Boardgames with kids

Mongoose Publishing kickstart a radical proposition: What if your space exploration game didn't have a combat chapter?

Manchester Board Game Festival is taking over The Pit and the Pendulum Hotel from October Friday 31st to Sunday November 2nd with their Halloween special. Organised by Dungeons & Flagons, expect a terrifyingly good selection of horror-themed games, a Halloween Costume Parade across all three days with prizes.

Norman conquest, Saxon kings, and now demonic incursions, Winchester's medieval streets have seen it all, apparently. Two Starving Gnolls deliver a new supplement for The Exorcist's Codex™ that relocates the game's structured demon-hunting to 1890s Winchester and its surrounding countryside and featuring eleven scenarios, exploring the city's layered history of faith, corruption, and demonic scheming. Down with that sort of thing, presumably.

Wargames Atlantic and Helion bring us ‘Heiho: The Art of War’, a collaboration bringing nearly a thousand 10mm hard plastic figures to your tabletop for recreating the massive battles of Sengoku-era Japan. The box set includes 988 miniatures across eight frames of Ashigaru, four of Samurai, and two of Command units, alongside bases, dice, tokens, and the complete rulebook. Designed by Pauli Kidd - a 20-year student of Katori Shinto Ryu (sword fighting to you and me) and author of numerous works on Japanese history and culture and big name RPGs - the rules accommodate armies ranging from 20,000 to 100,000 warriors and support famous engagements like Kawanakajima and Sekigahara.