"What Wiki said about Miniature wargaming" Topic
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| Tango01 | 14 Sep 2018 3:59 p.m. PST |
"Miniature wargaming is a form of wargaming which incorporates miniature figures, miniature armor and modeled terrain as the main components of play and which was first invented at the beginning of the 19th century in Prussia. Like other types of wargames, they can be generally considered to be a type of simulation game, generally about tactical combat, as opposed to computer and board wargames which have greater variety in scale. While such games could also be played with counters on a table with colored paper to denote terrain types, the visual attractiveness and tactile satisfaction of painted miniatures moving around on a table with model trees, hills and other scenery has such an alluring power to convince many wargamers to prefer model/miniature games over the cheaper and easier board-and-chits alternatives. The miniatures and scenario items at the core of the model wargaming experience are available in different scales, and many sets of rules are written with the assumption that a particular scale is being used…."
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| Tom D1 | 15 Sep 2018 7:14 p.m. PST |
Obviously written by one of us! |
| Tango01 | 15 Sep 2018 9:42 p.m. PST |
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| Russ Lockwood | 25 Sep 2018 12:45 p.m. PST |
No HMGS listed under organizations? |
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takes another stab at building a more perfect flight stand.
