This
site provides a collection of information, products, services and materials for
the hobby of historic miniature war gaming.
The goal of this
website is to provide affordable or free -whenever possible- products and services, and hopes to
illuminate the exciting potential for learning about history. We create
cool stuff and provide this portal for others as well, who have something to
contribute either in software, hardware, 3D miniature or in paper such as The
Paper General.
This freelance operation is
contributed to by several individuals whose
experience and talents are a result of life experience ranging from the
communications industry to special research projects. Contributors range
from scientists to mechanical engineers, systems integrators and equipment
installers, to film makers, artists, lawyers and doctors. Everyone who
makes something or does something to contribute to the hobby, and wishes to make
it available to others, can do so through Imagine Image Multimedia.
We
do not do this for the money because frankly there isn't any money in it.
All proceeds continue to make this site viable and give us some resources to
fund research into products, services and other cool stuff that makes sense.
The
hobby of war games with miniatures is the best method for "time travel"
that we have today, aside from documentary and historical films of various eras,
that enables a gamer to explore the discipline of military operations, science
and organization.
This study of military history through miniatures is vastly rewarding on a
multitude of levels, teaching skills of detail and fine scale modeling but also
organization and leadership. One of the biggest rewards is teaching how to
communicate, how to understand others, how to think and act and how to build
alliances with integrity and honesty. These are commander traits we hold
as a core competencies.
For
players new to the hobby of collecting and painting miniatures, you are
likely overwhelmed with information and by the wide assortment of rules, equipment, and opinions.
We strive to make this easier that is, less encumbered. That doesn't mean
"simple" rules or "fast" rules, it means the RIGHT rules for
what you are trying to do in a short period of time.
It can be a complicated game not by our rules but by the potential we enable
others to see about strategy and tactics, as they maneuver forces in conflict
toward a resolution during this exercise of crisis management, because after
all, that is what war is:
the ultimate crisis management exercise.
Like
any hobby, it all begins with passion and vision. Gamers, just as archeologists,
want to learn more and experience the challenges of military commanders
like Alexander, Napoleon, or "Stonewall" Jackson.
While
at first glance the hobby looks intense and complicated -compared to something
like chess it is- the fact is that war games with miniatures are simply a more
complicated form of chess. What drives war gamers are the challenges
and the chance to become modern-day time travelers. As a story and screen
writer, for me, the hobby holds a never ending supply of imagery of the way
things were, and might have been, and gives us an education about the future.
We hope you enjoy this portal and continue to explore all it has to offer.
