It's OTTWeekender time! Some big news this week as Firelock announced they are stepping into the Napoleonic period with a new wargame, Blood And Bayonets, coming in 2025!

Late Pledges are available for the Trench Crusade Kickstarter which ended recently. The folks at Factory Fortress Inc. have opened up the BackerKit Page so you can get involved and pledge for the miniatures and rules if you missed out on the original campaign.

Max FitzGerald, the mind behind Turnip28, is back on Kickstarter right now with the first big expansion to this game of mud, blood, rusty armour and root vegetables. The Shattered Lance offers brand new miniature kits that you can kitbash and convert to your heart's content. 

It's OTTWeekender time! Trench Crusade has finally hit Kickstarter! We dive into what is possibly THE ultimate Grimdark wargame. We have a chat about its rules (which are free!) as well as some of the absolutely amazing miniatures that you can get as part of the new Kickstarter campaign.!

Trench Crusade, the Grimdark tabletop wargame set in "a blasphemous alternate WWI era" is now available on Kickstarter with options to get your hands on all manner of miniatures (both physically and digitally) as well as physical rules and more. 

It's OTTWeekender time! Join us this week as we round out Orktober with a bang and have a look at what could possibly be the best Fantasy Orcs that we've ever seen. These Orcs popped up on Kickstarter and they look insanely good and could well be the perfect Fantasy Orc Miniatures for starting a new army.

Carlos Pérez, a sculptor for Big Child Creative, A Song Of Ice & Fire: Tactics, Zombicide, Marvel United, Mordred and The Dead Keep is now on Kickstarter with their own project which aims to bring some amazing 32mm Fantasy Orcs to the tabletop, The Longsnouts. 

It's OTTWeekender time! In this week's episode, we're having a look at the awesome new 2-player starter set that you can pre-order for Steamforged Games' Warmachine. With amazing new hard plastic miniatures for Khador and Cygnar, this is looking like the best starting point for someone wanting to dive into the latest edition of the game.

Trish Carden has added a brand new monster to the HarrowHyrst range which you can find over on Footsore Miniatures & Games. Slunk The Swamp Serpent will be winding his way through murky waters looking for prey!

Mogsymakes' James has set the release date for the new wargame, Midgard Heroic Battles! This new game is going to be landing November 2024 and will be published by Reisswitz Press. 

If you missed it, don't forget to go and check out the complete The Last War set that you can scoop up from Wargames Atlantic. This set comes with the rules for the game by Will Rahman-Daultrey plus plastic kits and upgrade sprues from Wargames Atlantic so you can get playing right out of the box in this Weird War One setting. 

It's OTTWeekender Time! In this week's show, we have a look at Mantic Games' new venture alongside MyMiniFactory to turn Deadzone digital and offer up brand new ways to dive into the game for those wanting to try out their excellent 28mm Sci-Fi skirmish game.

It's OTTWeekender time! In this week's show, we look at the exciting Infinity: Paradise Lost - Trailer for the upcoming animated series adaptation of Corvus Belli's sci-fi/espionage RPG franchise.  Produced by Lex+Otis Studios and TeamTO

Frank Sultana has been working on a gladiatorial skirmish game for a while now called Blood On The Sands and it is set to come to Kickstarter later this year. With that in mind, I thought it would be good to get a look at what the game is so you can put it on your radar. 

In this week's Community Spotlight, we dive into a Wild West project with a twist, some Deathship One miniatures and an excellent Nottingham Shire Hall terrain build.

Join us for Cult Of Games XLBS as we dive into a chat about the hobby that we're up to and what you've been doing too! We chinwag about starting out with Spearhead and also dive deeper into a discussion on Bolt Action and what the future could hold for the game as John plans a big wintery project.

Join us for Cult Of Games XLBS this week as we sit down and discuss event/convention games and what ideas we have for our own! Do you think we've hit on some great convention game ideas or are we over-reaching? Which of these would you love to play if you were attending an event like Salute or UK Games Expo?

It's OTTWeekender time! With this week and weekend being the 80th Anniversary of D-Day, we look at some well known and some unsung heroes and personalities from World War 2 that you could add to your 28mm Historical wargames. We found a fantastic resource of character miniatures from both Hollywood History and real life that you could use in games of Bolt Action, Chain Of Command or V For Victory.

James Sherriff of Brass Monkey has been working with artist, John Blanche, to bring some of his illustrations to life with a brand new range of 32mm miniatures. The Mörderin range will be coming to Kickstarter soon.

Joseph McCullough has a brand new game for you to dive into! Deathship One is a new solo or cooperative Sci-Fi miniatures game of survival. Bring your squad of soldiers from any period of history, time and space and see if they can survive the horrors of the Deathship.

In this week's Community Spotlight, we dive into some Border Reivers, a twist on a classic board game and some awesome Civil War miniatures at an epic scale.

