By Dennis Jensen
My first painted piece of the new year is the Taco Bell by . This is an MDF and resin 28mm kit. Before gluing on the roof and the window frames I sprayed the building and the frames with a textured spray paint. I experimented to see if the textures spray paint would hide the joins.
By Tyler Stone
This weekend, my Kickstarter copy of newest game, pulled into dock at my front door. It was a long voyage, as Firelock Captain Mike attested on our podcast.
Issues with the initial castings, then shipping, and finally with customs, meant that the project didn’t quite make its projected ‘Christmas 2019’ delivery.
A lesser blogger might ask the leading question, “Was it worth the wait.” But this is no average blog, so I’m going to tell you up front: it absolutely was. With that out of the way, I’m going to answer your question instead – what’s in the box?
By Chris Masucci
It has taken me quite some time to get around to playing Fantasy Flight’s licensed star wars ground combat offering, Star Wars Legion. Being pitched as a small scale skirmish game centering around a few fire teams, a commander and a vehicle or two, Legion sells itself as a light miniatures game that uses the Star Wars license to create your own small scale battles. Originally starting with units and vehicles from the original Star Wars set of films, the game has expanded more recently with the inclusion of two new armies from the Clone Wars era. All of these armies are fully compatible and can be fielded against each other.
Mark Walker from Flying Pig games joins us again to talk about his recent Kickstarter project, Le Resistance and other games he has been working on.
By Preston Jacob
“We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender!” – Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
That speech rings no truer than with all the new units you can find in the new Flames of War D:Day British book. For any British player who felt they may have been cheated with the small list and force selection from Fortress Europe, worry no more. There are over 100 pages in this new book and brings the British fully into late war. Whether you’re an infantry or armored player, you’ll find everything you could want from the Normandy campaign and will be able to drive the Germans back to the Fatherland by Christmas.
by Dennis Jensen
Williamsburg Muster 2020 was on February 14-16 at the Clarion Hotel in Williamsburg Virginia. This is the second year I attended this excellent small convention. Once again, I gave my wife the gift of silence and I went down with my two boys. This year we also went down with my friend Todd, a fellow WNPG member, and Hobby University teacher.
We made it down to Williamsburg without traffic, checked in our room, bought our badges and then went to dinner. There were a number of games on Friday night, some planned, and some ad hoc. I continued my tradition of allowing the boys to stay up late and we all played the Arena Games gladiator game.
In this special bonus edition of the BattleVault podcast Tom is joined by No Dice No Glory teammates Austin Copeland and Preston Jacob. The boys go all fan-boy and gush incoherently about all the goodness the upcoming D-Day British book and card release for Flames of War. In case you can’t tell….they are very excited about the release.
By Mitch Reed
Many of you know that I am a huge fan of Great War gaming, and this month we have some great new games being released or in the works that gamers should take note of.
I find the history of the Great War fascinating and I have always wondered why it is not more popular and prominent in our hobby. I think some of these new games may change some minds over the next few months.
Ed and Tom hit the air-waves again for the second installment of No Dice No Glory’s BattleVault podcast.
By Chris Masucci
This past Friday I had the pleasure of getting in another game of , this time with a bit of a higher points limit and a non-standard mission to try out. Points were set at 2000 per player and the mission would be Feint. My Germans would take the role of attackers and Mike’s US army would be the defenders.
