A Fistful of TOWs

A blog for the modern miniatures wargame "A Fistful of TOWs".

Friday, February 16, 2007

Miniature Painting Videos

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Here are some useful videos on painting miniatures: Miniature and Military Model Painting Techniques Guide Basic Model Painting Guide For Wa...
Thursday, February 15, 2007

1/300 Sci-Fi Stuff: JR Miniatures

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One of the great things about getting FFT3 out is that I'll finally get the chance to do a full blown set of Sci-Fi rules based on FFT. ...
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Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Red Rick's 1/300 Site

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This is a nice 1/300 scale site with lots of miniature photos. Many are unpainted, so you can get a good idea of how various manufacturers ...
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Micro Armor Mayhem

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Another nice wargaming webite . Lots of photos of well-painted 1/285 and 1/300 scale modern miniatures. An example: I also like his manufact...
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6mm Wargaming Site

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6mm Wargaming is devoted to, well, 6mm wargaming. It's a very attractive site and covers most perios. Of particular interest to me are ...

FFT3 Update

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Paul and I are working hard to get FFT3 out this year. Unofficially, we're shooting for sometime in the 3rd quarter, but delays inevitab...
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Israeli ABM Hits Target in Second Test

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The Israeli Arrow anti-ballistic missile (ABM) successfully destroyed a target Sunday. The target was configured to resemble the Iranian Sh...
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Monday, September 19, 2005

Soviet Tanks...

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Here's a reply I made to a question about Soviet tanks: I've just been painting some more T72's and started wondering about aut...
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Wednesday, May 11, 2005

FFT: 2030

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As many know, I am an enthusiastic sci-fi wargamer as well as a modern wargamer. One of the things that excites me about A Fistful of TOWs 3...
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Thursday, December 30, 2004

Chinese Military Websites

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Chinese Defense Today Federation of American Scientists Federation of American Scientists Individual Weapons Systems Chinese Military P...

New Chinese AT Systems

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From The Strategy Page : December 25, 2004: One of China’s primary military weaknesses is a lack of modern ATGMs (Anti-Tank Guided Missil...
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Baddest Tank In the World (2005)

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From The Strategy Page : December 29, 2004: Who has the most effective tank in the world continues. The most likely candidates are weste...
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Sunday, December 19, 2004

Mechanized Vikings!

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A very nice site covering the modern Swedish Army. Lots of pictures and equipment data. The Centurion (aka Strv 105) The Leopard-...
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How to Defeat the OPFOR

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This article , written by an OPFOR commander, has some very good lessons for FFT players.

Defense Update

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Defense update is an online defense industry publication that has lots of useful background information for modern wargamers. Here are some...
Monday, December 13, 2004

Sino-Russian Alliance?

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The Chinese are conducting joint military maneuvers for the first time: China and Russia will hold their first joint military exercise nex...
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Saturday, December 11, 2004

GHQ/C-in-C Comparison Site

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Tom Stockton has a site that has photos of most GHQ and C-in-C 1/285 scale models. This should be a very valuable resource, since there'...
Thursday, December 09, 2004

Little Lead Heroes

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Andy Cowell also has a wargaming blog, Little Lead Heroes . Check it out!

Major General Tremordan Reddering's Colonial Wargames Site

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This is simply the best miniature wargaming site I've ever seen. A tour de force that should inspire us lesser mortals...
Tuesday, December 07, 2004

Andy Cowell's Site

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Andy Cowell has a site with some very nice photos of painted 15mm modern infantry. (Larger versions of this photo is on his website -- take ...

15mm Modern Miniature Manufacturers

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Quick Reaction Force has the most extensive line of modern miniatures. I use a lot of their figures in my games. Old Glory makes an inc...
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C.B. Stevens has a nice website with lots of photos of 15mm modern African figures. Some examples:

US Defenses Against RPGs

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Airbags?? Here's an article on US defenses against Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPGs). Rocket propelled grenades (RPGs) have long been ...

Marine Motorcycles

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From The Strategy Page : The U.S. Marine Corps is buying 522 diesel powered motorcycles for battlefield use. These are the first diesel p...

Body Armor Piercing Bullets

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The Strategy Page has this article about Russian attempts to develop bullets capable of piercing body armor (like our troops wear in Iraq):...
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Sunday, December 05, 2004

More On Armed Robots...

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Here is another article on the armed robots that the US Army is fielding: The Special Weapons Observation Reconnaissance Detection System,...
Friday, December 03, 2004

Paper Buildings

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Not my cup of java, but Fiddler's Green has some downloadable building templates that you can print out and assemble. They're rea...
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GHQ's Merkava IV

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GHQ has the new Israeli Merkava IV main battle tank.

GHQ's Achzarit IFV

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GHQ now has the Israeli heavy IFV, the Achzarit .

Merkava on Sale

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GHQ 1/285 Merkava is on sale for $6.50 per pack.

Sheridan on Sale

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GHQ 1/285 M551 Sheridan is on sale for $6.50 per pack.

Battledroids!

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From Wired -- here come the battledroids: Hunting for guerillas, handling roadside bombs, crawling across the caves and crumbling towns...

New US Point Defense System

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From Wired : The Army's Tank-Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center, or TARDEC , is one of several Defense Depar...

Why There Are More Afghan than Iraqi Sergeants

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From The Strategy Page , an analysis of why the US has been more effective rebuilding the Afghan army... The Afghans have some of the sam...
Thursday, December 02, 2004

Ogres!

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A Mark V Ogre from the Pan Pacific Alliance , a huge resource for Ogre/GEV players. As the members of the FFT email list know, I am a big ...
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Dien Bien Phu

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This site has a lot of useful information for wargaming the French Indochina War.
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This is one of the photos of a stunning 1/300 city at Bob MacKenzie's website . Amazing.

Bob MacKenzie's Site

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Bob's site has tons of useful stuff for WWII and modern microscale wargamers. I especially like the comparisons of different miniature ...

Assault on Hammutal Scenario

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This is an Arab-Israeli Wars scenario (Yom-Kippur War). Here's a scenario for the battle of the Chinese Farm.

Jake Collins' Orders of Battle

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Jake has a nice site with a lot of OB information for FFT and Modern Spearhead . The MSH lists should be very easy to convert to FFT.
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Old Trousers FFT2 House Rules

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John Kelly has written a set of house rules for FFT2. His site also has equipment lists for the Arab-Israeli Wars.
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India Wargamers FFT Scenario

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Here's a pretty nifty account of an FFT scenario set in Kosovo by the India Wargamers.
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