Free From TOR: John Scalzi’s The Collapsing Empire ebook

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Tor.Com is offering a free download of John Scalzi’s The Collapsing Empire. The book was the winner of the 2018 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and a 2018 Hugo Award finalist.

From the publisher’s website:

Riding The Flow, the only way to travel faster-than-light, humanity spreads to innumerable other worlds. Earth is forgotten. A new empire arises, the Interdependency, based on the doctrine that no one human outpost can survive without the others. It’s a hedge against interstellar war—and, for the empire’s rulers, a system of control.


The Flow is eternal—but it’s not static. Just as a river changes course, The Flow changes as well. In rare cases, entire worlds have been cut off from the rest of humanity. When it’s discovered that the entire Flow is moving, possibly separating all human worlds from one another forever, three individuals—a scientist, a starship captain, and the emperox of the Interdependency—must race against time to discover what, if anything, can be salvaged from an interstellar empire on the brink of collapse.

Gloranthan Armies Photo Pages

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Glorantha is a classic fantasy world created by Greg Stafford that is featured in role-playing games like RuneQuest and HeroQuest.

Greg Privat has created a website with pictures of wargames miniatures painted to represent various armies from the Gloranthan setting. Many of the models are conversions from ancients ranges, particularly Foundry and Gripping Beast; others are rare and obscure models, conversions and scratchbuilds.

A l’Ombre des Aigles Napoleonic Miniatures Rules

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Dan Brown offers A l’Ombe des Aigles, a set of free miniatures wargaming rules for Napoleonics miniatures.

Warhammer 40K Squat Codex

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I stopped buying Warhammer 40K stuff when they dropped the squats as a major race. In my basement workshop, I’ve got a horde of the stunties, in regular battle gear, on trikes, in exo-armor … you name it. You can find an online squat codex in the War Vault.

The Natives Are Restless Tonight

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Matakishi has written The Natives Are Restless Tonight, a set of free wargaming siege rules for any game involving a large band of natives, and a small, but stalwart group of westerners. They would work for any game in the colonial era, including the Zulu War, Boxer Rebellion, Foreign Legion, North West Frontier and Indian Mutiny.

The rules use a card activation system, and involve rolling handfulls d6s. Casualties are determined by summing the attack dice and removing a figure for every multiple of 6, 9 or 12, depending upon the defensive situation.