Crucible Crush and Bob Murch have added more packs to their Cthulhu inspired Black Sun range. However, our two packs for review are also suitable for a more historical setting, with one from the US forces and the other representing the Vietcong. The US Army pack is entitled U.S. Army Squad
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Pendraken Miniatures have added more packs to their 10mm 1809 Napoleonic range. The packs chosen for review are command packs for the period. We’re reviewing three of the available packs – The Duchy of Warsaw, Wurtemburgers and Saxons. Each pack contains five figures in the same ratio, one mounted officer, one
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Just as we were about to post this week’s Primetime bulletin we were handed a copy of the rulebook for Warlord's new ‘Age of Sail Battle Game’ Black Seas. In order for our Prime Members to see it before anyone else we’ve rushed out this initial Flipthrough of the book.
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North Star Miniatures continue to expand their Rangers of Shadow Deep range, based upon the Osprey Games rules. These latest figures are for the ‘dark side’ of the game, most notably a selection of living and undead denizens. First up for review is a pack entitled Temple Guardians. This contains two
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The First Campaign Victory of the Great War: South Africa, manoeuvre warfare, the Afrikaner Rebellion and the German South West Africa Campaign 1914-1915. Antonio Garcia Helion Books Reviewed by Jim Graham The First Campaign Victory of the Great War by Antonio Garcia is published by Helion, and has 208 pages including index and
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The Napoleonic Ottoman Army Uniforms, Tactics and Organization C. Flaherty Partizan Press Reviewed by There is very little written material available in English about the Ottoman Army during the Napoleonic period and hence this new work by Chris Flaherty is very welcome. The book is an A4 size hardback book that runs to 180
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Frederick Whirlpool VC Alan Leek Pen & Sword, 2019 Reviewed by Neil Smith Frederick Whirlpool welcomed his obscurity in late 19th Century Australia, indeed he worked at it and even assumed a false name to guarantee his anonymity. His success might have been assured except for two things; he won Australia’s first Victoria Cross,
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The latest in a series of books, A Wargamer’s Guide to Making Tabletop Terrain: Tales of a Wargames Widow Vol. 2 may not be a title which slips off the tongue but functions as a useful guide for gamers. An 85-page softback book, each section outlines the process and materials
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We take a sneak peek at Warlord Games' plastic 3rd rate ship frame, being released for Black Seas, their upcoming Napoleonic Era naval combat game. The new frame consists of enough parts to create one 3rd Rate vessel, a 74-gun ship with three decks of cannon, complete with some positioned
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Games Workshop has a talent for releasing a wide variety of different gaming experiences. One of the latest to hit the market is Blackstone Fortress, an adventure-style tabletop game where a disparate group of characters venture forth into the environs of the titular Blackstone Fortress, an ancient piece of technology
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Mantic Games continue to support their Kings of War: Vanguard skirmish level game. Two of the latest releases are for the same faction, the Undead. https://youtu.be/Mu-ZcgVjgeI Vanguard games are designed to be played as the special missions and encounters that take place before or around the periphery of a full-on battle. Bearing
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Footsore Miniatures have added more packs to their Later Dark Ages range. These are warrior monks or Milites Christi which can be used for both the late Dark Ages or Medieval periods. We’re reviewing two of the five available Milites Christi packs - Warrior Monks with Cross and Warrior Monks with
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North Star Miniatures have a range of miniatures which take the generic title ‘Horror’. It’s an interesting and eclectic range of single figures and packs, which embraces much from spooky literature and movies. One of the classic horror genres was largely invented by the author H.P. Lovecraft, who explored the realms
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Crusader Miniatures are expanding American Civil War range. One of the most recent releases are a packs representing the 79th New York Volunteer Infantry, the New York Highlanders. The pack we have here contains five figures, a command pack consisting of two standard bearers, and officer in frockcoat with a sword,
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The Eighth Army in North Africa. Rare Photographs from Wartime Arichives Simon Forty Pen & Sword Military Reviewed by To put it like John Miles, the North African campaign was my first love and probably will be my last. The campaign ultimately got me into scale modelling and wargaming. So over the years I have
