Painting Tally – August 2018
August found me reconnecting with hobby time, although much of the month was spent building terrain rather than painting figures: creating bamboo forests, paddy fields and [...]
Sci-Fi Gaming
Kill Team – First impressions
I had the opportunity earlier this week to take a look at Kill Team – the new skirmish wargame from Games Workshop, set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe – when I went to [...]
Red Alert: Space Fleet Warfare launches on Kickstarter
Red Alert: Space Fleet Warfare is a new Commands & Colors variant from Richard Borg. As the name suggests, this variant of the game takes place in deep space, and covers [...]
Star Wars: Legion – First impressions
I had the chance over the past few days to play a couple of games of the long-anticipated new miniature wargame from Fantasy Flight Games – Star Wars: Legion. This is [...]
Nemesis Board Game launches on Kickstarter
There is some debate amongst film fans as to which of the first two Alien films are the best – let’s ignore what happened after Aliens, as it all goes somewhat [...]
Core Space – new sc-fi skirmish game launches on Kickstarter
Core Space is the new sci-fi skirmish game from Battle Systems, which is currently funding on Kickstarter. Battle Systems have previously run four very successful kickstarter [...]
Warcradle Studios obtain Spartan Games IP from Rebel Publishing
Just in case you missed the announcement earlier this week, Warcradle Studios – the creative studio of Wayland Games, who are currently known for their game Wild West [...]
X-Wing – Flying Casual
I’d noted in my first post about Dilution Theory that I hadn’t played the X-Wing Miniatures Game this year, despite very much enjoying the game. One of the [...]
3mm Sci-Fi forces coming from Vanguard Miniatures
Vanguard Miniatures produce a range of sci-fi miniatures in various different scales. Their popular Defeat in Detail range is available in several different scales, probably [...]
Imperial Assault Gunboat announced for X-Wing
This was probably one of the first views I ever got of the Imperial Assault Gunboat. It was the mid-1990s, I was playing the Lucasarts X-Wing Space Combat Simulation [...]
Spartan Games expands the Firestorm Galaxy via Kickstarter
Spartan Games are looking to expand the Firestorm Galaxy, and have launched a Kickstarter project to that end. Firestorm Armada was originally launched back in 2009, and has [...]
Antenocitis Workshop launch new 15mm/28mm sci-fi vehicle range on Kickstarter
I have always felt that there has been something of a hole in the 28mm sci-fi vehicles market since Old Crow Models essentially ceased trading. In recent years, there have [...]
It’s 40K, but not as we know it
A the start of June this year, Devil Pig Games made an announcement which may have come as something of a surprise – they were going to produce a new game based on [...]
Star Wars: Rebellion – First impressions
Last weekend I played Star Wars: Rebellion from Fantasy Flight Games for the first time. Star Wars: Rebellion is a strategy board game which aims to recreate the Galactic [...]
Meeples & Miniatures – Episode 215 – White Dragon Miniatures
Download Episode 215 Welcome to Episode 215 of the Meeples & Miniatures Podcast In this show the Meeples Crew are joined by guest Alan Crooks of White Dragon [...]
The Drowned Earth Miniatures Game on Kickstarter
If you listened to our Salute 2017: Interviews podcast, near the end you would have heard us chat to James Baldwin about The Drowned Earth Miniatures Game, which is currently [...]
Meeples & Miniatures – Episode 205 – The EPIC Show
Download Episode 205 Welcome to Episode 205 of the Meeples & Miniatures Podcast Mike Hobbs takes the reins of the podcast to present a show about one of his [...]
Meeples & Miniatures – Episode 203 – Pig Iron Productions
Download Episode 203 Welcome to Episode 203 of the Meeples & Miniatures Podcast Once again the Meeples & Miniatures team get together to catch up with what [...]
Star Eagles launched on Kicktarter
Ganesha Games have launched a new box game on Kickstarter – Star Eagles. This is a sci-fi game of space fighter combat using 1/285 scale miniatures, which are produced [...]
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 [...]
