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Plast Craft Head To Feudal Japan With Next Color-ED Range

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Plast Craft Games have gone back in time to Feudal Japan with their latest range of Color-ED Terrain. Designed with Kensei in mind this set of pre-painted terrain will focus on bringing Japan to life for 28mm to 35mm ranges...

Adepticon Gives Us A Sneak Peek Into Events For The 2016 Convention

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Believe it or not the 2016 convention season is just around the corner. Get a taste of what is in store for Adepticon with this preview.

The 15mm Mujahideen Are Coming To Khurasan’s Modern Range Soon

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Khurasan Miniatures have previewed some of their upcoming 15mm Afghan Mujahideen which could be used for all sorts of Cold War fighting and of course conflicts during the modern day too. See what you think of their rather varied range of sculpts...

The Macedonian Pikemen Of Victrix Rank Up In Their Phalanx

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Victrix have put together a little preview of their upcoming Macedonian Pikemen who would have ranked up with bristling spears out in front of them and a row of gleaming bronze shields facing the enemy...

River Horse Snap Up Rights To Hunt For Red October

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River Horse is bringing another intellectual property to the tabletop this time with a Cold War theme. The Hunt For Red October will be one of their upcoming board games on Kickstarter...

Pico Armor Shows Us Big Releases In Tiny 6mm Scale

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Pico Armor masters of miniature and I mean really really tiny miniatures have some new releases for the modern armour buff.

The King Is Dead – Board Game Review

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I take a look at one of the first board games from Osprey, a Euro Game by Peer Sylvester called The King Is Dead. Arthurian political intrigue meets quick and easy to learn board game you could play down the pub!

FireForge Puts Up New Releases For Pre-Order

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FireForge Games is releasing some new Arab soldiers as well as Crusaders to answer that call from a high authority.

Breakthough Assault Do Video Preview Of Team Yankee Book

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The previews of Team Yankee from Breakthrough Assault have begun again this week as they not only took a look inside the book via the video above, but also showed off the HIND Kit in plastic.

Osprey Look Ahead To Honours Of War Release Soon

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Osprey are looking ahead to the release of their Honours Of War rulebook which takes you back to the Seven Years' War. You can get your hands on the book from November 20th....

SAGA Plastic Warbands Available At Reading Warfare Show

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Gripping Beast are making the new Plastic 4pt Warbands for SAGA available on November 16th but they will be on sale at the Reading Warfare show over the 14th and 15th if you'd like to get a head start on the building of a new warband to raid the Dark Ages with...

Eleven Tree Captures Classic Historical Detail With Latest 1/30th Building

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Eleven Tree Designs has captured a lovely piece of history with their latest building. The Cafe J Philippe Epicerie, in 1/30th scale, would be a welcome addition to any historical collector or gamer's treasures.

Tabletop World Looks Ahead To Massive Town Gate Project

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Tabletop World have teased their next immense building project for their terrain range. The Town Gate looks like it's going to be great and from the looks of it there is going to be a LOT going on with this...

The Great War Americans Have Gathered Artillery For Flames Of War

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The Americans are getting some artillery to cover their advance through the battlefields of World War I for Flames Of War. Mortars and full on field guns are going to be echoing across the trenches once these get going...

Trotsky Steps Into Wargames Illustrated’s Giants In Miniature Range

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Wargames Illustrated's Giants In Miniature range grows once more this month with the addition of another high profile figure. Leon Trotsky was famous for his political work but he also shaped the Red Army into a more coherent and professional fighting force...

Modern Wargaming: Conflict In The Ukraine Part Two – Civil War In The Donbas

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Welcome to Part Two of our continuing article series on modern wargaming, specifically the recent conflict in the Ukraine. In Part One, we discussed many of the pros and cons of “current-conflict” gaming, and a summary background of the Ukraine […]

Weekender XLBS: The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse Strike On Kickstarter!

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Phew it's been quite a weekend. With that in mind sit back and relax with us as we chill for The Weekender XLBS...

This Week On Kickstarter

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Welcome! You are now able to follow along, as we pick out some great projects for you to check out throughout the week. You’ll be able to keep up-to-date with the latest Kickstarters and comment on what we should be looking out for […]

Fight Out The American War Of Independence With Warlord’s New Set

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Warlord Games have answered Warren's prayers with their own version of a Battle In A Box. The massive Liberty Or Death Boxed Set for their Black Powder game allows you to fight out the War of Independence between the British and the Americans...

Weekender: Kingdom Death Monster Unboxed, New Shows & More

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It's a big weekend for us here at Beasts of War and as well as all the other awesomeness happening with Dropfleet we've also got a jam packed show where we're showing off Kingdom Death Monster and more... Justin Past […]

A Viking Shipbuilder & Charging Crusader Are New From Stronghold

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Stronghold Terrain have added to their collection of miniatures for use in SAGA with not only a well known Shipbuilder for your Viking raiding party but also a charging Crusader Warlord who would work equally well as a Norman Knight too...

