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 [...]
World War II
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 [...]
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 [...]
Kickstarter Round-up – w/c 9th January 2017
It’s been two or three weeks since my last look at crowdfunding, so some of the projects here are nearing their end-date. Miniatures Darklands: Starter Hosts Mierce [...]
Kickstarter Round-up – 2nd December 2016
A small number of KS projects to tell you of this week… Miniatures MAGGLET DWARVES MINIATURES Magglet, a Spanish company formed by twin brothers Huo and Aaron, are [...]
PSC release British 25pdr with CMP Quad Tractor
Following their successful Kickstarter project earlier in the year, Plastic Soldier Company are currently releasing different variants of their British 25pdr kits. The 25pdr [...]
Chain of Command – Too Fat Lardies WWII rules on sale
Too Fat Lardies are currently have their Platoon-Level World War II rules, along with most of their related supplements and accessories, on offer with a somewhat [...]
Size comparison – Battlefront vs Plastic Soldier Company 15mm Sherman Tanks
Last night I found myself putting together the plastic models that are supplied with the Tanks skirmish game. These plastic kits are from Battlefront. The construction [...]
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 [...]
Battlegroup – Vehicle Datacards now available
As the Battlegroup rules for World War II have expanded, one increasing problem has been looking up vehicle stats. The stats for each vehicle are held in a section of [...]
Too Fat Lardies Summer Special 2016 now available
As well as producing various rules and scenario books throughout the year, Too Fat Lardies produce a bi-annual special in PDF format which contains all sorts of articles [...]
