Innehållsförteckning för June 2024 från Miniature Wargames

Well, as we move towards the anniversary of D-Day, I’m in a post Salute recovery period after a hectic couple of days. There was loads of new stuff at the show (including Halo from Mantic!) and it was an interesting day out. But what’s in this months issue? Well, there is some Salute coverage – and also Hammerhead – with a huge selection of splendid games covered but there’s a lot more: Tin Tin (a game at both of those featured shows and using Pulp rules), Maori Wars in Command Decision; painting Napoleon to an award winning standard; gaming in a galaxy (possibly far, far away) with S.T.A.R; scratch building and more. As Roger Waters sang: “They disembarked in ‘45, and no-one spoke and no-one smiled, there were too many…

I first met up with Ian at Warfare last November so I asked him – as I often do – how he started in the world of gaming. Ed. Hello, my name is Ian and wargaming is a large part of my life, though not my only passion. When I was a boy my father bought me a train set and encouraged me to build and plan more elaborate layouts but he was less pleased when my boyhood enthusiasm turned to model soldiers. One day I found a book with model soldiers wearing tricorns on the cover and inside were rules to play games with them. I then (again courtesy of my Dad) moved on to Battles with Model Soldiers by Donald Featherstone and that was much more suitable for my age.…

SILVER BAYONET EGYPT In the Shadow of the Sphinx Hunt for mysterious treasures of Ancient Egypt in two new campaigns, one competitive and one for solo or cooperative play in this new supplement from Osprey. No, Napoleon didn’t cross the Mediterranean simply to conquer Egypt, he also sought ancient secrets, so – as Bonaparte ploughs on through Europe – desperate nations have sent their own special units across the sea to search for a counter and end his rampage. With its heady mix of historical and fantasy, Egypt: Shadow of the Sphinx is a supplement for The Silver Bayonet, in which the players’ teams explore the mysteries of this great land, venturing into lost cities, tombs and Pyramids. There are two campaigns for competitive or solo/cooperative play. There’s a fresh recruitment…

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INTRODUCTION Tales of Derring Do: Rules for Adventures from Dime Novels and Pulp Magazines is a set of one to one skirmish rules designed to capture the perils and thrills of the stories in the Penny Dreadfuls, Dime novels and Pulp magazines as well as the radio, film and TV serials and movies which sprung from them. Although the rules cover a wide range of pulp genres, when I wrote them in conjunction with Mike Blake and Ian Colwill we knew that many of these genres could be expanded and that the way to do so was via add on books which built on the existing rules by adding in the flavor and excitement of these wider settings. The first of these is S.T.A.R., Space Terrors, Aliens and Robots which builds…

Last month Paul painted Panzer Lehr. This month it’s the Corsican Corporal! Ed. INTRODUCTION This is the title of Warlord Games’ Soldier of Fortune 4 Miniatures (beautifully sculpted by the talented Wojtek Flis) that were only available as limited release miniatures during November 2023. The set includes the Emperor and the artist Francois Gerard. The timing of the figures by Warlord ties in nicely with Ridley Scott’s controversial release at the cinemas. While corresponding with the editor I asked him if he would be interested in a more complex paint job on the aforementioned figures than what I would normally provide as a painting tutorial. The aim is to provide an insight in how I approach painting a figure that is aimed at resulting in a display level rather than a…

A VERY PECULIAR BATTLE: ◗ David Wright ◗ Helion & Company (2024) ◗ £29.95 ◗ 216 pages (softback) ◗ ISBN:9781804514375 ◗ www.helion.co.uk Number 129 in Helion’s From Reason to Revolution 1721-1815 series is subtitled The Double Battle of Fere-Champenoise, 25 March 1814 and it offers accounts of two separate battles that merged together because both defeated French forces retreated towards the town after which the engagement has been named. They were unusual in that the Allied forces in both battles consisted of only cavalry and horse artillery, while the French forces were predominantly infantry and foot artillery. Napoleon’s conduct of the 1814 Campaign in France has often been described as one of his greatest feats as a commander, displaying the same brilliance as he had earlier in his military career…

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