Papercraft Medieval Town Model

On Deviant Art, Madun Two Swords offers a selection of paper models of a medieval town.

Hidden Empires — Ant Colony Game

Hidden Empires has got a pretty unique theme:

Hidden Empires II is a game for 2 to 6 players where each player assumes the role of an ant colony. You will guide your colony as it attempts to grow and thrive in a hostile environment while competing for resources with neighboring colonies. Your colony will employ unique survival strategies based on those of real world ant species. To win the game, you must give your species the best chance of survival by producing more reproductive ants than your opponents.

Battle of the Boyne Documentary

This episode of Battlefield Britain focus on The Battle of the Boyne, fought in 1690 between the forces of the deposed King James II, and those of William III of England (Prince of Orange), who, with his wife Mary II (his cousin and James’s daughter), had acceded to the Crowns of England and Scotland in 1688. The battle took place across the River Boyne near the town of Drogheda on the east coast of Ireland, and resulted in a victory for William. This turned the tide in James’s failed attempt to regain the British crown and ultimately aided in ensuring the continued Protestant ascendancy in Ireland.

Colonial Skirmish Rules

The Tyneside Wargames Club offers their free wargames rules for Colonial skirmishes.

Bugged Galactic Conquest Game

Jeremy Claridge offers “Bugged” a free board game of galactic conquest. The author writes:

Welcome to Bugged! The hex based wargame of the extraterrestrial kind.

Bugged! Will let you engage in the conflict for territory that has plagued humankind ever since it took to the stars.

In Bugged! You can play one of the four main races that inhabit the galaxy in an attempt to wipe out any opposition. You could be anything from the mutant bugs with their limited intelligence but powerful weapons to the more resourceful but heavily outnumbered human marines.

So lets get you started on the road to Galactic Conquest…………………………….

To play Bugged! You will need some figures to represent your units, a hex marked playing surface and a dozen or so six sided dice.