Painting Tally – February 2019
February turned out to be a much better month for painting than January had been. Not only did I finally finish those damned Normans, but I also made a start on all the [...]
Historical Gaming
Battleground Fantasy Warfare reprint on Kickstarter
On a recent Musings from the Bunker podcast, I was talking about the fact that you didn’t necessarily require miniatures to play miniature wargames, and quoted [...]
Review: Battlegroup Torch
Review: Battlegroup Torch is the latest supplement to the Battlegroup World War II rules, written by Warwick Kinrade and published by Iron Fist Publishing and the Plastic [...]
Review: Open Combat Sword Masters
Rating: Open Combat is a set of warband skirmish rules designed to be played with any set of miniatures that the gamer has to hand, and is published by Second Thunder. The [...]
Forager Napoleonic skirmish rules launch on Kickstarter
In Episode 224 of the Podcast, we spoke to Adrian McWalter of Stand To Games about his new set of Napoleonic skirmish rules: Forager Adrian and Quinton have just launched a [...]
Saga Iron Man tournament at Battlefield Hobbies
After I first heard about the format of the Saga Iron Man tournament, I was determined to enter the next one that was relatively local to me – so I was [...]
Review: Scum of the Earth
Rating: Scum of the Earth (Black Powder gaming for the rest of us) is a set of rules developed by Ivan Sorenson & Matthew Sparkes and published by Nordic Weasel Games. [...]
General d’Armee released by Reisswitz Press
General ‘d’Armee – a new set of rules for gaming in the age of Napoleon, written by Dave Brown – have been released by Reisswitz Press. The rules are [...]
Test of Honour boot camp – May 6th 2017
Fourteen gamers from across the land arrived on a somewhat damp May morning at the Headquarters of Warlord Games in the heart of Nottingham to attend the first Warlord Test [...]
Sword & Spear: Video Guides
It may have come to your notice that we at the Meeples & Miniatures Podcast are big fans of the Sword & Spear rules. With the launch of Sword & Spear Fantasy last [...]
General d’Armee available for pre-order
One of my (many) failings during Salute last weekend was totally failing to grab an interview with Dave Brown about his forthcoming ruleset General d’Armee. Luckily, [...]
Storming the Citadel – new Pint-sized campaign for Chain of Command
Too Fat Lardies have just released a new Pint-sized campaign book for their Chain of Command World War II rules – Storming The Citadel. Taking a break from post D-Day [...]
Commands & Colors: Tricorne is launched on Kickstarter
There had been news floating around that the next conflict to get the ‘Commands & Colors’ treatment would be the American Revolution (or the American War of [...]
Unboxing Test of Honour – Core Box & Faction Boxes
As you no doubt know by know, I have been in a state of excited anticipation ever since Warlord Games announced that they were releasing Test of Honour. Well, the time has [...]
Review: Bushi No Yume
Rating: Bushi No Yume (BNY) is a set of skirmish rules for fighting in ancient Japan, using either a historical of fantasy setting. They were written in 2010 by our friend [...]
Review: Daisho
Rating: Daisho is a set of skirmish rules for warfare set in mythical Japan. The rules are written by Charles Murton and Craig Cartmell of The Ministry of Gentlemanly [...]
Meeples & Miniatures – Episode 200 – The War of 1812
Download Episode 200 Welcome to Episode 200 of the Meeples & Miniatures Podcast In this show, hosts Neil Shuck, Mike Hobbs, Mike Whitaker and Dave Luff catch up [...]
Sam Mustafa releases new podcast about Rommel
Sam Mustafa has released a new podcast about his forthcoming World War II game Rommel, which is due for release in late summer of 2017. It in he discusses the basic game [...]
Baccus 6mm release ‘Ruse de Guerre’ rules
Baccus 6mm have released a new set of rules in the Polemos range: Ruse de Guerre – War in the Americas, written by Glenn Pearce. These rules cover three different [...]
Review: Banzai
Rating: Banzai: Age of the Country at War is a set of wargaming rules written by Robert Fellows and published by 2D6 Wargaming in 2016. This game is written to be used with [...]
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