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Useful sites for hexagon-based gaming
by Adrian Hussey
If you read my "I'll put a hex on you..." article in Issue 6 and find the idea of hex-based wargames interesting, there are a wealth of internet sites offering useful information. Here's a small selection, including (hopefully!) all those that I mentioned in the article.
Hexagonal Terrain Systems and accessories
| Company | Products | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Hotz Artworks | Felt game mats | www.hotzmats.com/ |
| Kallistra | Hexon? terrain system | www.kallistra.com/ |
| GHQ | Terrain Maker® terrain system | www.ghqmodels.com/store/ military-models-terrain-maker.html |
| Total System Scenic | Hex300 terrain system | www.totalsystemscenic.com/ default.asp |
| Pictors Studio | Hexagonal bases | www.pictorsstudio.com |
| Litko Aerosystems | Hexagonal spraypaint templates Hexagonal bases | www.litkoaero.com |
| Warbirds in Miniature | Hex mats for WW2 aerial combat | http://warbirdsinminiature.com/ |
| Rules | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| NORTH against SOUTH (ACW) Renaissance Raiders (Border Reivers) Scum of the High Seas (Pirate) Afriboria (Colonial) Lords & Levies (Medieval Grognards & Grenadiers (Napoleonic) | Free card-driven hex-based rules, produced by the Tin Soldiers of Antwerp club | www.tsoa.be/html/fuseliers.html |
| Hordes & Heroes | Free fast play, generic Fantasy wargames rules | www.kallistra.com/ |
| Legion | Roman & Punic army-level warfare game from the Society of Ancients | www.soa.org.uk |
| Champs de Bataille | Fan site for Vae Victis' adaptation of DBM to a hex-based board game Note: The site is in French, but has a link to download the English version of the rules (free). | champsdebataille.strategikon.net/ index.html |
| Canvas Eagles | Free WW1 aerial combat rules. (A development of the famous Blue Max game.) | www.generalissue.com/canvas.html |
| Aerodrome | Another set of WW1 aerial combat rules (and the one I play - huge fun it is too!) | www.aerodrome-ww1aircombat.com/ |
| WW II Aerial Combat | Free fast and Easy Rules by Mic McGoldrick and Bill Molyneaux, aimed at youngsters | www.juniorgeneral.org/air/ ww2fast.html |
| Warbirds in Miniature | Rules for WW2 aerial combat | warbirdsinminiature.com/ |
| Hex Command: Ancients Hex Command: Gunpowder (H&M) Hex Command: Mechanized (WW2) | Free rules from Imagine Image Multimedia, "designed to shorten the time it takes to play a war game with historic miniatures" | www.imagineimage.org/Rules.htm |
Tape-based rules
| Game | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| General de Brigade | Tactical-level, "big-battalion" Napoleonic rules at 1:20 scale. Units are battalions, regiments and batteries | http://generaldebrigade.blogspot.com/ |
| DBA | The De Bellis Antiquitatis (DBA) Resource Page - or "Fanaticus" as it's more commonly known | www.fanaticus.org/DBA/ |
| Poor Bloody Infantry (PBI) | Peter Pig's rules for WW2 company-level combat | www.peterpig.co.uk/pbi_explanation.htm |
| Grande Armee | Grand-tactical Napoleonic rules A simplified, fast-play set is also available free from the site. | www.sammustafa.com/gaintro.html |
| Volley & Bayonet | Grand-tactical rules for the period 1700 to 189 | http://home.paradise.net.nz/mcnelly/vnb.htm |
| Days of Knights (Medieval) Age of Gunpowder (Renaissance) Chrysanthemum Throne (Samurai) Le Petit Empereur (Napoleonic) Fantasy Rules! (Fantasy) | Chipco's series of fast-play rules. | www.sabersedge.com/chipco/ |
| Basic Impetus | Free ancients, medieval and renaissance rule-set from the publishers of the Italian "Dadi&Piombo" magazine | www.dadiepiombo.com/basic2.html |
| Vis Bellica | Ancients, Medieval and Renaissance rule-set | www.visbellica.com/ |
Board Games
| Game/Site | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Ancients | (Free) A low-complexity tactical combat system, which allows players to recreate virtually any battle from the ancient (pre-gunpowder) world. Each game can usually be completed in under an hour. | www.relativerange.com/ancients/ |
| Blitzkrieg 1940 | Vae Victis 63's game of the 1940 battles of Hannut and Stonne. An English translation of the rules is available from this link. | www.grognard.com/titleb.html#vv63 |
| Web-Grognards | Huge collection of (mostly but not entirely) board wargame information, including rules errata and variants, game reviews and links to relevant web sites. | www.grognard.com |
| Vae Victis | French magazine, carries a board wargame in every issue. English translations of the rules for many of the games are available at the Web-Grognards site. | www.vaevictis.com/ |
| Ogre | Steve Jackson's classic game of late 21st century combat, featuring hovercraft, tanks, infantry, tactical nukes, and the giant cybernetic "ogre" tanks. If you've ever played it, you remember it as a classic. If you haven't... | www.sjgames.com/ogre/ |
| Rules | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Battle Cry | The first game in Richard Borg's "Commands & Colors" system, covering the battles of the American Civil War. | www.thewargamer.com/battlecry/ and www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=ah/prod/battlecry |
| Memoir `44 | The second game in Richard Borg's "Commands & Colors" system, this time covering WW2. | www.memoir44.com/ |
| Commands & Colors Ancients | And the third in the series, this time moving back to the battles of the ancient world. | www.gmtgames.com/cca/main.html and www.thewargamer.com/ccancients/ |
| Axis & Allies Miniatures | Squad-level WW2 combat | www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=ah/aa/welcome |
Miscellaneous
| Site | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Dan Becker's GHQ Terrain for Commands and Colors Ancients | A wonderful conversion of the board game using GHQ Terrain Maker tiles and Baccus 6mm figures. | www.io.com/~beckerdo/minis/miniterrain/ GHQBoardPreview/index.html |
| 1812 NAPOLEÓN EN RUSIA (in Spanish) | An 1812 campaign refight by the "Club de simulacion historica de Cartagena". Lots of photos of games using Hexon terrain. | www.infotec.cc/proxidao/1812.htm |
