Just updated the Ground Zero Games/Dirtside II/Stargrunt II/Full Thrust Links page, which has, like some of the other resources on this site, needed updating since the early 2000s. I’ve killled off a bunch of dead links, replaced other URLs, left a few favourites with plantive notes for assistance in finding up-to-date URLs, and finally added a note to contact us if you have suggestions for new or replacement links!
Category Archives: Links
Posts with mostly link lists related to wargaming.
ECW Painting, Other Randomness for 28 May 2011
An entire week since my last substantial post! The horror, how will our dedicated readership cope?
I’ve been painting up an English Civil War/Thirty Years War storm this week, filling that inevitable post-Lead Painters League void with 40-odd plastic pike-and-shotte foot and a dozen horse. You all saw 5 of the horse in one of my LPL entries, of course, the rest are taking shape nicely and all of the foot now have most of their basic paint on them. Sunday the 29th we’re running a 1000pt Field of Glory: Renaissance big battle, and I’m breaking one of my long-standing rules by fielding figures that aren’t even anywhere near finished just to get something on the table. At least they’re not straight-up Primered Legions — there are depths to which I will not stoop.
No pictures of my WiP paintjobs, but I’ll take the camera to tomorrow’s big game and try to get some reasonable shots to share here.
The Lead Adventure Forum is, of course, one of the greatest collections of creative wargaming minds I’m aware of. A random sampling of current coolness there that should be more widely known: Chicken Race on the Arumbaya, in which the estimable Hammers plans a pulpish steamboat race with a South American feel and some great-looking boats. Also, Boggler’s converted Improvised Back-of-Beyond Armoured Truck, very nice conversions of diecast toy trucks.
Elsewhere on the web (elseweb?) An Evil Giraffe has done his own versions of my riverbank pieces, and very nice they are too. He used broken cork sheet for his banks, so it has more texture (but also more height) than mine.
Finally, also via LAF but worthy of being mentioned on it’s own, Sarissa Precision have started selling a very, very nice looking line of 28mm laser-cut and -etched urban buildings that are perfect for pulp! Information here on the Sarissa site, and on sale here in their online store. I can’t wait to have some spare money to throw Sarissa’s way, the buildings are a good size (6″x4″ or 8″x6″ footprints and stackable for extra floors) and a fair price with enough detail to be interesting but not too fussy that they’re impractical. Hopefully at some point they offer their windows, doors and other details seperately, or even just the building fronts for those of us comfortable cutting our own side and rear walls.
Photos tomorrow or Monday of the ECW/TYW big-game madness, I promise!
Zeppelins. We like Zeppelins.
There’s zeppelin on the curent banner for this site, and we’re notorious pulp gamers, so it should come as no surprise that zeppelins are amongst our favourite things here on The Warbard. Sure, they’re often explosive, prone to crashing in a stiff wind and all the rest, but let’s face it, zeppelins are just cool.
In A World More Pulpish (which is a much cooler place than reality) there’d be zeppelins everywhere. One glimpse of how A World More Pulpish might have looked, with zepps overhead, is found in this Feb. 2010 post over on Propnomicon, Zeppelin Goldmine.
Continue reading Zeppelins. We like Zeppelins.
Another Review of .45 Adventures 2nd Edition
Another review of .45 Adventures 2nd Edition has come out, this one in The Ancible #9, a free-to-download PDF magazine.
I hadn’t actually grabbed a copy of The Ancible before, I have to admit. It started as a “real” paper magazine, I’m pretty sure, and when it switched to free PDFs I missed the memo! It bills itself as “a full colour digital magazine that specilises in the field of Science Fiction and fantasy wargaming” and it delivers — besides the 45A2e review in this edition there’s a long review & painting article on some giant Warmachine war wagon, a review of the new Battletech box set, another review of Heavy Gear: Arena, some interviews (great conversions in the interview with the Frenchwoman!) and a lot of advertising for all sorts of conventions, companies and such. Well worth checking out, I shall have to start grabbing the back issues and seeing what I missed.
