Look out for our 'Rules Showcase' on the new African adventuring game Congo in the forthcoming issue of Wargames Illustrated. Congo is the latest game from the Studio Tomahawk stable; the people who brought us SAGA and Musket and Tomahawks. A skirmish level game, in which each unit comprises of three
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Here’s the first photo of the full box content of Gripping Beast's forthcoming ‘Late Roman Infantry’ plastics. PLEASE NOTE: This photo shows the models in what’s called their ‘test shot’ form - final tweaks and improvements are still to be made. Below that pic are some photos of the painted three ups. For more information head
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Remember the excellent Agincourt Wargames Diorama, constructed by TM Terrain and populated with loads of Perry Miniatures, featured in WI338 ? Well it’s on the move - from The Tower of London to the Royal Armouries in Leeds - and to mark its inauguration in Leeds the Armouries are hosting a
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Hammerhead 2016, Saturday 5th March It seems like this unique show is going from strength to strength. I think it is fair to say that ‘a good time was had by all’ who attended Europe’s only (correct us if we are wrong!) participation only wargames show. There were 55 games dotted around
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Here’s a few pics from today’s photo session, in which Alan Perry hosted and opposed his brother Michael in a game of ‘Eagle Rampant’, a Napoleonic variant of Osprey’s Lion Rampant rules, which will be published in the April issue of WI. Taking a set of rules that were originally designed
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Publisher: Osprey Games Rules By: Andy Benford Reviewer: Paul Davies www.ospreypublishing.com The idea for this game started in 1974 when Andy Benford was navigating officer on HMS Grampus, a Porpoise-class submarine. It evolved, and was playtested by serving naval personnel over the years until it received its final ‘facelift’, when, after a submariner career spanning twenty-one
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We started on a terrain recycling project today. With the help of David Marshall at TM Terrain we are transforming our 2013 Award Winning Little Round Top, Salute/Historicon gaming table, into our 2016 North West Frontier - Second Afghan War table. We'll be tracking progress via our website and showing you
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A couple of years ago we got the opportunity to photograph Bill Gaskin's excellent American War of Independence collection. This article appeared in WI312 - October 2013, but incase you didn't get to see it, you can download it here. Photographing the AWI
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Your very last chance to get hold of these Wargames Illustrated exclusive 2015 show figures, will be at Crisis in Antwerp on November 7th. The figure on the left is Prince Edward circa 1265 and was sculpted exclusively by Michael Perry. It is available to everyone who subscribes to the magazine
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Wargames Illustrated Campaign Days are hosted every few months at WIHQ in Nottingham, England. Our 24 person capacity, carpeted, air conditioned and light gaming room is the venue for any number of different rule systems, but each day is played out using the same philosophy – we don’t do tournaments,
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The current issue of Wargames Illustrated takes the theme of 'Alexander the Great - God of War' and features four article on this famous heavy-weight of ancient history. This issue is sold out via our website, but you still have a few days to pick up a copy via WH Smith
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Wargames Illustrated took a trip down to deepest darkest Wiltshire recently to take 4Ground up on an offer of a tour of their factory. Since turning their hand (or rather their lasers) to the production of Wargaming buildings and accessories four years ago, 4Ground have established themselves as the largest in
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From 11.30am on 18th June (at the time the first shots were fired at Waterloo) we will be releasing our Waterloo 2015 special compilation - a downloadable PDF of 14 different Waterloo articles from the WI archive. Anyone downloading a copy of Waterloo 2015 between the time of the first attack on Hougoumont (about 11.30
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Sunday 31st May saw the penultimate Partzian Show to be held at Kelham Hall, near Newark, England. 2016 will see Partizan in a new venue (somewhere not too far away we believe). For us the most interesting and impressive game of the show was actually two games, the 'A Military Gentleman's
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Yesterday saw our final dress rehearsal for one of the (4!) Wargames Illustrated participation games at Salute 2015. The 'Sons of Simon De Montfort Wargames Club', who will be running the game at the show, joined us at WIHQ for a run through of the rules. The game is designed to be 'drop
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We are pleased to announce that as of 1 April 2015 Wargames Illustrated Limited is now under the sole ownership of previous editor Dan Faulconbridge. Dan has been working on WI for ten years now (since WI200) under the stewardship of original owner/creator Duncan Macfarlane and most recently for Battlefront Miniatures. Dan
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Our current issue of Wargames Illustrated - WI330, April - features a great article by Dan Mersey in which he supplies some extra rules for his game ‘Lion Rampant’, including new troop types and how to bring handguns to bear in your LR games. Foundry helped us out by
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Flames Of War continue to expand on their Vietnam range with the addition of the Brown Water Navy supplement. In the current issue of Wargames Illustrated we features an article which takes a closer look at the men, their boats and the adversaries they encountered whilst patrolling the waterways of
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