Tabla de contenidos para October 2022 en Miniature Wargames

Mr Harman provides a ‘bolt on’ system for the ECW games and rules of your choice. Ed. PREMISE When wargame rules are either very simple, somewhat abstract – or even both (as is often the case today) – the resulting battles run the risk of being a bit bland, lacking in period atmosphere. The simple fire and combat resolution systems may provide little detail of the casualties suffered by the troops, but allow the players to devote all the more effort to discovering the battlefield experience of their imaginary personal characters, in the manner of a role-playing game. These optional rules for English Civil War battles are intended to create extra atmosphere, by convincing players that their own personal characters – and other officers too, if they so wish - really…

This latest model is based on a number of wooden toy granaries that I found while searching the internet. Various museums across the world have examples of similar structures and I’ve wanted to build a model of one for some time. The editor had asked for a Biblical themed model and I suggested three different structures all of which I hope to build and paint over the coming months. (I also thought it might fit in with Jon Sutherland’s Command Decision this month, not that it needs a lot of scenery! Ed.)The granary was chosen as the first of this series as I had already been sketching up some simple plans. Once I had suitable plans, I cut out profiles of corrugated cardboard and glued them together with my hot glue gun. However,…

This month it’s a compilation: a last word with a charity drive plus an introduction to a wargames club. A twofer! Ed. How did the club first get started? Facebook! Martin Jackson, Spalding Wargames Club founder, sent a message out on social media and accidentally made it a public message and was soon inundated with people wanting to join in. So, he had to form a club! What’s changed in the years it’s been running? Just greater numbers of members: ever since the lockdowns have ended we have had a noticeable rise in the number of new faces. What are some of the most popular games at the club? Currently, Marvel Crisis Protocol; Saga; Star Wars Legion; Flames of War; Fistful of Lead; Warhammer 40K and Frostgrave along with various…

SPACENAM You weren’t there, man… Wargames Atlantic continue their production rate of new and varied models. Along with the new Boxer Rebellion and Bulldogs that arrived just as we went to press, they have a new release very much in the ‘heroic’ space miniature line. Spacenam are big, chunky models just primed to take on ravaging alien invaders, zombie hordes or anything else, really. They would fit in quite well with their Deathfields range – style wise – and each box makes 20 models (for £30) and has 5 sprues included. Each of those has 22 different heads, 4 bodies and separate packs, arms and weapons. The torsos are split both at the waist and as front and backs of the upper chest. The weapon options include standard rifles, blast…

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Each Command Decision aims to offer a series of playable options in timeless military scenarios. Command Decision is designed so you can read the situation and figure out your own command decisions if you were leading the troops on the ground. You can either work through the various options or use the mechanics to create the precise circumstances of the table top engagement. The scenarios may have particular historical themes and settings but you can easily adapt the mechanics to suit your own preferences and collections. SITUATION REPORT The power and dominance of cities come and go. Your city and the surrounding territory exist because of the power of your patron god. In times past, when cities went to war over land, it was swiftly resolved with a sharp fight;…

Aubiquitous feature across many World War II battlefields as well as across the scorched frontlines of Warhammer 40k, the Czech Hedgehog has quickly become a quintessential piece of wargaming terrain. Originating, perhaps unsurprisingly given their name, in Czechoslovakia, the Hedgehog is a static, free-standing anti-tank obstacle. They are usually manufactured from three notched L-shaped or I-shaped metal beams joined at the centre at right angles, and so creating its unique shape. At the point of manufacture, only two of the beams are centrally joined using rivets, bolts and gusset plates (or, more quickly, simply welded together) with the third beam being attached on location using bolts. The notches are there so that barbed wire can be attached and strung from one Hedgehog to the next, so creating further lines of…

Battlefield walking is a hobby of mine that I haven’t indulged as much as I would like. I’ve walked most of the Hundred Days campaign sites and done a few smaller English battles, but the big battlefield that’s near me is the Boyne. I’ve written about the Boyne and wargamed it several times, but I had the chance to go out to the field and spend the day really going over the ground with a good friend who is a professional soldier. THE DILEMMA Battle is in some ways an epistemological problem. A problem of knowing. It’s a logistical problem, a moral problem and a physical problem as well, of course, and eventually one must get down to the actual killing. But to act at all, you must know things.…

I have been a wargamer for over fifty years now and have always enjoyed not only the games but also making and painting models and scratch building scenery. The other part of the hobby I enjoy is writing my own sets of rules for personal use. Playing solo games has always been a fun part of the hobby as I am sure it is with many gamers. Short, small one hour games as well as full campaigns are all grist to the wargamers mill. For some time I had been contemplating the idea of short one hour games which could develop into a series of connected games, a sort of mini campaign but not involving a huge number of figures. The rules were to be simple to remember with as…

The release of Panzer Lehr figures by Wargames Atlantic provides gamers with a new set of 28mm multi-part hard plastic World War II German figures but in different uniforms from those normally seen on late war figures. They have been modelled wearing the double-breasted Sturmgeschütz jacket and baggy trousers worn by the Panzer Lehr panzergrenadiers and by Panzer and vehicle crews instead of the standard field blouse, trousers and boots normally worn by the German army. This allows the figures to depict both Panzer Lehr panzergrenadiers and dismounted vehicle crews (along with arms modelled with a variety of weapons the box also contains arms with spanners and petrol cans to add to your modelling options.) So, looking at the free sprue of figures provided with this issue of the magazine…

CASTLES ON THE GROUND £1.75 - £3 Recently, Osprey released their Castles in the Sky rules for Aeronef combat so avid gamers may well want to expand their collection of scenery to enhance their visual gaming spectacle. Brigade Models have already released a slew of scenery in their 1/1000th scale model range and they seem determined to keep adding to it. Consequentially, they have a trio of new add-ons for the budding miniature castle builders out there. First up is a new large bastion to fit the Vauban Fortifications range. This is the Baluarte de San Domingo, part of the walls of the Colombian coastal city of Cartagena de Indias. Brigade have tweaked it slightly to fit the dimensions so that it fits in well with their existing wall…