The 45A2e review is longer than mine, with a nice introduction to the pulp gaming genre and more detail on specific game mechanics and such than mine. Go check it out, and the rest of The Ancible. Well worth it.
Links: General & Personal Wargaming
General & Personal Games Sites:
Update, 22 May 2011: Work has started on weeding this list. Don’t expect fast progress, but at least it’s something. This time, I went through and tagged all the Geocities URLs as Dead Links. Actual link fixing will be happening as and when I get to it – feel free to contact us if you have suggested links or want to report a new URL for a site!
Because this section has gotten so large, I’m working on some ways of reorganizing it. I don’t want to go to an alphabetical listing, and many of these sites cover a lot of different areas of the wargaming hobby, so I’m going to start organizing by “Mostly…” categories, using the (in my opinion) most prominent, interesting or best area of a site to figure out where it goes. Eg “Mostly Painting”, “Mostly Galleries”, etc etc. I’m still going to wind up with a large list of unclassified sites, but at least a rough subject sort will be possible… I’m always looking for feedback.
So far, I’ve got The Essential Wargaming Sites, General Wargaming Sites, Mostly Painting, Mostly Paper Models, Mostly Scenery & Terrain and Mostly Links.
Links: Commercial Miniatures & Terrain
INDEX: Miniatures & Rules Companies. Scenery & Misc. Companies.
Miniatures & Rules Companies:
(in alphabetical order)
Continue reading Links: Commercial Miniatures & Terrain
Links: Pulp Wargaming
Some links of interest to pulp wargamers. An ongoing project; I’ll bump it back to the top of the posts when it gets updated and expanded!
Continue reading Links: Pulp Wargaming
Links: Ground Zero Games
The collected links from the old-format site for Dirtside II, Stargrunt II and Full Thrust, all from Ground Zero Games.
In need of weeding and there’s probably some duplicates! Updated 9 June 2011. If you have updated or new links to suggest, please contact us!
Dirtside 2 & General GZG Links
- Ground Zero Games Online Store
- GZG-L Mailing List Archive.
- FTJava is a Play-by-email (PBeM) client for playing Full Thrust. A lot of fun, but rather neglected the last few years.
- GZG Pedia Project Homepage – central location for ‘pedia and other projects to flesh out and add to the GZG background.
- Germ Warfare is an entertainingly different wargames site, with DS2 information & very cool 6mm paper buildings to download.
- Andy Cowell’s Dirtside II website.
- John Atkinson’s Nea Rhomaioi Empire pages – force compositions & vehicles for his own addition to the background of DS2/SG2/FT.
- Tablegamer does various GZG-related posts; most recently 15mm stuff for SG2.
- Yves’ Gaming Resources has a downloadable DS2 chit-drawer for your PC.
- Jerry Han’s Starship Jockey FT Site.
- Etranger: The Militaries of 2300AD has dozens of descriptions and TO&Es of futuristic militaries. Designed for the 2300AD universe, but full of useful information for any SF gamer.
- Full Thrust.net, including the former FT Computer Core lots of interesting FT & GZG stuff.
- Nyrath the Nearly Wise (and Entirely Indispensible) does the 3-d Starmaps for the GZG universe. Also a very cool site generally.
- MapSymbs — TrueType NATO military symbols & other military fonts. Very useful!
Stargrunt II
- Stargrunt.ca is the best SG2 website going. Lots of information, photos and other stuff, and still growing!
- Alan Goodall’s HyperBear SG2 Pages has SG2 scenarios and photos, and the Bugs Don’t Surf Phalon Rules (beta release).
- Laserlight’s has a variety of SG2 information, including TO&Es, and a nice layout.
- Germ Warfare is an entertainingly different wargames site, with DS2 information & very cool 6mm & 25mm paper buildings to download.
- The Firing Line is Brendan Robertson’s FT/SG2 site, with some information on the OUDF (Australia/NZ/South Pacific islands in the GZGverse.)
