Across A Deadly Field – ACW Rules

  The recent announcement by Amazon confirmed that John Hill has been working with Osprey on a new set of hardbound deluxe ACW miniature rules entitled, “Across A Deadly Field” (ADF) that will enable gamers to recreate large battles while still using individual…

Back In My Day: Modelers Mart and Frontier Miniatures

  Remember this? Back in my day Modelers Mart was one of my all time favorite gaming stores! They were one of the largest US suppliers of historical miniatures, buildings…

Notes on Game Design – by Buck Surdu

I had someone approach me recently for some notes on game design. He is developing a set of rules for WWI and is looking at taking his ideas to the…

The Best Battle of Five Armies I’ve seen for HOTT

I recently sat on the sidelines and watched a four man game of HOTT (Hordes of the Things by WRG). The scenario was the Battle of Five Armies from the…

Reaper Miniatures Dark Heaven Bones

I was at my FLGS (friendly local gaming store) recently and saw this range. I had been familiar with the Reaper Bones kickstarter, but really wasn’t familiar at all with…

American Wild West Wargaming Research

Over the next year, CigarBoxBattle.com is going to put together a “American Wild West” project. This could be the most fun I’ve ever had doing research for a wargaming project!…

25mm Barn Wargame Scenery

I’m a self-proclaimed decent figure painter and scenery maker, but I don’t have any architectural skills for making model buildings!  Chris and I have talked about doing a “Dead Man’s…

Game of Thrones HOTT in 25mm

Holy moly, here we go folks! This was an incredible set of armies that I ran across this year at NASHCON. There was an entry in this year’s convention program…