THE WARGAMING COMPENDIUM

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Introduces the hobby of miniatures wargaming with highly literate and engaging text and packed with color photographs, maps, and diagrams. Include a brief history of the development of wargaming, choice of periods from ancients to sci-fi, the question of scale (not only of miniatures, but the size of game from the smallest skirmishes to epic battles), terrain, buying and painting miniatures, creating scenarios for wargames, running a campaign, solo wargaming, and so on. Also incorporates simple wargaming rules covering all periods of history as well as fantasy and science fiction gaming. These rules will have optional mechanisms allowing them to be used for very small games with just a few figures, or much bigger games with several regiments or brigades on each side. Considerable focus on using a computer drawing program to create maps.