Featured Mat of the Week – The Muddy Barren Mat
This incredibly detailed mat was part of our recent wave 2 release! It’s a generic, desert brown mat that has many uses! The historical gamer crowd is using it for British…
Get the most out of your bits!
Over the past few years miniature companies have been releasing more and more historical miniatures in plastic. These plastics have helped mitigate rising figure costs and allow for the customization…
Amazing Waterloo Diorama
This is an amazing diorama of the Battle of Waterloo by Andre’ Rudolph in Germany. Waterloo is an iconic battle that every wargamer thinks about playing sooner or later. Andre’…
Wave 2 Mats now available!
We have been burning the midnight oil to bring you our second wave of terrain mats! We are really proud of these latest mats and think that there is something…
Mat of the week – our naval mat
This week we are featuring our naval / ocean / sea mat. This is one of our most versatile mats and can be used for most any naval wargame. A…
How to see the forest for the trees with our mats!
Tips for making great wooded areas using Cigarboxbattle mats – You can use the trees and woods printed on your mats “as is” in 2D like a board game, with…
Do CBB Mats work well for RPG’s? Yes!
I have been asked by a few local gamers if our mats would work well with Role Playing Games and the answer is a resounding…. “yes”! True, many gamers use our…
Warhammer 40K with CigarBoxBattle Mats
From time to time we like to feature a particular set of rules (and miniatures) and showcase how they will work with one of our mats. Our featured mat this…
Cigar Box Battle Mats – How to get the most from your mats
We have had quite a few people ask us how to get the most out of their mats, so we decided that a new blog post was in order! The core concept…
A few pictures of the ADF Gettysburg game at Historicon
Here are some pictures of Patrick Lebeau’s incredible 15mm “Across A Deadly Field” game at Historicon. These were taken by Christian Waters from Osprey Publishing. Thanks for sharing Christian! The…
Trying a new Warmaster scenario
Recently, I got together with a friend of mine and pulled out Warmaster (those of you not familiar with that rules system… It is a Games Workshop Specialist Games publication…
Now Available: Cigarboxbattle Wargaming Mats!
We now offer a line of our own 60 x 80 inch wargaming mats for sale! This is something that we had been using for our own games, but we…