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Edward the Elder – King of the Anglo-Saxons, Forgotten Son of Alfred Michael John Key Amberley Publishing Reviewed by Bernd Biege When the first sentence of the first chapter has the author praising his own book, it gets my bristles up ... and classifying Edward the Elder as “forgotten” does the same. Not a
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D-Day Through German Eyes: How the Wehrmacht Lost France Hardcover Jonathan Trigg Amberley Publishing Reviewed by Matt Hardwick This is an interesting title from Jonathan Trigg. A graduate from the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst who served in the Royal Anglican Regiment in Northern Ireland, Bosnia and the Gulf, he has written other books on
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Chieftain British Cold War Main Battle Tank Robert Jackson Pen & Sword, 2019 Reviewed by Neil Smith The Chieftain tank is synonymous with the United Kingdom’s participation in the Cold War as a member of NATO. In Chieftain British Cold War Main Battle Tank, part of Pen & Sword’s Tank Craft series, tank expert
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Compatible with Beneath the Lily Banners 3rd Edition: The War of Three Kings, the new With Talon and Claw supplement adds additional levels of detail to games set during the Great Northern War 1700 – 1721 and the Eastern Wars 1670 - 1723. A 183-page hardback book, this is a
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We’ve got an eclectic selection of new stuff to tell you about from Gripping Beast. ITALIAN ALLIES Pictured below you can see some of their re-worked and re-released ‘Italian Allies’ suitable for the Punic Wars. Nice looking figures which have benefited for GBs programme of going through their back catalogue of Ancient
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Adler Miniatures have begun adding more figures to their 20mm World War Two range, this time offering a number of Late War Waffen SS. These particular figures are depicted as wearing a two-piece uniform, which was made available in the so-called ‘pea dot’ camouflage. Designed to be worn over the top
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Putty Monkey, AKA sculptor Mark Evans, recently ran a Kickstarter campaign to fund the production of a number of figures based upon the Aftermath RPG that first appeared in the 1980’s. Aftermath is set in a post-apocalyptic world in which the characters typically had to fight for food, water, basic supplies and
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Empress Miniatures and Paul Hicks continue to add to their US Vietnam range. The latest releases represent some of the key personalities of the 1968 Tet Offensive on the American side, plus some of the first releases of North Vietnamese Army figures. The American personality pack, known as Nam 12, includes
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The new Eureka Miniatures UK have begun to receive stock of the new ECW range from ‘HQ’ in Australia. These 18mm figures represent either English or Scots troops, and have been created using head swaps. The figures in this range show the versatility of using ‘dollies’, the same basic figure with
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Victorious Miniatures have added two more packs to their Boxer Rebellion range. These are members of the Legation, more of the hodge podge of various troop types who were available to defend the European quarter. The first pack (bottom photo) ion contains a single figure, representing a French naval officer. Wearing
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Buy this in Print There is something particularly evocative about warfare on the frontiers. It’s easy to conjure up images of fighting on the great plains or mountain passes on the fringes of empire. In this issue of Wargames Illustrated we explore some of the wargaming potential offered by Frontier Wars,
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River Horse, current kings of the licensed miniatures game, have begun to deliver one of their Kickstarted games, based upon the Pacific Rim: Extinction movie. The game arrives in an impressive looking box, complete with two ‘windows’ that show off the two pre-assembled, pre-painted miniatures. https://youtu.be/--Cgu8EgI4Q The sturdy box surrounds a plastic
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After a successful Kickstarter campaign, Sally 4th have released their Albedo Combat Patrol miniatures game to the retail market. This is an A4 114-page softback book, printed in full colour. Based upon a ‘hard’ sci-fi setting with genetically engineered anthropomorphic animals as the main protagonists, the book reflects the wars
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Anvil Industry in the UK have branched out once again, this time offering a new part of their Regiments range. The Boiler-Suited Renegades are alien/human hybrids who are ready to rise from the working masses and take over. The figures in the Regiments range make use of a variety of resin
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Gaddis Gaming in the USA have some interesting and unique miniatures which cover both World War One and the company’s ‘Weird’ War One rules and setting, Shattered Crown. The 369th Infantry Regiment, formerly known as the 15th New York National Guard Regiment and commonly referred to as the Harlem Hellfighters, was an infantry regiment of the New York Army
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