tabletop gaming Articles

BattleTech Provisional Review – Turned Based Strategy We’ve Always Dreamed Of
BattleTech has a huge history in terms of tabletop gaming and video games. Starting life on the tabletop in 1984 as a wargame, it has been transferred across nearly every…

Meet the Minis – Miniatures Painting Competition Announcement Part 2
Last month we announced a new ongoing monthly series, Meet the Minis, where each month we will select an epic set of miniatures, show off the models and our favorite…

An Introduction to BattleTech
On the April 24, 2018, Harebrained Schemes and Paradox Interactive will release BattleTech on Windows, Linux, and OS X. What some of you may not know is that the BattleTech…

Warhammer Underworlds Expansion Warbands Review – Magore’s Fiends / The Farstriders
Games Workshop’s “competitive skirmish deck building miniatures game” Warhammer Underworlds Shadespire has been incredibly popular since its release last October, and the final two warbands for it have just been…

Infinity JSA Army Pack Review – Take to War with Cyber-Ninjas and Samurai Power Armor
For those unfamiliar with Infinity, it’s a miniatures skirmish game by Corvus Belli that is currently on its third edition (Infinity N3). The rules are available as a free…

Heroes of Black Reach Drop Pod #1 Preview – Warhammer Tiled Turn-Based Strategy
Heroes of Black Reach Drop Pod #1 is a preview of the upcoming full release of Heroes of Black Reach from Devil Pig Games based in the Warhammer 40,000 IP by…

Star Wars Legion Wave 1 Unit Expansions Review – Speeders, Walkers and Mobile Weapons Platforms
Right alongside the release of Star Wars Legion (which we reviewed here), Fantasy Flight Games released six unit expansion packs to aid you in the battle against the rebels (or…

Video to Tabletop: Part 1 Wargaming – Fallout: Wasteland Warfare
Welcome to the start of a new series of articles here at TechRaptor. We’re going to be looking into the development process of making a video game into a tabletop…

Meet the Minis – Miniatures Painting Competition Announcement
Update – 29 March 2018 Hey all, after discussions with Raging Heroes and the editorial team, we’ve decided to run the competitions for two months. That means that next month…

Star Wars Legion Core Set Review – Pick Dark or Light and Go to War!
Fantasy Flight Games have a long history with tabletop gaming in the Star Wars IP. They already have every other type of tabletop gaming covered with card games; dice games;…