River Horse Ltd. have managed to gain another great movie licence. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay board game partially crosses the barrier into a tabletop miniature game by including top quality figures of many of the main characters from the movie. https://youtu.be/qkwFNKgQj_A Lifting the lid of the box, it’s the miniatures we
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October 2018 saw the release of the small flotilla naval game Cruel Seas, by Warlord Games, one massive errata sheet later, as well as an array of splendid model boats and accessories and here comes the release of the first published supplement - Close Quarters. https://youtu.be/F5nY3GTift8 Note: The text below is the
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Godseye Games are a new company who have just released Contact Front, ‘modern warfare rules’. This is a 94-page softback book, which aims to “puts you in the shoes of the platoon commander, balancing mission objectives with the lives of those under your command”, with its main area of focus
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The Art and Making of Fantasy Miniatures is a 238 page hardback, coffee table book, packed full of colour photos and artwork, with a sprinkling of text, which aims to ‘showcase some of the best talent in the industry’. The industry in question being fantasy figures, so historical purists should
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Warlord Games have released Air Strike!, a set of new and updated rules and scenarios for the popular Blood Red Skies . This is a 76 page softback book, with fold out target cards and photcopiable resources. https://youtu.be/2Kf6XvFR3Fw The original Blood Red Skies rules have been updated and expanded in the course
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This new book from Partizan Press is as detailed as its title is long! The Wargamer’s Guide To Making Tabletop Terrain: Tales of a Wargames Widow Vol. 3 is the latest collection of the articles previously published in Battlegames and Miniature Wargames under the ‘Wargames Widow’ title. Author Diane Sutherland
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These new fantasy rules from Fireforge Games are actually two sets of rules in one. The Forgotten Worlds rulebook is 80-pages and offered in a softcover format. This is fundamentally a two-player game, with the option to add additional players if required. https://youtu.be/Kjr7A_X0Qbk After a brief introduction which provides a basic guide
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Having recently unboxed the Judge Dredd: I Am The Law! boxed game from Warlord Games, we thought we would take a closer look at the core rulebook for the Judge Dredd Miniatures Game. https://youtu.be/IfpOCGe8mEo The rulebook is 160-pages and offered as a softcover. Although there is also a hardback version, the latter
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Battlefront continue to offer a range of new and re-packaged items to support their Flames of War rules system. Some of the most recent offerings are for the Axis forces, most particularly the (in)famous German paratroopers, the Fallschrimjäger. https://youtu.be/lnKUn2xCvZI Rather than being based upon the Early War sky warriors of the Blitzkrieg-era,
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Zona Alfa is a skirmish level game set within a distinctly Russian background, with deliberate overtones of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and METRO 2033 backgrounds, a type of pseudo pre- or post-Soviet aesthetic. Players venture into an extreme version of a post-Chernobyl Disaster style environment, an area known as The Zone, where
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Ragnarok: The Vanir is the first supplement for the Ragnarok core rulebook, the ‘Heavy Metal combat in the Viking Age’ skirmish game released last year. The supplement introduces a surviving faction of the Gods, the Vanir, and their chosen servants, the Skraeling Tribes. An 111-page, full colour hardback book, this
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Setting the Scene Volume 2, subtitled Creating a Wargames Layout for the Mediterranean, is fundamentally a series of wargaming terrain building projects. These are all presented in a stage by stage format, with full instructions and plenty of photographic support. A 148-page, full colour softback book, this is a book
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Maximillian 1934 is a set of vehicle racing rules with a difference: players create a vehicle using a design system, adding weapons, armour and engine enhancements before taking part in auto-duelling races full of the screech of tyres and chatter of machine guns. The Maximillian 1934: The Grande Tour book
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Bataille Empire is a set of wargaming rules covering the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, catering for a wide variety of figure sizes. The rulebook itself is a 256-page softback and aims to both inform as well as provide ‘historical’ wargaming rules. https://youtu.be/HlLLIFGI3Po The introduction details the main aims of the book, being
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The second of the painting guides written by Mark Hargreaves, the Painting World War One 28mm Wargaming Figures: The Middle Eastern Theatres Volume 2 book serves as a wargamer’s guide to painting figures from the armies of the Ottoman Empire, Germany and Austria. This is an 88-page softcover book that
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Although published a few years ago, it’s worth mentioning this set of rules, which takes a somewhat different approach to the zombie apocalypse. Taking its cue from the world explored in the Pride and Prejudice and Zombies novel and movie, Jane Austen: Zombie Killer is a 48-page, A5 softback rulebook
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The fourth in a series of wargaming guides from Crowood Press, the Creating a Napoleonic Wargames Army 1809 – 1815 book serves as a very comprehensive guide to starting out in the Napoleonic Period and provides access to a number of possibilities. This is a 159-page softcover book that is
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After reviewing the boxed set of Core Space from Battle Systems, we were so impressed by this unique take on a sci-fi universe that we’d thought we’d take a closer look at the rulebook, in particular the ‘standalone’ deluxe hardback version. https://youtu.be/SjJw9jFmlrU Core Space is a miniatures based game where a band
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The latest supplement in the Frostgrave series is Perilous Dark, a set of rules and scenarios which allow for something different, solo and cooperative play within the frozen city of Felstad. https://youtu.be/sOOrYCxm3fU The book begins with an introduction from the author which both explains and expands the Frostgrave ‘universe’. In essence, the
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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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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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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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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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Battlefront have produced a number of supplements and figure sets to tie in with their current focus upon the Late War period, most notably the D-Day landings and beyond. To that end, they have released two new supplements for the American and German forces. https://youtu.be/b9MYv3dTTz4 The American book begins with a summary
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Steel and Steed is a ‘Wargaming ruleset for knights at Tournament’. This 112 page softback A4 book pitches the lead player in the role of host of a medieval tournament, or series of tournaments, which can involve: one on one combat, jousting, mounted combat, team combat on foot and horseback
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In the first ‘post-WW2 setting’ release for their highly successful Bolt Action rules system, Warlord Games have released Bolt Action: Korea. This new supplement is pretty much a whole new approach to the rules – although set only five years since the end of a worldwide conflict, the new book
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SPQR is the new miniatures game from Warlord Games, in this video we are going to flipthrough the 196 page, A4 softback rulebook, which is available to purchase on its own, or as part of the Clash of Heroes boxed starter set. To read a complete playthrough of the rules
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In the great pantheon of gaming rules, it is inevitable that we’ll miss out on a few. However, Fistful of Lead by Wiley Games looks like one of those we should learn about and share. Starting life as a set of gunfight rules for the Old West about 18 years
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Osprey Games have released the first supplement for the Last Days: Zombie Apocalypse skirmish gaming system. Seasons adds new layers of options to your campaign games, introducing the complications that seasonal changes and weather can have on groups of survivors. The new book is in the current Osprey Games hardcover
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Osprey Games have teamed up once more with game designer Mike Hutchinson and parts of the Gaslands community to present a new and shiny hardback version of the basic rules, plus a whole host of new content. The new book is a slightly larger than A5 hardcover format book with
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