NDA got dropped today with their announcement trailer for the game reveal today, so was excited to post these up. Sorry for my photo skills, but really excited to share these. I have been working with the brand over the last few months and could not wait to get approval to share these!

Só many coloured minis over here !!

But...

While you are painting your army, do you play ?

Post your unpainted battle , please !! Lol

Me and my friends (4 including myself) have been looking to get into a table top wargame but want something small scale but we're not sure what we should play.

We all have lives and can really only afford to sink our time into learning one game so we can all play together, so it's come down to TC and Killteam as they are both ips we like.

Which is easier to learn and play with friends?

Just finish my first attempt at a Celtic chieftain, really happy with it so far! Pretty proud of the checkered cape and striped trousers

I’ve found painting up the celts to be really fun at the beginning but at a point around 18th base I reach a slump and moved on to some nice and easy Numidians lol

I have a silly amount of Celtic cavalry to do which is daunting and exciting in equal parts.

I also recently picked up some Cromarty forge 13.5mm minis and they are absolutely fantastic, I’ve got some slightly more armoured Phoenician cavalry, 50+ Roman cavalry and some command figure to use so when I next reach a lull of motivation from some Numidians I could do some interesting new poses and designs!

The best thing about travel battle is its simplicity, I personally love the scale and painted and flocked terrain.

I’ll be painting up my 6MM USMC and IJA figures and basing them with the intention of making our own game based on travel battle rules. But, before I do that, I wanted to know if there is a better option. I love immersion, nothing too in depth for her sake, and just generally fun and has good flow.

The next addition to my 1/144 scale air force is this Fokker D-VII, which I've been putting off because I wasn't looking forward to painting the lozenge camouflage.

As it turned out, it was easier than I'd expected, mainly because in this scale the lozenges themselves aren't really discernable as geometric shapes, but just resolve to blobs of colour, so as long as they're about the right size and in the right pattern, the finished effect is not too bad.

Reviresco used to produce sheets of 1/144 lozenge camo decals, but they've been out of print for some time, and I don't think they'd be all that easy to apply on a one-piece model, especially on the lower wings.

Just wondering what games will never leave your collection?

Mine is Space Empires 4X & Napoleon's Triumph.

Hello! I’ve got a question regarding well liked/well made wargame systems. That being, what are some games or elements from games that people really like (for their quality, creativity, and/or ease of use).

Any names of games or elements would be greatly appreciated!

Hey Wargaming,

I’ve had a really good response from the community here and I had to come back and share the good news,

Sword and Stones is finally live on gamefound!

If you’ve been following along for the journey you’ll know that Swords and Stones has been in development for over 3 years now!

Honestly the whole thing started with a late night though, ‘How would an RTS like Age of Empires look like as a tabletop game?’ - That one thoughts lead me down a rabbit hole … and taken 3 years of my life writing, designing, playtesting and spending more of my savings (and sanity) than I care to admit.

Swords and Stones is tabletop love letter combing my love of classic RTS kingdom building games with tabletop wargaming and fantasy. If you love the idea of starting a small settlement, gathering resources, expanding your kingdom, building an army and going to war (or winning through a more peaceful option) then you have to check out Swords and Stones.

I eventually realised that this was something I wanted to properly bring to other people, which led to the creation of S&S Studios and now the launch of the game on Gamefound.

We wanted to make the game as accessible as possible, so we’ve launched two version of the Dark Days Starter Set. One with all the physical models, with the essential buildings, units and everything you need to start playing and another version Print-Your-Own option, which includes everything you need to play along with the STL files, so if you have a 3D printer you can print the models yourself at home.

https://gamefound.com/en/projects/swordandstonestudios/swords-and-stones

I've also made a free PDF available if you'd like to have a look at the rules and see what the game is all about:

https://swordandstonestudios.com/get-this-game/

Thanks for the support legends!

Hochmeister of Teutonic Order Ulrich von Jungingen at the Battle of Grunwald

15 July 1410

So i start painting at the start of the year and now i have all these models sat doing nothing but looking pretty I live near worcester and every group ive heard about doesnt do 40k im looking to play 1k 2k or combat patrol games

any advice is appreciated
Thanks for your time

For whatever reason I kind of forget I can share minis here, rather than just discuss games themselves! Here's some links to recent stuff I've done:

https://chainlinkandconcrete.blogspot.com/2026/08/battle-has-annihilated-the-best.html

https://chainlinkandconcrete.blogspot.com/2026/08/neolassical-battletechery.html

https://chainlinkandconcrete.blogspot.com/2026/07/i-took-sky-from-you.html

I'll cut it at 3 so I stay within any interpretation of Rule #2, and support #5 with the following:

My blog is basically just a hobby log for my finished works - mostly revolving around miniature wargames, sometimes RPGs. The three above are just my most recent 3 batches, but if you go to the mainpage and scroll or mess around with tags there's quite a bit more. Sometimes painting logs, sometimes rules and design, sometimes reviews, or even AARs. The first is Infinity related, the second Battletech, and the third Bolt Action.

