By Mitch Reed, photos by Firelock Games

You have heard us talk about it on podcasts, seen us post on our Facebook page and now Oak and Iron is here!

The team that brought you Blood and Plunder has expanded its gaming line to include the battles on the high seas with , a 1/600 scale naval game that they have been showing off at events over the last few months.

We were lucky to get Mike Tunez the lead developer at Firelock Games so answer some questions about this great new game.

Check out our or go to Firelockgames.com to get in on this Kickstarter campaign right away.

by Troy A. Hill (Photos by the author, graphics courtesy of Warlord Games)

I’ve managed to get my US Bolt Action army into a playable state that I’m not embarrassed by. I do still need to finish my various vehicles for it (a few are still in boxes).

My sell-off of models from my previous games garnered me enough hobby dollars to hit up my Friendly Local Game Store (FLGS) for a new box from Warlord. Combine this with the new Western Desert book for Bolt Action, with some additional forces, and I’ll be good for the upcoming Duel in the that No Dice No Glory is sponsoring this February at Orccon in Los Angeles.

Guest post from Jorg- photos by the author

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I recently received a few of the new to fill out my town collection (All Crescent Root MDF). I ordered the buildings online and they arrived in their normal timely fashion (usually less than ten days). As with all Crescent Root buildings, you order each building ala carte. The new set just adds more buildings to their middle east building line. The big difference is that these are not all MDF, but a hybrid of other materials (I’m guessing laser cut plastic and resin, with paper and MDF as appropriate).

By Troy Hill

Photos by the Author

If you’ve been following our blog, you’ll know that Mitch Reed has begun playing from Warlord Games. He’s mentioned on a few podcasts that I’ve begun the game as well.

Rather than re-walk the newbie road that Mitch has already traversed with three stories and a podcast here on No Dice No Glory, I’d like to take a look at one of the offshoots from Bolt Action: Tank War.

(You can find Mitch’s previous posts on BA here: , , and ).

Bolt Action typically uses the infantry platoon as its core force and limits armoured options for the player to only a few vehicles at most. Tank Wars changes that equation and uses the main Bolt Action rules (with some alterations) to allow armoured vehicles as well as fully mechanized infantry units to play a larger role in the game.

Interview by Troy Hill, Photos courtesy of Sylvia Urquhart Smith

No Dice No Glory is pleased to introduce the newest member of our staff, Sylvia Urquhart Smith.

Sylvia is a common attendee at major gaming events and was recently reporting live from the NOVA Open when Mitch Reed got to talk to her. He was able to convince her to lend her talents and experience in the table-top gaming scene to us here at NDNG.

If you’ve been to an event with Sylvia, you’re likely to remember her as “the lady in the dress,” due to the unique 1950 style of dress she wears to be easily recognizable.

Here on NDNG, you can expect to see her posting and interacting in our social media feeds.

I recently began corresponding with Sylvia, to learn more about how she became involved in gaming.

Gamers may know Sylvia’s husband, Steve Urquhart Smith, from his involvement in designing, writing, and playing games. His most recent efforts have been directed at the upcoming Korea book for Bolt Action from Warlord Games.

Below is my conversation with Sylvia, edited for grammar and length.

By Players at the tourney: Johnny Vasquez, Justin Rodriguez, Hyato Tukakosi, Scott Miller and Tom Richards 

Photos by: Hyato Tukakosi and Troy Hill

Compiled by Troy Hill (Edited to include Justin R’s comments).

I recently organized the Pacific South-West regionals, a two-day, five-round FOW MW Tourney held at . No Dice No Glory and  sponsored the tourney (along with the Team Yankee tourney the day before).

Since the tournament occurred one week after BattleFront’s new books for the Eastern Front, Iron Cross and Enemy at the Gates hit the shelves, I allowed lists from the new books in the event.

Afterwards, I asked players to send in their thoughts to several questions about how the new forces affected the games they played. Below are their responses. The only editing I have done is for spelling and grammar, as well as organizing their comments by category.

Final Standings: Surprisingly, the top player fielded a force from Armoured Fist – a Death or Glory list. Another Brit list took fourth. Soviet lists were second, third, tenth and fourteenth. Germans bunched in the middle of the pack at fifth through eighth place, with one at eleventh. The fourth Soviet player, Ramses, is a younger new player in his first season of playing Flames of War. Give him some time to learn both the game and his army, and he’ll climb the ranks.

No Dice No Glory Iron Man Series: Fall-In 2018
held 9 -10 November, Lancaster Host Resort Hotel, 2300 Lincoln Highway East (Route 30) Lancaster, PA 17602

They say war is hell, and sometimes gaming can be tough too. We all know the feeling of exhaustion after a full day of playing in a tournament; what would you feel like after two days of competitive play? Those willing to play in back to back events and test their skills in both Team Yankee and Flames of War deserve recognition, and that is the title of “Iron Man”.

Our Wednesday post a day early!

Iron-Tom, Tom “Chairborne”, Dennis and Glenn get together to share thoughts about what we are up to at NDNG.

In addition, they discuss the NDNG Tunisia Campaign, BattleFront’s Open Day UK info, and the upcoming events at Historicon 2018.

By John Stafford

Images by the author, or from  (Image above: Napoleonics in 6mm: fictional battle of Pilzn)

In 2010, Mitch Reed introduced me to the  line of games published by Avalanche Press (AP). Their tactical approach to World War 2 filled a longstanding desire for something better than Advanced Squad Leader and Panzer Leader/Blitz by Avalon Hill. I began acquiring titles and reading the postings on their website. Shortly thereafter I began posting ideas for areas not covered by the Panzer Grenadier rules, such as logistics impacts on fighting (low fuel or ammo).

By Troy A. Hill

Images from Warlord Games, or by the author

Well, I took the plunge recently into a new game system. Gamer-Crack got hold of me again.

I’ve been looking for a new WWII system for a while, and I was hesitant to go back to a 28mm system after abandoning Warhammer Fantasy (WHFB) during its dark-era.

But, I wanted to find a system that would come equipped with a fairly stable player base in my part of the world (Southern California). Outside of Flames of War (FOW), is the next most popular WWII miniatures game. And it has a tournament scene. Double Win for that.

The first game I played, hosted by a few of our HMGS-PSW gents,  included a “objective” of Col. Klink and Sgt. Schultz. Seems those two had gotten lost near the Eastern Front. The Soviets were tasked with capturing or killing them. The German players had to recover them. That led to many poor attempts at German accents for quotable Hogan’s Heroes lines – I know NOTHink! – being tossed about like a live hand-grenade.