- John Atkinson’s Nea Rhomaioi Empire pages – force compositions & vehicles for his own addition to the background of DS2/SG2/FT.
- Stargrunt 40k has a conversion scheme for using GW 40k forces in SGII.
- Agis Neugebauer has amazing galleries of his own miniature painting, including FT ships.
- Etranger: The Militaries of 2300AD has dozens of descriptions and TO&Es of futuristic militaries. Designed for the 2300AD universe, but full of useful information for any SF gamer.
- World Rank Insignia – just in case you want to go completely insane and paint rank badges on your 25mm or 15mm figures! Actually, this is an extremely well done site.
Full Thrust Links:
- StarRanger – Starship Combat News — an excellent site for all sorts of space games, both miniatures and boardgames.
- FullThrust.net — still one of the best FT pages out there. Home of the FT FAQ.
- Starship Jockey is Jerry Han’s excellent FT site.
- PowerProjection.net is the homepage of the Traveller Power Projection group, who are using FT as the basis for a new Traveller-universe starship game. PP: Escort & PP: Fleet are both out now.
- BITS UK Ltd (British Isles Traveller Support) are the publishers of Power Projection.
- The GZGPedia is a player-driven project to flesh out the GZG universe.
- The Unofficial Full Thrust WWWpage is Mark Siefert’s excellent & long-running FT site, with lots of resources & links available.
- Beware the Beast of Aaarrggghh is Beth Fulton’s very nice gaming site – great FT starship pictures in her gallery. (Currently offline. Got a link?)
- The Firing Line is Brendan Robertson’s FT/SG2 site, with some information on the OUDF (Australia/NZ/South Pacific islands in the GZGverse.)
- NIFT – Noam Izenberg’s Full Thrust contains the FT Weapons & Defences Archive, and his New Isreali background, among other great resources.
- Germ Warfare is an entertainingly different wargames site, with FT and DS2 information & house rules.
- Laserlight’s Homepage has some ship designs, homebrew background information, and other stuff, with a nice looking layout.
- Roger West’s GZG Pages has some FTFB ship designs, house rules, and a good links list.
- Spinward Stars has FT fonts and play-aid graphics available.
- Agis’ Miniatures Page has some incredibly well-painted minis, including FT ships.
- The Starship Graveyard Scenario has been used as an FT convention game; it uses lots of recognizable science fiction vessels to get new people interested.
- Tom’s Spaceship Miniatures & Game Lists
Links: Fantasy Wargaming
Chipco’s Fantasy Rules! Links
- Chipco publish Fantasy Rules!. They’ve got a great set of FR! links.
- Lone Wolf Development makes the excellent shareware Army Builder program. (Windows only, alas)
- FR! Annex – includes the Army List Viewer, HTML files of all the FR! army lists – very useful and well laid out. [DEAD LINK?]
- Humberside Wargames Society has some FR! information and links. [DEAD LINK?]
- Thomas Whitten’s FR! Tome has lots of FR! writing and links. [DEAD LINK?]
- The Miniatures Codex is a nice FR! page. Great scratchbuilt stuff, and nice photos. The same webmaster is also running a PBeM Battle of the Pelannor Fields (Lord of the Rings) using FR!.
- Sam Reynolds’ FR! Page has house rules, battle reports and more. [DEAD LINK?]
- Robert Crawford’s site has some interesting FR! photos and items. [DEAD LINK?]
- Mikko’s FR! Page. [DEAD LINK?]
- The Horned King’s Realm is a new FR! site, focusing on 15mm Undead figures from a variety of manufacturers. [DEAD LINK?]
- Ken Blackley’s FR! & DoK Pages – Fantasy Rules! and Days of Knights information.
- Eric’s Historical and Fantasy Miniatures Page – FR!, DBx and more. [DEAD LINK?]
- John Garvey’s Fantasy wargaming in pre-Columbian South America has new FR! army lists and resources for this neglected setting. [DEAD LINK?]
