What is the best scale to wargame?
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 [...]
Editorial
Tabletop Wargames – A Designers’ & Writers’ Handbook: Jon Yuengling’s thoughts…
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 [...]
Travel Battle – some initial thoughts
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, [...]
Joining the mainstream – Test of Honour
I am not usually one for collecting what could be called ‘mainstream’ games. OK, I played 40K a long time ago, and I’ve dabbled in X-Wing, but [...]
X-Wing: Swimming against the meta
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 [...]
The ‘next big thing’ in miniatures gaming?
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 [...]
Hobby News – reinventing the wheel?
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 [...]
Meeples & Miniatures – 10th Anniversary
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 [...]
Meeples & Miniatures launches on Patreon
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 [...]
Christmas Greetings from the whole Meeples & Miniatures crew!
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 [...]
Approaching 2017 – Some thoughts about the blog
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 [...]
Musings on Meta – X-Wing Miniatures Game
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 [...]
RIP Joe Dever
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 [...]
The Podcast: The long and the short of it
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 [...]
Spartan Games to launch a new, different, Dystopian Wars Kickstarter
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 [...]
RIP Nick Hawkins
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 [...]
A visit to Gripping Beast…
Sunday 30th October saw the rather unusual event of the entire Meeples podcast crew joining together for a day of gaming, followed by an interview. The occasion? We had been [...]
Spartan Games discovers that 24 hours is a long time in wargaming, never mind politics…
On Wednesday, Spartan Games published a blog announcing plans for a new game: Dystopian Empires, with the idea of launching a Kickstarter campaign towards the end of October. [...]
Meeples & Miniatures – Episode 178 – An Apology to Rob Burman
In our recent Episode 178 of the Meeples & Miniatures podcast, we interviewed Henry Hyde about his resignation as editor of Miniature Wargames magazine. Henry was [...]
