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The Wargames Research Group (WRG) is a British publisher of rules and reference material for miniature wargaming.Founded in 1969 they were the premier publisher of tabletop rules during the seventies and eighties, publishing rules for periods ranging from ancient times to modern armoured warfare, and reference books which are still considered standard works for amateur researchers and wargamers.
Royal Armies of the Hyborian Age (Fantasy Games Unlimited, 1975) RUMBLESLAM - A game of Fantasy Wrestling (Fantasy Wrestling) (TTCombat, 2017) Runewars Miniatures Game (Fantasy Flight Games, 2017) Shieldbreaker (HoDstuff/Carnalithic Press, 2011) Skull Cleaver - Fantasy V 6 (Computer Moderated Miniature Wargame Rules) (Computer Strategies, 2007)
Alternative Armies - Scottish company; Archive Miniatures & Game Systems - Early producer of miniatures for role-playing games [1] Asgard Miniatures - Early British company based in Nottingham [2] Chronicle Figures - Early British company that produced role-playing game miniatures [3] Black Powder Red Earth - Produces Modern war game miniatures ...
A possible reason was the two World Wars, which de-glamorized war and caused shortages of tin and lead that made model soldiers expensive. [30] [31] Another reason may have been the lack of magazines or clubs dedicated to miniature wargames. Miniature wargaming was seen as a niche within the larger hobby of making and collecting model soldiers.
In the 1st Edition rulebook, basic army lists were provided for the mid-war period (1942–1943), while Battlefront published early (1939–1941) and late war (1944–1945) army lists on their website (subsequently these early and late war lists were removed). The 2nd Edition of the rulebook was published in 2006.
One of the oldest and most popular miniatures game genres is that of war games, where figures are arranged into competing "armies", with figures that represent ranks of troops or individual combatants. Naval wargaming is a variation of play where figures represents ships and do battle on the seas.
CF uses an abstract figure scale - a basic infantry stand (usually holding three figures) represents a squad of about 10 infantrymen while 2-3 heavy infantry weapons are represented by a single model; it is also playable on a 1/1 figure scale, though this is unsupported by the official rules and only a minority of gamers seem to prefer this.
Hordes is a 30mm tabletop miniature wargame produced by Privateer Press, announced at Gen Con 2005 and released on April 22, 2006. Although a completely standalone game in its own right, Hordes was designed as a companion to Warmachine, Privateer Press' flagship miniatures game.