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Miniature Wargames 397

Wednesday, 13 April 2016 09:16
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MWBG 397

Publication date Saturday 16th April

With Salute only a few days away, this issue is scheduled to be launched at the show, so pay attention:

  • Andrew Rolph begins a series of challenging scenarios aimed at the keen WWII Ostfront player, focusing on the early years between 1941 and 1943. In the first instalment of The red empire strikes back – fighting the Great Patriotic War one battle at a time, he also makes suggestions about how the scenarios can be translated to other periods and theatres of war. (There will be a download for this article available at the weekend.)
  • Jim Webster is with us again, delivering Colonial wars by proxy: historical asymmetric warfare at arm’s length. That’s quite a mouthful, but the article describes a fun campaign on an island of your own devising, capable of being set in any period you like. So, get creative and be prepared to deal with unruly hordes on the Isle of Wight. (Other destinations are available.)
  • The Featherstone Tribute – a weekend of fun and fierce fighting is where David Brown recounts the recent event commemorating the man considered to be the father of modern wargaming, Donald Featherstone, in whose name a group of enthusiastic players, plus special guests, gathered at the Wargames Holiday Centre.
  • In A funny little civil war – wargaming the Sonderbund War of 1847, Arthur Harman has stumbled upon a central European conflict about which almost nobody knows anything – what a find! With a new book from Helion hitting the shelves right now, this exciting discovery could lead to some excellent games for the 19th century enthusiast.
  • Mick Sayce provides advice for the increasing number of wargamers moving into the micro-scales, where the prospect of creating the vast sweep of battle is enticing, but many are fearful of the challenge of tackling tiny castings with a paintbrush. Fear not – and read on in Painting tiny chaps – Mastering brushwork on 6mm miniatures.
  • Huzzah, huzzah for Texas! The Battle of Salado Creek 1842 comes from Chris Swan who describes a scenario recreating a significant encounter in the tortuous nineteenth century history of Mexican-Texian relations. It also happens to be a perfect size for a very manageable tabletop game!
  • And finally we have a trio of show reports from Hammerhead 2016 by Neil Shuck, Beachhead 2016 by Iain Dickie (yes, him!) and Cavalier 2016 by Mick Sayce (we like to keep ‘em busy!).

Of course, we have our regular spots too:

  • In his Briefing The Editor has been thinking about his health and the toll our hobby takes – and perhaps you should too; in his World Wide Wargaming, he continues his research into English Civil War gaming with an overview of some of the rulesets on offer, and of course has two more Blogs of the Month.
  • Neil Shuck ponders the subject of new editions of rulesets, examines some new products and does a bit of DIY terrain building, inspired by Diane Sutherland’s coffee stirrers last month.
  • Diane Sutherland herself, meanwhile, has always had a lot of bottle, and now she makes a brush with destiny – destined to become a tree, which makes her a jolly good feller, as she cuts her losses, smothers them in sticky stuff and tries not to see the wood for the trees. Or something.
  • In Fantasy Facts, John Treadaway enthuses about the biggest participation game show in the land, some TV-influenced miniatures, a ‘historo-fantasy’ range, funky sci-fi armour and buildings that look like... well... footballs!
  • Boardgame specialist Brad Harmer-Barnes is excited by the prospect of boardgame/ computer game crossover – and wonders why more hasn’t been done already.
  • It’s not just the Editor getting fit! In his Send three and fourpence column, Conrad Kinch creates a campaign aiming to be beneficial to the health of the players as well as being an enjoyable sequence of games.
  • Of course we have our Battlegames Combat Stress Appeal; our regular review slot Recce; and finally, our competition this month features the chance to win one of three copies of Helion’s fabulous new illustrated ECW ruleset with cardboard cutout soldiers: “BATTLE FOR BRITAIN – WARGAME THE ENGLISH CIVIL WARS 1642-1651” by Peter Dennis and Andy Callan.

The front cover photo, taken by the Editor, is of Saxon heavy cavalry charging into the Russian reserve artillery during the refight of  Leipzig held for the Donald Featherstone Tribute Weekend at the Wargames Holiday Centre. See Dave Brown’s report on page 32.

Remember also to check out the new “Downloads” section on the new website!

Roll ‘em high!

