Gerry breaks open the first of Wargames Atlantic's Age of Chivalry boxes which has been made in collaboration with Andy Hobday and Paul Hick of Footsore Miniatures & Games for their Barons' War skirmish game. He takes a look over the brand new Foot Knights (1150-1320) box which is packed full of medieval warriors ready to take the field for your wargames.
In this week's community spotlight, we dive into a pile of potential, paint up some terrain for use in 02 Hundred Hours and check out an excellent Medieval miniature collection.
Carve Out Your Place In Port Royal In A Pirate Skirmish Campaign | Firelock Games Interview
2 years ago 5Gerry sits down with Mike Tunez from Firelock Games to talk about Port Royal their campaign-based miniature skirmish game currently on Kickstarter. If you fancy being a seventeenth century searover then Port Royal should be your first stop.
Join us for Cult Of Games XLBS this week as we sit down and discuss where we are on our hobby journey and which phase we think we'll aim for next. Do you find yourself following the zeitgeist and changing often to match your current interest? Or do you have a most focused way of plotting out your hobby journey?
It's OTTWeekender Time! Following the news that Steamforged Games has acquired the Warmachine IP the folks at SFG have wasted no time in giving a rundown of their plans to reinvigorate the game and how they will bring it to the masses. This includes a new plastic 2-Player Starter Set that is due later this year!
Pre-orders are now live over on the Steamforged Games webstore for their newly acquired Warmachine range. Working alongside Privateer Press, they have brought across the miniatures range and will now be working to get them distributed to wargamers so they can dive in. Not only that but they have started to outline more of their vision for the game going forward.
Join Gerry and John for a re-fight of the World War II clash at Villers-Bocage as part of the 80th Anniversary celebration. Using Flames Of War and two 15mm scale armies, Gerry will be taking on the role of the Germans whilst John is commanding the British. Who will be the victor?
Olmec Games' The Drowned Earth is going to be coming to Kickstarter soon with a new campaign that takes your factions Into The Wilds! You can check out the Kickstarter Landing Page and watch out for the launch of the campaign on 28th June!
Join us for this week's Community Spotlight as we have a peek at some ace Viking raiders, the British in sweltering Burma and a something different with Trench Crusade!
Join Ben and Shay for a Let's Play of Oathsworn Miniatures' Burrows & Badgers! Both warbands of awesome 28mm anthropomorphic heroes (and villains) are fighting over a central marketplace with an aim of ensuring their faction can secure it for future market days!
Para Bellum Games are taking pre-orders for the new 2024 First Blood warbands that are a great way for you to dive in and start playing wargames in their 35mm Fantasy realm of Ea. All of the current factions have First Blood Warbands so you can simply pick your poison and jump in.
As well as the big 28mm Horus Heresy goodness for this weekend, you can also get your hands on some epic-scale armies as well from Games Workshop. Warhammer: The Horus Heresy - Legions Imperialis is getting a couple of new Battlegroups and some new Squadrons in 8mm.
Games Workshop are introducing some new character miniatures into the mix for Warhammer: The Horus Heresy. Both Traitors and Loyalists are going to be available to pre-order this weekend for those fighting out the Battle for Beta-Garmon and beyond.
Games Workshop has announced the pre-order date for the launch box for the new edition of Warhammer Age Of Sigmar. From 29th June you'll be able to scoop up the big new Skaventide boxed set which features new miniatures for the Stormcast Eternals and Skaven.
Warlord Games has added a new set of Warlord Resin miniatures to their Black Powder range for Waterloo. French Cavalry Commanders lead the way, making sure that your troops end up in the right place at the right time. They all look rather splendid.
Join us for Cult Of Games XLBS this week as we sit down and discuss event/convention games and what ideas we have for our own! Do you think we've hit on some great convention game ideas or are we over-reaching? Which of these would you love to play if you were attending an event like Salute or UK Games Expo?
WW2 Miniatures We Think Are Beyond Epic & A Great Range For The D-Day Anniversary! #OTTWeekender
2 years ago 67It's OTTWeekender time! With this week and weekend being the 80th Anniversary of D-Day, we look at some well known and some unsung heroes and personalities from World War 2 that you could add to your 28mm Historical wargames. We found a fantastic resource of character miniatures from both Hollywood History and real life that you could use in games of Bolt Action, Chain Of Command or V For Victory.
Knuckleduster Miniatures has released a couple of new sets for those wanting to dive deeper into their Gunfighter's Ball range. Leading the way is a new mounted set in 28mm for those wanting to play out the adventures of The Strange Ranger And Toronto.
Atomic Mass Games has shown us their upcoming Rebels but the other side are also getting a look in for Star Wars: Shatterpoint. The Not Accepting Surrenders Squad Pack is on the way for the month of August and features Grand Admiral Thrawn!
Corvus Belli has started to preview the new releases coming to their Sci-Fi world of Infinity in the month of July. Leading the way is the mighty Ajax for the forces of ALEPH, complete with hammer for utterly devastating his opponents.
