Tabla de contenidos para March 2026 en Miniature Wargames

So what do we have in this issue, gentle readers? We have a painting guide for the 10mm m Warcradle plastics that were on the cover last month as Mr Mackay has been furiously painting. We have rampant colonialism in the Martian safe space; plus we’re playing the Mexican Revolution (“Viva El Presidente” etc) and Jon Sutherland gives us the concluding part of his Peninsular War Trilogy. In addition there’s Cerignola and the conclusion to the Battle of Ingalls in a six-shootin’ throw-down. You can also Scratch build a French Storehouse or explore the pros and cons of 3D models with Mr Kinch. So, grab your magazine and retreat from the real world onto the table top for some fun. After all, as Supertramp opined: “You had your warning, you…

Later on in the year we can expect two new titles from Osprey from the pen of Joe McCullough. In the summer we can look forward to Oathmark: Second Edition: Battles of a Lost Age. Illustrated by Jon Hodgson and Joel Thomas, Oathmark 2 is revised with expanded rules, unit types, and is based on player feedback. That should hit the shelves in mid August. After that in November we can expect Stargrave: Acceptable Losses. This expands the warfare aspect in the Stargrave setting, allowing players to form their own mercenary companies. It presents rules for military vehicles, heavy weapons, varied types of combat armour, and specialist military tactics such as airdrop deployment, artillery strikes, and laying minefields. There’s new solo and cooperative scenarios and it’ll be illustrated by Biagio…

Gaming and wargaming in particular have been my passion for most of my adult life. I don’t really have other hobbies, but a couple of years ago, I dipped a toe in another hobby mainly because it was related to wargaming: that hobby was 3d printing. Here is how it went. WHAT IS 3D PRINTING? Traditional toy soldiers made of metal or plastic are manufactured by forcing material in a mould. 3d printing adds material to build a three dimensional object from a digital design. One of the advantages of this method over more traditional methods is that the figures don’t have to be constrained by the shape of the mould and have more dynamic poses. Also, because you can quickly copy and paste digital models, you can quickly create…

FORGEMASTER ◗ forgemasterminiatures.com ◗ £25 Forgemaster are a quite young manufacturer of straight to print, 3d gaming models. They sent some samples through for review but a quick look over their website will also reveal all manner of other goodies! They seem to concentrate on what I would describe as ‘Film/Book, Lord of the Rings Adjacent’ fantasy miniatures in the 32mm or so size. Some are more caricatured, so the dwarves, for example, are very stylized and remind me very much of Old Hammer favourites and represent good value: as an example the Sons of Marduk Starter Bundle which must make up into 50 or so figures is £75.99. Alternatively the samples sent in – some Black Knights and White Knights – are all plate mail types with a breast…

Henry Hyde, previously editor of this fine magazine, sent in his latest work Junction Jeopardy for a quick look. Henry – via his publishing company Gladius Publications – has authored and published many thick tomes for the wargamer however this short book is subtitled A Coffee Break Campaign. Junctions themselves, as Mr Hyde explains, are crucial to many scenarios in warfare and the book is designed to give you everything you need as a games ‘master’ to facilitate a series of battles over such ground. There are nine interlinked, full colour maps which cover a river crossing and each is presented as a single page, suitable for copying. He then gives details useful for two generic periods – WWII and Horse and Musket – picking out salient elements, such as:…

One of the things gamers all tend to speak wistfully about is the demise of the local Gaming and Hobby shop over the last few decades. Driven by stiff competition in the high street and the ever present interwebs, they seem to be a dying breed. Oh, except in Bridlington, East Yorkshire in the UK. Mighty Lancer Games (at 39-43 King Street) has just celebrated their tenth anniversary as a thriving hub of all that is table top gaming. To mark this significant birthday they are arranging various offers and events throughout the year but are also taking the opportunity to raise money for their chosen local charity The Hinge Centre (which offers support for the Homeless) although they have also raised cash for other good causes such as the…

HOW DID WE GET HERE? In 1989, GDW commissioned veteran designer Frank Chadwick to produce a series of games which appeared under the general heading of Space:1889 (nothing to do with Space:1999, the strange Gerry Anderson show). They were all set in an alternative mid-Victorian period just after the ACW, when a bunch of Earth scientists (including Edison, of course), discovered a means to leave Earth’s gravitational pull and ride ‘ether waves’ to our nearest neighbouring planets. These planets were, as per Jules Verne etc, also populated with ancient races and fantastic creatures. One planet – Mars – once had a well-developed but now decrepit society (having dug all those giant canals…) and used a local resource, called ‘liftwood’, to produce anti-gravity effects. This led to the development of flying…

Over the past two months we have looked at the allure of the Peninsular War and created a skirmish-orientated, campaign-driven encounter system for rulesets such as Sharp Practice. In this month’s concluding piece we’ll move up to the other end of the scale and look at the bones of creating a full-blown campaign. WHAT WE WANT & WHAT WE DON’T A campaign based series of games gives us to opportunity to shift from tactical decisions on the tabletop to more strategic thinking on the map. We want the maximum number of units available to us, when and if, we make contact with the enemy. What we don’t want is to be bogged down by the map part of the game and neither do we want to have painted and based…

RATIONALE & RULES We are going to discuss wargames rules for engagements with small forces during the Mexican Revolution: Viva La Revolution, Viva Mexico: A Wargamer’s Guide to Refighting the Mexican Revolution 1910-1920 (2021); and La Cucaracha!, both from Caliver Books and Wiley Games’ Fistful of Lead: Viva la Revolucion! – Wargaming the Mexican Revolution (2019). I think that they are all good options for getting into the Mexican Revolution as a new period. Not only are there some lovely figure ranges, but you can play out a host of different scenarios with relatively few figures on the table. THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION: ISN’T THAT NICHE? I would obviously argue, no… There are some great options for figures with Peter Pig (15mm) and their comprehensive Mexican Revolution range, including irregulars, Federales, and…

The battle of Cerignola on April 28 1503 has the distinction of being the first major engagement to have been won by the power of small arms; in this case arquebuses. The Spanish forces under Gonzalo de Córdoba (El Gran Capitán) were dug in behind field defences and just as well as they were opposed by a similar sized force of French under the command of Louis d’Armagnac, Duke of Nemours. The French were spearheaded by the much vaunted French Gendarmes cavalry and mercenary Swiss pikemen, but neither of them were any match for the Spanish arquebusiers. HOW DID IT COME TO THIS? This was the third Italian War, a conflict that had resumed in 1502 arising out of a squabble over who would get territory following the agreement that…

Last time we gave you the background to The Battle of Ingalls 1893. This time Mr Swan supplies scenarios! Ed. SETTING THE SCENE Inspired by the Battle of Ingalls but not wanting to recreate it exactly, I have created the town of Medville in the Indian Territory. The town is used by the notorious Galton Gang, a group of desperadoes who have carried out multiple crimes through the territory and surrounding states. US Marshal Nix has dispatched a group of Deputy Marshals under J.E Bartholomew to the town to end their raids by any means necessary. Having travelled in two covered wagons to keep their arrival secret, the Deputy Marshals have kept the town under observation and know that that the key gang members are gathered in Happy Harry’s Saloon. So they have…