It’s not miniature wargaming, but fans of Tolkien and miniatures in general will love this Bag End Bonsai.
Month: November 2017
8e Cuirassiers 1700 – 1870 Rules
8e Cuirassiers 1700 – 1870 is a set of free wargames rules for the horse and musket period. An infantry battalion is represented by four bases.
Painting White
Painting white as the primary color of a miniature is hard. The video above offers some good tips. As does this one below:
Using Washes To Create Weathering
Armorama has an article on using washes to weather your armor models. While its intended for plastic modelers, it also is great advice for 15mm and 25mm – 28mm gamers. I’m not so sure that it would be useful for anything smaller, though.
Combat Narrative Fantasy / Medieval Skirmish System
Combat is a set of free wargames rules for playing out medieval and fantasy skimish battles. The author writes:
This is a fantasy/medieval skirmish combat system that is intended to work for narrative style games where there are heroes fighting anything from rank and file minions to Cave Trolls and also where the dramatic action follows some characters more than others. Time is not spread evenly across the tabletop. If Aragorn is running to try to rescue the Hobbits, the heroic character will keep trying to activate Aragorn while the villainous player will keep trying to activate the Orcs fighting Boromir. As part of this, when groups of characters are activated, that is when they get attacked. You cannot be damaged, for example, until the story is talking about you so by activating a group of characters, the player chooses to risk their safety.