The Miniature Wargaming Editor Archipelago of Gold is a set of free wargames rules for use with the constructable, collectable Pirates of the Spanish Main ships from WizKids. From the BGG description:
These rules use the Pirates of the Spanish Main and a hex map to allow you to explore wild islands for gold, build large fleets, settlements, cities, forts, and train your crews to become superior gun crews. Get more gold back to your settlement, and you can build more than your opponents.
Clockpunk is like Steampunk — except it’s set in the Renaissance. The science fiction sub-genre is set in a Renaissance where technology that was invented many years later comes into play. Here’s a new blog called DaVinci Automata dedicated to the genre. Plenty of ideas here — especially if you already (as many of us do) own Renaissance era figures.
I remember playing a game at a Chicago convention some years ago called DaVinci something-or-other that involved a large number of Leonardo DaVinci’s war engines. It was a lot of fun.
Here’s a video on how to model cargo containers.
Tigers On The Prowl was HPS’ 1996 computer game of WWII Eastern Front combat. A classic hex and counter game, it is available in an MS-DOS emulator on the Internet Archive.
Necropolis is described as a:
Necropolis is a home-grown horror skirmish miniatures game that pits a small group of desperate heroes against a variety of horror enemies from zombies to vampires, werewolves, serial killers and anything else a fevered mind can come up with
