Gaming

By Paolo Paglianti

Images courtesy BattleFront

Whatever you play sci-fi Warhammer 28mm games or 15mm historical ones, half of our hobby is painting miniatures. If you are like me, you have tons of unpainted metal and plastic miniatures in the hobby room. Those Orks you bought because that fantasy soccer was so good. The space marines you collected because sooner or later you’ll do that WH40K army. And obviously boxes of WW2 tanks and Alexander phalanxes in 15mm.

Something that can’t miss in the wargamer’s shelf is a book about painting techniques. Before the Internet, they were precious as gold. Although you can now find plenty of online written and video tutorials, a good colour reference book is still quite useful.

In my painting “career” I have read books from Games Workshop and the awesome , but Battlefront’s is something unique, because it’s one of the few (actually the only one, as far as I know) totally focused on 15 mm armies. As one of the best and most inspiring lines in the book, it would be crazy to paint a full Russian 15mm WW2 army with the same definition as a 54 or even a 28 mm miniature. Colours of War is totally aimed for your twentieth century armies.

Recently my best friend Jon Russel from told me about a new addition to the game . Warlord’s WWII aerial combat game introduces well-known historical aces. In a shift, they are about to release a new ace in the line-up. The ace?

Johnny Red, a fictitious character from the comic series of the same name. Not only do I want to tell you about this new release and the Johnny Red Series I also want to talk to comics in wargaming.

By Matt Varnish

Hey everyone, as I mentioned in the podcast and on my Syrians article, Battlefront neglected to show off the cool Syrian paint schemes and left newer players high and dry in terms of cool pictures.   I am here to fix that.   We will look at building a killer HQ tank with ERA armour blocks, then general painting of vehicles and the 3 main schemes, then infantry at the end.   All paints are Vallejo unless otherwise noted.   Yalla, let’s go!

By Mitch Reed

When we got the preview copy of the Oil War book from I was very interested in the possibility of playing a small IDF force so I can get the Pereh anti-tank platoon on the table, This unit has the ability to shoot anything on the table without needing line of site and uses a new special rule called NLOS.

Besides trying to get this unit on the table I also wondered what this model would look like, since it is a missile shooting platform that was disguised as a tank. The Pereh was in use secretly for over 25 years and was finally declassified in 2015 before being pulled from service in 2017.

My first attempt to make a small IDF force from Oil War used a small formation of Magach 6 tanks backed up by the Pereh platoon, so when I was sent these boxes to review I was excited to get the chance to try this force out on a table as bring you my review of these two new releases.

By David Garvin

In any calendar year, there are a number of regular Advanced Squad Leader (ASL) Tournaments. From the at Winter Offensive in January to the unofficial ASL Oktoberfest, () in October, there are more tournaments than months in a year. These span the globe, though most are in the US. There are even a number of online tournaments using (VASL), a freeware game that allows for online live play as well as for the somewhat cumbersome play by email (PBEM). A quick and incomplete check of the shows 19 tournaments in 2019 alone. The number is closer to 25.

I have a lot of experience in playtesting everything from miniatures, board wargames and even video games over my years in gaming. I also go out and seek opportunities to playtest when possible and my reasoning is simple, I want the community to enjoy their gaming experience as much as possible.

Over the last few weeks I have been playtesting the upcoming battleship game Heart of Leviathan (HoI) and someone asked me how I planned to play test this game. I thought the advice I gave was worth sharing it with the rest of the community.

By Matt Varnish

The lads from Montreal had their second annual Team Yankee tournament (I missed the first one) at JacHOBBY in Laval, a suburb of Montreal.  Their guys have come down to Ottawa for Canadian Nationals, so we returned the favour and crashed their tournament with myself, Rob, Scott and Andrew B.

The Store and Terrain

First of all, the store is fantastic, and they are the local seller of terrain and accessories.

I’m going to pimp their stuff despite not getting paid or anything, we spoke to the main guy, he basically designed 40k, WFB, RPG dungeon tiles and walls, Necromunda, and now has some 15mm stuff, seen below:

My first real foray into miniatures was with naval games and to this day I have almost 325 dreadnought period ships in 1/2400 scale. Even now I love playing naval games and I have been on luck over the last few months with some great naval wargames either hitting the market or in pre-production. Are naval war games making a comeback? Or are these new games just the latest editions in a very popular segment of our gaming community.

By Ed Sales

Hello there! Today we take a look at the that arrived in the mail.