Tag Archives: Wargame

On paper, Wonderland’s War shouldn’t work. Mixing wargames with Alice in Wonderland? It doesn’t make sense. Equally vexing is the fact that board games based on these stories aren’t all that common. Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland books are mainstays of fantasy, but they are strangely absent from the gaming canon. It …

The Kill Team Starter Set is designed to be a lifeline. For what feels like 40,000 years, Warhammer 40K has been a staple of gaming life. But if the grimdark setting and superb miniature sculpts appealed to you, the only way into its tabletop world was the full game. That …

Most of Games Workshop’s flagship systems are open-table miniatures games that involve a ruler and a line of sight stick, but Warhammer Underworlds: Harrowdeep is different. Although it has the publisher’s trademark eye-catching figures, it’s a fully-fledged board game with hex movement and a deck of cards that each player …

If Age of Sigmar is Games Workshop’s flagship fantasy game of epic battles, Warcry: Red Harvest is its little brother. It’s a much faster, simpler game with only a dozen or so plastic miniatures per side; instead of massed armies colliding, it depicts a skirmish between two smaller forces with …