Wargames, Soldiers & Strategy

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— Mark Twain The career of Napoleon Bonaparte is a fascinating one. How a gifted artillery officer rose to become the Emperor of France and then went on to dominate Europe is a question many (many, many) books over the years have tried to answer. Ind

Company: Firelock Games Size: 29mm ‘foot to eye’ or 33mm tall Era: Seventeenth to eighteenth century Price: $29.00 for twelve models (£27.00) www.firelockgames.com After their successful Raise the Black Kickstarter, Firelock Games was able to release

Our basic rule set is perfectly good for a game at home or with our chums at the club, but as a commercial venture, it is lacking in the style or sparkle that will make it attractive enough for people to put their hands in their pocket and hand over

The First Coalition failed to destroy France, if anything it was left stronger and more emboldened. The new Revolutionary armies were inspired by Nationalist fervour and beat the armies of the old powers of Austria, Britian, Prussia, and later Russia

First, to provide context. I own and operate McDougall Designs LLC, an independent retailer and 3D printing service. I have been printing for hobbyists as a business for 3 years now. Full disclosure - for a significant chunk of those 3 years, my prin

By Chris Kelley (Scouts Out/War Department, 2023) $21 for the PDF D6, Initiative-based alternate turn just like the war that everyone thought would be over by Christmas and went on and intensified, so does this set of skirmish rules. The original had

By Paul Howells (Pandyman Games, 2023) £50.00 (Starter set) or £5.00 (PDF) D6, Randomised initiative I first encountered Trench Offensive as a demo game at Partizan back in 2023. At the time, I was really impressed: the Pandyman demonstration set-up

By Nigel Emsen (Helion and Company, 2023) £25.00 D6, Card-driven initiative The gaming world is filled with both beautifully painted troops for the American Civil War (ACW) and many piles of underpainted figures. To sit alongside these miniatures are

By J.S. Morgan ISBN: N/A (Bare Beast Books, 2023) - £11.99 For me, one of the most diverting aspects of this hobby of ours lies in the record-keeping. This may not seem particularly exciting to many hobbyists, but it can make a real difference to the

By Hugo Nivesse and Samy Maronnier (Studio 6201 and Studio Tomahawk, 2023) £20.00 Any even-sided dice, Card activation Mars Code Aurora by Studio 6201 is yet another miniature-agnostic sci-fi skirmish game. This seems to be quite commonplace in our h

By John Winton ISBN: 978-1800555099 (Sapere Books, 2022) - £18.99 When one thinks of World War II in the Pacific, they think of carriers - the Enterprise or the Essex. There are the battles between warships north of Guadalcanal: Japanese and American

By Douglas Miller ISBN: 978-1804512029 (Helion and Company, 2023) - £29.95 I was going to start this review with an overused ‘The peasants are revolting’ joke but thought better of it. This is a period I know next to nothing about, but that has now c

I enjoyed Rick Priestley’s article on “Where have the Toy Soldiers Gone?” Being of likely the newest wargame generation, I thought I would share with you how I came to the hobby. After watching a rerun of the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles on History

I have been busy basing 25mm figures and constructing buildings for a 1885 Riel Rebellion game. I find that styrene sheets a good material for bases, especially helpful in trying to achieve the “old school” look (smooth surface, sans flocking). It is

With all this wet weather, I have had a few people contact me about white mould growing on their MDF kits and bases. MDF, like paper and cardboard, is hygroscopic; it absorbs moisture from the atmosphere. Prevention is always easier than cure, so it