Here’s an online gallery with some very good images of pirates, and related documents and maps. I know that the pirate gaming craze has largely subsided, but its one of htose things that I’ve always wanted to to.
Fallout Skirmish Game
Fallout Skirmish is a set of free wargames rules for skirmishes in the Fallout Computer Game universe. The rules are heavily influenced by Necromunda.
Arnold’s Finest Hour Rules
Arnold’s Finest Hour is a set of free wargames rules for the American Revolution Battle of Saratoga from the prolific Junior General.
Kiev’s Museum of Micro Miniatures
Within the walls of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, the Kiev Monastary of the Caves is the Museum of Microminiatures, a collection of models that are so small and so detailed that they defy belief. For example, there is the rose inside a hair, shown above:
“The hair is drilled lengthwise and polished outside and inside until being transparent. An artificial rose twig is inserted into the bore. The flower diameter is 0.05 millimeters, the stem is 0.005 millimeters thick.”
Column, Line and Square Napoleonics Rules
Column, Line and Square was the first set of Napoleonics rules that I ever played — and I suspect, the first set that many people played. We called it Column, Line and Slaughter, though, becuase slaughter was the usual result.
Still, it was fun to play –especially with 25mm figures.
Sadly, the set is apparently no longer in print. But you can get the rules here, free for the downloading.