Review by Dom Sore. Cold War goes hot gaming in the 1980s. This is where my wargame journey started when I spied the collection of a neighbour while being babysat by his mother. Eleven year old me was very excited to see the huge amount of tanks he had on neat little bases. It is a period I have wanted...

Gripping Beast continue to produce new factions for their incredibly popular “Saga” skirmish game, this time looking to those implacable enemies of Byzantium, the Avars. Included in our review bundle are; the High Chieftain command pack, two further command packs, two packs of Avar nobles with spears and two packs of mounted archers. The High Chieftain comes with a standard-bearer...

“Rangers of Shadow Deep” (RoSD) is a fantasy skirmish game written by Joseph A. McCullough, who has already authored the successful “Frostgrave” and “Ghost Archipelago” games. Because this is a skirmish game, you do not need many miniatures to get started and this also means that you can afford to invest some time in collecting and painting the miniatures you...

Review by Pete Brown. Wargames Atlantic are launching a series of boxed, multi-pose, plastic miniatures which will, their website states, cover: “a wide swath of time starting with the first civilizations of the eastern Mediterranean through to the conquests of Alexander.” First amongst these is a box of ancient Persian Infantry. The box contains eight identical sprues, each of which...