Miniature Flags for Historical Miniature Gamers and Collectors. Complete 10mm Game System and Products for the Napoleonic Wars (La Petite Armée) and American Civil War (LPA:ACW, Limited Edition).

If you have been thinking of getting into war gaming the Napoleonic period, you’ve probably been overwhelmed by the questions, choices, and amount of information and advice out there.  What scale of figures?  What level of command when choosing the rules, and then which of the dozens of rules available do you use?  How and where do I get the terrain?  Will I be able to find an opponent who has made the same decisions I have?

The decisions may seem endless and daunting to a new gamer so I have created the LPA Complete 10mm Napoleonic System.  It is just what it claims to be – COMPLETE! – a ready to play game right out of the box.  It’s not like some “complete” starter sets that give you a couple of bags of unpainted miniatures a set of rules and a couple of paper buildings.  Each LPA Complete 10mm Napoleonic System comes with two painted 10mm armies, one French and your choice of a British, Russian, Prussian, or Austrian army as an opponent – over two-hundred figures and guns already mounted on flocked, magnetic movement stands and metal magnetic brigade stands with the appropriate national flag.  You also get all the terrain you need to set up an attractive 3’x2’ battlefield including three 2’x1’ battleboards, six hills, eight buildings, twenty trees, four fields, four stone wall sections, four sections of hedges, one stone bridge, and material for roads and rivers – and everything is already painted and/or assembled.  You get a set of rules, La Petite Armée, with reference cards, markers, casualty caps, and markers – even dice and rulers.  And everything comes packed complete in a handy, portable box for easy transport.  And you don’t have to worry if someone else has the same scale figures or plays the same rules.  Since each game is complete, all you need is an opponent ready to play.  Games with the basic set, representing a Corps of 15,000 plus men on each side, can be played to completion in 2-3 hours.

Many of my customers have purchased just the basic game system and fought dozens of enjoyable battles over the years without every feeling the need to expand what they have.  Others have added additional games, armies, terrain, etc, to fight the size battles they are looking for.  I myself have the equivalent of four games worth of terrain and over 2300 figures in my set.  It is up to you. If any of these apply to you, then welcome to the world of Le Petit Armée Complete 10mm Napoleonic System. This system is designed to provide you with one-stop shopping when it comes to your Napoleonic gaming needs. LPA is based upon a set of rules of the same name, and every item you need to play using those rules can be obtained using this system.

And LPA is not just for gamers new to the Napoleonic period.  I myself have been gaming for over thirty years and many of my customers are also experienced players who have been attracted by the smaller scale, easy to learn and play rules, and overall look of the LPA system.

Skull & Crown (officially titled: Skull & Crown Strategem, Inc.) is a purveyor of fine wooden soldiers, robots and ships, as well as white metal 28mm miniatures collections and located in San Jose, California at the foot of the Santa Cruz Mountains. I am a game designer by day, and tabletop game and miniatures imagineer by ...well, all the time.  I design and cut figures and other such creations on my own personal laserinator.  I also collaborate with other amazing artists and makers who take my designs and/or ideas and sculpt beautiful figures that you see on this store.

Many of my wooden designs and games were done with my own children in mind, and were play tested on the "Fossling Proving Grounds" as well as at conventions with adults and other children.  With that in mind - all Skull & Crown models are designed for children ages 14+, but should ALWAYS have parental supervision when assembling, especially when sharp objects are involved!

Specialist Military Publishing is a UK-based publishing company who design and publish tabletop wargaming rules. This web site provides details of the books that are available, together with supporting material to help players get the most from their games. Take your time to look round the site. Please use the contact link on the top right of the page if you have any questions.

Wargames
Blitzkrieg Commander (WW2, 1936-45), Cold War Commander (Modern, 1946-2006) and Future War Commander (The Future) are fast-play wargame rules that allow you to re-create combined-arms battles from the Second World War through to the present day and well into the future, using miniatures on a tabletop. Command anything from a company right up to a division and get a result in 2-3 hours without becoming bogged-down in detail. Suitable for any scale miniatures from 2mm right up to 28mm (including 6mm, 1/285, 10mm, 12mm, N Scale, 15mm and 20mm) and no re-basing is required.

Spiral Bridge Studios encompasses all of the gaming and geekery projects of Gene Capar, Owner, Designer and all-round genius. Currently there are three major elements to Spiral Bridge, but this doesn’t mean there won’t be more some day.

Element One – Blog and Facebook. Our Blog hosts reviews, articles and gaming commentary about a variety of games and geeky stuff in general. It also is place to find designer journals of our game design projects. These articles can also be found on Facebook, as well as links to other gaming blogs, tutorials and news sites that are related to gaming.

Element Two – Game Design. Our first project, Rack & Ruin is currently in production, having successfully completed a Kickstarter in December 2014. Several other gaming products are currently in development.

Element Three – The Dragon’s Outhouse podcast. A weekly podcast where Gene is joined by co-hosts Brody the Minion and Bill the Commish, as well as special guests, to discuss tabletop gaming, wrestling and general geekery.

Rack & Ruin

Starfire Design Studio, In the mid 1990's the Starfire Design Studio was created as a team of Starfire players interested in contributing to the future of Starfire.

When Marvin Lamb purchased the rights to Starfire in 1997, he adopted the Starfire Design Studio name.

Even while developing Galactic Starfire and Ultra Starfire, the SDS has continued to maintain a team of player contributors to keep Starfire grounded to the player base.

Over the years Starfire has continued to evolve and even as it moves towards computerization and expansion - players will always be an integral part of the team.

SOLAR STARFIRE, is the newest edition of STARFIRE, with a ruleset based on the developing History of the Terran Solar Union.

Based on ULTRA STARFIRE, these rules have major revisions to a host of technologies, system generation, sensors and detection, small craft, alternate races, and more than 3 dozen section changes and additions.

As the history progresses, SOLAR STARFIRE will also change and adapt to the new technologies and events that you will find in the stories. Currently only available as a digital document or on CD, more formats will be made available in the near future.

ULTRA STARFIRE, is a complete re-write of the rules since GSF, designed and balanced for competitive gameplay.

Rather than focus on a history, ULTRA STARFIRE's goal is to make player-vs-player gameplay as balanced as possible.

Completely cross-referenced and in color, ULTRA STARFIRE represents the Fifth Edition of the STARFIRE rules.

The GALACTIC STARFIRE boxed set includes 2 rulebooks, 1 four-part system/tactical map, and all of the fourth edition counters (blue and red forces).

ELITE STARFIRE is a digital document that includes all the optional rules for GSF and includes some re-written sections for players to optionally use instead of the sections out of GSF.

STARFIRE Legacy Supplement CD, The Legacy CD is packed with all of the 3rd edition and earlier products that we have available.

Tactical Rules, Campaign Rules (aka Imperial Starfire), Sky Marshal #2, Stars at War, Insurrection, Crusade, ISW 4, and all of the downloads and materials to include the nexus articles and ECs from that period.

As a bonus, we've also decided to include the Unified Tech Manual (UTM) produced by the 3DG volunteer group.

ADMIRAL'S CHALLENGE, A strategic-level tabletop wargame based on the STARFIRE strategy rules. Combat still uses the tactical rules, but ADMIRAL'S CHALLENGE changes the strategic system to a hex-based map.

Movement is hex-based and logistics are as easy as counting hexes. Designed as a competitive game, ADMIRAL'S CHALLENGE takes less time and is more like a traditional table-top strategy gaming experience.

The rules are in electronic format and uses the counters and maps from any edition of STARFIRE.