Dive into another Community Spotlight where we're talking Star Trek, Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team and finally an awesome game of chariot racing!

Empress Miniatures have new packs available from Iron Duke Miniatures for the Xhosa Wars as another of Victoria's Little Wars expands in the African Orange River territories.

Join us as we dive into a Let's Play of the awesome Fantasy wargame with a twist, Legends Of Signum II: Warseer by the team at Signum Games. Who will come out on top in this 32mm wargame currently on Kickstarter!

I'm a huge fan of Great Escape Games' Wild West gang fighting game Dead Man's Hand, as a quick-play skirmish game that is heavily influenced by the Western films I grew up enjoying it's a beautiful way to play out a three-act movie on the tabletop. In keeping with the filmatic feel of the game Great Escape Games has announced an upcoming Kickstarter in October for Dead Man's Hand Redux.

As part of this week's Cult Of Games XLBS, we chat about the plans that we have to dive into TerrainFest 2023! Warren is looking to get some feedback on how to build Acre and Ben is thinking about how to paint his Wild West terrain for a good old-fashioned shootout!

It's OTT Weekender time! It's a big time to be diving into World War 3: Team Yankee with Battlefront Miniatures are they are launching the NATO Forces book soon alongside a whole host of awesome 15mm miniatures for a variety of different nations. You can play as the French, Canadians and more as NATO looks to hold back the Soviet advance in this Cold War Gone Hot!

A new miniature is available from Brother Vinni which could be used in all manner of wargames. See what you make of their 28mm Resting Byzantine Knight. 

Annie from Bad Squiddo Games has teamed up with the master of Ghouls, Paul Muller, to produce a range of awesome 28mm Ghouls for you to use in all manner of wargames. What a perfectly timed project for the Halloween period!

In this week's Community Spotlight, we have a look at someone inpaitient for The Old World, a neat vignette of witchfinding goodness and some very small American Civil War armies.

Perry Miniatures added four new sets of miniatures to their 28mm Ottoman Army collection for use during the Napoleonic era on the tabletop. Bulk out your force with some spearmen alongside aids and more skirmishing infantry.

Victrix has been tinkering around with all manner of fun Dark Age kits for use in your Historical wargames. One of their most recent previews is for the Varangian Guard who popped up earlier this week, a mighty force of mercenaries for you to use as far afield as Byzantium. 

Gale Force Nine has been talking more about the new Alien types that you'll be able to scoop up as part of the next expansion for Aliens: Another Glorious Day In The Corps. We're In The Pipe, Five By Five features four new Aliens for you to face off against.

TTCombat has another new set available for you to pre-order this week for use in their 32mm skirmish game, Carnevale. This time, the Ladies Of The Night are on the warpath, stalking the streets with the power of Baba Yaga behind them!

Andy Hobday and Paul Hicks have been showing off more of their new 28mm Fantasy miniatures that will be coming to tabletops as part of their new game! HVM Workbench, a phenomenal site that is well worth checking out, showcased some newly painted miniatures recently!

Black Site Studios has recently released a bunch of new Hametsu miniatures following on from their successful crowdfunding campaign to launch the game. If you've ever wanted to dive into an awesome demon-hunting samurai miniatures game, this ticks all of those boxes!

Games Workshop will be taking pre-orders this weekend for the new Codex: Space Marines alongside a whole bunch of the new Warhammer 40,000 plastic kits for those bolstering a Primaris force. 

Fenris Games are closing in on the final hours of their Kickstarter for the Army Of Duckness! If you're looking to get your hands on a new set of 28mm feathered adventurers, you might find some here that would be great for all manner of tabletop games.

As part of this week's Cult Of Games XLBS, we dive into a discussion on making history and historical wargaming (more) fun. Sometimes you find yourself getting bogged down by the boring bits when it comes to historical wargames and it might just be easier to cut out said boring bits! Does this make for a better game? We have a particular look at Warren's plans for wargaming in Acre during the Crusades.

It's OTT Weekender time! Want to play out your own Greek epic on the tabletop? See what you make of the awesome myths and monsters that Para Bellum Games are bringing to the tabletop for Conquest. If you're looking to play an awesome Warhammer alternative, make sure to dive into the 35mm miniatures for Conquest and the City States.

If you're diving into The Horus Heresy with the Space Wolves, you might want a new leader to take the fight to the likes of the Thousand Sons and the rest of those damnable Traitors. Games Workshop and Forge World previewed a new miniature this week joining the ranks.

Gale Force Nine has been showing off the second wave of releases coming to Star Trek: Away Missions to help support their miniature-based board game. The Federation and the Klingons are going to be getting new Away Teams to play with. 

