New Magazine – ACW Gamer – The Ezine

This is a fantastic, new e-magazine available for American Civil War wargamers. The inaugural issue has some fantastic articles in it such as: an early war  scenario for Pohick Church, 1861,…

Across A Deadly Field – ACW Rules

  The recent announcement by Amazon confirmed that John Hill has been working with Osprey on a new set of hardbound deluxe ACW miniature rules entitled, “Across A Deadly Field” (ADF) that will enable gamers to recreate large battles while still using individual…

Back In My Day: Modelers Mart and Frontier Miniatures

  Remember this? Back in my day Modelers Mart was one of my all time favorite gaming stores! They were one of the largest US suppliers of historical miniatures, buildings…

Notes on Game Design – by Buck Surdu

I had someone approach me recently for some notes on game design. He is developing a set of rules for WWI and is looking at taking his ideas to the…

The Best Battle of Five Armies I’ve seen for HOTT

I recently sat on the sidelines and watched a four man game of HOTT (Hordes of the Things by WRG). The scenario was the Battle of Five Armies from the…

Reaper Miniatures Dark Heaven Bones

I was at my FLGS (friendly local gaming store) recently and saw this range. I had been familiar with the Reaper Bones kickstarter, but really wasn’t familiar at all with…

American Wild West Wargaming Research

Over the next year, CigarBoxBattle.com is going to put together a “American Wild West” project. This could be the most fun I’ve ever had doing research for a wargaming project!…

1:10 Johnny Reb

My favorite version of John Hill’s ACW rules “Johnny Reb” is “Johnny Reb 2”. I originally started playing with JR1, which is a fine game, but switched over to JR2…

Night Battle Photos

I want to take an opportunity to show you an example of the Night Battle photos technique that is explained in Advanced Photography Techniques for Gamers volume 1: Night Battles.…

An Interview with Buck Surdu, Game Designer

Cigar Box Battle: Buck, for those who don’t know you, could you tell us a little about yourself? Buck: I’ve been war gaming since about the seventh grade when I…

Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader – Battle at the Farm

Well, Cory and I finally found some time to do some vintage Warhammer 40k using the Battle At The Farm from the original Rogue Trader book from Games Workshop (kind…

Battle Troll – An interview with Howard Whitehouse

1. Howard, for those that don’t know you, can you please tell our readers a little bit about yourself? I’ve been a wargamer since I was twelve. It was 1970,…