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The King is dead. The kingdom is divided. Three factions - the Scottish, the Welsh, and the English - vie for control and, across the sea, foreign invaders prepare to take advantage of the chaos. Players must marshal their limited resources to influence this power struggle, while ensuring that the faction that rises to dominate the realm favours them above all other claimants to the throne.Continue Reading

Today we’re taking a look at a fantastic piece of artwork from Helge C. Balzer. It shows a mercenary standing alongside a biomorph – one of the backgrounds available for your captain in Stargrave (we’ll be looking at how you create your captain in the future!)Continue Reading

The upcoming Campaign title, 'King Philip's War 1675–76' looks at the major conflict between the southern New England colonists and the area's indigenous Native Americans. On the blog today, author Gabriele Esposito examines the Native American forces involved in the years preceding the battle and the conflict itself.Continue Reading

Village Green: A Game of Pretty Gardens and Petty Grudges is a light card game for 1-5 players designed by Peer Sylvester, pitting players against one another as rival gardeners trying to claim the prestigious Village Green of the Year award.Continue Reading

Undaunted: North Africa is the latest instalment in the critically-acclaimed Undaunted series, designed by David Thompson and Trevor Benjamin and with artwork by Roland MacDonald. One player takes control of the LRDG, an elite unit of the British Army, with the other commanding units from the Italian Army, fighting over a series of scenarios in the North African theatre of World War II.Continue Reading

In May 1940, German troops advanced through Holland, Belgium and France with astonishing speed, forcing the British Expeditionary Force and the French army to retreat to the north-east coast of France. The evacuation plan – Operation Dynamo – was put into effect with the expectation that only about 45,000 men might be rescued. However, by the hasty assembly of a vast armada of disparate vessels (thought to be in the region of 900, of which about 700 were privately owned), 338,226 Allied troops were brought safely back to England. Without the contribution of those Dunkirk Little Ships, as they have come to be known, thousands of British troops would have died on the shores of France. In today's blog post, Philip Weir, author of the upcoming Shire title 'Dunkirk and the Little Ships' explores the lead up to this event and gives a brief overview of some of the vessels involved.Continue Reading

Today on the blog we're looking at some of the artwork from the first of our 2021 titles. Let us know what you think in the comments section. If you would like to see any artwork from our February titles, be sure to mention that too!Continue Reading

In just over a week we're publishing Frostgrave: Wizard Eye: The Art of Frostgrave, a beautiful hardback book packed with artwork, concepts, and sketches from the first edition of the Frostgrave rulebook right up to the Perilous Dark supplement. Each piece is accompanied by behind-the-scenes comments from artists Kate and Dmitry Burmak, as well as from Frostgrave's creator - Joseph A. McCullough.Continue Reading

In April, 2021, we’ll be publishing Stargrave: Science Fiction Wargames in the Ravaged Galaxy, the new game from award-winning author Joseph A. McCullough!Continue Reading

From the street fighting that heralded the German occupation to the Gestapo repression that followed, 'Rome – City in Terror: The Nazi Occupation 1943–44' is the gripping story of the German occupation of Rome from the Italian armistice in September 1943 until the Allied liberation of the city on 5 June 1944. In today's blog post, author Victor Failmezger recounts the events that took place on October 16, 1943.Continue Reading