Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! If you are holding a Wi direct subscriber or mail/web order copy of this month’s Wargames Illustrated then you have something exclusive in your hands - a twin-cover version of Wi395, featuring both US Marine landing and Japanese Imperial Army defending
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! For those of you who are still resisting the temptation to refight some Wars of the Roses action using your free Never Mind the Billhooks rules from last month’s magazine, you will hopefully be further tempted by a ‘Billhooks’ scenario which
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! Following several months delay caused by Coronavirus, it is with great pride that we present our free ruleset, Never Mind the Billhooks with this issue of Wargames Illustrated magazine. A fast-paced small battle/large skirmish game, ‘Billhooks’ first came to my attention when
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download the PDF instead. Download the Cards, Tokens and Cribsheet. Never mind the Billhooks is a simple, Wars of the Roses-themed wargame pitched at the Big Skirmish/Small Battle level. This sort of thing probably went on a lot of the time, particularly up around
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! As we take further steps out of lockdown and head towards a re-opening of gaming clubs and stores (at the time of going to print at least), I thought you might be interested to hear how the wargames industry coped during
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download the PDF instead. Victory at Sea is the game of naval combat during the Second World War. Throughout 1939–45, the nations of the world duelled across the oceans across the globe, only to discover the fundamental nature of naval warfare changing in
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! Hello ... is there anybody out there? I sincerely hope so. I hope that after two months of forced absence you are pleased to be able to grasp the glossy paper of Wargames Illustrated between your fingers and read through its
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download the PDF instead! This is it, you are reading the last issue of Wi Bite-Size. When we temporarily mothballed production of the print magazine back in April we went into production with Wi Bite-Size and since then we’ve produced six issues with
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download the PDF instead. By the pricking of my thumbs, something printed this way comes. The easing of the lockdown here in the UK and the ‘roadmap’ for the way forward (all be it that the roadmap is fuzzy around the edges) seems
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download the PDF instead. It has been great getting all the positive reactions and constructive criticism back from readers of Wi Bite-Size over the last few weeks. It’s also been really interesting finding out what you and your fellow gamers have been getting
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download the PDF instead. Time flies by when you’re the editor of a weekly magazine*. Bite-Size number Issue 3 is already upon us, or rather upon you (we’re already working on Issue 4!). This week we have another four new articles for you, and
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Having trouble viewing the 3D magazine? View and download the PDF instead. Welcome back to Wi Bite-Size - this is the second of our mini PDF magazines aimed at keeping our subscribers well-fed with wargaming reading material during the lockdown - whilst the print magazine is mothballed. BITE-SIZE BANTER We’re back with more
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Having trouble viewing the 3D magazine? View and download the PDF instead. Welcome to the first issue of Wargames Illustrated Bite-Size. For the next few weeks, Wi Bite-Size is going to be your Friday fix of Wargames reading. During the Coronavirus Lockdown, we won’t be printing Wargames Illustrated magazine for two reasons
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This issue comes with a FREE 48 page modelling guide! Available as a free PDF and/or free to purchase as a hard copy for WIPrime members. WI390 was mailed to subscribers on 18 March 2020. It was made available to WIPrime members on 20 March 2020. It will be in hobby
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Having trouble viewing the 3D magazine? View and download the PDF instead. Download the plans for this How To... now. This ‘How To…’ guide is a compilation of articles published over several years in Wargames Illustrated magazine. This volume is an eclectic mix of the best of the articles from our regular
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Having trouble viewing the 3D magazine? View and download the PDF instead. Download the plans for this How To... now. This ‘How To…’ guide is a compilation of articles published over several years in Wargames Illustrated magazine. This first volume (like the following two, which will be published annually) is an eclectic
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It’s time we paid tribute to that staple of the wargame - the charge. Whether on foot in command of 15,000 Confederates trying to finally get to those damn Yankees, or riding to glory with the Scots Greys whilst re-fighting Waterloo, the charge is often the watershed moment in both real
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Having trouble viewing the 3D magazine? View and download the PDF instead. Iron Cross is compact, easy to learn and has tons of decision making, tension and tactical nuances. What it does better than anything on this scale is give you a game that feels like WWII and looks like WWII.
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The theme for this issue is Soldiers on Campaign - and not - Soldiers, on Campaign. A subtle difference which means that rather than focusing on the wargame campaigns the soldiers are on, we are focusing on the soldiers that are on those campaigns. Simple! And if that’s about as
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Quickly! Flip to page 36 of this magazine, then come back here…. Good, isn’t it? That’s Alan Sheward’s Stalingrad table. To coincide with this month’s Urban Combat theme Alan, with the help of buddy Adrian Deacon, took the trouble to come to WIHQ with their amazing table and set the whole
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You can’t go wrong wargaming with a bunch of mohawk sporting US paratroopers known as the ‘Filthy 13’ or indeed a group of armed British citizen militia known as ‘Dad’s Army’, both (very different!) sets of warriors featured in this month’s ‘Infamous Sections’ theme, along with Popski’s Private Army -
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Hello, hello what’s all this? No bagged magazine this month? No plastic frame of figures? Decals instead! If you are missing your free plastic figure fix please turn to the news on page 4 to be reassured you will be getting another hit before too long. In the meantime, why
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Buy this in Print Do you like this month’s cover mount freebie? (Prime members can find theirs here) We figured that even if you are not into naval wargaming you would like to ‘have a play’ with the great new 1/700th scale ship models designed by Warlord Games for their forthcoming
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Buy this in Print There is something particularly evocative about warfare on the frontiers. It’s easy to conjure up images of fighting on the great plains or mountain passes on the fringes of empire. In this issue of Wargames Illustrated we explore some of the wargaming potential offered by Frontier Wars,
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I remember my old history teacher telling the class “Britain has only ever been successfully invaded three times throughout history. Once by the Romans, then by the Anglo-Saxons and finally by the Normans in 1066”. As a twelve year old boy I just scribbled this down in my jotter and
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Buy this in Print We do hope you are enjoying your free plastic frames every month, this offer is set to continue throughout 2019 (and hopefully beyond). This month’s offering is quite special, the Crimean War Russians bagged with this issue have only just been released by Warlord Games, so this
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Buy this in Print FROM THE EDITOR The dust has now settled on Salute 2019, certainly the biggest wargames show of the year for the WI team. All of our staff attend, hundreds of Salute goers subscribe to the magazine and we run the world’s largest participation game at any show (see
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Having trouble viewing the 3D magazine? View and download the PDF instead. Download the Tactical Advantage Cards! Seven Days to the River Rhine is a set of fast-play rules simulating armoured combat during the 1980s in Europe when the Cold War between the NATO alliance and Soviet-led Warsaw Pact could easily have
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FROM THE EDITOR I stand corrected, after chiding Richard Clarke of Too Fat Ladies for giving the characters in his games “silly names”, Rich rebuked with a well reasoned and constructed article on why it’s never a bad idea to give the heroes in your games monikers like Private Parts or
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FROM THE EDITOR Well, I’m worn out! Having contributed a ‘personal best’ number of articles to this month’s magazine (two) I deserve a lie-down. Having said that there’s no time for lying down at the moment as the show season has well and truly kicked off. We’ve already ‘done’ Vapnartak, Hammerhead
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