Kickstarter Round-Up – 16th September 2016
A bumper week for new Kickstarter projects this week, so much so that I’ve had to spli them down into sub-categories for this week! Miniatures Kev White does Matt Dixon [...]
Boardgames
Review: Pandemic – Reign of Cthulhu
Rating: One of the (few) saving graces from attending Strategy Game Con last weekend was the fact that I got to play a couple of games of the new Pandemic game: Reign of [...]
News of C&C: Napoleonics from GMT Games
Good news for fans of Commands & Colors: Napoleonics in the latest GMT Games newsletter GMT have confirmed their release schedules for the coming months – the base [...]
Of Cards & Hexes…or why I like Commands & Colors
I wrote a brief blog post last week about a great online resource for the Commands & Colors series of games. For me, the Commands & Colors series, designed by Richard [...]
CCAncients.net – supporting all things Commands & Colors
Recently my good friend and fellow Podcast host Mike Hobbs has discovered the joy that is the Commands & Colors series of boardgames, and to be honest has subsequently [...]
Time to relive the boardgame of your childhood
Today, there is a truly enormous range of boardgames available as the hobby has grown massively in the last 20 years. Back in the 1970s, playing a ‘family [...]
Dreadball 2 Kickstarter finally gets an ‘Update’ pledge
When Mantic Games launched their Kickstarter project for the 2nd Edition of Dreadball, one thing was immediately conspicuous by it’s absence: any form of upgrade pledge [...]
Draco Ideas launch 2GM Tactics wargame on Kickstarter
Last year, Spanish company Draco Ideas created a World War II wargame played with cards – 2GM Tactics. Now they have launched a Kickstarter to publish an English [...]
Battle of Britian boardgame released on Kickstarter
You may remember that back at the UK Games Expo I had a chat with Will Townshend of Plastic Soldier Company about about the forthcoming Battle of Britain boardgame? The [...]
Review: Ice Cool
Rating: Ice Cool is the new dexterity board game from designer Brian Gomez and published by Brain Games. In a nutshell, it’s a flicking game with penguins. The [...]
‘Battle of Britain’ coming soon from PSC Games
PSC Games – the boardgame arm of The Plastic Soldier Company – are moving forward with a lot of new releases over the coming month. Of particular note is the fact [...]
UK Games Expo 2016
The UK Games Expo is back for another 3 days of the biggest tabletop gaming convention in the UK, celebrating it’s 10th birthday…and it’s bigger than ever. [...]
Hold the Line & Sharp Practice 2?
In my previous post I mentioned the Hold The Line kickstarter I’m always a fan of multi-tasking games and miniatures where possible (for example, the figures from my [...]
Hold the Line – Kickstarter project from Worthington Games
I noticed this from a comment on TMP the other day. Worthington Games are running a Kickstarter Project to launch a new edition of their board wargame Hold The Line, along [...]
6mm Space Hulk
Please Note – This is not mine. I just want to highlight this awesome project… Following my post about 6mm Sharp Practice, Matthew Slade sent me a link on Twitter [...]
Conan Boardgame delivery delayed (again)
We’ve just had a news update from Monolith about the delivery of the Conan Boardgame, and it’s not a good one. The initial pledges are due for production in June, [...]
New Conan Boardgame pledges from Conan RPG KS
When we spoke to Chris Birch from Modiphius in Episode 166, he promised that there would be some special rewards linked to the Conan Boardgame (of which several of us are [...]
Breaking out a classic
Whilst attempting to organise our first game of 2016, it quickly transpired that our proposed Chain of Command D-Day scenario marathon was going to be slightly delayed, as [...]
The Great War – 25% off until 8th December at PSC
Due to an error at Plastic Soldier Company, The Great War was not included in their Black Friday sale. To make up for this, they have reduced the price by 25% until the 8th [...]
The Great War Tank! expansion into it’s last 48 hours
The Tank! expansion for the Great War game is into it’s last 48 hours. Backing this KS at this point is now certainly worth it, as you get four extra tanks (1 Male, 1 [...]
