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Tuesday, December 24, 2024
Monday, December 23, 2024
Fantasm Publications: Clone-a-Saurus: The Miniatures Game - Core Rulebook
Fantasm Publications: Hunt or be hunted in a Lost World! War has broken out on Petrel's Paradise, a remote island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Five Corporations vie for control of the island in order to restart "Project Clone-a-Saurus", a top-secret program that has managed to resurrect dinosaurs from extinction! With priceless research on the line, who will come out on top and who will become dino chow? Check these new rules here
Clone-a-Saurus: The Miniatures Game is a tabletop wargame that taps into your killer instinct and lets players take control of either Humans or Dinosaurs in a prehistoric clash between the past and the future! Fight through bullets and teeth to secure the objective and take control of Petrel's Paradise! Whether you are a seasoned wargamer or a newcomer, Clone-a-Saurus promises to bring some prehistoric carnage to your game night! With the Core Rulebook, Players will have access to 6 unique Human Factions with tons of customization options as well as 2 Dinosaur Factions featuring a total of 31 unique species - with some species boasting stat blocks for Hollywood-style and Scientifically Accurate Dinosaurs!
Antediluvian Miniatures: New Fantasy Skeleton Character Preview
Antediluvian Miniatures: Another sneaky peek at something coming early next year, a skeletal homage to some classic Blanche oldhammer art! Sculpted by Paul Muller.
Modiphius Entertainment: Five Leagues From The Borderlands Solo Adventure Wargame!
Modiphius Entertainment: The last tomb was crawling with Grave Walkers. The Tower held a fey sorcerer; we lost Tring there, blasted by eldritch fire; Artum fell as we ran from the trolls of the deep woods, but for now, the village is safe. Tonight we’ll restock the gear and recruit any travellers from the inn who fancy a share of the coin. Tomorrow we’ll take the woods, then bring down that cursed tower for good. Maybe then we can rest, but there are already worrying rumours from the next valley…
Five Leagues From the Borderlands is a solo adventure wargame where you take the role of a warband of heroes and adventurers and explore a grim fantasy world full of monsters, enemies, creeping malice and exciting quests. The whole campaign is generated procedurally with each battle created from over 100 different enemy types, 17 unique foes and 6 scenario types that can play out in a wide number of ways. As you play, you will explore the game world, discover new locations and take on quests and jobs. Your warband will gain in experience and power and find wondrous loot… or die gruesomely in brutal combat.
The game is playable with any miniatures you may own and can be played on a 2x2 foot or 3x3 foot gaming table, making it ideal for players who are just getting started on fantasy gaming or for whom this is their first miniatures game. All you need is 6 figures for your heroes and a handful of suitable enemies to fight. Check these rules here
Sunday, December 22, 2024
1st Corps: New ACW Horse Teams and Horse Holders Preview
1st Corps: Samples of some new releases to the ACW range coming very soon. New Galloping horse teams and dismounted cavalry horse holders.
Fantasm Publications: Clone-a-Saurus: The Miniatures Game - Core Rulebook
Fantasm Publications: Hunt or be hunted in a Lost World! War has broken out on Petrel's Paradise, a remote island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Five Corporations vie for control of the island in order to restart "Project Clone-a-Saurus", a top-secret program that has managed to resurrect dinosaurs from extinction! With priceless research on the line, who will come out on top and who will become dino chow? Check these new rules here
Clone-a-Saurus: The Miniatures Game is a tabletop wargame that taps into your killer instinct and lets players take control of either Humans or Dinosaurs in a prehistoric clash between the past and the future! Fight through bullets and teeth to secure the objective and take control of Petrel's Paradise! Whether you are a seasoned wargamer or a newcomer, Clone-a-Saurus promises to bring some prehistoric carnage to your game night! With the Core Rulebook, Players will have access to 6 unique Human Factions with tons of customization options as well as 2 Dinosaur Factions featuring a total of 31 unique species - with some species boasting stat blocks for Hollywood-style and Scientifically Accurate Dinosaurs!
Saturday, December 21, 2024
Brother Vinni's Miniatures: New Spanish Rodeleros Release!
Brother Vinni's Miniatures: Spanish Rodeleros release! All 5 fighters completed and ready to break enemy's line. Everyone is armored with helmet, cuirass and iron shield, so they will go like a hot knife through butter. 28 mm, set of 5 resin miniatures. The set is available in our webstore
Alternative Armies: Merry Christmas 2024 and a Happy New Year 2025
Alternative Armies: A most Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the team here in Scotland. Click to article for close and open dates plus ‘codes of the year’ and a festive blanket 20% Off Offer. Two weeks paid holiday for the team and best wishes to you and yours. Be well and see you in 2025!
