Review: Painting Wargames Figures – Early Imperial Romans
Having recently played the forthcoming ‘Infamy, Infamy!‘ rules from Too Fat Lardies, it seems an opportune moment to take a look at a book which gives a detailed [...]
Articles by Neil Shuck
Review: Painting Wargames Figures – WWII in the Desert
When gaming World War II, my first love has always been the European Theatre from D-Day until the end of the war. However, since the release of What A Tanker! from Too Far [...]
First play of “Infamy, Infamy!”
Last weekend saw myself and The Halfling Hickman travel down to the Forest of Dean for a day of gaming with Matt Slade and Ralph Plowman – we were also joined by [...]
Why Gloomhaven is good, but not great
A couple of weeks ago our Gloomhaven campaign reached one of it’s climaxes when the party encountered The Great Drake at the Scorched Summit in the Copperneck [...]
Review – Wargames Terrain and Buildings, The Napoleonic Wars.
Wargames Terrain and Buildings, The Napoleonic Wars is a book written in 2019 by Tony Harwood (probably more well known by his online pseudonym Dampfpanzerwagon) and [...]
Four different ways to go on a fantasy adventure
Last week I managed to play no less than four different fantasy adventure games – 1 RPG and three boardgames Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (3rd Edition) I had the [...]
Grenzer Games running Kickstarter for 15mm plastic Imperial Romans
Grenzer Games has launched a kickstarter project to create a box set of 15mm scale Imperial Romans as part of their new game At Lances Point. The box is intended to contain [...]
Confessions of a gamer – January 2020
The intention of 2020 was to try and reduce my hobby purchases. Given that intention, the year is off to something of a poor start. Mortal Realms This new magazine was [...]
Painting Tally – January 2020
Despite not picking up a paint brush in the final week, January turned out to be a good month for painting models. The painting output was entirely devoted to fantasy, as I [...]
Fantasy Flight Games announce new expansion for Journeys in Middle Earth
Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle Earth was one of my favourite, and most played, games of 2019, and ever since the Fantasy Flight Games announced their [...]
Footsore Miniatures & Games launch ‘Mythic’ expansion for Mortal Gods
Ever since Footsore Miniatures produced Mortal Gods – their skirmish game set in Ancient Greece – people have been asking if/when they will release an expansion [...]
Miniature Painting – w/e 26th January 2020
Only managed a few days painting last week, mainly due to spending a long weekend in Wales with the Welsh Wizzard. Playing games and meeting with my fellow gamers, rather [...]
Miniature Painting – w/e 19th January 2020
A second week has been spent painting Runewars skeleton warriors Monday 13th January Painted GW Wraithbone over all bone and clothing areas. Tuesday 14th & Wednesday 15th [...]
Monday Night Gaming – return to Return to Hoth
Warning: This article may contain spoilers for Star Wars: Imperial Assault, Heroes of the Alliance Return to Hoth campaign. It has become something of a theme that this year [...]
Small producers – use them, or lose them
On Monday we were greeted very sad news that Fenris Games were closing down at the end of February. If you read the full story (which can be found here) it tells a tale that [...]
Miniature Painting, w/e 12th January 2020
This week I started to get ‘back in the saddle’ of painting a little each day. The aim is to paint for around 15-30 minutes – basically to try and make some [...]
Thursday Night Gaming – Istanbul, The Big Box
Thursday Night Gaming (TGN) saw The Great Guru Luff, The Halfling Hickman and myself once again reach into our gaming back catalogue and pull out Istanbul: The Big Box – a [...]
Sarissa Precision release Sengoku Period castle in MDF
Sarissa Precision have added to their range of 28mm MDF terrain for Feudal Japan with a new castle. The Japanese Castle is a sizable kit, representing the traditional [...]
A look at Mortal Realms, Issue 1
I had no idea that this product – Mortal Realms – existed until I read a post from The Renaissance Troll himself, Joe McCullough. The kicker on that particular [...]
Meeples & Miniatures voted ‘Best Podcast or YouTube Channel’
Well, it’s taken 12 years, but we can finally say that Meeples & Miniatures is an award-winning podcast! Patrons of Battlegames recently voted for a number of [...]