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MWBG 394 Out Next Week

Friday, 15 January 2016 08:14
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MWBG 393

Publication date Friday 22nd January

 

We kick off 2016 with an issue packed full of inspiring stuff to get your gaming going :

  • Jeff Brown encourages us to Remember the Alamo, which marks its 180th anniversary this year. Not only does Jeff regale us with a concise account of the events of February-March 1836, accompanied by useful maps, he goes one step further and provides cardboard cutout buildings to recreate the battle! The PDFs can be downloaded from our website FREE.
  • We’re delighted to see the return of Alistair Birch who was given the curious task of interviewing his own brother! Dig out those 1/72 plastic Germans, fire up your StuGs and glue the rockets back on your Sherman Calliope – Airfix Battles is coming to conquer a tabletop near you. Al gets an in-depth interview with Chris Birch of Modiphius who designed the game.
  • In Enter the dragon, we chat with Daniel Mersey, author of the popular mid-range medieval ruleset Lion Rampant, who has now followed up that success with a fantasy version aimed at intermediate-sized games.
  • Graham Burke returns with a brace of exciting scenarios that can be played with any of the popular Dark Age rulesets, in which some of the best-known figures of the age can be represented, with maps and force lists for the battles of Burford and the River Idle.
  • The Editor has been sending out hundreds of emails and the result is an up-to-date directory of as many of the UK wargame clubs as it was possible to fit in before the deadline! Big thanks are also due to the Gaming Club Network who kindly helped out with a list of their members. We’ll be publishing this online in due course – so if your club has been missed, get in touch and we’ll add you online.
  • We have a show report too: Neil Shuck attended Hereward towards the end of last year, and has supplied a bevy of pretty pictures of the games in action – bathed in light!

 

Of course, we have our regular spots too:

  • The Editor provides a reminder of the many wars for which we could be commemorating centenaries this year in his Briefing; in his World Wide Wargaming, he shows how he created a step-by-step painting and basing tutorial on Twitter as a way of keeping a project ‘on course’, as well as lauding another pair of ‘Blogs of the Month’.
  • Neil Shuck has been getting very excited about a recent clutch of Ancients rulesets, as well as revealing aspects of his own hobby time, including painting, basing and bridges.
  • Diane Sutherland has been carving up cardboard to recreate period stonework and never tiring of tiling, showing how selective titivation can enhance your wargame scenery.
  • In Fantasy Facts, having fought his way out of his packing case bunker, John Treadaway is currently living in an internet-free zone, something of a setback for a high-tech man about town, but no barrier for our determined correspondent who sends a solid report about the latest goodies in the fantasy and sci-fi worlds.
  • Boardgame specialist Brad Harmer-Barnes uses his Hex Encounter to explore a number of games designed to recreate the experience of JRR Tolkien’s epic tale of hobbits, dwarves, elves and men.
  • In his Send three and fourpence column, Conrad Kinch, who is always our go-to correspondent for social niceties, recommends five time-tested steps to hosting a successful wargames night at home.
  • Of course we have our Battlegames Combat Stress Appeal which includes a brief farewell to one of the staff at Combat Stress HQ, and our highly respected Recce section reviews all manner of books, rulesets, and other wargaming stuff – even playing cards!
  • We also announce that places are still available for the third Featherstone Annual Tribute to be held at the Wargames Holiday Centre near Basingstoke, this year featuring the enormous Battle of Leipzig 1813.
  • Finally, our competition this month features no less than five copies up for grabs of Daniel Mersey’s Dragon Rampant fantasy rules, with thanks to Osprey for their generosity.

 

The front cover features a photo taken by the Editor for the Dragon Rampant rulebook.

Remember also to check out the “Goodies” section on our website at http://miniaturewargames.co.uk after publication date next Friday for those Alamo downloads!

Roll ‘em high!

 

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eBay Combat Stress Auction

Monday, 30 November 2015 19:33
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At 20:07 GMT on 30th November, our auction begins for a set of eight Waterloo map boards created by veteran gamer Bill Leeson, who helped to popularise Von Reisswitz' 1824 masterpiece Kriegsspiel.

More information can be found on the MWBG website.

