Tabletop Gaming

Tabletop Gaming is the UK’s only monthly magazine dedicated to all types of gaming on your tabletop. From board games, card games, roleplaying games and miniatures we have you covered every month in 100 pages.

Tabletop Gaming

Welcome

AT A GLANCE

We asked… • While the weather outside is decidedly gloomy, we asked you for your favourite places to pick up new games.

FABIO LOPIANO • The Italian designer of Merv and Ragusa reflects on his Renaissance-set debut, 2017’s Calimala

10 OF THE BEST EXPANSIONS • …Or rather, the games that deserve them. More, bigger and better is very much the standard rallying cry of tabletop gamers – and when it comes to expansions we’re spoiled for choice. With Undaunted: Reinforcements (p72) and Destinies: Sea of Sand (p80) reviewed in this issue, now is a great time to celebrate some of the best expansions out there.

Role Call • What’s that in the sky? Is it a dragon? Is it a superhero? No! It’s a brand new edition of ROLE CALL

NEMESIS • There’s few ruder wake-up calls than coming out of hypersleep to find that your spaceship is overrun with aliens – and they’re not the only ones you have to watch your back for in, Nemesis

SOLITAIRE PRINT AND PLAY • We explore the world of solo gaming one move at a time. This month: the solo print and play

THREE GREAT HISTORICAL SOLO PRINT AND PLAY GAMES

YOUR SUBSCRIPTION, YOUR WAY • Pick the rate that suits you and your budget!

JAMIE NOBLE-FRIER • Tabletop games illustrator, designer and DoodleMeeple community founder Jamie Noble-Frier delivers us a love letter to a Mage Knight in shining armour

AS THE SUN RISES OVER THE DESERT • A tussle for power comes to 10th Century Middle East, and it’s our turn to play it out

THE FLAME OF THE OLD WORLD FLICKERS • We talk to Cubicle 7’s founder, Dominic McDowall, about taking our most loved stories to the tabletop and keeping the embers of the Old World alight

THE HISTORY OF WARHAMMER FANTASY ROLEPLAY • Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay has been through multiple incarnations, let’s take a quick wander through its history

TRAVEL EDITIONS HAVE MORE MILEAGE • The million-stretch-goal Kickstarter is missing one thing, a smaller, and possibly magnetic outing

IT’S COMING HOME • We return from our scouting trip to discover the formation of Portal Games’ new football manager game

2022 • As we pass further from the 20th century, a new age of board games slowly dawns

BOOSTS ON THE GROUND • We explore the horror stories of war in Purple Haze

MADAGASCAR

NO TAKESY BACKSIES • Each month our in-house agony aunt, Ben Maddox, answers your ludological lamentations

ROCKY MOUNTAIN MAN • We flip through the pages of the solitaire magazine game, Rocky Mountain Man

ROCKY MOUNTAIN MAN • Nate Hayden takes us through our paces in preparation for the gruelling adventure that is Rocky Mountain Man

THE FINAL BOSS • We sat down with Enrica and Francesco of Axis Mundi to talk about their bombastic psychological miniatures game coming to Kickstarter

BRIAN BORU: HIGH KING OF IRELAND • Now for Peer Sylvester’s next trick…

SIDEREAL CONFLUENCE: REMASTERED EDITION • Trading that’s out of this world

SAVE PATIENT ZERO • Battleships, but make them tiny

SAVE PATIENT ZERO • We talk to the designer of Save Patient Zero, Cédric Martinez about trying to save the world first…

LAST MESSAGE • Competitive Where’s Wally

TERRAFORMING MARS: ARES EXPEDITION • A change of space?

RESIDENTIL EVIL 3: THE BOARD GAME • Don’t shoot in Raccoon City

RESIDENT EVIL 3: THE BOARD GAME – CITY OF RUIN

THE BOOK OF GAUB

KYOTO • Turning climate change into a big...