We’re unboxing a new plastic box set from PSC and building a couple of the six 1/72 scale WW2 trucks inside! Quite a bargain from PSC here - a set of six Russian GAZ trucks that average out at just £5 ($7 US) each. Included in the box are six frames
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Mortem et Gloriam’s 15mm Hundred Years' War French Army starter pack delivers on its promise. It provides all you need to build a nicely balanced French army from the middle period of the Hundred Years' War. The figures are nicely proportioned and crisply cast with very little flash. They are compatible
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Out onto the table tumble more ‘ultracast’ sprues from PSC – the Plastic Soldier Company. This time it’s a total of 105 figures forming a Mortem et Gloriam Carthaginian Army. Or at least that’s what it says on the box, we’ve actually got 36 African spearmen when apparently we should
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Of all the Ultracast figures we've seen recently (and we’ve seen quite a few here at WiHQ) – these are the best. In terms of design, they are well researched and believable, in terms of detail they are sharp, and in terms of casting they are pretty clean and -
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It only seems a couple of weeks ago that we were reviewing a supplement for World War Two in the Pacific... And that's because it was only two weeks ago but now is the turn of Battlegroup from Plastic Soldier Company to join the Pacific war arena. https://youtu.be/Mp5qmmkbZxs The below text is
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We are diving into the latest boxed sets from The Plastic Soldier Company, designed to provide purpose made armies for Mortem et Gloriam, the popular ancient wargames rules. Each box has enough infantry, cavalry, and light infantry within to create a starter army for the smallest level of MeG games,
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It’s not often we unbox boardgames here on Wargames Illustrated TV, but we are going to take a look at Britannia by Plastic Soldier Company for two reasons: 1). it’s by PSC who are in the main and Wargames company. 2). It’s really, really good, oh and it’s about war. https://youtu.be/u2hi4gONK8c Below
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I have to admit to becoming a little misty eyed when I opened the review parcel this week, as it contained two boxes of 15mm plastic figures from Plastic Soldier Company. The box art and the sprues of plastic miniatures within took me back to the heady days of my
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Mortem et Gloriam (MeG) is an increasingly popular set of wargames rules which aims to cover the ancient period from Biblical times through to late medieval. Author, Simon Hall, was a big fan of the various iterations of the DBM rules and was involved in writing their successor, Field of
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Review by Dom Sore. Cold War goes hot gaming in the 1980s. This is where my wargame journey started when I spied the collection of a neighbour while being babysat by his mother. Eleven year old me was very excited to see the huge amount of tanks he had on neat
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These new, plastic 15mm figures from the Plastic Soldier Company are just one box set from a whole variety of armies that are being made available for use with the Mortem Et Gloriam Pacto rules system or any other Ancients rules. There is a complete ‘army in a box’ approach,
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Plastic Soldier Company has expanded the range of options for 15mm or 1/100th World War Two once again. This time, its for the Germans and their European allies, with the Steyr Heavy Car. The 1.5 tonne Steyr Heavy Car was a field transport vehicle used by the Germans and their allies.
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The Plastic Soldier Company have taken Richard Borg’s tried and tested Command and Colors and worked with him to publish a set of space combat rules, Red Alert. These come in a large boxed set which contains rules, punchboards, spacecraft and a play mat. https://youtu.be/aQpOGMjOcA8 Once you lift the lid of this
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In this video we present a playthrough of a forthcoming boardgame from the Plastic Soldier Company AKA PSC Games. We don’t normally ‘do’ boardgames, but as this one is by people who work mainly within wargaming (PSC, Dan Mersey and Peter Dennis) we thought we would give it a go
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Plastic Soldier Company Metals have added yet more miniatures to both their 6 and 20mm ranges. These are intended to represent the 8th Army and Afrika Korps forces which fought in North Africa during the early part of World War Two. The 20mm figures have a great sense of character with
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Publisher: Plastic Soldier Company Rules By: Richard Borg Reviewer: Paul Davies theplasticsoldiercompany.co.uk THE GAME The Great War by Richard Borg is probably the first board game produced as a standalone board game, but with the figures, and additional equipment sold separately and aimed at tabletop wargamers. So without further ado lets go ‘over the top’ and
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