Mat of the Week – The desert mat

Our featured mat of the week is our desert mat. It is extremely versatile and we use this currently for  our 28mm “Old West” skirmish games. We are also painting forces…

Across a Deadly Field Gettysburg at Little Wars AAR

Across a Deadly Field   “Gettysburg – A Long Afternoon” Played at the “Little Wars” Chicago Convention, April 26, 2014 After Action Report – By Patrick R. LeBeau and Dean West…

“What if Slocum Wasn’t Slow?” July 1, 1863 – scenario & terrain pictures

“What of Slocum wasn’t slow?” A scenario for July 1st, 1863 Northeast of Gettysburg. “The Corps could easily have joined in the battle the first day. The distance from our…

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…

Scott Mingus’ AWI variant for Johnny Reb III – FREE!

Civil War author and wargamer, Scott Mingus, has some fantastic scenario books and rules available for sale at wargamesvault.com. I can highly recommend any of Scott’s fantastic products! He also…

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!…

25mm Barn Wargame Scenery

I’m a self-proclaimed decent figure painter and scenery maker, but I don’t have any architectural skills for making model buildings!  Chris and I have talked about doing a “Dead Man’s…

2mm ACW Rules – a Cigar Box Battle project

I’ve had some Irregular Miniatures 2mm ACW figures just sitting around in cigar boxes for a long time now. They get taken out from time to time for a DBA…

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…

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,…

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…