The World Of Kensei Welcomes Peasant Warriors & Assassins

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Zenit have another round of releases coming for the end of October and the beginning of November. They have headed to the fields and sent the call out for the people of the land to come to their aid with the Kuro and more besides...

Warhansa Work For The Highest Bidder With New Mercs

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If you're looking for a range of different Modern Adventurers or possibly Mercenaries on the pay-roll of a Corporation then see what you think of the new models from Warhansa...

A Great Mongolian General Coming From FireForge Soon

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Tsubodai or Subutai dependent on your origin was a masterful Mongolian general in the service of Genghis Khan and now he's going to be available from FireForge to lead the rest of the horde on their rampage across Asia and Europe...

Perry Previews New WIPs For ACW and Early British Napoleonics

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Perry Miniatures gives us a look into some up coming release for the American Civil War and Early Napoleonic British troops.

Sally 4th Makes Normandy Buildings Easy With Their Latest Kickstarter

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Are you looking for a quick and easy way to set the scene for your historical games? Sally 4th has a brilliant little project on Kickstarter with quick and easy terrain in their Normandy Photo-realistic 28mm Terrain project.

Journey With Harald Hardrada & His Varangian Guard In SAGA

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Gripping Beast have now released their warband featuring a young Harald Hardrada and his Varangian Guard. They come with an assortment of weapon options including regular Sword & Shield and Dane Axes too...

Viking Wounded Litter The Field From Steve Barber Models

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Steve Barber Models have launched a rather spiffing webstore and with that some neat new models for embellishing your games set in the Dark Ages. Both the Wounded Vikings and Dead Vikings sets would be great for using in games of SAGA as objective markers and signs of brutal conflict...

Documentary Takes Sword Fighting Back To The Source

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I don't think there is a person here on this site who can say they don't love a good sword fight. Unfortunately, many of the historical fighting forms have been lost, but a group has been working to bring them back and put them into practice, a process that can now be seen in the new documentary Back to the Source.

Underground Lasers Build A Tabletop Worthy Colonial House

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We've seen a lot of superb grand MDF projects from companies but sometimes it is the simple things that make a tabletop pop.

Recreate The Assault of Brecourt Manor With New Terrain From Warlord

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Warlord Games has joined with Mandatory Miniatures to offer their next set of terrain pieces for Bolt Action. This time it is gun emplacement in their trench system.

Modern Wargaming: Conflict In The Ukraine Part One – Overview & First Engagements

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With the help of community member oriskany we're looking at the intricacies of delving into modern conflicts on the tabletop. We're starting with an overview of the recent fighting in Ukraine...

Meet The SS-Ki For Bolt Action – The Japanese Swiss Army Knife Vehicle

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If you're looking to get something built, destroyed, tweaked, or burnt on the battlefield and you play as the Japanese in Bolt Action see what you think of the SS-Ki from Warlord Games...

Weekender XLBS: Amazing Hobby Travel Kit & Mega Star Wars Tabletop Chat

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Sit back and relax with us on a Sunday morning as we go through some awesome bits and pieces we've picked up from the web and have a great chat about all things Star Wars... Grab A Backstage Free Trial To Watch The Show

Command The Pike & Shotte Ottomans From Warlord Games

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Warlord Games continue building on their Ottoman army for Pike & Shotte with some Command Sets which enable you to lead the Janissary into battle and some Casualties for when things go wrong...

Weekender: Diesel Does D&D, Dropfleet In the Studio & Eternal Crusade Interview

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We're getting properly stuck into some awesomeness concerning Dropfleet Commander and the video game, Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade...

Kraken Wargames Give Us A Taster Of Their Blasted City Mat

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Kraken Wargames will be on Kickstarter very soon to fund their range of Gaming Mats for a plethora of different spheres of tabletop gaming. One of these that they've given us a sneak peek at is their Blasted City which has been ravaged by war...

Bolt Action Locked & Loaded: What Makes A Good Bolt Action Table?

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We have a chat with Chez from Warlord Games about what makes for a good Bolt Action Table allowing both sides to have some fun.

Bolt Action Locked & Loaded XLBS: Tactical Cover Tips & Tricks

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We're back looking at some of the sneaky cover based tricks and tactics you can employ during your games of Bolt Action from Warlord Games.

This Week On Kickstarter

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Welcome! You are now able to follow along, as we pick out some great projects for you to check out throughout the week. You'll be able to keep up-to-date with the latest Kickstarters and comment on what we should be looking out for […]

Heer46 Begin Work On World War II British Soldiers

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Heer46 have begun work on their British Soldiers after doing very well on making their German miniatures a reality. You can see the first fruits of their labour below with a spotter of some description looking out over the battlefield to probably call in some artillery...

Hallowed Ground Terrain Brings Roman Forts In 15mm To Kickstarter

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Hallowed Ground Terrain has started their new campaign to bring forth 15mm Roman fortifications.

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