The Ground Zero Games 15mm Stargrunt range is just part of the excellent ranges of figures from this venerable company. These really are some of the best 15mm sci-fi figures on the market, whether infantry, vehicles, flyers or more. However, owner Jon Tuffley never rests on his deserved laurels, and
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Modiphius Entertainment produce a number of excellent gaming products based upon the licences they hold. Yet they also produce items that are more generic and would grace many a tabletop, especially for those looking for that Post Apocalyptic aesthetic epitomised by the Fallout series. https://youtu.be/LkZNJAb-R6g One of the largest terrain sets
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Grey For Now Games continue to build upon their Test of Honour 2nd Edition rules by adding this new boxed set of miniatures and cards - Ashigaru Scouts. https://youtu.be/nB5uSDc5DDw Having opened the box, we come upon two ‘clamshell’ packs of figures. One of these contains a mounted Samurai Captain and Ashigaru Sergeant.
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Building upon their range of plastic Goth and Roman multi-pose plastic cavalry for the Late Roman period, Gripping Beast will be releasing Ostrogoth Heavy cavalry. Each frame consists of three mail armoured horses and three riders, with the option to equip the riders with lances, swords of aces. There are
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Rubicon Models have one of the fastest growing and highest quality ranges of model kits on the 1/56th scale market. Choosing to specialise in World War Two vehicles, they aim to not only provide some of the missing vehicles from this period but also provide for as many options as
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Battlezone Miniatures continue to add to their 20mm early World War Two Soviet range. Two of their new light tanks are based upon the T-26 chassis. The first tank is the KhT-130 Chemical Tank, a flame throwing tank produced in 1933 using the T-26 chassis and the modified larger turret of
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The world of Frostgrave is sometimes a dark one, and full of horrors. And perhaps the darkest aspect has been The Maze of Malcor, a campaign supplement which saw the release of stats and miniatures to add to the denizens encountered by brave adventurers a-plenty. It amongst all the other
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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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Deep Cut Studio are experts with their gaming mats, rising from a small selection to an ever-increasing range for many popular game systems. They also have a number of generic mats which will work with any rules or size of figures. However, they also offer a number of scenery pieces
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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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1st Corps continue to add to their growing range of 1/48th vehicles for World War Two. Two of the latest are a British armoured fighting vehicle and a German artillery tow and transport. The British armoured vehicle is an A11 Matilda. This is labelled as a ‘Later Production’ version of this
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Gringo 40s continue to provide additional figures for their excellent, uniquely individual sculpts of US Marines during the fighting for the city of Hue during 1968. Some of the most recent releases include MAR36, a US Marine Sergeant firing a Thompson sub machine gun, standing braced for the recoil. MAR35, a US
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Crooked Dice are well known for being the power behind the 7TV rule system. So far, they have Spy-FI, Apocalypse and Pulp versions of the rules, with plans for a Fantasy and 8TV boxed set in the future. To support these ‘Cult TV and Movie’ tabletop skirmish adventures, the company
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The new Judge Dredd: I Am The Law Starter Set from Warlord Games has brought the dystopian nightmare that is Mega-City One from the pages of the 2000AD comic to the tabletop. https://youtu.be/J5J1Rz4W6zA Upon lifting the eye-catching box lid, the first items you come across are the plastic game tokens. There
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Since TT Combat picked up the Carnevale miniatures game licence, they have pushed forward to create a 2nd edition of the rules and a host of new miniatures. The game is part fantasy, part reality, set in a version of Venice that is full of intrigue and back alley fighting.
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Spellcrow, a company based in Poland, produces a number of ‘heroic’-sized fantasy miniatures. These are most relevant to their two fantasy game settings but are also useful for other systems as well. For the Umbra Turris city exploration and skirmish game, we have a Tigerian with Two-Handed weapon and a Goblin
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Freebooter Miniatures continue to support their Freebooter’s Fate miniatures game, which is soon to be published in its 2nd Edition. There are various factions that form the background to the game, and there are figures released for each one of them on a regular basis. We’ve chosen three figure packs to
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Stronghold Terrain have a great ‘supporting cast’ of figure ranges for a number of popular games, including the excellent Dead Man’s Hand Wild West gunfight game. However, one of their largest ranges is intended for use with the SAGA rules, most notably the Dark Age and Age of Magic universes.
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Empress Miniatures continue to push forward at a far pace with their Paul Hicks sculpted range for the ‘American War’ in Vietnam. Having started with the US Marines, they have branched out to include the Communist forces who sought to unite the two parts of Vietnam. The two packs we’ve chosen
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GM Boardgames, distributed by Bolter.PL of Poland, have a new range of 6mm miniatures for the American Civil War to accompany their rules system. The company specialises in miniatures and rules for the mid-19th Century, which are in the process of being fully translated into the English language. The rule system
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Hagen Miniatures is a company based in Germany which offers an eclectic range of miniatures across pretty much every figure size you can think of. Whether its ACW Ironlads, Napoleonic shipping or spacecraft of the far future, Hagen Miniatures have a really useful selection of ‘naval’ vessels that would suit a
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Stoessi’s Heroes is rightly known for the quality of their figures, which are all based upon historical personages from World War Two. The three figures we picked up are Soviet Cook Ivan Pavlovich of the 91st Tank Regiment, German Haupsturmfuhrer Fritz Klingenberg and SOE & French Resistance Simone-Segouin AKA Nicole Minet. Soviet
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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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Artizan Designs, distributed by North Star Military Figures, have a new pack of miniatures to add to their World War Two range. This time we have four metal figures representing US GIs for use in the period 1944 – 1945. The figures wear the M43 combat uniform, first issued during the
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We’ve covered figures from CP Models before, but it’s always worth taking another look. This is a small company which offers a host of different ranges and is forever adding to them or creating new ones. Some of the most recent releases are these Ancient Sumerians in 28mm, cast in
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Mantic Games have released the latest wave of the Hellboy Board Game Kickstarter, the so-called Box Of Evil. This consists of two expansions to the game, Darkness Calls and Hellboy In Mexico, and includes a number of bonus miniatures. https://youtu.be/L20kFtx4QtE Upon lifting the lavishly illustrated box lid, the first items you
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We’re offering WIPrime members the opportunity to choose a favourite character from military history to become a future Giant in Miniature (GiM) figure. We produce one new GiM every month, and in 2020 we would like one of our figures to be chosen by you. In order to be worthy of
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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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A new company on the wargaming scene, Geek Villain, has leapt onto the market with a range of 6 Battlemats in various styles. These are definitely NOT paper, PVC or Neoprene mats, instead they are examples of the ‘fleece-based’ breed that has been missing from the direct UK and European
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