Piano Wargames have been going from strength to strength with their Napoleonic miniatures range. Slowly but surely Lucas Luber has been putting together the immense clashes of the period in 28mm throughout Austria and the most recent Kickstarter, The Danube Campaign, now brings us a HUGE range of French miniatures. 

Empress Miniatures have been previewing more of their expanding Russian Civil War range. More 28mm miniatures are coming up for those wanting to play out this period of strife and turmoil that dragged Russia out of World War I.

Bloody Miniatures have been showing off some of the upcoming figures joining their English Civil War range in 28mm scale. There are two sets with The Flashing Blades charging onto the battlefield first for the Royalists.

Firelock Games celebrated Talk Like A Pirate Day on the 19th September this week and are holding a sale over on their store! Running through until 26th September, you'll be able to get 20% off at the checkout automatically.

Have a peek at some painting covering The Horus Heresy, a bit of 20mm World War II and a few more Bushido characters!

Warlord Games are introducing their new World War II Bolt Action 28mm plastic kit for the French Army as part of a new Starter Army. See if you can get stuck into the fightback against the Axis invaders!

Sally 4th are on Kickstarter right now with a new set of 28mm metal miniatures for telling the story of Rob Roy! Inspired by the classic tale, you'll be able to get your hands on miniatures representing the characters from Rob Roy alongside Highlander warriors.

Wargames Atlantic are asking you for your votes when it comes to deciding on their next plastic kits! There is a plethora of options for you to choose from that cover Fantasy, Historical and Sci-Fi wargaming and YOU can help decide which kits make it to the tabletop in hard plastic.

Anvil Industry are on Patreon this month with an awesome range of digital miniatures for you to 3D Print at home. The focus this time around is on more of their Post-Apocalyptic range as your soldiers head deeper into the wasteland and find themselves coming up against all manner of mutated foes.

The new Vampire Team for Blood Bowl previewed during the NOVA Open, is now going to be available to pre-order this weekend from Games Workshop. If you're looking for a swanky Hammer Horror-themed Fantasy Football team, this ticks a lot of boxes and doesn't suck! 

Para Bellum Games is now taking pre-orders for some new miniatures for the City States of Conquest: The Last Argument Of Kings and First Blood. Leading the way, we have a set of 35mm Fantasy satyrs that come as a Dual Kit!

Folks might know that I am quite partial to a Dwarf or two. With that in mind, it certainly seems like a good idea to have Grimskald's Torch & Shield on your radar if you're looking for a dungeon-delving miniatures game of Dwarven clans battling in the ruins of a mountain fortress!

On this week's Cult Of Games XLBS, we dive into a little bit of hobby discussion about rules and what grinds our gears when playing games. Could some rules be improved immeasurably by simply tweaking or removing a single rule? Gerry doesn't rant and no one is more surprised than I?!

John shows off how to paint one of the 28mm Soldier miniatures that you can use to make your Units in Osprey Games' The Silver Bayonet and The Carpathians - Castle Fier. Here, we're showing off how to bring together an awesome scheme for your Austrian Irregular via the collection by North Star Military Figures.

Brigade Games' range of historical miniatures is as wide as it is deep and in starting the post-Civil War Plains Wars they are starting with a typically substantial amount of figures that will give anyone beginning their journey into this period most of the figures they'll require to get games of the Little Big Horn onto the tabletop.

Last November post with the release of the Clash of Kings pack Mantic Games announced that the Twilight Kin (hereafter Twiglets) would not be included as a massive redesign was underway and that from February they'd be removing the list from the Companion so people weren't picking up miniatures or list building for something that would end up becoming obsolete.

Osprey Games' The Silver Bayonet: Carpathians - Castle Fier, introduces a whole host of new monstrous foes for your Unit to come up against. Gerry unboxes and showcases some of these North Star Military Figures 28mm monster miniatures, inspired by Vampire folklore and the myths and legends of Eastern Europe.

In this week's Community Spotlight, we have a look at some awesome painting from the Grimdark Future, a bit of grim Fantasy and then the world of Warhammer...with a twist!

Para Bellum Wargames has put together a selection of bundled Conquest: The Last Argument Of Kings armies for you to choose from if you want to hit that 2000-point mark right away with your collection! There are four to choose from right now for their 35mm Fantasy wargame.

A Song Of Ice & Fire: The Miniatures Game is getting a new Starter Set and more this week. CMON has been working on bringing House Bolton into the game as more than just a mercenary faction that finds itself fighting for the highest bidder. See what you make of these brutal and merciless killers.

Wargames Atlantic has been showing off all manner of awesome new 3D Printable kits on Atlantic Digital. They have sets that cover pretty much every period of history you could think of and we're starting off with the era of Imperial Conquest.