Friday’s Wargaming Babes: Yvonne Craig As Batgirl

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For Frigga’s Day: Yvonne Craig as Batgirl. Lots of us had a crush on her back in the day.

Pulp Fiction – The Pulp Era Wargame

Pulp Fiction is a set of rules for playing adventure miniature wargames in the 1920s and 1930s.

The authors write:

Pulp Fiction is a basic game system which was designed for quick and easy miniature wargaming in a 20’s 30’s setting. These rules allow players to fight small semi-RPG skirmishes with small groups of heroes in low intensity battles, primarily against other players (or solo) who control mobsters, world dominating megalomaniacs, Dinosaurs, King Kong, and far… far worse.

These battles are designed to play on a model battlefield environment using 28mm miniatures. Movement and firing distances are measured using a 1” move increments. These rules require the use of up to four 6-sided dice. A battlefield usually consists of 3D terrain pieces. These represent barriers such as walls, buildings, vehicles, roads, bridges, trees, etc, etc. All this can all be made from scratch with relative ease by even the most frugal modeller… or are commercially available from a whole host of shops and on line resources.

Seven Samurai Skirmish

Seven Samurai Skirmish is a set of free wargames rules for battles in the spirit of the classic Kurosawa movieĀ Seven Samurai.

NATO Brigade Commander Rules

Tim Gow offers a set of free wargames rules called “NATO Brigade Commander”. The ground scale is 1 hex=1 km and a stand is a company.

Bloody Mary – Further Intrigue In The Tudor Court

Bloody Mary is the title of Gary Stevens’ free downloadable board game of intrigue in the Tudor Court. Stevens writes:

In this game you get to relive the politics of middle Tudor England as you strive to secure your candidate for the Throne… and keep your own head.

The game starts at the coronation of Henry VIII’s son Edward. It follows the history of mid-Tudor England for a further 25 years. You must plot to place your favoured candidate on the throne. You play the part of a faction of courtiers trying to preserve your power and influence. The game is solidly based in history (well, as solidly as I can make it). It is meant to be educational as well as entertaining.