Undead, Vampire Counts, and Wood Elves.

Paper counters are a good, quick and reasonably cheap way of trying out a system.

Timeline 300 Steampunk Rules

Timeline 300 is a set of steam-punkish rules for a now-defunct line of miniatures. The rules, though, can be applied to other figures.

English Civil War Coat Colors

I’ve been painting some English Civil War armies in 28mm, and found this page a useful reference for coat colors.

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