Month: July 2022

Three Inch Glory Playmobil Wargames Rules

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Three Inch Glory is a set of free wargames rules for battles with Playmobil figures. The games are set in the 18th Century.

Cute.

Modeling Gun Crates

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I like to “litter” my model battlefields with the detritus of warfare — boxes, crates, etc. Here’s a nice method for making gun crates.

Land And Airborne Assault Rules

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Land and Airborne Assault are a set of free wargames rules that cover warfare from 1950 to the present. From the website:

Land and Airborne Assault is published in PDF format, is printer friendly and suiteable for all micro armour scales.
Land and Airborne Assault rules cover warfare from 1950 to the present day.
They include Electronics, Engineering, Artillery and Aircraft support plus Special Forces
and RPVs. The 4th edition has improved CAP air to air combat rules.

Pre-Game rules allow you to carry out a reconnaissance, flanking attack, sabotage and assassinations.
The morale reactions reflect actions troops and units would take on the modern battlefield.
Some dice rolling normally associated with modern warfare rules have been simplified making it possible to played a large game in a afternoon or evening.

Data specific to these rules for AFV armour class’s, size and speed, ATGM speed, generation and size, Aircraft size and payload and Artillery ranges is supplied on this website in the data and information section.

A Recreation of Charles Sweet’s Ancients Rules

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“Gonsalvo,” who played with legendary gamer Charles Sweet, has attempted to recreate Sweet’s Ancients rules. A little background on Sweet from the blog post:

Charlie was one of the true Old Guard of our Miniature Wargaming hobby. He was one of the original fifty or so subscribers to Jack Scruby’s pioneering wargames magazine, Wargames Digest, first published in 1957. Charlie was a frequent contributor to the magazine, but never published any commercial rules sets. He holds an extremely important place in the history of our hobby none the less. In 1965, Sports Illustrated published an article “A Little War can be a lot of Fun”, covering the hobby and Charlie’s games with his brother. This was the first ever national exposure for the hobby, and was followed by additional coverage, including a spot on the television show, “Sixty Minutes”. Charlie brought our hobby out into the open (at least in the US), and made it both visible and respectable.

Making Sangars — Loose Rock Defensive Positions

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Here’a a new word for me: Sangars. It refers to defensive positions made from loose rock. And here’s a tutorial on making the sangars.