Today I'm excited to have on the site Aaron from Project Wargaming, a YouTube channel that is a finalist in the Caesar Awards for Best Painting Tutorial. In his tutorial he paints 2mm French Napoleonics, and it absolutely blows me away how good he can get those tiny little soldiers to look. (I experimented once…
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…
Ever since I read Bernard Cornwell's Waterloo, the crowning achievement of his Sharpe's Rifles series, I have been absolutely fascinated with this battle. There is so much intrigue, so many mistakes, so many genius moves. The Napoleonic Era was truly epic (no pun intended) in its military magnificence. It's almost hard NOT to over-romanticize the…
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…
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…
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…