Status: 1806-1: The Heir of Charlemagne, 1806 in Germany, Series 3
It’s that time again. Time to announce another ESR Series 3 Campaign Guides. To keep people up-to-date on progress we’ll be maintaining this post to provide progress towards milestones on our next Campaign Guide scheduled to be released: The Heir of Charlemagne, 1806 in Germany. We’ve been developing The HeirRead More →
September 2025 Tariff Update
In August several popular and well known historical gaming companies in the UK are announced they will either halt US shipments all together, or will be adding tariff specific fees. See the end of this post for snapshots of those announcements from August. We considered posting an update ourselves atRead More →
Why Play ESR Napoleonics?
Many systems claim to offer a large battle experience but in reality only focus on a small section. ESR takes a different approach by letting you play the whole battle. The Game We’re Used: The Micro Battle This is the Napoleonic scenario we’ve all played or seen many times. Wall-to-wallRead More →
May 2025 Tariff Update
UPDATE; 26 May: Nominally 72 hours after the president announced a threat of 50% tariffs on the EU to begin 1 June, he has announced he is delaying them until 9 July. The uncertainty created by these constantly changing positions is making it exceptionally difficult to judge what to communicateRead More →
Tariffs & Trade Wars do Affect Wargames (negatively)
From Steve Jackson Games to The Game Manufacturers’ Association (GAMA) many companies* are posting some form of “what does this mean to us” regarding tariffs and the current administration’s decision to enter trade wars with ally and adversary alike. NOTE: Please see our other news posts on tariffs for additionalRead More →
Our Demo Game Mats
We make custom game mats for our intro/demo/convention games using a technique sometimes called “caulk & flock” mats. Here’s how. Recommended Materials The Plan For our example game mat we intended to recreate the road and river networks of the Battle of Eckmühl featured in our ESR Campaign Guide TheRead More →
What should we do next?
Help us decide what our next ESR Napoleonic project should be and how we’ll get there! The Napoleonic era is really diverse. There are so many factions and so many campaigns. We’ve got hundreds of miniatures sculpted and dozens of Campaign Guides outlined but pushing a new wave into productionRead More →
1809: The War of the 5th Coalition
The Wargaming Company is thrilled to announce our next major releases: 1809 in Germany! Available Now! Force Pack: Austrian Mid War Armeekorps If you’re fighting over control of Germany in 1809, you definitely need Austrians, so of course, we’re releasing an Austrian ArmeeKorps Force Pack for the Mid War! What’sRead More →
Maurice Games Unboxes ESR Force Packs
These kits contain a boatload of 10mm miniatures, with approximately 240 infantry models, 4-6 cannon, 12-16 cavalry and various officers, wagons and sappers. You also get unit cards, a reference sheet, bases and tokens for ESR, a ton of flags, and a random leader card, which was really fun (IRead More →