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. [...]
Napoleonic
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Too Fat Lardies release ‘The War of 1812’ supplement for Sharp Practice 2
You may remember that back at the end of March last year, I posted a battle report from a playtest that I had been involved in at Lard Island. That playtest was for The War [...]
Meeples & Miniatures – Episode 196 – Over the Hills
Download Episode 196 Welcome to Episode 196 of the Meeples & Miniatures Podcast In this show, hosts Neil Shuck, Mike Hobbs, Mike Whitaker and Dave Luff talk to [...]
Hobby News – w/e 27th January 2017
Here are some news items from the hobby that caught my eye in the past week: This week, Too Fat Lardies posted some new army lists for their Sharp Practice rules on Lard [...]
Kickstarter Round-up: w/c 16th January 2017
Miniatures 4th Canadian Mechanised Brigade Group ArmiesArmy have just launched a crowdfunding project to raise funds to create a new addition to their Cold War range of [...]
Hobby News Round-up: w/e 15th January 2017
Here is some of the news from around the hobby that has caught my eye this week: New tank battle game coming from Too Fat Lardies There has been an announcement made on the [...]
New 95th Rifle Veterans from Paul Hicks
Sculptor Paul Hicks has just shared some pictures of his latest figures on his Facebook page. These are some veterans from the 95th Rifles, which readers or viewers of a [...]
Every base tells a story
One of the great things about going to wargames shows is looking at some of the games and getting inspiration from some beautiful painting and modelling. Ever since my usual [...]
Showcase – Jim Ibbotson’s Napoleonic game, 1st July 2016
I’m sure you will agree that the hobby is full of talented individuals, whether they are authors, sculptors, painters, model makers…the list goes on. I’m [...]
On the Painting Table – w/c 6th June 2016
Only one thing on the painting table this week. That will be a 6mm Napoleonic Army for Sharp Practice. 5 Units of regulars 3 units of Voltigeurs 1 Unit of Curassier 2 Units [...]
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 [...]
The “Secret” Sharp Practice 2 Project
…well, if you’ve listened to the last podcast, or been following me on Twitter, this hasn’t actually been very secret at all. Following the release of Sharp [...]
SP2: 15mm or 28mm?
Just when I thought I’d decided what we were doing for Sharp practice 2… I will be collecting a French force for the Peninsular War, and so I thought that [...]
First look at Sharp Practice 2 layout
Today, Too Fat Lardies have given us a preview of the layout for Sharp Practice 2, and very nice it looks too. From what we can see, this appears to have a similar look [...]
The Russians are coming for Blucher
Blucher, the large scale Napoleonic rules from Sam Mustafa, have received some new reinforcements. You may remember that Blucher has been designed to be used with either [...]
Siezez La Saucisson! Sharp Practice 2 at Hereward Wargames Show
As part of our trip to Hereward Wargames Show over the weekend, Richard Clarke of Too Fat Lardies invited Mike Hobbs and I to partake in the first show outing of the upcoming [...]