Rubicon Models: New Plastic Flakpanzer Ostwind Preview
Rubicon Models: Our 2nd Weekend Teaser for December - A follow-up project from our Panzer IV series. The Flakpanzer IV "Ostwind" (East Wind in English) was a German self-propelled anti-aircraft gun based on the Panzer IV tank. It was developed in 1944 as a successor to the earlier Flakpanzer IV/2 cm Vierling Wirbelwind.
Friday, December 20, 2024
Modiphius Entertainment: New County Road Z Core - Solo Tactical Tabletop Rules!
Modiphius Entertainment: Gather your survivors, build your community, and battle the zeds! County Road Z is a solo game of miniature tabletop combat and resource management, set during the zombie apocalypse. Scavenge materials to build watchtowers, workshops, generators and more, and then take it to the tabletop, where the zombies react to every grenade, shotgun, and scream! Combat zeds (and perhaps worse) across warehouses, graveyards, road wreckage, mansions and more. Check this brand new game here
Upgrade your base facilities and build new weapons and armor to keep your survivors safe for the next mission. Where will your next community base be? A distillery? A firehouse? A hydroelectric dam? Build your defenses bigger and better... but quietly, or the zombie horde will be at your door.
Build your own Apocalypse
Enjoy the End Times your way with the Apocalypse Toolkit, containing a multitude of optional rules including a variety of specialized zombies, advanced rules for firearms and vehicles, seasonal weather conditions, and your choice of apocalypse. Plug-and-play whichever options fit your playstyle, whether you favor complexity, ease of play, or a combination of both.
The 184-page full-colour PDF includes:
A variety of apocalypse types, including Viral, Cosmic Horror, and Magic
- 16 different types of zombies
- Road Trip campaign option
- Character advancement rules
- 29 missions types
- 10 different base types
- 39 different facilities and upgrades
Brutal Cities: New SciFi Vantann Office Building - 3D Printable Terrain Release
Brutal Cities: Shipping companies hate him! Try This One Weird Hack For Endless 3D Printable Terrain! Brutal Cities is now able to offer you tested, supportless 3D printable terrain files. Breaking out from MDF terrain, the first .STL release includes the popular Vantann office building suitable for FDM printing in 6-15mm scales. In addition, check out the EPIC Brutalist Library Design. Great for games like Alpha Strike and Legions Imperialis, and Cold war tabletop games. The first of many more to come.
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Element Games: New The Lord of The Rings - The War of the Rohirrim: Battle of Edoras Starter Set!
Element Games: The War of the Rohirrim: Battle of Edoras Starter Set is an essential addition to the Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game Collection, perfect for anyone looking to experience the dramatic clashes of Rohan and Dunland. This comprehensive box offers beautifully sculpted miniatures, an updated ruleset, and thematic components that bring the defense of Edoras to life. Grab your copy now here
Thursday, December 19, 2024
Claymore Castings: New Early 15th Century Central European Men at Arms
Claymore Castings: OT64 our latest Early 15th Century European Men at Arms 2. Bohemia/Southern Germany/ Austria. This pack is now up for sale.
Snarling Badger Studios: New Deth Wizards Tabletop Wargame
Snarling Badger Studios: Welcome to Deth Wizards, a miniatures-agnostic tabletop wargame where you and your friends take the role of powerful Necromancers, commanding your undead minions against the villages and heroes of the land of Deth. Designed to play solo, co-op, or as an adversarial skirmish game, Deth Wizards is created by Adam Loper and Vincent Venturella for 1-4 players.
From the book: "The world is cruel... especially to those who think as I do. At a young age, I was driven from all comfort and home, exiled and made to learn how to survive. Eagerly, I studied dark tomes, learning forbidden knowledge and harnessing my talent. Now, I have grown into someone else - some... thing else - and it is time to return for those who cast me out."
Use any fantasy miniatures you'd like to conquer the land of Deth and build your Necromantic power. Enjoy a deep campaign system that allows you to choose your villianous schemes, playing each mission in either normal or advanced mode for addtional challenge, and potential reward. Check the rules here
Badger Games: New Have A Nice Day Fantasy Character Models
Badger Games: HND's goal was to find a happy medium between having the classic Medieval British lok of Tolkien inspired classic D&D and the modern, crossroads, cosmopolitan look and feel of modern D&D. So, while inspiration is drawn from a medieval European look for some, others are drawn from Medieval Asia, Africa, Polynesia, Central and South America and beyond. We are very happy with the result.
We also scaled them all, so that a party with humans, elves, dwarves, gnomes and halflings will all scale perfectly together and when pitted against monsters like our Orc range. Again we are very happy with the result. This is just the tip of the iceberg as we plan to release 12-24 figures a month for the next 4 months for the character figures alone as well as a lot more monsters from the original monster manual.
