When we think of Halloween, we might not immediately think of wargaming and miniatures, but Halloween miniatures are absolutely a staple of the genre, as are Halloween wargames. While there are plenty of questing knights and lizardmen and Space Marines in wargaming, there is SO MUCH in wargaming perfectly suited for Halloween: demons, ghosts, vampires…
The Great Wargaming Survey is here. This is one of the most important wargaming events of the year for the industry and it behooves us all to participate and spread the word as much as we can. This survey, which is put on every year by Wargames, Soldiers and Strategy Magazine, is the closest thing…
I have been getting so excited about historicals lately that I decided I needed to make the plunge into some smaller scale stuff. And while yes, I did buy some 15mm American Civil War (or, "Epic Scale" as Warlord Games calls it) I wanted to dip my toe into the very small: 6mm WWII. …
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…
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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I did it. I splurged and got Marvel Crisis Protocol even though it has nothing to do with any of my other gaming. I've got all the miniatures sitting here on my desk beside me and I'm intimidated by them because supersuits kinda have to be the perfect vibrant colors, right? It's not a soldier…