Warhammer 40K & Wargaming Blog
White Dwarf Issue 8. It feels like a “filler”-White Dwarf, with a rag-tag collection of releases that “didn’t fit” anywhere else, including rarely seen Hobbit releases. Still, it will be remembered for a long time as the White Dwarf with the Void Shield Generator cover, a (for most people at best) Saturday-morning magazine advertising a […]
Something is wrong. Either with Games Workshop, or with the Internet. Reading blogs and forums yesterday and today about the Void Shield Generator – which sold out within minutes of pre-orders going up – it seems that – by the assumption of many people commenting on this piece of Limited Edition terrain, Games Workshop can […]
Wow. That thing has been online for about 5 minutes! 1000 Limited Edition copies were available. All gone! The White Dwarf for that thing only goes out tomorrow. I know the limited Edition Codex Books, even at 1000, tended to last the weekend at least. Somebody at Games Workshop seriously underestimated demand for this piece […]
Here I am, blogging about miniature gaming and related Kickstarter for .. I don’t know … two years maybe? And still I am surprised at what goes and what doesn’t go on Kickstarter.com. #1 – The Kickstarter-Magic of Dwarven Forge One of the things that obviously kickstarted like hotcakes last year was the deceptively simple […]
Since yesterday, I’ve been flipping through the new Tyranid Codex. I’ll freely admit that – thus far – Nids have been something of a blind spot for me in Warhammer 40K. That Tyranids cannot be allied with other armies also makes them more difficult to collect in 6th Edition. There are simply fewer options to […]
Terrain in miniature wargaming is an odd affair. Without doubt, the look of your gaming table, the “feel” of your game depends as much (if not more so) on the terrain you have, as it does depend on your miniatures. Nevertheless, wargames terrain (for a lot of people) only gets a fraction of the effort compared […]
Last year, a new miniatures gaming company – Hawk Wargames – launched a new 10mm sci-fi miniatures game – Dropzone Commander (and without Kickstarter!). Fans lovingly call it DZC. I remember the vivid debates sparked by the “premium” prices of the Dropzone Commander resin miniatures and, even more so, the DZC resin terrain buildings. With […]
A semi-news announcement today: Alessio Cavatore’s Loka – the Fantasy (or Elemental… tag-lines for this one keep changing) Chess game – is now available for pre-orders. #1 – What Is Loka? Earlier this year, I had the rare opportunity to interview Alessio Cavatore about his latest personal project Loka, a chess variant that expands upon his […]
It has been a while since my last interview. However, there is an interesting new project currently on Kickstarter: Maki Games’ Modular Wargaming Scenery. The concept is brilliantly simple. Using a deceptively modelst core-module of a container – or Makitainer as they call it – a stunning range of wargaming scenery and terrain can be […]
Mantic Games are now running a Kickstarter for their Sci-Fi Miniatures Board Game Deadzone. Deadzone is Mantic Games’ fourth game on Kickstarter and, judging by its popularity so far, their most successful one yet. Like the fantastic DreadBall (which I hope to play next week at Mantic’s Open Day), Deadzone was designed – or better, is […]
