Mega episode for a mega book! I am joined by Tom Gall and Austin Copeland to go over the entire Great War book for Flames of War. Almost two jammed packed hours of mud and blood to the green fields beyond.

In this episode we welcome Nate and Phil to the NDNG Crew. We talk about their first Blood and Plunder game, board games, life as a pro war gamer and we talk about hot upcoming game DEFCON Zero.

I hope you have seen the article on NDNGs narrative Team Yankee event we are holding at Cold Wars. This article is meant to get you thinking about what lists you may want to bring to the event.

First of all, as long as you keep to the same side, you can change your lists each game, how many events let you do that? Actually, changing lists is key to the event and I hope I can spell this out to you here.

I know many of you felt 55 points is too low for an event. Well, this would be true if it wasn’t for the fact that for each game you will be teamed up with a partner. This partner will be based on what lists and players will work well together during each round, and your commanders (Chris Jackson is SACEUR and Tim Hladon will be the GSFG commander) will pick teams each round.

Both commanders are great guys so if you wanted to play with a particular partner, I am sure they honor your requests. By picking partners at the event we can have newer players learn from some of the old sweats.

The boys are back from break and they look at how to play the new Experimental Missions for Flames of War, How to deal with Spam and look at upcoming events.

By Mitch Reed

Photos taken from the Command Post Games and Lost Battalion Games websites. 

Gettysburg is perhaps the iconic battle in American history and has spawned dozens of games in many different formats which enable gamers to re-fight the pivotal Civil War battle.

One of the first games I ever owned was the 1977 Avalon-Hill Gettysburg, a game in which I enjoyed playing for years. The market is full of games that recreate the battle, from small quick to play games to multi-map monster games with thousands of counters.

So, whatever scale you desire to play the battle in you will have no problem finding the title that best suits your interest. While many of the classic games came out decades ago, companies are still producing new games with new mechanics to bring the battle to life on your table.

You are in for a treat with the return of Sean Sarah to NDNG. We catch up with Sean and talk about a ton of different games and why we still love Flames of War. Minis, board and video games are some of the topics we cover.

So, the old way we found out about events is over, I assume smoke signals and town criers were not cutting it, so the folks from Battlefront created the Battlefront Events website which is located This new site is a great one-stop shop for all of your events needs.

In this episode we sit down with Mike Tunez from to talk about what is in store for Blood and Plunder and Oak and Iron in 2019. The Benerson Little books we talk about can be found

Here at NDNG, we like to listen to the gamers in our community and provide them with events we consider fun and challenging. For the last few HMGS conventions, we have been hosting Team Yankee events which include the North American Nationals each July during Historicon.

Based on the comments we got from gamers during Fall-in in November 2018 we wanted to host a narrative doubles event that will test you as a gamer and throw some wrinkles into the game that players will love. which will be held on 15 March 2019 in Lancaster PA will be the site of our first linked narrative event.

By Mitch Reed

Photos by Author and Image Studios

Note: The author is reviewing an early beta-test of the game and works on the development team for Heart of Leviathan.

You have seen the teases on Facebook and have wondered what this new game is all about. I was lucky enough to have Image Studios send me a beta copy of the game to playtest for the next few weeks. Walter Vail who runs was gracious enough to let me spoil some of the game for you.

I have been working with Walter on the rules for a while now, I love playing with Dreadnoughts, I have a ton of ships in the 1/2400 scale and have worked on some homebrew rules to play with my massive fleets.