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The Tabletop Apocalypse Comes to Smoking, Ruinous Life

No longer will your menacing miniature armies fight over cardboard boxes and upside-down cups - a series of 3D prepainted terrain sets by Gail Force Nine will make those Mech-on-Mech battles even more vivid than your imagination. Most of the sets come apart to reveal a blasted, ruined version of the same backdrop, which is perfect since that terrain was only there so it could be hammered by long range missiles anyway. More »

8:00 AM on Thu May 8 2008
By Ed Grabianowski
1,260 views, 7 comments

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Five Scifi Miniatures Games That Are Maximally Cool

There are few things in life quite as satisfying as commanding your cyborg hordes to wage war against the grognard across the kitchen table. Whether you prefer to blast Darkseid with your heat vision or lead a heavy lance in a raid against one of the Inner Sphere houses, miniatures games will meet your need for conquest. Check out our list of the five best scifi games that wil burn up your tabletop. More »

8:40 AM on Wed Apr 9 2008
By Ed Grabianowski
6,383 views, 58 comments

Latest by n/a: I'm shocked and appalled that nobody's mentioned the range of games from Ground Zero Games. They've got a 25 mm platoon-level game called Stargrunt and a 6 mm battalion-level game called Dirtside, both of which are really rather good, and more »