Following a recent conversation with a podcast listener, in which I was discussing the merits of playing The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game, from Fantasy Flight Games, [...]
In my previous article I addressed an email from a listener who, having looked back at my previously stated ‘favourite games’, wondered how Gaming Dilution Theory (as [...]
Regular listeners to the podcast will know that we regularly discuss Game Dilution Theory (GDT), especially when Dave Luff is on the show. The subject of GDT has recently [...]
You’ve all seen them – the posts from those who are new to wargaming that ask the apparently simple question: “What scale should I game in?” This is [...]
Towards the end of 2016, following the release of Tabletop Wargames – A Designers’ & Writers’ Handbook (which I reviewed here) we ran a competition on the podcast [...]
As many of you are aware by now, Perry Miniatures have a new game launching at Salute this year – Travel Battle. The game was made available for pre-order yesterday, [...]
It’s the X-Wing Regional at Battlefield Hobbies this coming weekend. Following my somewhat dismal attempt at flying a TIE swarm in the last X-Wing competition I [...]
For several years now we have seen the slow blurring of the line between miniatures games and board games. Especially with the improvement in production quality of plastic [...]
I’ve recently become aware of another great wargames news website – Wargame News and Terrain. Couple this with the likes of Tabletop Gaming News and [...]
On January 25th 2007, at 20:47 GMT the first episode of a new podcast – Meeples & Miniatures – was published. I don’t think I ever anticipated that it [...]
After a year or so of procrastination, we have finally launched a Patreon campaign for the Meeples & Miniatures Podcast. Patreon is a crowdfunding website for people who [...]
We’re going to take a break over the Christmas period – look out for new blog and podcast content early in 2017. Can we take this opportunity to wish you all a [...]
As we approach the end of 2017, in what has been a fantastic year for Meeples & Miniatures (I’ll publish some facts and figures nearer the end of the year), my [...]
It’s a fairly well publicised fact that Jervis Johnson does not like points values and army building, and indeed, back in the late 1990s and early 2000s when this debate [...]
I was sad to learn yesterday of the death of author and gamer Joe Dever. Joe was probably most well known as the author of the Lone Wolf fantasy adventure books – these [...]
As you may of noticed (and let’s face it, it would be difficult not to!) the podcasts have got much longer this year as we changed the format and introduced the regular [...]
You may remember a few weeks ago, Spartan Games announced that they were launching a new game set in the Dystopian Wars world, and that the reaction to the announcement was [...]
It is with some shock that I have just learnt of the sudden death of Nick Hawkins. I’m afraid that I didn’t know Nick all that well, though well enough to chat [...]
