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The News Stand: 24/07/2026

Summer is here, and so the cup doesn’t quite floweth over as everyone takes time out. However, there are still some great previews for all things Ultramodern this week, so read on for more!

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Project Fantasy Skirmish – Update 1

16/01/2020

So it’s been a while since I last talked about Fantasy Skirmishing. Mainly because, like a wargames butterfly, I was distracted by something shiny and disappeared off into doing non-wargaming things for a bit (as well as losing motivation). However, this didn’t stop me picking more models and continuing to think about adventures Name Change First of all, you may notice the name of this project has been changed. The reason is pretty simple – after finally settling on a story or setting, I realised dungeons would end up only being a little part of the games I’d want to…
Wargaming Week 13/01/2020

13/01/2020

Let’s start this Wargaming Week, covering the 6th through to the 12th of January. NEWS View this post on Instagram And a bit more work on the previously shown models… #spectreminiatures #spectreoperations #modernwarfare #modernminiatures #ultramodern #tabletopgames A post shared by Spectre (@spectreminiatures) on Jan 9, 2020 at 5:07am PST Spectre has awoken from it’s Christmas break with a pile of new updates and releases. First up, previews looking forward. We’ve already seen these heads before but now we finally get to see them all armed up. It’s an interesting set of gear – the foreground figure is armed with a…
Wargaming Week – Christmas!

06/01/2020

Let’s start this Wargaming Week, covering the Christmas Break! Blog Stuff In a shocking turn of events, I actually got two blog articles done! And posted! I guess most of you have read them. Before Christmas, I managed to get my impressions on the Sarissa Walled Compound finished. These kits have some great potential, and I can’t wait to get them onto the board. I also managed to get up my battle report from Christmas’s game of Chain of Command. As always, I love playing it and this quick game has lit the fire under my backside to get around…
Battle Report: “OPERATION CHlSEL” – Chain of Command

05/01/2020

Christmas is the time I return home to Leeds. As well as family events, I usually end up using it to encounter my Regular Opponent and get a game of something in. This year, myself and Regular Opponent got invited up North to partake in some Chain of Command, my favourite set of WW2 rules (and one that I dearly wish was still coming to modern-day). With three of us ready to play, we decided to play Big Coc and, in between chuckling, started looking up all the tank rules we had not got round to ever using before. As…
Initial Impressions: Walled Ambassador’s Residence Set

20/12/2019

As a modern wargamer bogged down in endless tiny conflicts in the Middle East, it can occasionally be difficult to find suitable buildings to fight through. Many I’ve covered here, but otherwise, you’re stuck picking up a whole host of generic adobes that don’t quite have the same feeling as the built-up and developed areas of key cities in the MENA region. One key element of the more well-to-do areas in many of these places are walled compounds, either around public buildings and richer families. Differing from the adobe walls of the rural region (mostly through the visual side), these…
Wargaming Week 16/12/2019

16/12/2019

Let’s start this Wargaming Week, covering the 9th through to the 15th of December. Blog Stuff I am partway through writing up my initial impressions of the Ambassador’s Compound I showed off last week, mostly trying to get into details so everyone reading can know how best to pick it up and expand it. It’s a really cool set and I really want to get into detail on just what you can do with it. Also, I was busy packing up for Christmas Break that started this week. But it will be done soon! NEWS First up, Empress dropped 4…
Wargaming Week 09/12/2019

09/12/2019

Let’s start this Wargaming Week, covering the 2nd through to the 8th of December. NEWS View this post on Instagram New African Militia, fresh from the casters #spectreminiatures #spectreoperations #tabletopgames #wargaming #ultramodern A post shared by Spectre (@spectreminiatures) on Dec 5, 2019 at 4:45am PST News this week out of Spectre – we have new African Militia on the way! As we saw in the greens a few weeks ago, there are two styles of African militia coming – some that look like an expansion to the existing range (with the sunglasses and street clothes) and other with a more…
Wargaming Week 02/12/2019

02/12/2019

Let’s start this Wargaming Week, covering the 25th of November through to the 1st of December. I’m writing this with a cold that’s making my head a bit fluffy so apologies for any mistakes. NEWS View this post on Instagram Yeah, I’m thinking I’m back. #spectreminiatures #spectreoperations #tabletopgames #modernwargaming #modernminiatures #ultramodern #modernwarfare #moderntabletop A post shared by Spectre (@spectreminiatures) on Nov 26, 2019 at 2:56am PST This week is Spectre news central. First up, a little hint of what’s coming soon and… it’s more John Wick. I’ll admit, not exactly what I’ve been expecting but they did list the first…