Save the Date: The Bitbox in Mülheim is back!
The Bitbox is opening its doors again: Franz has just announced the new date for the tabletop flea market in Mülheim an der Ruhr.
The key facts
Date September 20th, 2026
Uhrzeit: 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Location: Kath. Pfarrheim St. Barbara, Schildberg 93, 45475 Mülheim an der Ruhr
Admission: free
Entry is free as always, all you need to bring is a bit of time for browsing and haggling.
Wheels & Tracks – Living Legends 2026
Last weekend, on August 8th and 9th, 2026, Wheels & Tracks - Living Legends took place in Laubuseschbach. This was the third time this gathering of historic military vehicles has been held, with the venue being the motocross track of the MSC.
Since it's already been 10 years since we attended Stahl auf der Heide, the big open day of the German Tank Museum, and since Tankfest in Bovington or Militracks in Overloon hadn't worked out for us so far, it was once again time to take a close look at the various vehicles in "large scale". Since Laubuseschbach is only three-quarters of an hour away from me, I packed up my son, father-in-law, and Holger (who had also joined some of our other trips, e.g. Stahl auf der Heide) and met up on-site with Evi and Tobias from Ancient Tracks.
Admission was 20 EUR per day ticket, or 30 EUR for both days. Children up to 12 years old had free admission. On top of that came the cost of the ride-alongs, which cost 5 or 8 EUR depending on the vehicle class.
Regular readers know the drill: a photo of the parking lot is a must for our event reports. In this case, even with a small before-and-after picture of the car. We'll explain why further below.
The parking lot itself is spacious, since you park in a field right next to the large display area. Parking came to an extra 3 EUR.
July 2026 review
We returned last Thursday from our summer holiday to Spain.
We had great weather, swam in the ocean, visited a lot of sights, and yet didn't have enough time to catch up on everything that I had planned. Well, there's always a next time.
One of the sights that I visited, was Castillo de Argueso, and I brought along the miniature of a Spanish noble to take some pictures. Always bring a miniature with you, just like Team Würfelkrieg.
What a Tanker! Profiles for E-Series and Löwe
After writing rules for the E-Series and Löwe tanks by Ambush Miniatures for Bolt Action, I thought these would be a nice addition to What a Tanker! as well.
These are unofficial fan-made rules for private use only and are not affiliated with Too Fat Lardies. You will need a copy of the What a Tanker! rules to use them.
All these tanks count as Level 7 in the career ladder, with the exception of the E-10 being Level 5 and E-25 being Level 6. While some of them were planned as early as 1942, their development and production run would not make them available before 1945.
Too Fat Lardies – What a Tanker!
The TooFatLardies have built a solid reputation for producing wargames that prioritise historical feel over rulebook complexity, with games like Chain of Command or Sharp Practice. With What a Tanker!, they returned to the Second World War back in 2018, publishing rules for tank combat with vehicles from various nations of that era. And while I didn’t have the chance to give that game a try at LARDwerp back in 2022, I finally had the chance to do so with Team Würfelkrieg last month, and I’d like to share my experience with the rules in this review.
To give you a brief orientation on the scale of the game: if you want a tabletop game that scratches the same itch as World of Tanks, putting you in the commander’s seat of a WWII tank without drowning you in charts and counters, you should keep reading.
As the release was a few years ago, the printed rules are a bit scarce (~30 GBP / 35 EUR), but no worries — you can still pick up the digital download in their store for 17 GBP.
What Is It About?
What a Tanker! is a tabletop wargame for two or more players set during the Second World War. Each player controls one or more tanks, with the goal of knocking out the opposing side’s vehicles, either through sustained damage or a catastrophic hit. The game covers the full span of the war from 1940 to 1945, with national tank lists for Germany, the USA, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan all included in the rulebook.
Those lists are substantial. On the German side alone, you’ll find everything from the early Panzer II and Panzer III variants of the Blitzkrieg years, through the mid-war workhorses like the Panzer IV F2-G and StuG III, right up to the heavy hitters of the late war: the Panther, the Tiger I, the Jagdpanther and the King Tiger. The Allies are equally well covered. British players can work their way from A13 Cruisers and Matilda IIs up through Cromwells and Sherman Fireflies to the Churchill Mk VII, while Americans progress from M3 Stuarts and Grants into the various Sherman variants and ultimately the M26 Pershing. Soviet players get a compelling path through T-34 variants, KV heavies and the fearsome IS-2. Each nation also has a career ladder that maps tank progression year by year, so there is a genuine sense of historical context to how forces develop over the course of the war.
June 2026 review
Halfway through 2026!
The year is already half over, and we have seen quite a bit so far. CONflict Rheinland may have taken place at the end of May, but the coverage only went online in June, so I’m including it here as well. Once again we had our own table, played a good amount of games, and had a really solid day overall. What more could you want?
It is a bit of a shame, though, that the next tabletop event, as things stand now, will not be until September: Rhein Main Multiversum 2026 in Nidderau. So there will have to be a few private sessions in between.
