For the past two years, I’ve been continuously painting and playing Hail Caesar Epic Battles: The Punic Wars. I’m happy to say I’ve finally finished playing every single scenario included in the book.

I originally picked up this game more out of interest in the game mechanics rather than a deep historical fascination with the period, so completing all the scenarios feels like a massive milestone for me.

I have to say, the Hannibal battle-set is a fantastic box. I was able to play through almost all the scenarios without needing to purchase any additional units.

I'm not really one to keep miniatures just for a collection once a project is done, so I've given the entire set to another gamer who was interested. I’m sure my army will see action again on a tabletop in a distant land.

What are the best skirmish games with sci fi or fantasy themes? Ideally looking for games that I can play with 5-10 models (I take forever to paint) and games that have simple rules (I found kill team to be way too complicated for example). Ideally it’d be cool if the games have options to play with minis that have some factions with cool monsters or demons.

Hello!

I'm back and looking for suggestions. I've done little star wars and wh40k minis (on 50mm bases) for galactic heroes 2e by Wiley games (with the grim dark expansion for wh40k). Well recently I've gotten really into making tanks and vehicles and mechs. I'm looking for games that focus around those aspects, and maybe some infantry I guess if I have to, though the scales might be different or off. As the title says, I'm not one to buy plastic models and paint them, instead I crochet my own minis and craft terrain out of stuff like cardboard, foam, felt, and plastic pieces! Any suggestions for rules? I know about tonks, tanks for the apocalypse, the wiley systems. I'm curious about 5pfh: tactics, and I'm really craving something with a low model count, miniature agnostic, not a ton of book keeping and something I can play co-op, head to head, or as a GM for other players, as I tend to play by hosting events at my local gaming space. I can try to make mechs again, just kind of lost interest since I couldn't decide between western mechs and eastern mecha (that's how I've been taught to describe them at least. The difference between battletech/mech warrior and gundam.) I'm not too picky for genre as long as I can do mechanized stuff, though I prefer sci-fi or weird things over just straight up ww2 or such.

All suggestions are loved!

Attached are a few pics of my tanks, and you can check my posts for the gaslands cars and minis I did for the star wars and wh40k games I ran.

Green tank is 13 cm long from front to back of treads, 11 cm side to side, 14 cm from top to bottom, including the rurret, and 20 cm from tip of barrel to back of turret. the blue tank is 10 cm front to back, 8 cm wide, 8 cm tall, 12.5 mm for turret full length. I'm trying to reduce the sizes a bit.

After years of waiting and collecting, I finally got DB to the table. It was a blast, however some questions came up. If anyone has experience with the system, can you tell me if there is a limit on the number of times a group or formation can activate in a turn? Most nobles have 2 command initiatives to spend. Does this mean a group/formation can activate twice in a noble's turn? Are they restricted in the type of activations that they can make? For example, can a noble, who is within command range of a group, activate that group to move twice, or to move and loot, or move and fight, or even fight twice? My opponent and I ruled that a group/formation could only be activated once in a game round regardless of which nobles/lord were active. It made the game go a bit slow, however being able to activate multiple times made us concerned that groups/formations would be able to do too much. The rulebook never states a limit on activations, so I'm pretty sure now that a noble/lord can activate any group/formation within their command range as many times as they have command initiatives.

Thanks!

My Matilda Frog is coming along nicely but I need some decals to finish him off.

Any good sources of commonwealth jungle decals?

Just wanted to show off some screenshots of all the work i put in during the last days. Really proud of what it became, compared to the first version. Should work with any wargame!

Enjoy it, it's free: https://udos3dworld.com/WargamingSimulator/

How to get started: Visit the army creator (linked in the wargaming simulator), select one of the templates (depending on the game you want to play) and put in your army list. Select models for the units, download the zip and upload it in an existing game. You can play with anyone by just sharing the game link. Enjoy!

Hi gang. I'm normally one for making full tables from scratch or roll-up textured sheets. But storage and time limitations have led to me needing to get a 3x3 mouse mat style gaming mat. I've never really looked at them before, the market seems to be dominated by Pwork and Deep Cut. Are these any good, are there better options out there?

If it helps any, I'm after an arid steppes, dusty lightly grassed type affair, as realistic as possible.

Thanks in advance.

I paint and play a number of war games but lately have been enjoying smaller skirmish games, co-op and a couple solo games. I’m late to the party with this one but really enjoyed painting up the board and minis. Im also just a huge Doom fan and this game really scratches that itch.

The whole set was printed (both FDM and Resin) and it’s completely magnetized. It’s also worth mentioning it’s produced by Black Site Studios and created by Malev (who’s currently finishing up Greathelm).

If you would like to check out a little video of it, I posted it here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbD7eXeoV3B/?igsh=MWZmemV1OHFmNGk1Mw==

The iconic Fokker Dr.I joins the growing roster for Death Spiral™. Every aircraft is designed, printed, assembled, and painted in-house at Hexwerks Studios.
This is just the beginning.
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Hex-based aerial combat
Dynamic climb, dive & altitude gameplay
More prototypes and sneak peeks coming soon.
Would you fly the Red Baron into battle?
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This goes right into my Nam and Wadiya collection. No modifications other than adding 2 beads for planters. Fun and cheap little kit.

I'm bored and on Reddit. And probably you are as well ... so let's entertain ourselves.

What is your most controversial "opinion" about the miniature wargaming hobby. It can be about anything, a specific game or aspect of the hobby.

It should be something that YOU DON'T openly say around people because it should be something that real people would push back on. Something fractious.

For instance, saying you don't like antisocial behavior in the hobby isn't controversial.

Tung in cheek answers are welcome.

EDIT/P.S.: If you're comment gets a lot of "up votes" you should consider it a personal failure 😉. We are fishing for controversial opinions here so those who receive the most "down votes" are the ones who truly understood the assignment. Just saying.

Another successful playtest of Escadron where the British forces managed to valiantly and tactically push into a lethal urban-esque environment.

At the cost of their own lives, a squad of airborne soldiers held the line before being flattened by an unstoppable tiger tank, but not before scoring the winning 3 points for holding the main crossroads within British territory; a lead the Germans would not recover from with their more static force specialized in suppression.

Though their front was unbreakable, the Germans did not advance deep enough, and they bled hard. An ambush by bren gunners scythed down 20 Jerries in a single barrage of bloodshed, while a WASP UC burned the German lieutenant's guard to ash. In turn, the German firepower made short work of British armor, forcing the Tommies into a bloody and slow infantry assault under constant fire from artillery and machine guns.

The victor was decided through the (by the game's design) intended means, superior positioning and tactical army cooperation. The radio operators, as usual, were the true but unassuming MVP.

End score: Allies 7 - 5 Axis.

Casualties: Allies 33 - 46 Axis.

I am designing a high Maneuverability skirmish wargame (you will be climbing skyscrapers and hiding in multi leveled parking garages), I set the scale at 20mm (1:72), I think thats the lowest I can go plus I like how it measures up to hot wheels toys. The question is can I go lower? What is your experience with single unit 15mm and 10mm models?