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What Is Wargaming?

Wargaming 101
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Tabletop miniatures gaming - or wargaming - lets you play historical or fantasy battles on tabletops using miniature soldiers, vehicles and model terrain. It's a bit like combining chess or Risk with model railroading. Rules explain how your forces move, react and fight. This webpage will give you some basics on how these games work.

​There are a variety of rule sets you can choose from that cover every historic period, science fiction or fantasy setting.

Choices – Rules and Historic options
Dozens of rule sets offer you tons of gaming options:

  • Any historic setting from Ancients to Napoleonic to World War II to Modern
  • Fantasy settings from Middle Earth to Outer Space to Steampunk
  • Settings may be naval, air or land games
  • Command forces in huge battles or exciting small-scale skirmishes

Check out some popular rule books at our Rules We Play section.

Units
Groups of models are organized in units representing squads or regiments

  • In “skirmish” games one model represents one soldier
  • In large-battle games 15 models can represent 600 soldiers


Commanding units
You move units on the model battlefield using measuring sticks or tapes.
  • Cavalry, tanks or trucks move faster than foot soldiers
  • Moving through forests or rivers can slow units
  • Attack enemy forces when your units move close enough


Attacks
Your units "attack" enemy forces when they move into "range"
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  • Use dice to resolve shooting & hand-to-hand attacks
  • Better units get better dice-odds for attacks
  • Units in “cover” such as model houses or woods get better dice-odds for defence
  • Each unit has a “range” for shooting – eg cannons shoot farther than rifles
  • Successfully dicing “hits” on enemy units weakens or removes them


How do games end?
Gamers play contests based on actual battles or home-made scenarios.
  • Each game has specific Victory Conditions
  • Victory Conditions can range from destroying a portion of enemy units to capturing objectives


Scale & Size
Like model railroaders, gamers can pick from many "scales" or sizes of model armies.
  • 15mm soldiers - about N-Scale in railroading - are affordable and let you use more figures on your tabletop
  • 28mm soldiers - about 1-inch tall - can look impressive but can be pricey
  • 20mm soldiers - about HO Scale - are also an affordable and popular choice
  • Lots of other choices from 6mm to 40 and 54mm too


Gamers are inspired by:
  • Strategy board games, chess, and risk
  • Computer strategy games
  • Interest in history
  • Model building and figure painting
  • Fantasy or Science Fiction or historic novels and movies
  • Commanding great-looking miniature armies


​Start by visiting a local club – such as our Trumpeter Society – to play a few games and discover the right rules and game style for you.

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Need More Information?
Wargame clubs around the world offer sites that inspire and provide great information; here are a few:
    The League of Augsburg:  fantastic-looking armies
    http://www.salute.co.uk:  fun site from South London


Contact us
Have a question about the hobby or The Trumpeters society? Contact us at gamesmaster@shaw.ca, join our Yahoo Group, or visit our society's Facebook page.   

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Also watch our club’s hobby video on Youtube below:
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