The Miniature Wargaming Editor

Armies of the Second World War Database

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Here’s one for Flames of War players who may want to pay closer attention to historical accuracy. Bill Stone offers a database of armies of World War II:

Armies of the Second World War” is an online database of day-by-day orders of battle and information about hundreds of division, brigade, and regiment-sized units in World War II. Information currently available in the database covers Commonwealth, Dominion, Colonial, Exile, and “Minor” Allied armies in Europe, Africa, and western Asia from 1 September 1939 through 7 May 1945.

Blacklining Tutorial

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Jenova offers a page with a tutorial on using the blackline painting technique on your miniatures.

Wargames Set In Lebanon

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Given the recent unpleasantness in the Levant, it might be interesting to game a battle between the IDF and Hezbo terrorists — err, militia. Andrew Thompson has a page on gaming battles in Lebanon, including a painting guide, some VERY nice photos and a simple set of rules for playing the conflict.

It would be interesting to know readers’ reaction to this page. While wargamers have no compunction about gaming wars, a good many seem to draw the line at the more modern stuff … too close to home … too recent. Others, however, think that this is the most interesting thing to do, precisely because it is so immediate.

Turning Pringles Cans Into Storage Containers

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I don’t like Pringles chips. As far as I am concerned, they taste like cardboard. But the cans are massively useful for miniature wargaming purposes. Here’s a link to s a site that tells you how to turn those tubes into storage containers for your miniature wargaming terrain.

Blasted Planets Science Fiction Skirmish Rules

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Blasted Planets is Lance Runolfsson’s set of free science fiction skirmish rules to support his line of miniatures. Lance writes:

Blasted Planets Skirmish, is basically a set of house rules a few friends and I use to play games with my Sci-Fi figures. I am not trying to model a “Hard” Sci-Fi environment here. I’m borrowing as much from Horror and Fantasy as I am from Sci-Fi. I mean how serious can you be. When you have, Dog headed, Gator men chasing an Elephant guy around an Omni Field generating White rabbit? There is enough “real” world framework here that basic tactics work (most of the time). But enough of a fantastical element that you really can’t count on the idea that the Fin headed alien with the pin gun is going to nail the cave man with the rock every time.