The Wargaming Compendium

The Wargaming Compendium
Title The Wargaming Compendium PDF eBook
Author Henry Hyde
Publisher Casemate Publishers
Pages 573
Release 2013-08-19
Genre Games & Activities
ISBN 1783830697

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An extensive reference guide to the exciting hobby, for beginners as well as longtime players. Wargaming is a fascinating, engrossing, and exciting pastime that encompasses a wide range of different talents. The average wargamer uses the skills of artist, designer, sculptor, illustrator, historian, librarian, researcher, mathematician, and creative writer, as well as the more obvious ones of general, admiral, or air marshal for large games, or perhaps lieutenant, commodore, or squadron leader for skirmishes. Aside from calling upon many skills, wargaming also covers many aspects of combat, spanning the history of Earth. With science fiction gaming, we plunge into imagined worlds many thousands of years into the future, and a fantasy gamer, of course, deals with eons of imagined history, as anyone who has read The Lord of the Rings will know. A wargamer may find themselves recreating an encounter between a handful of adversaries one day, or a massed battle involving perhaps hundreds of miniature troops the next. Moreover, it is possible to play wargames that recreate warfare on land, on sea, in the air, or even in outer space. This book demonstrates the wonderfully varied hobby of wargaming with miniatures, looking at the broad scope of what it has to offer as well as detailed explanations of how to get involved, including comprehensive rules for gladiator combat, Wild West skirmishes, and the horse and musket era, as well as lots of advice for anyone new to wargaming. Whether you’re a complete newcomer to the hobby, or a veteran of many years, you’ll find plenty in The Wargaming Compendium to entertain and inspire you.

Foundry Miniatures Compendium

Foundry Miniatures Compendium
Title Foundry Miniatures Compendium PDF eBook
Author Gary Chalk
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2008
Genre Military miniatures
ISBN 9781901543162

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This book is packed with rules, painting advice and ideas for making great-looking terrain. It will appeal to anyone interested in playing games such as exploration in Darkest Africa, fighting for survival and glory in Rome's gladiatorial arenas and plundering the West African coast with your band of cutthroat pirates. Over the past twenty years or so, Foundry has published many articles on different subjects in many different magazines, some of which you may have seen but most of which I am sure you haven't. Our guest Editor, Paul Sawyer, has sifted through those articles and has pulled a selection of them together in a nicely balanced book, themed to concentrate on Pirates and Darkest Africa, but covering other historical periods too; Aztecs, Gladiators, Greeks and Romans. So, if you want some simple fun rules to play, some ideas on terrain making and painting then this book is for you. Enjoy.

The Rules with No Name

The Rules with No Name
Title The Rules with No Name PDF eBook
Author Bryan Ansell
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2009-01-27
Genre Cowboys
ISBN 9781901543179

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It's been quite a few years now since Bryan Ansell first put pen to paper to produce the initial draft of The Rules With No Name: these rules have been playtested, developed and enjoyed many, many times since then and it is a travesty that they have not been seen on bookshelves until now. Very little editing to the original text was required, but I have added a painting and terrain guide for completeness and sincerely hope that Bryan likes the way his rules have been laid out and presented. Here's what Bryan originally wrote in his introduction to the playtest version of these rules all those years ago: These are intended primarily as a straightforward, simple set of Western gunfight rules, suitable for a quick, cheerful game, possibly involving a large number of participants. However, we wanted to include a degree of tactical skill, involvement with the rule system and an element of tension and surprise. We hope that we have succeeded in doing so without making the game at all puzzling or complicated. Consumption of alcoholic beverage and high-carbohydrate snacks and the playing of these rules are not necessarily mutually exclusive. We have tried not to introduce a lot of fussy rules to cover every eventuality, so if you are playing with large groups of strangers, you might like to use a gamesmaster; a god-like figure whose word is law. Fortunately, even the most competitive gamers don't come to a Western gunfight looking for an argument, so the way should be clear for a good time to be had by all. However, for those of you who prefer a more sophisticated game, especially if you intend to run a campaign, with the extra level of detail and involvement that familiarity permits, there is a selection of optional rules for you to mix and match according to your tastes. Set in the time of the American Old West where life was cheap and survival was the order of the day, these rules are written in a very conversational style that are a joy to read as well as play, and there are many suggestions by Bryan as to how the players can choose to extend and adapt the rules to suit their own levels of skill and/or to simply increase their sense of enjoyment. In this fast paced game all facets of life and the characters in the Old West as depicted in those many Hollywood and Italian 'Cowboy' films are covered; from the hardened gunslinger and town drunk to the law abiding owner of the General Store; all have to hone and develop their particular skills over the course of the game... or end up having that eternal slug of whisky in the saloon in the sky! So, get out those toy soldiers, strap on that six gun and get yourself a whole lot of pleasure by having a game with friends using these action-packed and fun- filled rules.

Fourteenth Census of the United States: State Compendium: New Jersey

Fourteenth Census of the United States: State Compendium: New Jersey
Title Fourteenth Census of the United States: State Compendium: New Jersey PDF eBook
Author United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher
Pages 162
Release 1925
Genre New Jersey
ISBN

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Fourteenth Census of the United States. State Compendium. Massachusetts

Fourteenth Census of the United States. State Compendium. Massachusetts
Title Fourteenth Census of the United States. State Compendium. Massachusetts PDF eBook
Author United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher
Pages 184
Release 1924
Genre Massachusetts
ISBN

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Fourteenth Census of the United States: State Compendium

Fourteenth Census of the United States: State Compendium
Title Fourteenth Census of the United States: State Compendium PDF eBook
Author United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher
Pages 200
Release 1924
Genre Kentucky
ISBN

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Fourteenth Census of the United States. State Compendium. New York

Fourteenth Census of the United States. State Compendium. New York
Title Fourteenth Census of the United States. State Compendium. New York PDF eBook
Author United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher
Pages 276
Release 1924
Genre New York (State)
ISBN

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