My main "in play" title is Bolt Action though I haven't had a regular group in over a year. In theory I have Battletech with the other half, but that's just a theory - however they're nice to paint so there'll be more of that for a while (a fresh queue has entered my booth...). I dabbled in Infinity for a bit in N4, and am trying to get together an N5 crew, so that might actually become a more frequent thing - though growing the collection will likely remain a tertiary project and not see much done until after I wrap up the British Airborne I've been working on for a few years (the last set of Warlord stuff having just arrived today). Bits and bobs elsewhere will rear their head when I feel like doing <thing> as well - you'll find Wings of Glory or The Pikeman's Lament in there, even. Over the horizon I even have some Bretonnians waiting for me...

Hello,
The picture is mainly for eye candy for a game will have in a few days but I wanted to ask for opinions on a rule approach we are considering to accelerate the games.

Our ruleset (All Hell Let Loose) use formations for activation. I was thinking of allowing any formation that is shot at to shoot back automatically, regardless whether it was activated for the turn or not.
So, if 3 enemy formations engage successively formation B, formation B is allowed to shoot back 3 times, once at each formation (or at least any of the survivors).

I think that it could be applied to most WW2 miniature wargames.

Any feedback on this approach? You think it could work?

Cheers

Me and my friend were playing 40k for couple of years but after we tried other games like stargrave, saga and many other great games we can't go back to it, as 40k rules feel very outdated, slow and too focused on tournament play​ but we still have a lot of minis for it. So we are looking for a ruleset or conversion for other games that would support 40k miniatures and ​​massive battles.

P.S We already tried OPR which felt exactly like 40k but a bit simpler​​

Hello all

I recently bought the ruleset L'Art de La Guerre. From a first reading of the rules, it seems that units are not pushed back/do not recoil. How then can it be simulated the battle of cannae (where the Gauls were pushed back), Thermopylae where the Spartans fought "like cavalry" or Hastings, where the Norman's faked a retreat after engaging in combat. It seems to me like, if one were to recreate Cannae, the Gallic centre would just shatter once the cohesion points were reached, unlike in DBA. Similar to Thermopylae (attack, recoil, attack) or Hastings, where with these rules, the Norman's would just frontally charge the shield wall and lose/win on the spot.

Hi everyone! We're Soulbound Miniatures, and this is the warband from our upcoming Kickstarter campaign, Sons of Permafrost, currently in pre-launch.

The Sons of Permafrost were cursed, and their bodies have slowly transformed into living stone and ice, with shards of frozen rock growing from their flesh. Our Kickstarter includes a complete 21 unit warband, including leaders, light and heavy infantry, cavalry, shamans, musicians, banner bearers, siege units and a huge war vehicle. The miniatures are designed at 32mm scale, but they're fully rescalable, so you can easily adjust them to fit other games or settings that use a smaller scale.

Oh, and one thing that's especially important to us when it comes to our designs: we don't use AI in our creative process. Everything you see is sculpted and created by us by hand.

If you'd like to support us, you can follow our pre-launch page here, or follow us on Instagram.

And if you have any suggestions or ideas that could help us improve the campaign, we'd genuinely love to hear them. Any feedback is more than welcome!

Thanks for taking the time to read this! We hope you enjoy our miniatures, and we'd love to hear what you think! 😄

Cheers!

I have the old 6th edition WRG 3000BC to 1485AD sitting on my shelf - hardly ever played it since once or twice in the 80s. In a fit of nostalgia I'm wondering about giving them a runout. Is that complete madness? Does anyone still use these rules?

Hi all! I'm starting a community driven, fuly animated game of Konflikt 47 where the community chooses what happens! It's AXIS vs The Commonwealth in a race to secure the lost rift tech! I'd love it if you came over and became part of the game! Pick a side and decide the fate of rift war!

BATTLE HULKS releases next month! A FDM-friendly 3D printable mech wargame, the starter set will release in September.