Welcome to another monthly installment of our regular update from the Cube4Me front. As always, we have a fresh batch of new sets to share – another six titles getting their dedicated, tailor-made storage solutions. This time we have a small theme running through the update: two of the new sets cover medieval Iberia, with the era of the Taifas and the Reconquista getting some well-deserved attention on our tables.

But this month brings something extra special on top of that: I am extremely happy to confirm that the long-anticipated Magazine Tray is officially launched! After long prototyping and testing, this brand-new product is now available in the shop – designed to perfectly hold magazines together with our existing shallow trays and card holders. Make sure to check the dedicated launch article linked above for all the details on configurations, dimensions and compatible setups.

Please remember, as always, you can find all the solutions for wargames here:

So, without further ado, let us look at the six newest sets just added. Enjoy!

Purgatorio from GMT Games

Let us start with one of the flagship releases from the latest GMT print run – Purgatorio: Men of Iron Volume VI. The series, originally created by the late Richard Berg and now masterfully continued by Ralph Shelton, gets here another superb tactical-level title covering medieval engagements. As is usually the case with Men of Iron, the game brings a meaningful number of unit counters and additional markers, all of which require proper sorting between scenarios.

The set we prepared uses our proven Men of Iron approach – multi-compartment trays that allow keeping each unit type, both sides, plus all the markers nicely separated and ready for quick set-up. Combined with our experience from previous volumes in the series, the solution fits the box perfectly with full lid close.

Full details below:

The Charge of the 3 Kings from NAC Wargames

From late medieval engagements we move to the Reconquista – The Charge of the 3 Kings: Navas de Tolosa 1212 from NAC Wargames recreates one of the most important battles of that era. Designed by Carlos Diaz, the game is impulse-based, card-driven, and uses formations as the main maneuver units, with each side having its own deck of tactical and strategic cards. A wonderful, rich theme – and one rarely covered on our tables.

From the storage perspective, the key challenge are the two distinct decks of cards per player (tactical + strategic) plus the formation counters. Our solution combines dedicated card holders – one per deck type – with shallow trays for the formation pieces and additional markers, all fitting neatly in the box.

Full set details:

Taifa from Worthington Publishing

Staying in medieval Iberia, but moving back a couple of centuries, we get Taifa: Intrigue and War in Medieval Spain from Worthington Publishing – a card-driven game for 0-6 players (yes, zero is also possible thanks to bot support) set in 11th century Iberia, the era of El Cid. Each player commands one of the six main Muslim Taifas or Christian kingdoms competing for control of the Iberian Peninsula. The game comes with two faction-specific decks (Christian and Muslim), counter sheets, custom dice, and a mounted board – plenty of components to organize.

For this one, the storage challenge is mainly about the cards (two distinct decks) and the relatively rich set of counters representing the different factions and territories. Our set combines dedicated card holders – keeping the Christian and Muslim decks neatly separated – with shallow trays sized to sort all the counters by faction.

More details here:

Banish All Their Fears: Bayonet & Musket Battles, Volume 1 from GMT Games

Leaving medieval Iberia behind we jump several centuries forward, to a true heavyweight – Banish All Their Fears: Bayonet & Musket Battles, Volume 1, the first volume in GMT’s new series from David Fox and Ben Hull, the spiritual successor to the Musket & Pike system. The game covers two major late-17th and early-18th century engagements – Neerwinden (1693) and Blenheim (1704) – with brigades as the primary maneuver element and firepower as the dominant battlefield factor. Strategic and tactical maps, large OOBs, plenty of counters.

As you would expect from a counter-heavy GMT title, the storage challenge here is significant. Our set uses several deep, multi-compartment trays which allow to fully sort French, Allied and brigade-level counters between the two scenarios, plus separate compartments for markers and reserves. With everything sorted, switching from Neerwinden to Blenheim becomes a matter of minutes – not an evening of hunting through stacks.

Check the dedicated set page below:

Sea & Steel from Neva Game Press

Crossing the Atlantic now – another fresh title in this update is Sea & Steel: Columbus’ Voyages from Neva Game Press. As I mentioned in my recent overview of the game, this is a refreshing and unusual theme – the years following Columbus’ arrival in the Caribbean (1492-1505), with one player commanding the expanding Spanish forces and the other leading the indigenous Taíno and Carib peoples. Compact, asymmetric, with strong replayability.

From the storage perspective, the game is not very demanding – but it benefits a lot from a few well-placed trays for the counters representing units and influence on the fifteen Caribbean regions, plus a card holder for the event deck. Small box, smart sorting.

Full set link below:

POLAND’39 from Trafalgar Editions

We close this update with the most modern title in the line-up. As a Polish-based blogger I could not be happier to see POLAND’39 from Trafalgar Editions getting its own dedicated set. This relatively new wargame, designed by Crisanto Lorente Gonzalez, depicts the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939 for two or three players. It comes with multiple counter sheets, scenarios, variants and optional rules – plenty to sort and store.

For this title we went with a multi-tray configuration that allows for clean separation between the Polish, German and Soviet forces, plus all the additional markers. Sorting by side and by unit type really speeds up set-up – especially important given how many scenarios and variants the game offers.

Set details here:

Conclusion

Six new sets, plus the long-awaited launch of the Magazine Tray – this has been a particularly busy month on the Cube4Me front, and I am genuinely excited about what is coming next. Whether you are into tactical medieval battles (Purgatorio), the Reconquista and the Taifas era (Charge of the 3 Kings, Taifa), the firepower revolution of the late 17th century (Banish All Their Fears), the colonial Caribbean (Sea & Steel) or the grand strategy of WWII (POLAND’39), there is something here for you. And – as always – more sets are already in works for the next update!