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Song of Ice and Fire: House Lannister

Welcome back to our coverage of the A Song of Ice and Fire miniatures game. If you missed the first article in our series with an introduction to the game, you can find it here. A disclaimer before we begin: I...

Kings of War Tactics: An Introduction To Army Styles

The beauty of Kings of War is that there is no single winning tactic, and with all the units and army lists available there's a large number of army styles at a player’s disposal. This allows for a huge...

White Dwarf 466: Flashpoints and Torchbearers Review

After a brief bit of downtime in last month’s White Dwarf with the excellent A Fell Tide mission, we’re back up to full speed in issue 466, jumping into the action in the Octarius Sector. This new Flashpoint details...

Magic 201: How to Improve at Magic: The Gathering in the Long Run

Ahoy Hoy, my name is David Inglis I am from the UK and have been playing MTG since Scars Of Mirrodin. So far, I have a World Magic Cup Top 4, some GP Day 2s and a bunch of...

Competitive Innovations in the Mortal Realms: Saga of the Flame Court GT & Circle City Clash

In Competitive Innovations, we take a regular look at the top lists from major events from the past weekend, figure out what makes them tick, and talk about what these lists mean for the developing meta. This past weekend...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: Machine Superiority

No more quiet weeks, it would appear. For the second week running we've got five events to cover, and another blowout this weekend coming up, which sees both the Lone Star Open and the first weekend in the UK...

TheChirurgeon’s Road to… 2021, Part 2: Final Prep for the Lone Star Open

Welcome back, Dear Reader, to the second part of my ongoing progress blog for 2021. Last week I talked about my initial prep for the Lone Star Open and a few challenges that were still hanging in the air,...

Where the Wildmen Are: Dunlendings in Middle Earth Strategy Battles Game

Do you generally just hate people who own horses? Are you angry at being forced to live in the mountains and eat nothing but potatoes? Do you generally think Saruman is a pretty swell guy with some great ideas...

Mass Effect 3: The End, Finally, Again

And farewell to all that MEss.  I’ve now spent some combined 200 hours playing Mass Effect games over the past few months (with a couple rounds of technical difficulties unrelated to the games themselves near the end), so it’s perhaps...

We Bear Bears – A Turn Order Review of Barenpark

There are a few game terms you’ll encounter when talking to board gamers about the type of games to play on a given evening: filler, entry, heavy, euro, ameritrash, abstract strategy, card-based, etc. Those are the fairly common genres,...