Strage Grogge is a set of free wargames rules for playing Black Powder fantasy games.
Deathball Pit Fighting Rules
Heresy Miniatures offers a set of free miniatures rules called Deathball. There’s also an arena for you to download.
In Deathball, the authors write:
The team’s objectives tend to revolve around the placing of heads and the inflated organs of sacrificial victims into stone goals or onto mighty altars, while at the same time killing and maiming as many of the opposing dark lord’s fighters as possible. In Deathball, deaths are frequent and spectacular: the ‘ball is always the secondary consideration. It is the roar of the crowd, that greets the players with howls of lust and fury as gold changes hands; the laughter of the Dark Lords as another creature is slaughtered; the thrill and relief of surviving; this is what Deathball really is!
Beautiful Watercolors Illustrate Tolkien’s Silmarillion
Evan Palmer has created a series of beautiful watercolors illustrating Tolkien’s Silmarillion.
Painting a World War II Marine
The Pacific Theatre in World War II is a relatively neglected period in miniature wargaming. I think that it has a lot to do with the lack of sexy things like tanks and SS uniforms. But it shouldn’t be that way. It has a lot of colorful troop types (think Ghurkas), and the matchless US Marine Corps.