Hobby motivation in the wargaming hobby can be hard sometimes. I know that I've experienced it a little in the face of the current war in Ukraine, as the whole situation has soured me to the thought of guns and tanks. (I had been working on a Death Korps of Krieg army and decided to…
What are the Most Popular Games Workshop Games?
As I was browsing Reddit, I saw a question that surprised me. Someone asked "Is Warhammer 40k or Age of Sigmar more popular?"
Now I, being a very old timer in the hobby (I bought my first Warhammer Fantasy skeletons around 1987, and got into Warhammer 40k…
Should hobbies be a luxury? This is the question that seems to be coming up more and more as various game companies (Games Workshop, we're looking at you) are raising their prices--prices that were already very high to begin with. When something is a luxury good (no one can deny that Games Workshop is the…
Building Armies in Bolt Action: A Primer
Guest Post by Troy from Sonic Sledgehammer Studio
If there's one question that comes up more often in Bolt Action groups even more than "How do I paint my army?" it might well be "How do I build my army?" If you're someone already familiar with how squads,…
Aside from D-Day, perhaps the best known battle in World War Two (in America, at least) is The Battle of the Bulge, and it has been the seed of many WW2 wargames. World War Two is without a doubt the most wargamed conflict in history, beating out ancients and medievals and Napoleonics handily. It's easy…
Just as I did with my Normandy display board, I had collected so many models that I decided I needed a new place to display them and, despite my protests, my wife wouldn't let me set them up on top of the piano in the living room. So, I decided to build a display board.…
I am thrilled to interview Troy from Sonic Sledgehammer Studios, because it was Sonic Sledgehammer's YouTube channel that got me out of a major hobby rut and convinced me to get into historical wargaming.
One of the things that I like best about Sonic Sledgehammer is that the videos are incredibly accessible. They are…
When I decided to take the plunge into Bolt Action, I wasn't going to do things halfway. I started off getting two starter armies for my birthday: the US Infantry Starter Army, and the Waffen-SS Starter Army. I painted them up in no time (I have since learned that painting Warlord Games' Bolt Action miniatures…
Review Score:
Gameplay: 7/10
Lore: 6/10
Hobbying: 8/10
Konflict 47 is a game that absolutely delights me and it makes me sad that absolutely no one in my entire state seems to play it. It is a less-popular wargame from Warlord Games, based on the Bolt Action system, and it…
"If the tanks succeed, then victory follows."
--Heinz Guderian, German WWII General and Tank Commander
Whether you play the standard Bolt Action wargame or Bolt Action's Tank War, odds are good that you've got tanks in your army. They're not only some of the best looking models on the table, but they…