by Tom Burgess

My friend Charles and I recently linked up for another go with Fate of a Nation. In our earlier game, Charles running his Egyptian T-54/T-62 Tank Battalion had little trouble sweeping aside my AMX-13 Israeli Tank Company – . This time we swapped sides, with me playing an Egyptian T-54 Tank Battalion and Charles running an Israeli Sherman Tank Company based force. We played at 75 points and rolled up Counterattack as a Mission.

Today Glenn (Triple G) and I come to you live from the Crossroads Tabletop Tavern in Manassas Virginia. We speak to John Hornberger who opened up what I consider the coolest place to dine, a restaurant that is focused on gaming. You can eat and play games from his  collection of over 1400 games of all types for all ages. You can also pick up some of the many games he has for sale in the store. If you want a really neat experience, for you and your fellow grogs or even your family, check this place out.

For our MW Eastern Front escalation league, the Huntsville Historical Gamers were given the opportunity to review a nice addition to our table terrain.  This Iconic terrain piece is produced in 15mm by the Epsilon Studios from Barcelona, Spain

Introducing the Stalingrad – Barmaley Fountain. This historical fountain is based on a Russian fairy tale, Aybolit and Barmaley, written in 1925 by Korney Chukovsky.  In the poem, Doctor Aybolit cautions the Little children:  Do not go to Africa for there are large evil barmaley there that will bite you!  In the whimsical statue, by sculptor Romuald Lodko, the children are dancing around the barmaley.

By Robert Kelly

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As I am all about Canadian subjects in gaming and modelling I could hardly wait for my Canadian infantry to arrive in the mail. In fact, I ordered three platoons.

I opened the blisters up with Matt Varnish looking on. We were both quite impressed with the inserted guide that showed the painted troops and how to base them. The moulding was for the most part quite good and the sculpts were of Battlefront’s usual high quality.

There are many people who enjoy our hobby of miniature wargaming in different ways.  Some love a great historical game, tailoring a board to match a particular battle, designing forces to match.  Others like a cooperative aspect to it, playing on teams, or making huge games that bring in lots of players at once.

Some are in it for the modelling and painting, designing elaborate bases, displays, or beautiful scenic pieces.  Others participate to test their competitive meddle against the best competition they can.  At any given point, some of us are in the hobby for all of these reasons.  I enjoy all these things, but I love tournaments. At a tournament, I can get three or more games against diverse opponents, and I get to sharpen my skills at something I enjoy doing. I get to see new techniques for painting armies and meet people with the same passion for this as me. I’ve made some great friends since I got going with

Since I began playing in 2011, I have only managed to finish first in a tournament once. But I felt with practice and opportunity, I might be able to claw my way into the big dance at masters in Indianapolis this year.  Last year I managed to climb as high as 22nd in the rankings. Maybe this year was my best opportunity. And so my travels began.  As our tournament season closes and another one begins this October, I’ll show some pictures of my journey throughout the past year, some big wins, some big losses, and some lessons I learned along the way.

Ed and Austin are back again!  This time they talk about more tactics, answer your questions and talk about upcoming Flames of War and Team Yankee events near you.  You do not want to miss these tips from NDNG’s Masters players.

For those of you that have followed my posts over the years know that I am also a die hard PC gamer. One of the publishers that has always captured my attention (and Dollars) are the guys from Games who have been hard at work putting out some great games over the last few months that you should not miss.

I have been talking with Paolo Paglianti, who is the public relations manager for Slitherine/Matrix Games [editor: and is now contributing to NDNG in Table-Top wargaming, mainly on FOW and TY coverage].

He has given me a few preview codes for some of the hot new releases they have published in 2018, and some of these games were way to fun and addictive to stop playing and tell you about them. What I have always liked about this publisher is how the games they produce cover the gamut of war gaming, historical to fantasy, strategic to tactical and ancients to a future conflict, these guys have everything you can think of and I am sure they have something that will also suck you into your computer for a few hours.

By Paolo Paglianti
Photos by the author

By Paolo Paglianti

In September 2017, I decided to paint a new “modern” army for Team Yankee. This is Part 2 of a report about my experience and my “ideas” after a full year of tournaments in North Italy and a campaign at my club.

Formation 2

The second Formation is the Mech Infantry. British foot has a really good Assualt and Counterattack value (actually, the best in the game, with 3/3), so they can hunt down even the best Russian Afghani infantry, as well the US or West German one. Their units are really big, and with the “missed” rules you can divert the enemy fire on the bases you need less. The basic Infantry unit comes with 4 general infantry bases, other 3 with Carl Gustav (AT 17 will cast fear in any armoured vehicles, except US Abrams and West German Leo 2). The mortar is a good for some handy smoke or as a swapper to save more useful bases.

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).