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.

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.

Temple Of The West is now taking pre-orders for their sixth pack of Legends for use in the game Relicblade by Metal King Studio. These miniatures are crafted for the 28mm Fantasy skirmish game and voted for by members of the community!

Gerry and Shay settle down to play a game of Celestial from the team at Diemension Games. In this cooperative scenario for the board game, The Hidden Void, their Celestials descend into Pangu's ghostly sands with Shay commanding Wick'Yin, the glimmer of the candling dragon, and Gerry has a pair of prowling Savaqi, ruthless predators whose language is a weapon in itself.

Para Bellum Games has been showing off some more of the miniatures that will be joining the Fantasy wargame, Conquest. For example, you might want to check out the awesome Nords Werewolves that are going to be leaping into the fighting towards the end of 2023.

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!

Warcradle Studios has announced a new Two-Player Starter Set coming to Dystopian Wars for the month of October! Fortune And Glory await as the Union clashes with the Sultanate in a new set that has been designed to get you started in this naval wargame. 

Games Workshop previewed some upcoming releases for the 28mm skirmish game set in the world of Warhammer 40,000, Necromunda. The narrative continues in the Ash Wastes and the Van Saar are getting themselves some new technology to play around with.

PWork Wargames have a brand new gaming mat for you to scoop up and use in a variety of different games. This one is very much focused on the Post-Apocalypse and your Sci-Fi scraps in the far future. See what you make of the Thunderdome design.

Gerry takes a look at a prototype for a massive board game in Celestial: The Hidden Void, an upcoming Kickstarter from Diemension Games, that blends Asian mythology, high-tech science fiction, and body horror.

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.

Ben talks about diving into the grimdark and how you can enjoy yourself with the hobbying and gaming side of things! Not only is there a lot of freedom to be had when it comes to painting but you can have a lot of fun when it comes to the types of scenarios you can play out.

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. 

Crooked Dice is planning to come back to Kickstarter with another Genre Guide for their awesome Pulp wargame, 7TV. This time around, the team are going to be heading back to the 80s and giving you some awesome ideas for action movie gameplay on the tabletop.

Gerry has a look at another awesome alternative miniature for use with your grimdark armies of the far future. This time, it's the Imperial Raven Commander from Wargame Exclusive who would be great as an alternative to Emo Toby Maguire-Commander Shrike!

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

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!

The Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game fanzine, SBG Magazine, has reached its fourteenth issue! With a heavy focus on The Two Towers and Helm's Deep, this is definitely worth picking up if you're a fan of the game and want to see some absolutely cracking battle reports and more.

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!

The Drowned Earth is back on Kickstarter with a new project focused on some interesting characters and their dinosaur companions. The Clever Girl Kickstarter introduces Dino Whisperers for the different factions in this 32mm Post-Apocalyptic skirmish game.

We sit down for an interview with Osprey Games' Phil Smith to discuss the development of The Silver Bayonet game range. As well as discussing the design of the original 28mm wargame, Carpathians and Canada, we also get a sneaky exclusive as Osprey Games' The Silver Bayonet next expansion is revealed!

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?!

Our Osprey Games' The Silver Bayonet: Carpathians - Castle Fier mini-campaign reaches its climax! Gerry and Shay have braved Hard Mode and come to the third and final scenario of this solo and cooperative storyline. The Broken Watchtower awaits where treasures await and a deadly foe!

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.

So earlier to-day you may have seen posts for Brave Sir Pidge and The Terrible Musician for the Multi-Award Winning Moonstone's upcoming Kickstarter that will introduce the (F)Undead faction of the Shades of Moonreach to the world of Tauber. But What does this mean, and why are the psychopomps I hear you cry?

The Multi-Award winning Moonstone is ramping up for a Kickstarter that may be the end of us all in Tauber, with the return of King Chernitt and with him a new faction for the whimsical world as Goblin King Games give us their spin on undead and the Shades of Moonreach.

Westfalia Miniatures has long been known for a spectacular range of fantasy figures and the upcoming Birdsung - The Dark Crusade is no different, however, this time around the fantasy is very much tinged with historical reality and a group of Teutonic heroes to go dungeon-delving and monster hunting.

The Multi-Award winning Moonstone is ramping up for a Kickstarter that may be the end of us all in Tauber, with the return of King Chernitt and with him a new faction for the whimsical world as Goblin King Games give us their spin on undead and the Shades of Moonreach.

Carthage Must Be Destroyed, not just a statement from the Roman Senate but also a lovely guy in Canada who has a small etsy store and currently Dustin is adding to that with a new range of waterslide decals that are perfect for the Undead player in your life and so much more.

In this new painting tutorial, John shows you how to paint Marcea Lupul from The Silver Bayonet by Osprey Games. We'll show off how to paint up the big bad villain from The Carpathians: Castle Fier, the latest supplement for Joseph McCullough's Napoleonic Horror miniatures game.

With the first scenario of Osprey Games' The Silver Bayonet: Carpathians - Castle Fier mini-campaign done, Gerry and Shay move on to the second part of The Broken Watchtower. In this scenario, we find the duo coming up against deadly Vrykolakas, a flock of flying vampires, as they make their way across The Spine!

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.