Duncan Rhodes has launched his own premium painting academy. Can the previous ‘face of GW’ justify the $5/month cost of entry? Hot It’s Not Just Games Workshop – Duncan Unchained indeed! The Academy has only been open for a couple months and we’ve already got videos for Bolt Action, A Song of Ice & Fire,… Read More The Duncan Rhodes Painting Academy
Humble Bundle has done it again. They have launched the Asmodee Digital Play With Friends Bundle that includes a wealth of digital boardgames: $1 Tier: Small World Carcassonne Patchwork King & Assassins Love Letter Potion Explosion Pay over the Average Tier (currently $10.22) Splendor Mysterium Twilight Struggle Small Word Expansions Carcassonne Expansions $12 Tier: Scythe… Read More Asmodee Digital Play With Friends – Worth?
Campaign: Stalingrad has been unleashed! We got our hands on a digital copy (physical books are not shipping to the US just yet) and we simply couldn’t wait to dive in. Hot Storm Group – One of the new Soviet Infantry units, the Storm Group will join the hallowed ranks of S-Tier infantry (Gurkhas, US… Read More Campaign: Stalingrad
Snagging a copy of Josh Reynold’s Dark Harvest, I’d planned to crush this Warhammer Horror novel (as one does with BL novels). Unfortunately I struggled for many weeks to make progress and it took much longer than anticipated to finish the novel. Hot The ‘city’ of Wald – Most of the story takes place in… Read More Dark Harvest
Part deck builder and part skirmish game, Undaunted: Normandy from Osprey Games has quickly climbed the list to become one of my favorite games. After playing 7 of the games’ 12 missions, it’s time for a hot take. Hot Solo Mode – With our group unable to meet up and play, all the missions I’ve… Read More Undaunted: Normandy
Middlehammer has taken over the gaming group. As we head back to Warhammer Fantasy 6th Edition I picked up two boxes of Wargames Atlantic Classic Fantasy Skeleton Warriors to fill the ranks of my Tomb Kings infantry. The Good Scale – The proportions on the models are excellent. Unlike many skellies out there, these do… Read More Wargames Atlantic Skeleton Warriors
Glory by Hogg Publishing arrived at my door just a few weeks ago after I backed it on Kickstarter on a total impulse last March. When I saw this on KS I was immediately drawn in by the incredible artwork and only became more excited after reading about the game. Could this be a dungeon-crawler… Read More Glory
Blackstone Fortress is the latest installment of the venerable Warhammer Quest series and the first Quest game set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. What I love The models – As expected, the minis are top tier. Games Workshop plastic miniatures are of the highest production quality and the Blackstone Fortress models are no exception. The… Read More Warhammer Quest: Blackstone Fortress
War Chest from AEG is my sleeper hit of 2018. A small, unassuming game with a colorful aesthetic that packs some serious tactical and strategic depth. After a half-dozen plays with my brother Matthew, I can confidently say that War Chest is one of my new favorite games. Theme War Chest is presented as an… Read More War Chest
January I started the year off right with a Kingdom Death: Monster campaign. I built a batch of new survivors and watched in disbelief as they met their demise in the most horrific ways imaginable. I do love KD:M. January was also Polar Vortex. I took an early war Partisan force to this one-day, three-game… Read More Year in Review
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