Wayland Games: More Kill Teams To Add To Your Arsenal
Wayland Games: Are you looking to pick up a Kill Team outside of its respective two-player box or complete your collection with a recent release? Make sure not to miss last week's Kill Team pre-orders, with up to 20% off Killzone: Volkus, Vespid Stingwings, Tempestus Aquilons, and many more. Also still available to pre-order now are even more reinforcements for your Legions Imperialis army. Get up to 20% off the Thanatar Siege-Automata Cohort, Serperos Heavy Stalkers, and Stalker Constructs. Check here
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Nordic Weasel Games: Popular SciFi LaserStorm 2nd Edition Rules
Nordic Weasel Games: Welcome to the 2nd edition of LaserStorm. This is a set of wargame rules aimed at huge science fiction battles using small scale miniatures such as 3mm and 6mm scale. Check popular rules now here
The game scale is that each model represents either a single vehicle or a 4-6 person fireteam of infantry. Units are all distinct in their performance: Vehicles are vulnerable to close assault but feature speed and firepower, super heavy units can take (and dish out) massive punishment and the lumbering behemoth class allows you to get your giant robots out on the battlefield too.
Gameplay is card driven using a small card deck. Very few markers and tokens are used in play (and many games will feature none at all). Instead you can focus on a cool, amazing looking battlefield as your grav tank platoon engages the enemy walkers. Combat rules are straight forward, relying on a simple to-hit/saving throw mechanic. Morale is handled in a unique fashion: Instead of units sitting around as sitting ducks when their morale fails, they withdraw from the battle and can later be rallied and brought back as reinforcements. To help you learn the rules, each chapter also includes a Boot Camp section, explaining the very basics at a glance.
Other mechanics include tactical assets, covering ploys such as forward deployment or camouflage and heroic units. The game features a scenario generator with 9 objective types possible as well as an introductory scenario to get you started. What about your troops? You can do it in two different ways: You can use the assembly line where you choose a basic troop type or vehicle hull, then bolt weapons on to it, tally up the points cost and voila, ready to play. You can also use the workshop where you can design units down to the individual stats and get exactly the outcome you would like.
A collection of human and alien prebuilt units are also available, so you can get up and playing right away, if you prefer not to build anything just yet. When you have played a few battles, you may ready to go bigger. Why not try a campaign game where a massive army is divided up into smaller armies and then move around a grid map, combining a strategic layer with the tactical gameplay.
You prefer playing solo? The new edition covers solo mechanics as well through the use of a tactical card system to help inject some decision making into the foe. The new edition of LaserStorm features much requested addiitons like air support and is in full colour, lavishly illustrated with gorgeous miniatures and terrain as well as helpful diagrams showcasing key concepts.
Joseph A. McCullough: New Deathship One - SciFi Survival Game Release
Joseph A. McCullough: Welcome to Deathship One. Better listen up, because the truth is, you probably won’t live long. You see, you’ve been brought here to die. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s a test or an experiment to measure the capability of warriors from your planet. Maybe it’s just entertainment, like a circus or gameshow. Or maybe this is punishment, a personal purgatory for your sins. Now, I don’t mean to bring you down. I just don’t want to fill you with any false hopes either.
On the other side of that door is a room, and beyond that another, and another, and another. In fact, there are five rooms in total. Each of those rooms is designed to kill you in different ways. Traps, monsters, automated weapons systems, you name it. No, I can’t tell you what the next room looks like, even if I wanted to. It changes every time. The rooms shift around you see. But you’ve got one chance. You’ve got to fight your way through all five rooms. In the unlikely event you survive, you get to go home. So, it’s that simple. You fight your way through, you survive. You might even find a few things to help you on the way. Seriously though, make your peace before you open that door, because once you do, there’s going to be no time for praying…
Deathship One is a solo or co-operative miniatures games of science-fiction survival. Choose a squad of soldiers from any time period, or even the future, and see if they can survive the horrors of the Deathship. Designed to play fast, with a minimum of rules and terrain, it takes miniatures gaming right now to the nitty gritty of running, shooting, and dying. Designed by Joseph A. McCullough the creator of Frostgrave, Stargrave, Rangers of Shadow Deep, Oathmark, and The Silver Bayonet. Check these new rules here
Pen and Sword: Wargaming and Tabletop Miniatures, Scenery Books!
