Snapshot Modern Submarine Rules

Snapshot is a set of free wargames rules for playing modern submarine games using 1/700 ships.

WW1 Air Combat Rules

Don offers an updated version of his air combat rules, which he now calls Aerial Craps.

WWI Fantasy Rules

Orks and Dwarves in a WWI setting? Sure. Here’s a set of fantasy WWI Rules.

Omni Magazine Online

Anyone remember Omni magazine? I was a charter subscriber back in the 1978. It was a neat mix of science fiction and science fact. It also — as I remember — had some neat artwork. I don’t remember much more, but according to Wikipedia, “in its early run, OMNI published a number of stories that have become genre classics, such as Orson Scott Card’s “Unaccompanied Sonata”, William Gibson’s “Burning Chrome” and “Johnny Mnemonic”, Harlan Ellison’s novella “Mefisto in Onyx”, and George R. R. Martin’s “Sandkings”. The magazine also published original sf/f by William S. Burroughs, Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Carroll, T. Coraghessan Boyle, and other mainstream writers. The magazine excerpted Stephen King’s novel Firestarter, and featured a short story, “The End of the Whole Mess”. OMNI also brought the works of numerous painters to the attention of a large audience, such as H. R. Giger, De Es Schwertberger and RallĂ©. In the early 1980s, popular fiction stories from OMNI were reprinted in “The Best of OMNI Science Fiction” series and featured art by space artists like Robert McCall.”

The magazine now is available for free online at the Internet Archives.

The Portable Wargame: Modern Rules

The Portable Wargame is a sort of mini-movement in the community: a series of user created rules for games based on checkers boards. They all look interesting and fun. Here are the rules for the modern version.