WI PROJECT MANAGER
Ever since they were knee-high to a grasshopper, James has been enamoured with wargaming. Now, when he’s not writing in-depth articles for the magazine and managing all projects going in and out of Wi Tower, he spends his free time 3D sculpting and painting minis.
P.S. We promise he’s not as insane as his caricature to the right makes him out to be… (We think).
WI PROJECT MANAGER
Ever since they were knee-high to a grasshopper, James has been enamoured with wargaming. Now, when he’s not writing in-depth articles for the magazine and managing all projects going in and out of Wi Tower, he spends his free time 3D sculpting and painting minis.
P.S. We promise he’s not as insane as his caricature to the right makes him out to be… (We think).
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...
The Tabletop Workshop has trundled into 1/72-scale World War Two plastics with its
Matilda Mark II set. Their new bag of frames delivers outstanding value, with four
tanks (one on each of the four frames) costing £24.95, which works out at under £6.25<b...
‘Ransack the Middle Ages’ is the tag line for the latest set of high-production-value early-medieval skirmish rules to enter the wargames market. Written by French author Guillaume Rousselot and published by Victrix, Pillage is a 136-page hardback book providing ...
The fourth set of Dead Man’s Hand (DMH) Gunfighters has arrived, bringing mounted female fighters to the Old West. These figures fill the final gap in the game’s plastic lineup, letting players field an all-plastic posse of male and female cowpokes, bandits, and ...
These new mounted sets, featuring riders and horses for 1150 to 1320, offer a wealth of parts and an impressive level of detail. The twelve figures in each set beautifully capture this transitional Medieval period in their stylings with the heavily armed and armoured...
May’s been a busy month, filled with nerdy pursuits, so I figured I’d list a few of them in this month’s Recon Report.
The core rules for The Barons’ War remain mostly intact in its Second Edition, but the author has made it his mission to convey the systems more clearly and efficiently. Many of the changes here seem to be in response to recurring situations that arose when the gam...
Annie Norman’s Bad Squiddo Games is a distinctive brand that offers welcome representation of women on the tabletop, alongside a hefty dose of fun and whimsy. The three new releases here are prime examples of the Bad Squiddo mix of creativity and inclusivity.