Pen and Sword: Wargaming and Tabletop Miniatures, Scenery Books! Check them all here
Pen & Sword's new wargaming books will offer original sets of rules and supporting scenario books across a wide range of periods, plus more general books on various aspects of the hobby, such as modelling, painting miniatures and making terrain. They are commissioned and written by wargamers for wargamers. Whether you are a veteran gamer or a new recruit to this fun, fascinating and increasingly popular hobby, there is sure to be something here for you.
Tuesday, December 17, 2024
DecoQuest Workshop: Legends of Darkshire, Chapter 1 - The Heretic Monastery Kickstarter!
DecoQuest Workshop: Legends of Darkshire, Chapter 1 - The Heretic Monastery! 3D printable & MODULAR Grimdark Gothic terrain as digital STL files. High details, LED lights and OpenLOCK system. Check the Kickstarter here
Daniel's Games Emporium: Glutter of Ravens: Warfare in the Age of Arthur Rules
Daniel's Games Emporium: Glutter of Ravens was first published in 1998 and became known as an essential guide to wargaming the Arthurian period. This 2024 "Author's Edition" is a reproduction of the original text but features a new layout, additional notes, and the author’s new preface. Part One contains a set of miniature wargaming rules designed to recreate and play battles in post-Roman Britain. These rules allow players to take the part of historical leaders, who field an army representing the warriors of their kingdom and fight using the tactics of the period. The rules are fairly simple to learn, and there are no hard and fast restrictions governing the size of miniatures used. Part Two will be of interest to anybody who cares for the historical King Arthur and the military history of his time. This part of the book describes the warriors of the period, the way in which battles were fought, and the equipment used by the fighting man of Arthurian Britain. I've also made available a printable Army Sheet and QRS in case you just buy the printed version of this book.
Important note about the Author’s Edition: With the closure of the original publisher, Outpost Wargame Services, Glutter of Ravens fell out of print so I decided to revive it. I’ve done this as a labour of love to keep my vintage book about early medieval wargaming in circulation and also finally make it available as a PDF. It’s a “dead system” because I gave the rules a major overhaul when Osprey Games came knocking some years ago; Dux Bellorum (Osprey Publishing, 2012) is a revised and much-changed reimagining of my original Glutter of Ravens concepts and I feel that it’s a more viable game to play this side of the year 2000. That said, I do think it’s worth giving these rules a run out for old times’ sake and I had great fun dusting off this original version and getting a few games in. As with many rules from that time, assumptions are made about the players’ knowledge of wargaming in general and their ability to “fill in the blanks” – as a consequence, I do not recommend Glutter of Ravens as a beginner’s set of wargame rules but as an archaic and arcane set of rules for more experienced wargamers to revisit. A major caveat for Part Two of the book – The Resources – is that the content was written a quarter of a century ago and has not been updated. Re-reading it, there’s little that I’d say is definitely now “wrong”, but so much more has since been discovered about the period and some of my own views have changed considerably. My more recent books present my evolving thoughts on the history of the period. Check these new rules here
Osprey Publishing: When Nightmares Come: An Investigative Wargame of Supernatural Horror
Osprey Publishing: A solo and cooperative skirmish wargame for investigating and battling the supernatural mysteries of the modern world. When Nightmares Come is a tabletop miniatures wargame about modern day monster hunting and occult investigations. Players will form a team of paranormal vigilantes; self-taught occult specialists and monster hunters who call themselves the Nightwatch. These self-appointed members of the ‘watch look to tackle the supernatural horrors and investigate the strange disturbances that plague their city.
The core of the game, using the Action Dice Pool with its multiple die types, is fast and bloody, with tiered enemies, flexible player classes, quick combat resolution, and straightforward mission objectives. When Nightmares Come also contains a roleplaying element that allows for non-combat challenges and dramatic encounters. This system uses the same dice types as the core game’s Action Dice Pool and emphasizes quick resolutions. This narrative system adds a fresh dimension to the core miniatures experience, particularly in longer campaigns where the promise of different foes and new storylines encourages long-term playability. Check the new rules here
Firestorm Games: Fallout Wasteland Warfare, Bolt Action Third Edition and Dungeons & Dragons Discounted!
Firestorm Games: Fallout Wasteland Warfare, Bolt Action Third Edition and Dungeons & Dragons Discounted! Check them all here and venture into your own miniature tabletop wastelands, battlefields and dungeons.
Monday, December 16, 2024
Element Games: New The Lord of The Rings - The War of the Rohirrim: Battle of Edoras Starter Set!
Element Games: The War of the Rohirrim: Battle of Edoras Starter Set is an essential addition to the Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game Collection, perfect for anyone looking to experience the dramatic clashes of Rohan and Dunland. This comprehensive box offers beautifully sculpted miniatures, an updated ruleset, and thematic components that bring the defense of Edoras to life. Grab your copy now here
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