Recon Radar

WiPrime Members, keep up to date with Project Manager James’ monthly staple.

Reporting on this year’s Other Partizan

With the year’s second Partizan wargaming show in the books, James gives his pick of the tables a shout-out. As always, the Other Partizan was a treat for attendees, featuring epic wargames, beautiful armies, and spectacular scenery on display. There were clashes a...
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Speedpaint Markers, Wild West gallows, and assassins

James talks office hobby times and Assassins and Templars in September’s Recon Report.

We recently had an office joint hobby session to test out the new Army Painter (AP) Speedpaint Markers; far too rare, as far as I’m concerned, but I’m not sure the oth...

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This is the end?

Don’t worry about the title, we’re not closing Wargames Illustrated down! It refers to the cheery slogan behind Warlord Games’ new weird war game Konflikt ’47 – ‘This is not war. This is the end.’ As I’ve spent a lot of time immersing myself in th...

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Gaming reports, gaming success, and glorious painting

Frostgrave comes to Wargames Illustrated

I don’t think it’s unfair to say that Frostgrave, the magical fantasy skirmish game by Joe McCullough, has done better than Osprey Games could have ever imagined. Since it was first released a decade ago it’s weat...

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Salute Survival: Behind the booths and boards

Salute Saturday is probably a distant memory for many of the show’s 9,000+ attendees, but it has remained at the forefront of our minds here at WiHQ. Videos have been made, photos edited, and articles brought together. In this Recon Report I’m dragging out the Sa...

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Elftastic new minis that feel classic

We get a decent selection of new miniatures delivered to us early here at WiTowers; it’s a job benefit that offsets the pain of being a worker drone in the magazine mines run by evil overlord Dan!

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Secrets and surprises: a sneak peek at what’s coming

Much of the stuff I’m writing about for Wargames Illustrated is under NDA (non-disclosure agreement) for the next month or so. That makes it tough to share details in this Recon Report; I’d love to tell all but I can’t go blabbing about specifics as we’d get ...

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2025 resolutions?

It’s as much a tradition to start the new year with resolutions as it is to have failed to keep to them by February! I don’t make specific resolutions (partly because it invites failure), but I am starting 2025 with some specific Wargames Illustrated goals in min...

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This is the end?

Don’t worry about the title, we’re not closing Wargames Illustrated down! It refers to the cheery slogan behind Warlord Games’ new weird war gam...
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