Virtual Gaming – Chain of Command
Thanks to COVID-19, many of us had not had the chance to play a game face-to-face with an opponent for almost 11 months. Over that time several solutions to this problem have [...]
World War II
Review: Painting Wargames Figures – WWII in the Desert
When gaming World War II, my first love has always been the European Theatre from D-Day until the end of the war. However, since the release of What A Tanker! from Too Far [...]
Operation Lüttich with Memoir ’44
The latest battle between myself and The Halfing Hickman saw us say face-to-face across the Memoir ’44 board, with Dave’s plucky Americans facing the might of [...]
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 [...]
Calling all What A Tanker! fans – ‘must see’ videos
…well, videos of interest to anyone with an interest in World War II actually… Back in the dim distant past, I found a company that produced a number of [...]
Calling all Bag The Hun fans – ‘must see’ videos
…well, videos of interest to anyone with an interest in World War II actually… Back in the dim distant past, I found a company that produced a number of [...]
UBOOT The Board Game currently on Kickstarter
I don’t know if you ever saw it, but for many people, Das Boot (a TV mini-series which was also edited into a film) is one of the definitive films about life on [...]
Miniature painting in 2017
It’s fair to say that my painting output in 2017 has been somewhat sporadic. It started off well enough – I received a number of units for my Planetfall Terran [...]
Meeples & Miniatures – Episode 225 – Rommel
Download Episode 225 Welcome to Episode 225 of the Meeples & Miniatures Podcast The Meeples & Miniatures crew get together once again to talk about what they [...]
Kenneth’s Heroes – Building the board, Part II
Over the past few weeks, Dave Luff and I have been scratch-building scenery for our “Kenneth’s Heroes” game for Operation Market Larden, which is being held [...]
Review: The Campaign for Kharkov: October 1941
Rating: This 48 page book, available as a PDF or an e-book, is a campaign supplement written by Chris Stoesen for the Chain of Command World War II Platoon level rules from [...]
Kenneth’s Heroes – building the board, Part I
Dave Luff and I are putting on a game for Operation Market Larden 5, a wargaming event being held in Evesham in a few weeks time. We are once again running a Big Chain of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
15mm World War II British vehicles from Gaming Models
Last week I received a parcel, very kindly sent to me by podcast listener Jon Yuengling. He’d heard Dave Luff and I chatting about this year’s project for [...]
New 15mm models coming from Plastic Soldier Company
The Plastic Soldier Company have just announced two new releases for their 15mm range of vehicles: The first is the German SDkfz 231 8-rad Armoured Car, which is one of my [...]
Kickstarter Round-up – 30th January 2017
Here is the latest set of crowdfunding projects to catch my eye… Miniatures The Elsor-Varo – 28mm Sci-fi Space Dwarf miniatures Gydran Miniatures Studio is [...]
Meeples & Miniatures – Episode 192 – Jim Bambra & Combat HQ
Download Episode 192 Welcome to Episode 192 of the Meeples & Miniatures Podcast In this show, hosts Neil Shuck and Mike Whitaker talk to games designer Jim Bambra [...]
Hobby News Round-up: w/e 20th January 2017
Here are a few of the pieces of news from around the hobby that caught my attention this week: Curteys Miniatures are releasing some new Romano British Heavy Cavalry. [...]
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 [...]
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