Gaming

By Glenn Van Meter

Last year at Historicon, No Dice No Glory ran a very successful Ironman Tournament for Firelock Games. The gaming spanned three systems, two days, and dozens of competitors. All three sub-tournaments were the largest Firelock Games tournaments to date for each system. We even had demo tables on-hand for passers-by to try out what they were seeing. So it was no surprise that Firelock Games has asked us to help them make this year another overwhelming success.

By Troy Hill

Well, Warlord did it again.

They released a new game. That uses rules from their other games. For an entirely new game. Or something like that.

Combined Arms is both a stand-alone board game, and a campaign set for Warlord’s suite of World War II games, Bolt Action, Blood Red Skies, Cruel Seas, and Victory at Sea.

And my gaming group in Indiana has been salivating for a campaign system we can use. Warlord timed the release of the game well, right as gaming is ramping up across the globe after two years mostly in pandemic lockdowns.

By Tom Gall

With the release of the Battle of the Bulge German forces by Battlefront, the German player is granted a luxurious set of choices for new units to play with for version 4 of Flames of War. This article is about putting together a Volksgrenadier formation with the addition of some of the fun thematic late war German super weapons and playing it against Americans on the tabletop. What works well? What doesn’t?

By Mitch Reed

Wargames tend to feature some of the most iconic battles in history and the fact that the battle of Gettysburg has so many titles shows its enduring popularity with gamers. I own many games on the battle and one of my first wargames was the 1977 version of Gettysburg from Avalon Hill. Some games on the battle are hits and some miss the mark, however, A Most Fearful Sacrifice (AMFS) from Flying Pig Games is the best game on the battle if not also a top ten wargame in your collection.

“So I entered an ADLG tournament the other day…….”

by Dennis ‘Matt Varnish’ Campbell

What better way to get my 15mm Persian army painted than to randomly enter a local tournament!  Art de La Guerre (ADLG) is an ancients ruleset from France that has more figures than DBA and covers a WIDE timespan, roughly from a few thousand BC up to about the Renaissance period.  See Paolo’s interview with the Author here:

By David Garvin

It was back in May 2019, that the last in-person Canadian Advanced Squad Leader Open (CASLO) was held.  That was in Ottawa and it was won by Jean-Pierre Raymond of Québec. The Pandemic ended all in-person play for two years, so the 2020 version, scheduled to be held in Fredericton, New Brunswick, was held virtually instead. 2021’s version was also online, but the prevalence of vaccines and the easing of global restrictions meant that this year would finally see another in-person event. This year, the event was held in the Montréal suburb of Dorval from the 20th to the 22nd of May and was attended by twenty-two players. As it turned out, it was a close-run affair that came down to the final round to determine the winner.

By Chris Masucci

Over the past few years, I have had the pleasure of creating content for a unique game. Among the current fantasy offerings in the tabletop market, the realm of fantasy has been dominated by mostly Euro-centric games set in fantasy lands with humans, elves, and dwarves.

When it comes to games that center upon other areas or cultures outside what we have come to know as the standard fantasy setting, there seems to be a lack of mainstream options. In 2020 Warlord Games launched Mythic Americas, a fantasy game based on the Warlords of Erehwon rules that centers on the Pre-Columbian lands of North and South America.

By Tyler

The global campaign is back, and it’s bigger and better than ever!

The Talesmen of No Dice No Glory will be partnering with Firelock Games, Blood & Pigment, and The Plunder Den to present you with another global community campaign for Firelock’s “pirate” games – Blood & Plunder and Oak & Iron. Veterans of last year’s inaugural campaign will recall that the Summer of Plunder follows a loose structure, offering a fun way for Firelock gamers around the world to interact, regale with photos and stories of their battles, and compete for the glory of their chosen faction (and prizes, many prizes).

By Howard West

No Dice No Glory has received advance copies of the next force book for the V4 Flames of War(FOW) Bulge German Book from Battlefront Miniatures.

I was asked to do a comparison of the Flames of War V3 Ardennes Offensive vs the new V4 Bulge German Book. and at the same time introduce the new Bulge German Book to our Flames of War followers on NO Dice No Glory.

This will be the first of several articles that will be done by the NoDiceNoGlory Team. The next article will be about “The Big Cats”

By Mitch Reed

I once again accepted the invite from Sebastian Bae to playtest his wargaming student’s final projects at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis Maryland. As with my last time doing this I was very impressed with the games the students developed over the course of a semester and feel that some of the projects they had on display were good enough for the commercial market.