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The book in the background of the Smash Bash pics is The Lost Pianos of Siberia by Sophy Roberts.

That’s a solid suggestion mate! Regardless of how you view the games, Bolt Action and particularly Flames of War have decent options. I particularly like the way that Flames of War has a starter set for 2 players, […]

Bang-on @Caledor2!

Hi @Wonkygoblin, It’s a fresh idea but that isn’t really a starter set, more a set of rules with some low cost scenery only suitable for beginners. I personally feel that a starter set needs to have enough of […]

There’s usually loads of D6 cubes wherever GW, Bolt Action and similar games are sold. Even Amazon has the Chessex sets. Should be simple and loads of colour choices…

all games are miniatures agnostic

I think the most legendary starter boxes was the original Hawk wargames Drop zone Commander starter. 2 forces, a city …. literally, paper playmat, all tokens and rulebook. omg. it was so good. I think […]

Three really good GBs again this week. Congrats to the winners.

I agree with you both about the requirements for a starter set. It should have everything needed to get playing the game. Hobby stuff like paint and glue isn’t needed but everything else should be in there. […]

Just realised where I’ve seen Ben’s tee before….on TEMU…for about £4.50

yeah … try buying simple D6’s … unless you’ve collected a lot of dice based boardgames you won’t have those. The odd thing is that you can buy D&D dice sets quite easily these days. It only sucks if you […]

Positive : you get to pick the factions you want.helps reinforce that a game is miniature agnostic… Negative: it gives the false impression of cost; sure the rules are 50, but with 2 factions you get to […]

Aside from the inevitable accidents that glue in a box could cause … there’s never enough. I remember my very first scale model from ages ago (think early ’80’s). that had glue in some sort of plastic tube. The […]

Happy Sunday easily the best two player starter set is Bloodbowl its got everything required

18:44 And I took that personally *blam* *blam**blam*