Maybe you've always wanted to dabble in historicals, but they've seemed so hard to get into. Maybe you're a life long 28mm player and historicals' 15mm and 6mm scale has scared you away. Maybe you don't feel you have the same freedom with a historical army that you have with a fantasy or science fiction…
Wargaming D-Day, 77 Years Later
Whether you know about D-Day from the movies, such as Saving Private Ryan, The Longest Day, or Band of Brothers, or whether you know about it from video games, such as Medal of Honor, Battlefield, World of Tanks, or dozens more, the fact is that D-Day (or, Operation…
The scale of miniature wargames is a big deal, especially as you move from one wargame to the next. And, while we had a period where most games (aside from many historicals) were squarely in the 28mm camp, it seems like there has been a renaissance of alternate miniature wargaming scales.
In this article we’re going…
Having grown up my whole life entrenched in Games Workshop, it wasn't until a few years ago that I ever played a historical wargame and got involved in that community. But once I was in that community, and particularly in the online communities I came upon two things I found difficult to process about historical…
WWIII: Team Yankee is a wargame from Battlefront (the same company that does Flames of War), which is based on the novel, Team Yankee, by Harold Coyle. The book, which came out in 1987, is a technothriller which describes a shooting war in East and West Germany at some point during the 1980s.
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The introduction of tanks into the fighting of World War One is the stuff of legend (and very often myth, as the tanks weren't quite as effective back then as we like to think they were). Those tanks were intimidating and terrifying when first viewed, but they were hell to drive in, with the crew…