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Category: Miniature Wargames | By Andrew Hubback | November 12 2012 | 12:19 pm
I’ve received the following press release from Leicester Uni, which I think speaks for itself… University of Leicester students will swap their pens and notebooks for the medieval swords, longbows and chainmail from the days of King Richard III. Members of the public will be able to take part in a “Bringing History to Life”…
Category: Miniature Wargames | By Andrew Hubback | November 6 2012 | 2:44 pm
Today, I received a sample of the first kit from new Spanish manufacturer Minairons – a Spanish Civil War-era Panzer I. This has been passed to Zeus on Mount Olympus, so watch out for the review soon, but on first blush it looks a very professional product. The publicity material that came with the kit…
Category: Miniature Wargames | By Andrew Hubback | October 31 2012 | 4:17 pm
In a suitably spooky coincidence for Halloween, the next issues of MW, Battlegames, both out by 9 November, and a certain other Dutch-based wargames magazine will all feature cover stories on the American War of Independence. And another illustrated wargames magazine’s next issue will have the AWI’s near relation the French & Indian War as…
Category: Miniature Wargames | By Andrew Hubback | October 26 2012 | 10:59 am
As I mentioned recently, I had the chance to play The Tea Wars – a new set of VSF fast play skirmish rules under development at Black Pyramid Gaming – at the Worlds show in early October. It didn’t seem right that I should have all the fun so I have arranged for the rules…
Category: Miniature Wargames | By Andrew Hubback | October 22 2012 | 3:12 pm
I went to deepest Essex over the weekend to meet author Peter Hall and take part in a Mons Graupius game that will form the climax to Peter’s series of articles on this 1st century campaign in the magazine. I don’t want to give away too much but, suffice to say, my Celts put up…
Category: Miniature Wargames | By Andrew Hubback | October 10 2012 | 12:45 pm
The latest issue of MW is back from the printers and, in my unbiased opinion, it’s another cracker. Available to buy now, it stars the launch of our new Figure Showcase feature which, as the name implies, showcases figures from a variety of manufacturers professionally painted and photographed to show them at their best. The…
Category: Miniature Wargames | By Andrew Hubback | October 8 2012 | 4:02 pm
I spent Saturday at the World Wargames show in Castle Donington. There will be a full report in MW in due course, but here’s my quick take: Getting There. 30 mins from home and no problem finding it with sat nav. Get there early if you don’t want a walk from the car park. New…
Category: Miniature Wargames | By Andrew Hubback | October 1 2012 | 1:46 pm
This is not exactly breaking news – so apologies if you’ve heard it before – but it’s a new one on me. Apparently, we have wargaming to thank for the Allies winning WWII. According to no less an authority than Admiral Chester Nimitz, commander of the US Navy in the Pacific: “ …the war with…
Category: Miniature Wargames | By Andrew Hubback | September 27 2012 | 9:41 am
Anyone interested in the Crusades, and who lives within hailing distance of Nottingham, might be interested in this: “It is a great pleasure to invite you to Nottingham Trent University’s new public history lecture “Richard the Lionheart and the Heavy Cavalry Commanders of the Crusades”. The lecture is on Tuesday October 16th, from 7.30 pm…
Category: Miniature Wargames | By Andrew Hubback | September 14 2012 | 3:23 pm
What business can afford to impose a 20%+ increase in the retail price of its product these days? Answer: Games Workshop. News has reached me that White Dwarf, GW’s venerable house magazine, will go up in price from £4.50 to £5.50 – effective from the October issue out at the end of the month. True,…
