RPG Diehard: Introducing 5 new players to Song of Blades & Heroes

""Normally introducing just one or two new players to miniatures gaming is a weighty task — there's the rules overview, the introduction of the miniatures and the explanation of the stats, plus turn-by-turn questions about various situational stuff..."

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RPG Diehard: Play report: Song of Blades & Heroes

"I downloaded Ganesha Games' Song of Blades & Heroes last month with much anticipation. Here, I thought, was the miniatures game I was looking for: fast, rules-lite and beholden to no particular manufacturer of miniatures. I could paw through my miniatures collection, scrape together a motley handful and create a warband in 10 minutes flat.

All these expectation were exceeded in my first game..."

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RPG Diehard: Play report: Song of Blades & Heroes

Winter of '79

For Twilight:2000 fans this might be of interest:

Winter of '79

Cold War: 1983

ColdWar: 1983 is a set of skirmish rules written by Matthew Hartley , Michael Baumann and Steve Blease, primarily designed for section and platoon level battles between NATO and Warsaw Pact troops using 28mm scale miniatures, though any scale from 15mm to 36mm can be used, and the rules themselves recreate pretty much any historical skirmish action of the last fifty odd years, as well as post apocalyptic scenarios.

Cold War: 1983

ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES: WARGAMES

For all the talk about the origins of role-playing little time is spent on the actual catalyst-the wargame.

Most people tend to envision large amounts of space time and money building up armies to battle. But wargaming is scalable in either direction.

So for someone who would like a taste I offer the following:

Battle For Moscow
http://grognard.com/bfm/index.html

This is a great little free game to try out.

The intro is brief and informative
http://grognard.com/bfm/intro.html

And if you find the basic game to your liking they have included extra rules you can print for a longer game.