Let's dive into a new Cult Of Games XLBS! In this week's episode, Warren chats about mass battle Fantasy games and trying to nail a particular vibe. We talk about basing dilemmas and that evolves into a discussion about just how far you take the detail in a wargame before it becomes more like a chore.

Mike Crutchett's Verrotwood: The Old West is now available, giving you another set of awesome Folk Horror rules for you to dive into and have fun with. 

It's OTTWeekender time! We're doing John a favour and getting very excited about all the tank-based wargaming in both 15mm and 28mm that you can currently explore on the tabletop. We'll be talking Gale Force Nine's Clash Of Steel and Achtung Panzer! from Warlord Games. However you like your tank battles, they have you sorted.

Fox & Hyde are currently on Kickstarter with a short but sweet campaign looking to fund the creation of Thaddeus Addlington's Adventure Journal. You can snap up this digital or physical journal to aid in your character development, adventure tracking and more.

Mike Crutchett's Verrotwood, the 28mm Folk Horror skirmish game, is going to be heading to The Old West with a new set of rules popping up later this year.

It's OTTWeekender time! We get very excited about the news that Mantic Games has reached an agreement with Skybound to bring The Walking Dead: All Out War back to the tabletop in 2024. Yes, that means new expansions and more for this awesome miniatures game.

Greg Gillespie, the creator of roleplaying books like Barrowmaze, Dwarrowdeep and more, is now on Kickstarter with their old-school-inspired Fantasy roleplaying game inspired by the days of OSR. Will you be taking a look at the Dragonslayer Role-Playing Game?

Trish Carden's HarrowHyrst collection expands once more with the introduction of a new Treeman to the range. You can head down to the woods and see if you can avoid the twisting branches of Vengesour!

It's OTT Weekender time! Why would you wait for Warhammer: The Old World when The Ninth Age, an amazing community-led wargaming project, exists and gives you access to all of the mass battle Fantasy goodness that you could want? You also get to play with whatever miniatures you like!

Babek Amelizadeh has taken to Kickstarter with a new 1/200 scale World War II aerial dogfighting game called Air Raid 36/46. This easy-to-learn game features ways for you to play out clashes in the skies from a variety of different theatres of war and in some "what if?" scenarios too.

It's OTT Weekender time! Tuomas Pirinen, the creator behind the 28mm grimdark wargame, Mordheim, has set his sights on a brand new miniatures game featuring themes of heaven and hell called Trench Crusade. Featuring a brand-new set of  32mm miniatures from James Sheriff and with artwork by Mike Franchina, this is looking like an epic new grimdark wargame.

Tuomas Pirinen, the creator of Mordheim, is looking to bring a brand-new 32mm game to the tabletop soon. Trench Crusade is going to be a brutal, grimdark skirmish game set in an alternative version of our own world around the time of World War I.

Joseph A. McCullough has shared the newest issue of Old Bones magazine. The PDF for Old Bones Issue #2 is now available for you to snag from DriveThruRPG featuring a range of new rules and scenarios for a variety of his games.

In this week's Cult Of Games XLBS, the team get into a discussion about miniature design. Are miniatures becoming just too complicated nowadays? Are companies making it harder to paint their miniatures and get them down to the tabletop? We dive in and chat about what we reckon makes good miniature design that solves those issues!

It's OTT Weekender time! After coming back from Warhammer Fest, Ben goes through the Good, The Bad and the downright Ugly as Games Workshop revealed loads more for Warhammer 40K, Warhammer Age Of Sigmar, Warcry, Underworlds, The Old World and The Horus Heresy.

There was a fun game that I spied when we were at Salute a couple of weekends ago. James Morris (mogsymakes) has been working away on a new set of Fantasy/Historical wargaming rules called Midgard Heroic Battles that seems like it could be great fun to dive into at a range of scales. 

In this week's Cult Of Games XLBS, the team discuss the best of Star Trek and after embracing a weekend of relaxation, they are ready to dive into some of the hobby as we see what folks have been getting up to in different wargaming worlds.

Daniel Mersey has been busy developing some more wargaming rules for those wanting to dive into Historical wargaming on the tabletop. The most recent book from Mersey is Armoured Storm: The Eastern Front which focuses on World War II tank battles between 1941-1945.

We have a peek at some of the awesome monsters that you folks have been building and painting for your Fantasy wargames and beyond. There are even some fun miscreants to throw into your Sci-Fi games as well!

Join us for a new episode of Cult Of Games XLBS! In this episode, we're diving into some of the hobby that we've been getting up to, Warren finds a sacrificial dagger and we talk about roleplaying with younger adventurers! 

Joseph A. McCullough has added another chapter to their unfolding adventure in Rangers Of Shadow Deep. The new book, Tenebrous Citadel, is available for you to snap up on DriveThruRPG as a PDF currently.