Last year around this time of the year, I got a Kickstarter notification that Mantic Games was running a campaign for advent calendars that contained pieces of little wargames. There were 5 unique games being offered, so I went in for all 5 because I thought they would make great gifts for my gami...
This is my battle report for the Théoden's Last Stand scenario included in the Battle of Pelennor Fields box set for Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game. I don't own this boxed set, nor any Riders or Rohan miniatures, so I'm playing the campaign as Romans against Orcs.
This scenario is the con...
Issue 518 of White Dwarf published a chariot racing expansion for Warhammer: Age of Sigmar called Wasteland Death Race. The game rules are just 3 pages, with 4 pages of chariot and driver build options, and 2 pages for a scenario. I don't really play Age of Sigmar, but the game seems pretty...
This is my battle report for the Charge of the Rohirrim scenario included in the Battle of Pelennor Fields box set for Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game. I don't own this boxed set, but I was at the excellent Models and Games store in Dunedin and they had a shelf of used books, including the...
Models by Games Workshop tend to be humanoid, including humans, elves, and dwarves. However, Games Workshop does release some monsters and beasts as model kits, or included within model kits. This blog post is a list of all the monsters from Games Workshop I could find on the website in 2026.
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One of the most famously unsung heroes of Middle Earth is Farmer Maggot, the borderlands hobbit who turned away a Nazgûl, and who bravely transported Frodo and his friends (in the book, but not the movie) to the ferry to ensure they had safe passage on their journey. I've been stocking up on hobbits...
I watched all 3 episodes of Aeronautica Imperialis on Warhammer TV streaming, and enjoyed it. It's a story of the Imperium against the Aeldari as they fight for control of a planet that's been claimed by humanity as a forge world. But really it's a story about revenge, obsession, and ultimately ev...
I didn't think I needed reminding, but after playing my War of the Rohirrim campaign, I remembered that Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game is a profoundly good game system. As an excuse to play more of it, I decided to run a game of a Roman legion army against a lizardfolk army, but using Midd...
Arcane Duel is a 2-player board game released in White Dwarf issue 524. I played it with my partner the day I got my issue, and we both had a lot of fun. I enjoy it so much, in fact, that I've also played it solo several times, using random dice rolls to imitate an opponent. Obviously I'm a fan,...
No matter how you measure it, I'm a late-comer to tabletop Warhammer 40,000. I've been a reader of Warhammer fiction, and a casual player of Warhammer video games, since the early 2000s but I didn't start playing it on the tabletop until 2020. Because there are no indications that I will not inven...
The game Titanic Duel was released in White Dwarf 523, and it enables you to pit two great battle mechs against one another on your tabletop. I have a Knight Questoris model from Games Workshop, and I've used in in some games but, appropriately, it usually dominates the battlefield so I don't use...
Siege of Fellguard is a short story set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, written by Mark Clapham. This is my review of the story, with minor spoilers. The description on the Black Library website:
When the fortress world of Kelthorn voices its allegiance to Chaos, dozens of Imperial Guard...
I bought the Foot Knights model kit by Wargames Atlantic for a drop-in painting workshop I ran, and I liked them so much I held a few back for my own fantasy miniature collection. This is a review of the model kit's sculpt quality, ease of building, and painting. The quick reivew is simple: If y...
The term terrain, in the context of roleplaying games and wargames, refers to both the ground under the feet of your character, as well as the non-living objects around your character. If your character is in a forest, then the terrain is the forest floor, all its growth and composting leaves, and...
I've written about how much I love a good gaming magazine before, and I've just finished the very good issue 522 of one of the few remaining gaming magazines, White Dwarf. I subscribe to the magazine, and it's a good thing I do because this isn't an issue I think I'd have thought to buy off the...
There are lots of wargames out there, and lots of them share essentially the same game loop, but many of them feel more unique than you might expect. When I started my War of the Rohirrim campaign, it was after a year of wargaming only in Warhammer 40,000. When I played, I was legitimately surpr...