Download Episode 81
Welcome to Episode 81 of the Meeples & Miniatures Podcast
In this show, I take a look back at the games I played in 2011 and choose my top 5 boardgames and miniature wargames of last year.
I hope you enjoy the show
Just a reminder that Meeples & Miniatures and Totalwargamer are once again getting together to put on an Ex-Illis day at the Totalwargamer store in Evesham on Saturday 4th February 2012.
We are hoping to run a Swiss-style tournament during the day, should we have enough players, so please ensure that you register your interest either here or on the Ex-Illis forum if you intend to play in the tournament.
Look forward to seeing you there!
I have just added a review of Cold War Gone Hot – a supplement for the Force-on-Force rules from Osprey Publishing/Ambush Alley Games – to the website.
You can find it here
I hope you find the review useful
Just a quick note to say thank you to everyone for visiting the blog.
Site stats recorded that the site went over 350,000 visits over the weekend…
I have just added a review of Tremble Ye Tyrants, the fast-play Napoleonic rules from Chris Peers, to the website
You can find it here
Hope you find it useful
I have just added a written review of Saga, the Dark Age skirmish wargame from Gripping Beast & Tomahawk Studios, to the website.
You can find it here
I hope you find it useful.
It’s always good to have a plan – or so I’m told. In the past I have had grand plans for what I was going to accomplish in my hobby, and have generally failed dismally.
This year is going to be different….I hope(!)
So, I thought I’d commit my plans to print – just so you can monitor my progress month-by-month and see just how unrealistic I have been by the end of the year.
Here goes:
I’ve actually managed to paint a fair few of my Ex-Illis miniatures in the last 12 months. However, I have since finalised 2 armies, and need to knuckle down and finish painting the units for them. I have a total of 11 units, 2 hero character and 2 large monsters to paint, so lots to get started with.
Saga is likely to be a very popular game at club in the next year, and I’ve already got a Norman warband to paint – 73 models in total (15 Mounted and 58 foot). I’m looking to expand this with both Saxon & Viking warbands later in the year, but don’t want to start them until after my Normans are finished.
Tomorrow’s War was released in the last quarter of 2011, and I’m looking forward to playing this a lot in 2012. I’ve got several packs of figures to paint for this, but the first ones onto my painting table will be my Copplestone Assault Troopers and Neo-Soviets, followed by the Colonial Marines from the Woodbine Design Company, along with a couple of Heresy Hrun figures. The new releases from Defiance Games are also on my radar, and will be added to the list later in the year.
I’m a huge Vietnam fan, and with the Ambush Valley expansion being released for Force on Force, it gives me ample excuse to revisit my aborted 28mm Vietnam project. I already have a platoon of US Army and VC painted. so just the USMC and NVA, plus vehicles and buildings to dig out and paint.
Incursion didn’t get out on the table much last year, and it’s a great game. So, one of my plans is to ensure that I paint all my minis for both Incursion and SNAFU.
Quite a large project in itself, but it will make a change from painting armour after I’ve finished my Normans…
I need to get my Ancients armies started – they are only 6mm after all, and shouldn’t take too long to get 20 elements painted (no, really!). Marian Romans and Parthians to start, with more enemies of Rome to added later in the year.
I Ain’t Been Shot Mum is going to be my WW2 game of choice for 2012, and it means starting a whole new scale for this period – 15mm.
I’m planing on using the Plastic Soldier Company for the majority of the miniatures, with Forged in Battle filling any gaps. I fully expect to be adding to this collection for the next couple of years, but will be starting this year with German Heer, as the PSC have lots of troops and vehicles available.
Well, that’s a start. I will be updating you with progress at the end of each month, and come July will update “The Plan” with any new targets for the rest of the year…
I have just added a review of Hind Commander, a helicopter warfare game from Assault Publishing.
You can find it here
As well as the review, I have also added comments about the review from the author.
I’ve added a new review, this time of the recent publication from Warlord Games for their Hail Caesar rules; Hail Caesar: Army Lists - Biblical & Classical.
You can find the review here.
I hope you find it useful – look out for another review being published tomorrow.
I have just added a written review of the Company Level World War II rules from Too Fat Lardies - I Ain’t Been Shot Mum…just in case you wanted to read a review rather than listening to episode 80 of the podcast.
You can find the review here.
I hope you find it useful – look out for another review tomorrow.
I have posted a written review of Clash of Empires, the Ancients ruleset from Great Escape Games.
You can find it here
I hope you find it useful.
Look out for another review tomorrow.
I just wanted to take this opportunity to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Many thanks for listening, watching and reading this year…
Neil
Download Episode 80
Welcome to Episode 80 of the Meeples & Miniatures Podcast
In this show, I am joined once again by Richard Clarke of Too Fat Lardies, and we have an in-depth discussion about their latest release: I Ain’t Been Shot Mum 3
Several of us met up at TotalWargamer for a day of Ex-Illis gaming goodness.
