Game changers

Chess sets and backgammon boards are a familiar sight on drawing-room tables, but one expert Highland woodworker is refashioning their forms in beautiful new ways, writes Mary Miers

From exploding lightbulbs to the Knights Templar – via Ron Howard and the Daleks

For my entire lifetime, the undisputed titan of miniatures wargaming has been Games Workshop. Its key titles Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 involve tabletops filled with tiny plastic warriors; specifi

Did you know that Thomas Müntzer, leader of the German Peasants’ War in 1525, used a rainbow flag to rally his followers? It’s an aptly exuberant image for the radical charisma of Müntzer, and for the

Wargaming as a genre can seem inaccessible. The need for miniatures, the dense rulesets, the never-ending expansions that add to an already complex world – it’s all just too much for many potential pl

The industry’s finest sustainable storyteller shifts towards ‘fireside menace’