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War Games Rules 3000 B.C - 1250 A.D (Wargames Research Group, 1976) War Games Rules 3000 BC to 1485 AD (Wargames Research Group, 1980) [1] Warhammer Ancient Battles (Warhammer Historical Wargames, 1998) [1] Warheads: Medieval Tales (Urban Mammoth, 2010) Warlord II (Partizan Press, 2008) Warmaster Ancients (Warhammer Historical Wargames, 2005) [1]
Most miniature wargames do not have a fixed time scale (i.e. how many seconds a turn represents). Most wargame rulebooks instead prefer to define how far a unit can move in a turn, and this movement range is proportioned to the size of a typical game table. For example, Bolt Action sets a movement range of six inches in a turn for most units.
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.
This is a list of companies that have produced miniature models for tabletop games. 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]
N scale is a popular model railway scale in this range. [9] 15 mm: ≈2.7 mm: ≈1:120 –1:100: The most popular scale used for wargames set in the modern era, such as Flames of War or Axis & Allies Miniatures. Also widely used in ancient-era wargaming, such as De Bellis Multitudinis, De Bellis Antiquitatis, and Fields of Glory. Seldom used ...
Warmachine is a tabletop steampunk [1] wargame originally produced by Privateer Press but currently under the ownership of Steamforged Games. The game is played with white metal , plastic, and resin miniatures representing military characters from the Iron Kingdoms setting.
The most successful card wargame (as a card game and as a wargame) would almost certainly be Up Front, a card game about tactical combat in World War II published by Avalon Hill in 1983. The abstractness is harnessed in the game by having the deck produce random terrain, and chances to fire, and the like, simulating uncertainty as to the local ...
Tabletop games refers to card games (including collectible card games), board games, miniatures wargames, tile-based games and other games that are normally played on a table or other flat surface. The term is used to distinguish these types of games from sports and video games .