'Earthquake' plays 'Kybus'
"Whiskymac" plays "the vodkakid"
There were several of us from Leicester & Coventry, plus a group from Nottingham who stayed all day. We played several games each during the day – and obviously bought the odd new unit or seven!
Several other people popped in during the day. It was good to meet Robey Jenkins of Precinct Omega - and especially good to meet back up with Ade Deacon, who used to run Battle Honours UK. I haven’t seen him for several years, so it was great to catch up with him.
Most of the guys who were at TotalWargamer all day. From left to right - Kybus, Utherdracus, Whiskeymac, Broxtonator, thevodkakid & Earthquake
A good time was had by all I think, and we hope to get togther again in February – thanks to Paul & Owen for hosting the day.
I just wanted to remind you of the Ex-Illis day that I am helping to host @ Total Wargamer in Evesham tomorrow – Saturday, 19th November 2011.
Its on opportunity to come along and play the game if you’ve never come across it before, but also to meet up with several existing players from the Midlands area.
The day starts at 10am, and finishes about 5.00pm. Why not come along and say “Hi”?
I was with great joy and relief that I heard the following news earlier today:
“I’m delighted to announce that Battlegames is in the process of being
acquired by Atlantic Publishers and will therefore become a stable-mate to
Miniature Wargames. Deals of this kind obviously take time, but negotiations
are proceeding extremely well and we are aiming to complete the handover by
early December.
After six years of hard work to establish Battlegames in a highly
competitive market, I am delighted that the magazine will now have the
backing of Atlantic’s highly professional and experienced team to help
ensure that it has a bright future.
Battlegames will remain a stand-alone, bi-monthly publication and I shall
continue to edit, design and occasionally write for the magazine. I am
particularly pleased that Atlantic have asked me to keep the content, look
and ‘feel’ of Battlegames virtually unchanged, maintaining its distinct
niche in the hobby.
Atlantic have promised to honour all existing subscriptions and readers will
be pleased to hear that I am setting to work immediately on issue 27, which
we hope to publish over the Christmas/New Year holiday.
As you can imagine, there are a number of technical issues to solve
concerning the handover of subscription administration and so forth, but we
are working to resolve these as soon as possible. In the meantime, it will
be possible to subscribe via the Battlegames website again by next Monday,
21st November. Single issue and digital purchases will be transferred to
Atlantic after the official handover date, which will be announced at the
appropriate time.
The sheer volume of supportive emails and calls that I have received over
the last couple of weeks has been phenomenal and I want to thank everyone
who has been in touch. This includes the editors of Wargames Soldiers and
Strategy, Wargames Illustrated and Dadi e Piombo, who all expressed their
personal support and I truly appreciate their having done so.
I’d like to take this opportunity to send a special thank you to Andrew
Hubback of Miniature Wargames, with whom I have always had cordial relations
and who has been a fantastic supporter of my Combat Stress Appeal, which has
now raised more than £10,000. It was Andrew’s intervention which initiated
the contact with Atlantic that has led to such a fruitful outcome for all
concerned and I shall, of course, always be grateful to him for that.
I’m sure that many of you will have questions, but once again, in order to
prevent another tidal wave of emails, I shall be mostly communicating via
the email newsletter and press releases such as this to reach the maximum
audience as quickly as possible. But the most important facts are:
* Battlegames has a secure, long-term future
* Issues will appear more regularly than ever before
* I will remain the primary contact point for all Editorial matters
* The style and content of the magazine will remain independent and
virtually unchanged
* ALL subscriptions will be honoured so NOBODY will lose any money paid
* After the official handover date, all financial transactions will be
transferred to Atlantic Editions Limited
Further updates will follow in due course. Once again, thank you all for the
extraordinary support you have given me during this difficult time.”
Fantastic news indeed, I’m sure you’ll agree. I hope you will join me in wishing Henry all the very best for what is suddenly a much brighter future.
Given my lack of free time at home recently, I’ve been looking at alternative solutions for recording shows.
I thought I had come up with a suitable solution, but having recorded the show, when I transferred it to my laptop for editing, the sound quality simply wasn’t good enough (it sounds like I’m in a toilet in the middle of a field – just horrible).
So, it’s back to the drawing board – the upshot being that whilst you will almost certainly get another 4 miniature reviews, plus some written reviews, in the next couple of weeks, I am only likely to be able to record a single show, which I will be doing on Friday.
More details as I get them…
Welcome to the latest video review from Meeples & Miniatures
In this episode I review the miniature releases from Grindhouse Games to support the new expansion for the Incursion boardgame, Incursion: SNAFU.
Welcome to the latest video review from Meeples & Miniatures
In this episode I review the latest Roman Legionary box set from Warlord games, which includes 20 Roman Legionaries and a Scorpian Bolt Thrower.
As an added bonus, I also take a look at their blister pack of Roman Slave Girls…
I’ve just published a review of Polemos S.P.Q.R. – the recent set of Ancients rules from Baccus 6mm which cover the wars of Imperial Rome.
You can find the review here.
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