Henry,
MWBG

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MWBG 391 Out This Week

Thursday, 22 October 2015 17:32
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MWBG 391

 

The wargaming season is in full flow as the clocks are about to change and the darker evenings turn a young man’s thoughts to brushwork and tabletop tactics. Here, then, is our inspirational offering for November:

 

In this issue:

  • Daniel Mersey is Cruising for a bruising, revelling in the quirky delights of early war British Cruiser tanks in the Western Desert. Power gamers who prefer ‘Überpanzers’ may prefer to look elsewhere!
  • Dave Tuck and photographer pal Malc Johnson deliver a wonderfully nostalgic piece with Apocryphal Well revisited, a scenario homage to Charles Grant and his book The Ancient Wargame. The look may be 1970s, but there’s also a full set of Ancients rules here alongside glorious eye candy! (Malc also took our cover pic.)
  • Regular contributor Arthur Harman has obviously been overdoing things, as he’s now retired to his bedroom to dream up wargaming ideas! The pleasant land of counterpane reveals the gaming possibilities of a neglected room in the house…
  • Allan Timms is a new contributor with a keen eye on his budget, and in Be a storage Scrooge he reveals his top tips for keeping down the expense of housing your miniatures safely.
  • Andy Copestake is back with further thoughts on inspiration in Are you inspired by dice? His contention is that rules mechanisms are unlikely to be what really get you fired up to start gaming – it’s all the other lovely stuff the hobby has to offer.
  • We also have two show reports this month, with coverage of Colours 2015 by John Treadaway and The Other Partizan 2015 by Neil Shuck. Lots of lovely pictures of pretty games, of course!

 

Of course, we have our regular spots:

  • The Editor reveals how inspiring he finds travel in his Briefing, and covers the online world and new developments in his World Wide Wargaming
  • Neil Shuck ponders trends in the hobby in Forward Observer, and this month he’s especially keen to reveal his extensive efforts at terrain building and his respect for the humble 1/72 plastic figure.
  • Diane Sutherland has been getting plastered this month, using her Wargames Widow column to achieve the perfect Ancient Greek look.
  • Fantasy Facts columnist John Treadaway scans the worlds of fantasy and sci-fi wargaming, with more for Frostgrave, lots of lovely stuff from Crooked Dice and Otherworld, new figures from Icarus Miniatures and a typically busy month at GZG and Brigade Models.
  • Boardgame specialist Brad Harmer uses his Hex Encounter column to provide a host of gaming ideas for your Hallowe’en pleasure.
  • Conrad Kinch has been scouring the videos on YouTube, skirting the kittens and weirdos to uncover the most useful weaponry documentaries for wargamers.
  • We have an update from our continuing Battlegames Combat Stress Appeal – look out for an announcement of a unique eBay auction next week – and our highly respected Recce section reviews all manner of books, rulesets, and other stuff.
  • Finally, our competition this month features a simply fantastic prize from Perry Miniatures – one of their brand new ACW ‘Battle in a Box’ sets worth £95!

 

Until next time, happy gaming!

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Miniature Wargames 388 Out Now

Wednesday, 29 July 2015 16:21
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MWBG 388

Here's what you can expect in issue 388. Of course, we have our regular spots:

  • The Editor has his Briefing, and covers the online world as it relates to wargamers in his World Wide Wargaming
  • Neil Shuck examines the trends in the hobby in Forward Observer.
  • Diane Sutherland uses her Wargames Widow column to provide terrain-making tips.
  • Fantasy Facts columnist John Treadaway scans the worlds of fantasy and sci-fi wargaming.
  • Conrad Kinch with his Send three and fourpence column writes about the hobby from a slightly eccentric point of view.
  • Boardgame specialist Brad Harmer uses his Hex Encounter column to describe the joys of the two-dimensional gaming world.
  • And our highly respected Recce section reviews all manner of books, rulesets, miniatures and other stuff.

In this issue, we also have:

  • Nikolas Lloyd describes his mammoth, multinational one-day wargaming project Operation Crossfire, where dozens of players across several continents fought WWII battles as part of the same campaign simultaneously!
  • Serving army Captain Charlie M Grant gives us Common sense – A foundation in tactics, posing some fundamental questions about the need for sound knowledge so you can successfully react to a situation on the tabletop.
  • Andrew Rolph refreshes our collective memory that the Napoleonic Wars had covered a great deal more ground than just Waterloo by delivering What! No Wellington? Central and Eastern Europe 1800-1814, a complete set of fast-play wargaming rules.
  • Trevor Halsall is back with another American Civil War scenario, Wildfire in the Wilderness, based on the fighting around the intersection of the Orange Plank Road with the Brock Road in Virginia on May 5th
  • Mick Sayce is well known for his series on the Mongols, but he’s also clever at creating Terrain for Tiny Chaps, and opens a two-parter on creating scenery suitable for 6mm and 10mm miniatures.
  • And of course we have an update from our continuing Battlegames Combat Stress Appeal.

 

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