Kickstarter Round-up – 18th November 2016
After a week off, there are LOTS of wargaming & boardgaming Kickstarter projects to catch up with. I hope you’re sitting comfortably, as this may be a long [...]
15mm Gaming
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. [...]
Kickstarter Round-Up: 30th September 2016
Miniatures Corvus Corax Miniatures – Reinforcements Corus Corax are a Swedish company producing 35mm resin miniatures. These look interesting and a bit different. The [...]
PSC release British 25pdr with CMP Quad Tractor
Following their successful Kickstarter project earlier in the year, Plastic Soldier Company are currently releasing different variants of their British 25pdr kits. The 25pdr [...]
Kickstarter Round-up – 23rd September 2016
There are new Kickstarter projects starting every day – these are the ones that have caught my eye this week: Miniatures Greenskin Wars This Kickstarter project is [...]
Halo Ground Command – First Play
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to pop down to Spartan Games HQ outside of Shepton Mallet to play a couple of games of the new Halo Ground Command (HGC) game, plus have [...]
Dragon Rampant – Kindle Edition on offer
‘Warband’ sized games seem to be hugely popular at the moment. I’m not sure whether it’s a question of economics, space or other factors, but rules [...]
Size comparison – Battlefront vs Plastic Soldier Company 15mm Sherman Tanks
Last night I found myself putting together the plastic models that are supplied with the Tanks skirmish game. These plastic kits are from Battlefront. The construction [...]
Free Armoured Combat rules from Wargames Design
We recently reviewed the Tanks World War II Skirmish Game on episode 172 of the podcast and website. I think it’s fair to say that it got something of a mixed review. [...]
Plastic Soldier Company – 25 pounder Kickstarter update
The Plastic Soldier Company WW2 British 25 pounder artillery and tractor kit has entered into its final week, and has done really well, funding several gun and tractor [...]
Halo: Ground Command launches July 2016
Spartan Games have announced the shipping dates for their much anticipated new Sci-Fi game, Halo: Ground Command. The 2-Player starter box set, titled Battle for Reach will [...]
WW2 British 25 Pdr Artillery & Tractor kit launched on Kickstarter
The Plastic Soldier Company have just launched a new Kickstarter project to fund a British 25 pdr with Quad Tractor kit. They are looking to produce the kit in both 15mm and [...]
Review: Tanks – Panther vs Sherman Starter Set
Rating: Gale Force Nine, the company behind titles such as Firefly: The Game and Spartacus: A Game of Blood and Treachery, have recently released a new game – [...]
New buildings from Najelwitz Modellbau
One of the questions I was asked a lot last weekend was ‘What make are your buildings?’. In the small town we had set up, the two buildings on the bottom right [...]
Polyversal Kickstarter enters its last 2 days
Polyversal – the Sci-Fi mass combat miniatures system – has been running an updated Kickstarter project over the last few weeks. The Kickstarter is entering its [...]
Painting Update – w/e 5th June 2016
Only a couple of miniatures painted this week, although finishing them has meant that I’ve reached a milestone on my painting schedule, as I have now painted all the [...]
OLM4 game – setting up the table
Last night saw myself and Dave going through a dry run of our table set-up for the scenario we are running during Operation Market Larden #4 (which is only 8 days away [...]
On the Painting Table – w/c 23rd May 2016
Sorted out my painting schedule yesterday (shockingly, I do have one!) and grabbed the remaining models I need to paint to ensure that I have all the models available to play [...]
Painting Update – w/e 22nd May 2016
Whilst I’m meant to be taking a mini-break from hobby time, the imminent arrival of Operation Market Larden #4 meant that I ended up painting this week after all (It [...]
Painting Update – w/e 15th May 2016
Finally managed to finish some things on my painting table First off, finished the extra 15mm Late War Germans I was painting. The eagle eyed my notice that I only have 15 [...]
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