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RSS FeedRecently Jay Arnold (aka the Veteran Wargamer) released episode 19 of his podcast where he talks to his good mate Dave about books that make them play games. there each came up with a top 5 list of fiction books and went into the reasons the books are so influential to them and the games
a little while ago we Meeples and Miniatures interviewed Matt Slade from Glenbrook Games about his business and how he paints figures (it’s here if you missed it) as I’ve known Matt for ages I decided to ask if he could paint up some of my Conan miniatures to help clear the backlog and so
Whilst browsing the Too Fat Lardies Forum I came across a forum thread from Dave who’s been playing the opening scenario from my War of 1812 Supplement for Sharp Practice Dave has posted a few posts on his blog about his games, below is an excerpt from his first playtest Crossing the Niagara –
in my last post I did a quick unboxing and showed off the components in the game and in this post I want to concentrate on the minis. This miniatures in this game are something else, considering they are plastic boardgame pieces they have really pushed the bar as the level of detail is amazing,
On Saturday I managed to get a lift to the UK Games Expo with my good mate Geoff Bond (Hi Geoff) and I had a brilliant day. I spent a lot of time hanging out with Neil, and the 2 Dave’s from Meeples and Miniatures just chatting to people and taking in the show. anyway
I’ve been building up my 18mm Napoleonic armies recently and the other day I received a huge box of figures from Gareth at ADC Painting who is my go to guy when it comes to getting armies painted. Gareth is great because i just tell him what units I want them painted up as and he
Anyone who listens to Meeples and Miniatures will know that I have been playing a lot of the Napoleonic game ‘Over the Hills’ recently and I’ve been using some old figures I got painted up a few years ago. the Miniatures in question were ones I got for a game called Napoleon at War and were
After yesterdays trip to the frozen north today Conan is travelling to the far east to the Kingdom of Khitai this is the second expansion I brought in the Kickstarter and so I think we need a little unboxing First up the box like the Nordhiem expansion this one contains a new hero to join Conan
yesterday I received the wave 2 of the Conan boardgame that I pledge for a few years ago which contained 2 expansions and the Campaign book. so I thought I’d post a quick unboxing of the 1st expansion Nordheim the expansion take place in the frozen North of Hyboria and is loosely based on the story
I’ve been after a Sunday afternoon game for a while (i.e. a game that can be played leisurely over a Sunday afternoon by a couple of players) and I came up with a few candidates, however I finally decided that Star Wars Rebellion was the one to get and last week I picked
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