Speaking of private gaming sessions, there were a few of those in June as well. I met up with Team Würfelkrieg for some gaming and bbq, and we played a few rounds of What a Tanker! That will definitely be continued with more games later on. The highlight, though, was the ride in the Willys Jeep.
Bolt Action – E-Series and Löwe House rules
We just covered the E-10 and E-25 from the Ambush Miniatures Kickstarter Panzerdivision Cerberus, and I saw a lot of people asking how to use them in their games, for example in Bolt Action.
I want to take care of that and wrote some house rules for these units to be used in the third edition of Bolt Action. You will need the core rules for Bolt Action 3rd edition as well as the Armies of Germany supplement book from the same edition to use these unit entries. These are unofficial fan-made rules for private use only and are not affiliated with Osprey Games or Warlord Games.
As it depends on how you want to integrate these models into your game and which narrative you want to pick up, there are certain basic options for these. I used the unit entries from the Armies of Germany book and cross-referenced and calculated how these modifications would affect the point values and such, and this is the result. To keep them as flexible as possible, I provide unit entries from Inexperienced to Veteran for all of them. It is up to you whether you want to play them as the dire Last Stand scenario or as if the war continued into 1946 (and onwards). Therefore I kept the options for Panzer Aces, like Tiger II and other late-war vehicles had. But you are free to use them as unproven prototypes, manned by inexperienced crews, like the Panzer VIII Maus is covered in the book.
If you wish to do so, you can drop the Panzer Ace and add Unreliable or Götterdämmerung (Panzer VIII Maus, p. 63 in Armies of Germany) from the unit profiles provided below. Depending on how hopeless you want to paint the situation, without point reductions to the unit entries. Otherwise reduce the points by 10% if you wish.
All of these vehicles would be added as entries to the Late War Force Selection Guide on p. 125 in the Armies of Germany book. All pictures by Team Würfelkrieg.
Ambush Miniatures – E-10 and E-25 Tank
Today we are covering a topic that has a long tradition here on the Chaosbunker: a tank review!
The occasion is the new Kickstarter campaign by Ambush Miniatures, The War is not over – Panzerdivision Cerberus, which focuses on numerous prototypes and "what-if" concepts from the late years of the war. The campaign covers six different vehicles in total: the E-10, E-25, E-50, E-75, the Panzerkampfwagen Löwe, and an additional Flak variant, all in 28mm scale (approximately 1:56). In today's review, we are taking a closer look at two tank destroyers: the E-10 and the E-25.
But let's start from the beginning and introduce the company behind the campaign. Ambush Miniatures may not be immediately familiar to everyone. Ambush Miniatures is the result of a merger between Heer46 and Air Raid 36/46, two long-time tabletop hobbyists who have combined their passion for World War II miniatures and vehicles under a new name. Heer46 has previously released many historical and "what-if" designs in both 15mm and 28mm scales, while Air Raid 36/46 had established itself in the market with a broad range of 1:200 scale models for aerial combat. Together, they now aim to pool their experience and capacity to bring further ideas to life.
At the heart of the new campaign, Panzerdivision Cerberus, are the armoured vehicles of the E-Series. The E-Series was a German development programme from the Second World War intended to replace the wide variety of existing tank and tank destroyer types with a standardised family of vehicles. Multiple weight classes were planned, ranging from light vehicles up to the heavy E-100, in order to simplify production, maintenance and spare parts supply. The "E" stood for Entwicklung (development), representing the next unified generation of armoured vehicles. None of these vehicles ever reached serial production, however; the project remained at the drawing board stage.
CONflict Rhineland 2026
Last weekend, the latest installment of CONflict Rheinland took place in Langenfeld near Leverkusen. Just like in previous years, we had our own table, this time covering some retro gaming of Warhammer 40,000 2nd edition.
CONflict is a closed, invite-only event that runs from Friday evening until Sunday afternoon, with some people, just like the three of us, only staying for Saturday. We covered things like the location, car park, and so on over the last few years, so I’ll skip that in this year’s coverage. If you’re interested, just check out the coverage since 2022:
As catering was expanded this year, we had more room in the car for miniatures and such, and I brought along two IKEA Samla boxes of sprues and kits for the bring & buy. Once we arrived around 10:30 am, a lot of gaming was already going on, and we did a quick browse before we set up our own table.
Right next to us, Lion Rampant was being played, covering a battle from the Italian Wars with lots of Landsknechts.
Dead Man’s Hand – Mounted US Cavalry
The second part of the US Cavalry range for Dead Man’s Hand by Great Escape Games is a box of mounted soldiers: the Mounted U.S. Cavalry. It continues the line of cowboys (and cowgirls) on horseback and makes perfect sense for the US Cavalry. The mounted US Cavalry was crowdfunded through Kickstarter in March 2026 and delivered in April and May this year.
If you missed it, we already covered the US Cavalry on foot earlier on the blog.
The Mounted US Cavalry (DMHP007) boxed set contains 10 multi-part plastic miniatures for an RRP of 28 GBP. Just like the infantry set, it gives you the parts you need to build US Cavalry on horseback, as well as options for the 9th and 10th Buffalo Soldiers. We received a sample covering half a box, with three different sprues.
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