Steamforged Games, following up on their announcement at the start of the week, have been setting out their vision for the future of Warmachine and the Iron Kingdoms. At the core of it is a message about the love of the game and making sure that Warmachine reaches its full potential within the wargaming space.
What Is Armoured Clash? A Primer For The New Epic-Scale Wargame For The Dystopian Age!
2 years ago 4We give you a primer to the upcoming 10mm wargame by Warcradle Studios, Armoured Clash! After checking out the game at UK Games Expo this year and learning more from the designers, we give you a taster of what's to come with Armoured Clash!
Gerry dives into the third part of their Villers-Bocage Flames Of War VLOG which is celebrating the 80th Anniversary Of D-Day. In this final video of the series, Gerry takes a look at a map for the scenario and talks about a quick and cheap way of replicating its layout on the tabletop for the final clash.
Port Royal, the new pirate skirmish game from Firelock Games is now live on Kickstarter AND it is funded! Choose your company or crew and dive into a 28mm skirmish game set in Port Royal which has been hit by the 1692 earthquake to see what plunder you can gain from its ruins.
Atomic Mass Games has another awesome character pack coming to the 40mm skirmishes of Marvel: Crisis Protocol. Asgardian heroes find themselves combating the machinations of Loki as he threatens to bring the realm of the gods to its knees!
Gerry dives into the new miniatures board game from Free League Publishing, Zone Wars. Zone Wars is set in the Mutant Year Zero roleplaying world and uses 32mm plastic miniatures. This Post-Apocalyptic game comes from legendary designer, Andy Chambers!
In this week's Community Spotlight, we're having a look at some comic book heroes, a sneaky Lictor out and about and some Ancient Greeks diving into mythical adventures.
Crooked Dice has now released their second wave of 80s-inspired miniatures for use in your games of 7TV. There are some awesome miniatures on the way that will be nostalgia fodder for a lot of folks looking to relive their youth on the tabletop.
1st Lt Richard Winters has returned to Warlord Games' Bolt Action with a new Soldier Of Fortune miniature that has dropped in just in time for the 80th Anniversary of D-Day. The 28mm World War II miniature can be snapped up right now.
Pre-orders are coming up this weekend for the recently announced Adepta Sororitas and Genestealer Cults forces that will be coming to 10th Edition battlefields in Warhammer 40,000. Games Workshop are offering up the new Codexes as well as Combat Patrols and accessories.
North Star Military Figures has been previewing another awesome box of 28mm miniatures for use in Osprey Games' Frostgrave. The Cultists II set is going to be available in late June, allowing you to customise and kitbash even more treasure seekers for use in Frostgrave.
Mantic Games are now taking pre-orders for the terrifying hordes of Nightstalkers coming to invade the Sci-Fi world of Firefight! There are plenty of new monsters for you to snap up and throw into your 28mm games including a big army bundle for you to get started with.
Joseph McCullough has a brand new game for you to dive into! Deathship One is a new solo or cooperative Sci-Fi miniatures game of survival. Bring your squad of soldiers from any period of history, time and space and see if they can survive the horrors of the Deathship.
In some big news for this week, Steamforged Games announced that they have acquired Iron Kingdoms, Warmachine and more from Privateer Press and will serve as custodians of their various games, miniature ranges and more in the future.
John and Gerry dive into the third part of their Villers-Bocage Flames Of War VLOG which is celebrating the 80th Anniversary Of D-Day. In this next part of the series, John and Gerry discuss the painting of their 15mm British Infantry for use in the battle.
Join us for another Community Spotlight where we're looking at some stunning Slaine miniatures, some puppet-based antics in Relics and a good tutorial on designing dark, fantasy woodland.
Gerry and Ben dive into a Let's Play of Fistful Of Lead: Reloaded from Wiley Games. This is an old-fashioned 28mm Wild West showdown with Ben running a band of Lawmen whilst Gerry takes control of an Outlaw gang.
Great Escape Games have added some new miniatures to their webstore for use in The Chicago Way. The Peaky Blinders are getting themselves some well-armed reinforcements who might need to be called in when the fighting heats up.
Warcradle Studios has been showing off the newest range of previews for Dystopian Wars. The focus right now is on some terrifying colossi for the Enlightened that will be surging out of the waves, ready to drag ships to their deep demise.
Gerry gets a look at some preview sprues for the new Hail Caesar Epic Battles: The Punic Wars wargames by the team at Warlord Games. Find out what the sprues are like ahead of getting your pre-orders in for this Ancient wargame.
Warlord Games has announced that Andy Chambers, legendary game designer, is joining the Konflikt '47 design team. This 28mm Weird World War wargame's universe, rules and more are evolving.
AntiMatter Games is showing off a new Starter Set that will be coming for their game, DeepWars. Kraken Reef will see the Ancients of Atalán facing off against the Dark Mariners as you look to uncover lost artefacts.
