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  2. BrikWars - Wikipedia

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    BrikWars is a free miniatures wargaming system by Mike Rayhawk, created for use with plastic building blocks and figurines. It is designed to be simple and flexible, allowing for its players' full range of creativity in creating armies, creatures, vehicles, and worlds out of construction toys.

  3. Miniature wargaming - Wikipedia

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    The earliest wargames were based on chess; the pieces represented real military units (artillery, cavalry, etc.) and squares on the board were color-coded to represent different terrain types. Later wargames used realistic maps over which troop pieces could move in a free-form manner, and instead of chess-like sculpted pieces they used little ...

  4. Recreational wargaming - Wikipedia

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    The first wargame was invented in Prussia in 1780 by Johann Christian Ludwig Hellwig, who was a college professor in Brunswick.Hellwing wanted to design a game by which he could teach some principles of warfare to his students, many of whom were noblemen destined for military service, but he also wanted his game to be fun and accessible to the general public so that he could sell it as a ...

  5. List of gaming miniatures companies - Wikipedia

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    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]

  6. List of miniature wargames - Wikipedia

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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]

  7. Board wargame - Wikipedia

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    A board wargame is a wargame with a set playing surface or board, as opposed to being played on a computer or in a more free-form playing area as in miniatures games. The modern, commercial wargaming hobby (as distinct from military exercises, or war games ) developed in 1954 following the publication and commercial success of Tactics . [ 1 ]

  8. Battle Cry (game) - Wikipedia

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    While superficially similar to conventional board wargames, it borrows from miniatures wargaming with its use of plastic figures and its simplified rules. [2] The map is initially composed of blank hexes, although additional cardboard hexes can be placed to alter the printed terrain and recreate a wide variety of battles, as per scenario instructions. [2]

  9. Miniature model (gaming) - Wikipedia

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    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 for RPGs. Ranges roughly from 1:100 scale to 1:122 scale. Equivalent to TT scale in miniature ...