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…

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…

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…

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…

QUICK! Impudent Mortal Terrain Kickstarter

ONLY 2 DAYS LEFT!   If you like laser cut terrain for your wargames because of the ease of assembly and quick professional look, you need to seriously consider getting…

Top ten posts for the first year of Cigarboxbattle.com

  Here it is gamers! Here is a list of links to the top 10 posts visited by gamers this year on Cigarboxbattle.com. When we look at all of our…

Musings of a “Johnny Reb” Gamer

I have to be clear, I’m a huge “Johnny Reb” fan. This will be a biased article!  Actually  I’ve been a “Civil War buff”, for as long as I can remember. The…

Favorite 4ground Western Buildings

Once again 4ground has amazed me with how beautiful their terrain is, along with how easy it is to assemble. These are my favorite! I am 2 buildings away from…

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,…

Brice’s Crossroads, Mississippi, June 10, 1864 – by Dean West

This was a 15mm ACW (Johnny Reb) scenario run by Dean West at Johnny Con 4.5 (at Bayou Wars) in New Orleans this summer. Dean is a master at designing…

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!…