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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Grey For Now Games now own the rights to the game that the founders designed. To celebrate this fact, the lead designer has gone back to the rules as published and added new levels of play, whilst shifting the focus from just large groups of figures fighting to a more
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Osprey Games have released the latest in their new range of hardback rules systems, this time focussed upon skirmish level rules for adventures during the classic Cyberpunk setting, complete with mega corporations, dystopian themes and combat from street to hyper reality level. This is a roughly US Letter format rulebook,
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Partizan Press have released another new rulebook, this time designed for fighting battles during the colonial period in the Sudan from 1883 to 1885. The excellently titled Up The Nile is a 44-page, softback book presented in a handy, slightly larger than A5, format. https://youtu.be/wBm1AeZIWNM The rules are written by Kevin Calder
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Helion & Company have once again teamed up with artist Peter Dennis to produce the second book in the Paperboys On Campaign series, this time focussing upon The Peninsular War during the Napoleonic period. This 48-page softback book consists of sheets of paper-based figures that may be photocopied and cut
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Warlord Games and Osprey Games have released the latest supplement for Bolt Action, this time covering the Allied invasion of Europe in 1944, D-Day: Overlord. This is a 216-page softback book, a combination of historical background, scenarios, new force and theatre selectors and new rules. https://youtu.be/5VKPJrmKaFE The first 130 pages of the
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Pen and Sword have released a new book written by a wargamer, for wargamers. Wargames Terrain & Buildings: The Napoleonic Wars is basically a series of model making projects in various scales that can also be used for other periods and contains a wealth of techniques. This is a 160-page
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Partizan Press have released a new pair of books for wargaming the so-called ‘Lace Wars’, Face Another Foe. Volume 1 is a 64-page, softback book that provides the core rules and Volume 2 is a 68-page softback full of additional army lists. Based upon Jon Sutherland’s Mad Dogs and Englishmen
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Warlord Games have added to the settings outlined for their Black Powder rules, publishing A Dark and Bloody Ground. Designed to showcase the French and Indian Wars, this 180-page softback book is focussed upon wargaming within this fascinating period. https://youtu.be/2x2l5CnJWpk The book presents basic historical information for battles in North America between
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Ocelot Games and Crooked Dice Game Design Studio have come together to create Grandville, a ‘Programme Guide’ which allows players into the comic book universe of Bryan Talbot’s internationally acclaimed graphic novels. This is an 80-page, hardback book that provides rules and support material to run the games, plus a
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