New mat from Cigar Box Battle – The Hive

The Hive (#460) mat is a great looking, highly detailed and versatile terrain mat! It is professionally illustrated and perfect for just about any science fiction urban / alien combat…

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…

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 combine to make Massive gaming area

While looking at the Cigar Box Battle Mat designs, I hope you’ve noticed that the mats combine to make MASSIVE gaming areas. We recently posted on Facebook the image below…

Unsung Heroes of Gaming – Rick Priestley

  In this first post of Unsung Heroes of Gaming, CigarBoxBattle.com gets the uncommon privilege of interviewing one of the greatest Game Designers of our time. Welcome Mr. Rick Preistley!…

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…

NASHCON 2013

This post covers (in general) a bunch of wonderful things we’ve seen at NASHCON 2013. We didn’t get an opportunity to cover everything that happened, but you may just see…

What happens when my 7yr old gets hold of paint!

Ok, so here is what happens when a 7yr old boy likes to watch daddy paint and finds a way to fit it into his own 7yr old schedule. Warboss…

Crimson Fists- Warhammer 40k

As Cory and I get ready to play the original Rogue Trader scenario on Rynn’s World, he has finished up his Crimson Fists force.I’m currently working on Orks. I’ve always…

40k Orks Bad Moon (2 of 2)

Waaaargh! Here they come again! This post will focus on the vehicles in my Ork Horde. Warlord Freaka’ Skullsmasha descends upon us all like a heavy boot on a small…

Warhammer 40k Orks (1 of 2)

Waaaarrrgh! Yep, that’s right! Green tides of aliens that only have one purpose. They want to kill other armies just because it makes them look stronger (and some reports state…