Who lives in the swamps? Snakes, mosquitoes, ogres, maybe even Cajuns. But in a fantasy land far away, lies the Cauldron. And it’s inhabitants are a lot more ornery. You’ll be the one leading them to squalid fights in Cauldron, a “swamp skirmish” game by Hill Giant.
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Continue reading “Cauldron | Fortified Niche”I wanted to write about the best card in the Horus Heresy: Legions CCG ever since it was removed from the game. Maybe even before then. But now, with the servers definitely shut down by the time this post goes live, it will serve as an epitaph for the whole game. So here’s my tribute to Edict of Censure and, at the same time, to Horus Heresy: Legions.
Continue reading “Edict of Censure Forever: Requiem for Horus Heresy: Legions”Ah, Greece! As far as musicals about high-school romances go, it’s not one of them. In fact, it is a country on “the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula in Southeastern Europe.” But in Warriors of Athena, you go deeper still, right into Mythic Greece for some cooperative fantasy skirmishing by Joseph A. McCullough.
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Continue reading “Warriors of Athena | Fortified Niche!”Game creator mummylaundering first wrote us about their game on March 5th, 2025. We, of course, said that we’ll be happy to look at it once it hits 1.0. And now, slightly more than a year later, we’re here, reviewing Brimstone and Lead!
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Continue reading “Brimstone and Lead | Fortified Niche!”Here at Fortified Niche, we give Flames of War a lot of shit. And we’re right to do so! Better World War 2 games exist for that scale of battle. For example, there’s Battlegroup.
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Continue reading “Battlegroup | Fortified Niche!”On this episode of this indie miniature wargame podcast, we analyze a game I had sitting on my shelf for years. Hard to believe that something like this could happen to a World War 2 title focused on Stalingrad, but it did! Can we find the reason why we didn’t review Heroes of Stalingrad sooner?
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Continue reading “Heroes of Stalingrad | Fortified Niche!”Too Fat Lardies’ Sharp Practice v2 is so famous among historical gamers, you’d be tempted to no longer call it an indie. But this is my podcast, and it’s an excuse for me to have bants with the lads and try games I thought were interesting. I’ve declared all historicals (save for Flames of War/Team Yankee) to be indies, so here’s the Sharp Practice review.
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Continue reading “Sharp Practice v2 | Fortified Niche!”Through the grace of Slitherine’s marketing department, I have, over the years, collected all the modern Combat Mission titles and their multiple expansions for free. Yet I haven’t reviewed a single game. Why? Because I never felt I like had played enough of anys single title to have an authoritative say about it. However! The games are very similar, running as they are on a single engine. With that in mind, I might just get away with reviewing all of them – the whole modern Combat Mission catalogue – with a single blog post.
Continue reading “Combat Mission review | Generalizing for leutenant colonels”Here at Fortified Niche, we’ve been fans of World of Fun Games as long as we’ve known of the company. Plexiglas standees solve the issues of both paper standees and regular miniatures! But our endless paeans always lacked a certain I-defintely-can-sais-qui: none of us had ever touched the stuff. This changed recently when WoFun kindly provided the awkwardly-named Start Pack Peninsular War 18mm – and threw in a few other frames besides. Does this mean I’ll turn my sycophancy to 11? Let’s find out.
Continue reading “Mo’ fun with WoFun | Peninsular War 18mm Starter Pack review”What if game rules were under thirty pages? That’s not sole privilege of OPR, you know. In this installment of This Came From The FLGS podcasting, I review zine-sized skirmish games: Space Weirdos for sci-fi gun-havers, and its more mature evolution Sword Weirdos for fantasy!
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