Gisby's Links Page


Links to various sites I've found interesting and/or useful. More links will be added as I remember where I have them saved! Pages offering free rules are so marked.
General Interest

Gamers, Clubs, & Shops

Victorian Gaming

Old West Gunfights

Macho Women With Guns

KILL ZONE!

Seven Years War/French & Indian War

Other Sites of Interest

~~~~~ General Gaming Interest ~~~~~

The Miniatures Page: a WWW Magazine

Bill Armintrout has collected a lot of information on miniature gaming, and on miniatures: Especially useful is the Manufacturers directory.

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Ed's Hobby Hovel : A Wargamer's Web Page

Ed Allen's superb gaming site: There are pages on many periods, photos, extensive links, free rules, and even an opponent finder! This is the first gaming site I ever found on the 'web, and it has always been an inspiration

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AltaVista Translations

An automatic translator, translating between English and French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Portuguese. Provide either plain text or the address (URL) of a Web page to translate: Results can be amusing. For some reason 'Timothy' is translated into Italian as 'Coda de Todo.' (Tail of Todo)

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Freetranslation.com

Another automatic translator, translating between English and French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Portuguese. Provide either plain text or the address (URL) of a Web page to translate.

~~~~~ Gamers, Clubs, & Shops ~~~~~

Darryl Wagner's Corner of the Web

A new site, still under construction. So far, Darryl's Rudis campaign system, some free rules, and rules variants.

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Schild en Vriend is the Miniature Wargaming Club in Leuven, Belgium.

They have pages devoted to a lot of periods, and not only offer several sets of free rules, they have many links to others.

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Free Wargames Rules

Pete Jones' collection of links to free wargames rules on the Web. There's a lot of free rules out there!

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Assegai Central

The Assegai Wargaming Forum is devoted to assisting the wargamer and players of related games to get the most from their games, primarily intended as a medium of exchange for the wargaming community of Southern Africa, within itself, with the South African public and with the world.

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League Of Augsburg Wargames Club

Although they go under the guise of a club, a more accurate description would be...."a group of friends who enjoy the hobby of wargaming and share the same passion for painting wargame figures" Based in Scotland, they travel up and down the country demonstrating the games they play at various wargame shows.

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The Perfect Captain presents "Cousin Jonathan"

Being a set of rules for the late American War, 1812-1814, including a complete rules set, Army Lists, and Campaign. Look out, Cousin Jonathan! Here comes brother John Bull!

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Flagship Games

Manufacturer of resin-cast ships, scenery, & pirates rules...

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Histoire et Figurines: Le Site du Jeu d'Histoire en France

A French-language site devoted to miniatures gaming. Downloadable Napoleonic flags on the site!

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The Sentry Box

A mail order shop in Canada carrying many products: It's the best place to buy RAFM, and has a lot of odd, older stock.

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Inexpensive Terrain Modeling

A very useful site on modelling terrain on the cheap.

~~~~~ Victorian Gaming ~~~~~

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There is a mailing list called ColonialWars at Yahoo: It is devoted to Colonial Wargaming, and warfare in the 1800's. Suggestions for sources, terrain making methods, miniatures, and rules will be common, as will discussions of games played and scenarios...

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For real inspiration, check out my favourite site on the 'web. It's a superb site, and makes me realize I've wasted the last 25 years...

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Another new site, and growing fast. Good ideas, and interesting links.

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Ed Allen's page devoted to Colonial warfare: Lots of illustrations, maps, and photographs...

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A good new site, worth reading for the 'People & Places' listings alone! Recently updated with FREE RULES!

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Ian Croxall is best known for his amazing Warflag page, but this site, based upon a series of games set in French North Africa is every bit as good.

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Victorian Adventure Gaming

A new site, with definite opinions on various Victorian RPGs. There are also pages on terrain, and a description of some SPACE:1889 PCs and NPCs.

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L'Artigliere Stanco

Ruggero Romano's web site, with Colonial Wars and Old West Gunfight information. In Italian & English.

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British-American/American-British dictionary

A useful site for those puzzled by the intricacies of the 'English' language.

~~~~~Old West Gunfights ~~~~~

The Rules With No Name FREE RULES

Oddly enough, Another of my pages, devoted to The Foundry's free Old West rules: There are alternate rules, scenarios, and suggestions on buildings, etc.

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Walt O'Hara

Here's a page with photos of recent Wild West gunfights Walt O'Hara's run at cons and at home.

~~~~~ Macho Women With Guns ~~~~~

The semi-official Macho Women With Guns Page

A page devoted to MWWG: From Sweden!

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Macho Women With Guns

This site has scenarios for MWWG, sorted by genre...

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Matt and Mav's Unofficial Tribute to the MWWG RPG

This site has new rules, dis/advantages, etc. A must for the 'serious' MWWG player!

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Sparks: Macho Women With Guns

This site has a true-type font for printing out your own cardboard characters

There is a MWWG discussion list at Yahoo.

~~~ KILL ZONE ~~~

Kill Zone FREE RULES

A site which which has the complete text of the (ex-Grenadier) near-future combat rules, KILL ZONE. I hope to post further rules & scenarios for the rules, as well as any news on the updated set being written.

There is also a Kill Zone discussion list at Yahoo.

~~~~ SYW / F&I Wars ~~~~

Nec Pluribus Impar

A (mostly) bilingual web-magazine devoted to the Seven Years War. 4 issues on line so far, with articles on uniforms, organizations, miniatures, etc. Flag illustrations on site.

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The Horse and Musket Wargaming Page

Ed Allen's Horse & Musket page: Frederick The Great's instructions to his Generals, photos, maps, and more. Free Rules on the site!

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Seven Years War

This site has information & links to SYW & French & Indian War sites.

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~~~~~ Other Sites of Interest ~~~~~

WARFLAG: Ian Croxall's Flags for Wargamers

A site with downloadable, printable flags, for those of us who like to make our own flags!

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Napoleonic Flags

Alan Pendlebury's more specialized site with downloadable, printable flags...

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Nec Pluribus Impar

Although listed above, the sheer number of SYW flag illustrations make it a darn useful flag-making site.

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Flags

This is a commercial site, selling reproduction flags, but the images are very good and useful to those who wish to make their own flags.

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Flags of the World This is a really useful site, with illustrations & information on flags, both modern & historical. Very useful artwork.

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Last Updated March 5, 2003 by Tim Peterson