The paint’s barely dried on our Stargrave crews and there’s already a new supplement, adding exciting extras to the already popular sci-fi skirmish game that was released in mid-2021. This 96-page, full-colour book takes your initially galaxy-spanning gaming to a singular location - Imperial Research Station 37 - formerly a
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Oathmark's third supplement arrives, bringing more options to the ranked fantasy battle game. This time the new elements added to the game are Kingdom Events - campaign occurrences add all manner of variables to your gaming - and Special Formations - ways to boost your units. There are lots of
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This sturdy set of eight double-sided satin-finish templates for Osprey Games’ Stargrave, is made by Laser Cut MDF manufacturer Sarissa Precision and sold by North Star (amongst others). The templates cater for all the area effect weapons currently featured in the Stargrave universe: Flamethrower, Psionic Fire, Smoke Grenades and Fragmentation Grenades,
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Campaign: D-Day: US Sector is the third and final book in the Bolt Action Second Edition D-Day Trilogy, following on the heels of the Overlord and British and Canadian Sectors. https://youtu.be/v4d0IYLG7xU The text below is a video transcript for those who prefer to read rather than watch. The first passage of text in
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Following our look at the plastic Revenants set for Oathmark, we've got some associated characters to have a peep at. The first thing to point out is that these are 28mm resin sub-masters, not the final metal production figures, but we'd imagine those will be to the high-quality standard we've come
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A new selection of plastics have landed on the review desk - Oathmark: Revenant Infantry to go with the upcoming supplement Bane of Kings. There are enough parts on each frame to construct five Revenants in a variety of poses and with different weapon choices. Six of these frames are included
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There are roughly as many sets of rules for Napoleonics as there are players of Napoleonics, but that doesn’t stop the regular drop of new ones onto the Wi review table every month! Absolute Emperor, a new addition to Osprey’s blue book series, is an interesting offering from first-time wargame
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We all told ourselves how productive this pandemic and its associated Lockdowns would let us be. While most of us have only really upped our biscuit eating game Mr Joseph A. McCullough has actualised the sort of productivity we were all dreaming of in early 2020. Not content with expansions
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We looked at the background and core gameplay elements of A Billion Suns in part one and, based on those things alone, we heartily recommended this new space combat game from Osprey. Now, in Part Two, we get to look at some of the more advanced rules in further detail. https://youtu.be/fOI913H8h3U The
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A Billion Suns is a new game in the Osprey Blue Book series, bearing the subtitle “Interstellar fleet battles”, and jumping into this galaxy through the power of the 64 softback, full-colour pages in its engine bay. The game’s the new creation from Mike Hutchinson, whose first game, Gaslands, turned
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We’re always keen to undertake new adventures in Frostgrave and with The Red King we have the first supplement to the game’s recent second edition. It’s written by game and world creator Joe McCullough, published by Osprey Games, and within the vibrant softback cover are 96 pages of new rules,
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We’ve got Oathbreakers in our grubby mitts and we’re going to give it a damned good flipping! This book, the latest supplement for Oathmark: Battles of the Lost Age, is a full-colour, 82-page, softback offering. Published by Osprey Games, the quality that we have come to expect from them is
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A striking and graphically punchy cover adorns the front of Gamma Wolves, the new game by Ash Barker, whose previous offering was Last Days: Zombie Apocalypse. It is published by Osprey Games, and it’s a 116-page, full-colour, hardback book. It offers you a mecha type sandbox of gaming options to
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Making for a pleasant break from the library of gaming books, modelling, and painting guides we flip our way through, we’re settling into a comfy chair and turning the pages of an art book. This is a chunky, weighty, hardback tome, published by Osprey Games, and showcases the huge amount
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Bolt Action continues its haphazard journey through World War II with the latest supplement, documenting the island-hopping campaign of the United States in the Pacific. It takes players from June 1944 to October 1944, encompassing Operations Forager and Stalemate II. https://youtu.be/xfTXIrxKVjg The below text is a transcript of the video, for people
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The Abyss is the second expansion supplement for Osprey Games’ Viking Age fantasy skirmish rules Ragnarok. Ragnarok’s style is heavy on background narrative and this 112 page hardback book begins with a couple of pages of what I presume to be scene setting, which will no doubt excite anyone who can
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This 192 page hardback book is the eagerly anticipated “fantasy mass-battle” game from Osprey. Penned by Frostgrave author Joseph A. McCullough and having been playtested over the course of the last two years, Oathmark is already supported by an extensive range of figures by North Star Military Figures and has
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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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Building upon the success of the Wildlands fantasy themed ‘board game with miniatures’, games designer Martin Wallace has worked with Osprey Games to produce the Judge Dredd: Helter Skelter set. https://youtu.be/LKeGqA4ewZM The game takes the premise of the Helter Skelter storyline from 2000AD progs 1250–1261. In the comic book story, an army of
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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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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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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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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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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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Osprey Games’ latest game is Ragnarok, which plunges players into a universe of Heavy Metal Combat In The Viking Age. This 208-page, hardback book provides rules to run a War Clan in a Viking era ‘End Times’, with the quest for godhood being the ultimate goal. This is also the
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The latest expansion for the Ghost Archipelago universe provides rules to explore the cultural treasures of the Dricheans, a tribal people which thrive amidst the ruins of their own past. Divided into minor fiefdoms and city-states, they fight each other, snakemen, and, in fact, anyone else. https://youtu.be/xGr2cNL53R0 The book begins with an
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Here’s a sneak-peek of an upcoming box set from North Star Figures/Osprey Games. Following on from the other four sets of plastic figures in the Oathmark range, these 30 Dwarf Heavy Infantry are due to be released at Salute next week and we will be bringing you more information including
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Men of Bronze is one of the latest ‘blue book’ rules systems from Osprey Games. It consequently follows the usual format, a 64-page softback book. The rules focus upon battles between Ancient Greek warriors and their enemies, often other Greek warriors! https://youtu.be/DpBDSisFMYA The rules begin with a helpful guide to the equipment
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The Frostgrave: The Wizards’ Conclave supplement is the latest in the seemingly endless number of supporting tomes associated with the Frostgrave skirmish wargame. Yet this latest book is slightly different, containing within its 88 pages a whole series of playable scenarios from some of the most well-known games designers and
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