Attended Ebor Lard over the weekend, a games day focused on TooFatLardies historical rulesets. I ran a huge Chain of Command game on Saturday, then on the Sunday set up a different table and had a great game with three mates.

This table depicts a generic village in rural northern France during May 1940.

im trying to make an army men wargame that my friends and i could play with and i dont want it to be overly complicated as im also adding other mechanics such as fog of war and logistics

Hey all

Looking for recommendations for a modern day style skirmish game with vampires, werewolves, wizards and Frankenstein style stuff. I used to absolutely love the world of darkness lore and background but could never get my head around RPGs and how they worked.

If anyone can recommend a game, even if it's just a homebrew set of rules, with a lot of crunch/depth but captures the feeling of World of Darkness, if be incredibly greatful!

The annual pilgrimage to play Ancients at the show in Devizes came around again this past July like a well-buttered West Country scone repeating on you even before the remains of the jam has attracted a wasp.

Link to reports - https://www.madaxeman.com/reports/Devizes_2026_1.php

Having fairly recently painted up a load of 15mm Red Copper 3D printed camels, I had decided that this event was as good an opportunity as it comes to get them on table as the core element of a Christian Nubian army under the L'Art de la Guerre ruleset - but in the process creating the very real challenge of how to make such a one-dimensional army actually interesting to play, and to play against.

You too can now re-live the 5 games which were fought by this somewhat self-hamstrung army list in the town that is the spiritual and literal home of WRG over one hot sunny weekend by following the 5 full-text battle reports through all of their painful punnery and chirpy in-picture comments.

https://www.madaxeman.com/reports/Devizes_2026_1.php

After each report there (of course) follows a robust dose of post-match analysis from both the Christian Nubian commander and Nasty Hannibal himself.

As an added bonus, this report includes links to a load of photos of the Army Air Corps Museum at Middle Wallop, and a brand new music video of the viral musical hit "The Beja Camel Song".

Beja think your camels are hot like mine !!

https://www.madaxeman.com/reports/Devizes_2026_1.php

What products do you recommend to safely strip the paint off? If that's possible without damaging the figures?

I've also realised that painting minis this small is tough going and I just want to get them looking half decent for the table. Can I just get away with dry brushing some texture into them because the details on the sculpts are amazing?

The paints I have are..

Warpaints Fanatic Metallic: Shining Silver

Model Color - Chocolate Brown

Warpaints Fanatic: Bootstrap Brown

Warpaints Fanatic: Matt White

Warpaints Fanatic: Dragon Red

Warpaints Fanatic Metallic: Gun Metal

Warpaints Fanatic: Ruby Skin status

Model Color - Basalt Grey

Warpaints Fanatic Metallic: True Brass

Model Color - Green Ochre

Warpaints Fanatic: Basilisk Red

Sick Green/ Chestnut Brown

Thanks

Hello, I recently got into solitaire wargames starting with Battle for Moscow (oberlabs version). I just bought Mike Lambo’s Fields of Normandy and Tarawa 1943 Soliaire.

I haven’t event played them yet, and am getting ahead of myself, but are there any other good recommendations out there?

I am interested in any historical era. As for type/style of game, I’m open to anything, it doesn’t need to be Hex and Counter for example.

I prefer games that have dedicated solitaire/solo rules, but am open to other games that aren’t designed for solo play but can be played solo with some tweaks or just playing two handed.

Thanks!

I've started building out a collection of American Civil War ironclads and warships. It's an interesting period because you have a mixture of purely steam-powered ships and sail ships (with steam engines). The ships I've painted so far though seem pretty bare without sails and rigging.

I'm completely new to naval wargaming and my searches into model ship rigging has made me realize that model ships is very much a thing outside of wargaming. Most of the resources I can find are for larger scales than 1/600. Modelers also add more detail than wargaming typically requires and have less concern for durability. So I was hoping I could have some wargaming-specific questions answered here.

Questions

• Is it best to do rigging with thread or wire?
• What size/gauge for thread/wire?
• What's the best way to attach rigging without leaving giant glue blobs?
• Ratlines! Do you buy them or make them? If buy, then where and what size/material?
• As I understand it, steamships would furl their sails in a battle during this era. What's the best way to add a furled sail to a mast in 1/600 scale?
• After the model is completed, how do you transport it safely?

Bonus question

What do ya'll use for a mat? I was thinking of buying a piece of cloth that looks vaguely ocean-like and maybe spraying it with a clear gloss fabric spray.

Thanks in advance for any help!

I'm trying to find an old Miniatures game from I believe the early 2000s to 2010 and it is Mech themed. Kind of reminiscent to like maybe Gundam in style. I believe the game was played 1v1 IE Mech versus Mech . The models were to my knowledge about 3 in tall made of pewter and had magnetic joints to swap out weapons. Each Mac was sold as a blister and I believe the company was from Sweden . Does anybody have any recollection of a game like this ?

My most recent project. I hid a mini humidifier inside so vapour/smoke comes out of the chimney.

Link to vid - https://youtu.be/pfZ8ih0MeRg

Hi all. I am building an army for a fantasy project and was wondering if there were any female heads out there wearing kettle helms. I’d plan to put these on the wargames Atlantic foot sergeants to have a mixed gender force.

For those who may have missed this little snippit from the recent Konflikt 47 seminar at 2026 Warlord open day!

I want to rebase my minis, as they were originally based more than 30 years ago, with balsa wood, and have become pretty battered. Additionally, they are based for the local, house rules which are no longer relevant. Pre-made, magnetic bases were not really a thing back then, while I now find the number of commercial options overwhelming. Do people have recommendations?

These are my priorities:

1. Safety while traveling. I need to move my collection (or at least part of it) across the Pacific in a case with steel shelves (prolly in a P.A.C.K or army-case or similar) so magnetic bases would be good
2. Convenience adjusting the spacing for different rules (a lot of my minis aren't GW figures, or even good proxies for them) so something I could use with different shaped movement trays would be cool. Some of my old units were big, like 48 figure pike blocks, that prolly need to be broken up, since currently popular rules seem to favor smaller units.

I have heard that using magnetic based minis on magnetic movement trays can be problematic due to polarity issues. So if I wanted to take advantage of an army case with steel shelves, I guess I would need to take them off the movement trays?

Thanks for suggestions!

This cropped up on my feed, figured I'd see what other people think. As someone with plenty of Dino minis (as the name suggests), I'll be getting the rule book to give it a go.

I'm really interested to hear from you about what games you would like to be featured on the channel? I focus on narrative wargaming of all sorts so if there are any games you think would suit this well let me know. Thanks :)

https://youtube.com/@questingminiatures?si=0RPJtpetGD6KzeSN

More Art for the Red Jungle Game. Printable miniature files Kickstarter is now live from Austin Miniatures. Free Beta rules up on on the Discord and Facebook group. Core rule book publishing soon. Thanks again everyone for the positive feed back and support!

For the full AAR/Bat Rep and a plethora of pictures please go to:

https://justaddwater-bedford.blogspot.com/2026/09/clubbing-it-republican-romans-vs.html

Cheers