The ’90s War Games Still Fighting Battles Today

There was a particular kind of ambition surrounding tabletop wargaming in the late 1990s and early 2000s that now feels almost mythological. The hobby was fragmented, fiercely creative, and wonderfully strange. Small companies competed beside larger publishers, each convinced they could build the next great fantasy or science-fiction universe through metal miniatures, sprawling lore, and rulebooks dense enough to double as blunt weapons. You discovered these games through hobby shop cabinets, photocopied catalogues, or grainy magazine adverts promising worlds of mech warfare, dark sorcery, and post-apocalyptic battlefields. Nothing felt standardized yet. Every company had its own aesthetic language, its own interpretation of fantasy or sci-fi, its own vision of what tabletop warfare should look like. Warmachine - https://steamforged.com/en-gb Celtos - https://brigademodels.co.uk/product-c... Warzone - https://shop.princeaugust.ie/mutant-c... Leviathan - https://www.seb-games.com/ Battletech - https://store.catalystgamelabs.com/ https://www.irregular-magazine.com/ Irregular Magazine is produced on a quarterly basis (well, as often as we can!) as a downloadable PDF file. It contains no advertisements, and all content is supplied at no cost by community members. It covers Wargames, RPG, Miniature Painting, Scenery Building and so much more!