- The FR! Ancients rules are modifications to FR! to game ancient battles!
- RPGnet Review of FR! 2nd Edition
- Chris Milne’s Homepage has the beginnings of an FR! site, and other information. [DEAD LINK?]
- John Hill’s Canardian Duckmen Army has a homepage – nice pictures and army lists.
- Phillip’s Homepage has some FR! links and a series of long battle reports on a massive convention FR! tournament he ran, complete with some photos.
Hordes of the Things & Misc. Fantasy Links:
- Richard Bodley Scott’s Homepage: one of the authors of Hordes of the Things. [DEAD LINK?]
- De Bellis Homepagius has Hordes of the Things links, as well as information & links to other WRG products. This page is part of Ed’s Hobby Hovel.
- The Stronghold is a Hordes site – some great army lists (Discworld!) and good links. Probably the best HOTT site out there.
- Steve Goode’s Wargaming & DBA has some excellent figure reviews, and other items. [DEAD LINK?]
- The War in Sasrania is a HotT battle report, entertaining & with good photos.
- A HOTT/DBA Fantasy page.
- Rules of Engagement has some HOTT stuff, house rules, and more links. [DEAD LINK?]
- Middle Earth Army Lists, actually for DBA but usable as inspiration for any game. [DEAD LINK?]
- The Medieval Armies DBA Page has figure reviews, battle reports, and links of interest to any miniature wargamer, not just DBA players.
- A great 15mm Nazgul – more images are also on this site, although the whole things a bit disconnected. [DEAD LINK?]
- Kai’s Miniature Gaming Homepage has Middle Earth battles & miniatures information, including a spectacular 25mm model of Minas Tirith. [DEAD LINK?]
- Neither FR! nor HOTT, but interesting: a homebrew Fantasy Skirmish ruleset is available, based on GZG’s FMA system (Stargrunt II). [DEAD LINK?]
Related Links:
- Dan Smith’s Fantasy Fonts for Windows has Tolkein-inspired and other fantasy fonts, plus lots of related links.
- Flat Earth Games have very cool fonts and other gaming information. Beautiful looking site, as well. [DEAD LINK?]
- Warflags has free flags for wargamers – they’re intended as historicals, but a number of them work all right as fantasy flags, especially the mediaeval ones.
- Leonardo da Vinci – diagrams, drawings, & models of his work, including many of his fascinating machines.
- Town of Vinci’s Leonardo Museum has information and loads of great diagrams. Vinci was Leonardo’s hometown…
- The Myths & Legends pages have good information on real-world dieties, myths and legends. Useful to inspire your fantasy-world mythos.
- Information & Links on real-world Ancient Civilizations. More inspiration.
- Worlds in the Net is a catalog of people’s fantasy and science fiction worlds on the WWW.
- Xenite.Org: Worlds of Imagination on the Web – Science fiction & fantasy.
- RPGnet has loads of interesting links and information, including a good review of FR! 2ed.
- Lots of amusing RPG stories – should probably be called “Stupid Gamer Tricks”…or sometimes “Stupid GM Tricks”… [DEAD LINK?]
- Not a fantasy wargames site either, but L-Space is the best Terry Prachett site going. Wonderful site if you’re a Pratchett fan. (Who isn’t?)
- Sir Clisto Seversword’s Tome of Adventure & Knowledge – the site isn’t quite as long as the name, but nearly! This is a medieval-themed collection of links, very well sorted and indexed. Lots of good stuff. [DEAD LINK?]
- Tempus Peregrinator’s Little Heraldry Book is a good heraldic primer, glossary and dictionary, online with good links.
- The Medieval Sword Resource Site is a sort of online museum dedicated to the medieval swordsmith’s art. Great links, information and images.
- Landsknecht.com is actually an SCA site, which has loads of information, links and images for Renaissance warfare.
- The Dwarven Delving is an RPG site, but it’s got great images and some entertaining information on everyone’s favourite short axe-wielders!