By Aaron Kamakawiwoole

Hey Reader!

With my first of three orders for Starcraft miniatures in a truck in St. Louis, MO (let’s gooooo), I got to thinking about a few decisions people should consider when assembling their Starcraft miniatures. We won’t be talking about the nuts and bolts of assembly (should you paint the base first, should you assemble the miniature and then paint, what glue should you use, etc.): instead we’re discussing five upgrade choices that may require some forethought before you start gluing models together, because sometimes small choices really matter.

By Richard Steer

Once upon a time, back in the days of Flames of War 3rd Edition, I started the process of collecting a Late-War Italian campaign German force. My starting point was Battlefront’s range of ‘HG’ metal figures, and eventually I had built and painted up couple of infantry platoons and a few support weapons. I am, however, terrible at completing projects, and before I had finished the collection, the FOW world had left Italy behind and moved on to V4.

My units did end up seeing some action over the years, playing as “Generic German” infantry, but I have always wanted to eventually finish the project. The re-release of Battlefront’s Italian Campaign range with Liberation of Italy has made the miniatures available again for me to finally do this.

So, given all of the options in the new book, what am I going to build as a list? Let’s work through the process.

By Paolo Paglianti

Twenty-six teams made up of 156 players converged on Milan for four days of Flames of War. Wargaming friends from every corner of the globe came together for dice rolling and good times. For me, it was a dream that finally came true.

By Kreighton Long

As I began working on my 2026 Bolt Action army project, winter Americans, I decided to try something new.  This time, instead of “winging it” when putting together the models, I decided to try to deliberately create a diverse platoon by making each arm/body combination unique within the box.  Despite a few logistical challenges I had to overcome, I found the project worthwhile in order to create a more unique infantry platoon with no repeated poses.

By Aaron Kamakawiwoole

Hey Reader!

Welcome back! We’re continuing our discussion of the Commonwealth forces, today looking at the Indian, New Zealand, and South African forces that operated all over the globe during the conflict.

By Aaron Kamakawiwoole

Hey Reader!

Kreighton gave an excellent overview of the new Third Edition supplement for the Armies of the Commonwealth, and today we’re continuing in our review of the book by looking at some of the highlights for new units in the book.

The Commonwealth includes a whopping six army lists, so we’ll be breaking this into two posts. Today we’ll be looking at the Australian, Canadian, and East Africa Command forces, representing a lot of different theaters across the globe – a real cross-section of the war!

By Kreighton Long

G’day mates!  Late last week my copy of Armies of the British Commonwealth arrived in the mail.  After hearing and reading great things from those that were fortunate enough to get an advanced copy I was excited to dig in myself.  Let’s see what’s in it.

By Richard Steer

Before the liberation of Italy, there was the liberation of Sicily – Operation Husky. Sneaking in just ahead of the new Late-War Italian Campaign book for Flames of War, Battlefront has published a set of army lists that cover this campaign in Flames of War.

The release is a set of free PDFs published on their website, so this article won’t tell you anything you can’t already see for yourself. But I’m super excited about it, so I want to talk about it anyway.

by Jesse Marcelo

This April, Warlord Games announced the introduction of their first all-plastic field gun and support weapon kits, marking a departure from their previous metal and Siocast offerings. According to Warlord, the primary driver behind this shift has been the increased demand for artillery pieces following the release of the 3rd Edition of Bolt Action. The new platoon structure allows players to field multiple artillery pieces more easily, creating a greater need for support weapons on the tabletop.

By Kreighton Long

In this article we will continue our exploration of how various Tournament Organizers (TO) from around the country approach the Best Painted awards of their Bolt Action tournaments.  In the previous article we looked at TOs from Utah, Wisconsin, Illinois, Texas, Ohio, Virginia, and California.  This round I spoke with TOs from Illinois, Washington, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Virginia, and Maryland.