We got a chance to take another look at the winner of our Summer Offensive: Painting Competition Individual Unit category. Jamie’s Last Levy impressed the judges with his crisp, clean paint job and exceptional attention to detail. My favourite part of the Last Levy is the Hitler Youth kids running around Berlin with panzerfausts. My…
Looking to take advantage of our excellent Canadian Thanksgiving offers? We’ve put together a care package of extra bits and pieces that you may have missed or forgotten about in your excitement! Extra Canadian Goodness! Amphibious Raiders! These canoe-mounted commandos are perfect for recreating members of the 1st Special Service Force, or Canadians in the…
One of the big highlights of our Open Day this year was this fantastic recreation of the battle of Auldearn in 1645 that we put together in collaboration with the Friends of General Haig. This week, we’re taking a more in-depth look at this beautiful table. Background In May 1645 the Marquis of Montrose,…
It was all hands on deck down here at Warlord HQ last Saturday as we pulled out all the stops to make our Open Day 2018 something spectacular! Every year, we open our doors to give you a glimpse behind the curtain and celebrate everything that makes our hobby great. We took the opportunity to showcase…
Last week we announced that we’d handed all your excellent submissions for the Summer Offensive, Painting Competition over to the design studio for judging. Since then studio head Paul Sawyer and his team of painters have been poring over all the entries and have picked the best from each category! We’d like to thank everyone…
We’ve been completely blown away by some of the entries you guys have submitted for the Summer Offensive: Painting Competition. We spent last week collating all the entries and passed them over to the studio for judging, so we’ll be able to announce the winner of each category in next week’s newsletter. We’ve picked out…
Wow – time’s flown and we’re nearly there, there’ve been some absolutely stunning entries so far. We had a flurry of activity on the forum last weekend and some experienced ‘difficulties’ uploading their hard work. So to that end, we’re extending deadlines to the Sunday 2nd September and asking you all to email entries to…
Overlord Military Events Tournament and Show Report On the 2nd and 3rd of June, we brought Bolt Action and Blood Red Skies to the Overlord Military Events, an exhibition of all things D-Day. The event was hosted by the wonderful museum at Colleville-Sur-Mer, not far from the memorial on Omaha Beach. Saturday On Saturday, while…
Next year Warlord Games are participating in a record-breaking event to play the Worlds largest wargame – the Battle of Waterloo! http://www.waterlooreplayed.com/ The game will take place on the 15th and 16th June 2019 at University of Glasgow, Kelvin Gallery, using the award-winning Black ‘Powder rules. The Great Game is running in support of the…
Fancy attending an event, or participating in a tournament? Check out this list of worldwide events coming up during July and we’ll see you there! 2018 Bolt Action Escalation League – Alder Hobby; Manchester, NH, USA July’s Events Race to Berlin 4 teams of 8 made up of Western Allies, Western front Germans (late War)…
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