Johnny Con 2017

Johnny Con will take place again this year as part of Nashcon, June 2-4, 2017 in Franklin, TN at the Cool Springs Marriott (700 Cool Springs Blvd., Franklin, TN 37067).…

Johnny Con 5.5 at Nashcon 2015!

  Johnny Con 5.5 will be incorporated into Nashcon 2015 this year! The convention will be Memorial Day Weekend, May 22 – 24 in Franklin, TN. The hotel info: Franklin…

Attention Nashville area gamers! Turkey Wars 2014 is approaching!

If you live in metro Nashville, or within driving distance, and you need a reason to sneak out of the house to avoid your in-laws after Thanksgiving, head on down…

How to Run a Convention Game

A light hearted look at running a historical miniatures convention game – A friend of mine, who has never run a game at a convention, asked me for some pointers…

Across A Deadly Field at Nashcon

John Hill’s new rules “Across A Deadly Field” had their Southern debut at Nashcon 2014 this Memorial Day weekend. It was extra special too, since John was the Guest of Honor…

Top ten posts for the first year of Cigarboxbattle.com

  Here it is gamers! Here is a list of links to the top 10 posts visited by gamers this year on Cigarboxbattle.com. When we look at all of our…

2mm ACW Rules – a Cigar Box Battle project

I’ve had some Irregular Miniatures 2mm ACW figures just sitting around in cigar boxes for a long time now. They get taken out from time to time for a DBA…

An Interview with Buck Surdu, Game Designer

Cigar Box Battle: Buck, for those who don’t know you, could you tell us a little about yourself? Buck: I’ve been war gaming since about the seventh grade when I…

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…

Battle Troll – An interview with Howard Whitehouse

1. Howard, for those that don’t know you, can you please tell our readers a little bit about yourself? I’ve been a wargamer since I was twelve. It was 1970,…

NASHCON 2013

This post covers (in general) a bunch of wonderful things we’ve seen at NASHCON 2013. We didn’t get an opportunity to cover everything that happened, but you may just see…

28mm War of the Roses Tactica Game at Nashcon 2013

28mm War of the Roses Game at Nashcon   This past weekend my good friend Titch W.  and I ran our annual War of the Roses game at Nashcon. This…