Painting Faces

This is a nice tutorial on painting faces on your miniatures. It’s probably over-the-top for painting armies, but for character pieces …

Modeling Shrubs

The Mordheim in Montana blog has an illustrated article on making bushes and shrubs for your 25mm wargames.

Blood of Kings Print And Play Board Game

Blood of Kings is a print and play board game about building kingdoms in medieval Europe. The game got my attention with its action cards mechanism, where each turn players select one type of action  (development, raising troops, taxation, etc.) from those cards still left in their hands. In this way, it seems similar to what is probably my favorite Euro game, Concordia.

The Galleon and The Flame

Trevor Brabyn has posted The Galleon and The Flame, a Sword and The Flame variant for land and naval battles in the age of Drake and Hawkins.

This is just more evidence to support my contention that — if miniature wargaming has a standard — it’s Larry Brom’s The Sword and The Flame. There are more variants of this rules set than I can count.