In the Christmas/New Year/holiday rush, one game got completely lost in the pipeline. Played and recorded, it languished ironically forgotten for something that won Best New Wargames Rules award in the yearly Wargame Illustrated vote. That’s right, we’re talking Midgard: Heroic Battles!
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Continue reading “Midgard: Heroic Battles review | Fortified Niche”When I got the GCPS troopers I wanted to review, I also received a a frame of Kings of War/Firefight Butchers as well. I had no intention of touching anything Nightmares-related, but here I am. Behold, my experiences in making three very different Butcher builds.
Continue reading “Mantic Butchers review | Warp spawn”Bolt Action is often used as an example of a 28mm historical game that can be used to ease-in fresh players of… less well-made games. This legacy continues with the latest iteration, Bolt Action 3rd edition.
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Continue reading “Bolt Action 3rd edition | Fortified Niche playtest!”Video games, I’ve played a few. Miniature wargames that are meant to evoke the feeling of playing a video game? The pod has encountered them before. But only ignition:core goes after the ultimate prize: a Titanfall wargame.
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Continue reading “ignition:core | Fortified Niche playtest!”Look, we’ll never know how sonae fought in practice. Let’s just stop thinking about it. Maybe it will become easier if your Japanese fighting game isn’t set in Japan. Maybe it would be better for your miniature game to be set in the lands of Kensei: The Awakening… and to also feature zombies.
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Continue reading “Kensei | Fortified Niche Playtest!”Sound of Freedom, the 2023 pedo-hunter movie for QAnon freaks? Bad. Sound of Silence, the 1964 Simon and Garfunkel song? Much better. Songs of Silence, the 2024 fantasy TBS/autobattler? Now we’re cooking with gas!
Continue reading “Songs of Silence review | Automatic WarCraft”Unfortunately, we don’t get many games about uptopian warfare. Why aren’t we pushing around plastic fighting figures for a better future? But while you’re pondering this philosophical nugget, you can play Dystopian Wars, the steam/atom/???-punk game of naval combat before the missile age!
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Continue reading “Dystopian Wars | Fortified Niche review!”On June 22, 1944, the Red Army launched Operation Bagration with an apocalyptic artillery bombardment. Almost two months later, the German Army Group Center was functionally destroyed. Crucial Nazi forces would be diverted to stem the tide, allowing the Red Army to overwhelm the now-depleted sectors. It would open the path deeper into the heart of the Third Reich and Berlin would fall within the year. That’s what you’ll be doing in Unity of Command II: Berlin DLC.
Continue reading “Unity of Command II: Berlin DLC review – Outblitzkrieged”Mantic’s GCPS Troopers had been my white whale for a long time. When I had the harebrained idea to make a loyalist version of Renegade and Heretics some 11 years ago, I spent years looking at cheap Imperial Guard proxies. Mantic was supposed to be the chosen once, and GCPS troopers its spearhead. But I never liked the look of them on the store. So I finally Mantic nicely for some minis and they sent me a GCPS Troopers sprue to review.
Continue reading “GCPS Troopers review | Contrast control for victory”Holy shit, the 3D not only looks good, but also has a solid reason behind its implementation? AAAAAAAAH!
