It's that special time of year - Punxsutawney Phil stuck out his cute fuzzy Groundhog nose and saw the looming shadow of Lord Bezos - thus it has been decreed that Retail has come early. Time for those stealthily increased product prices to be returned to their usual cost and
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Hello everyone, England is now in National Lockdown, so we wanted to give you an update on what's ahead from us. For the duration of the Lockdown Wargames Illustrated magazine will continue to be published in both print and PDF formats. There will be no halt in the production of the
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We’ve got Oathbreakers in our grubby mitts and we’re going to give it a damned good flipping! This book, the latest supplement for Oathmark: Battles of the Lost Age, is a full-colour, 82-page, softback offering. Published by Osprey Games, the quality that we have come to expect from them is
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A striking and graphically punchy cover adorns the front of Gamma Wolves, the new game by Ash Barker, whose previous offering was Last Days: Zombie Apocalypse. It is published by Osprey Games, and it’s a 116-page, full-colour, hardback book. It offers you a mecha type sandbox of gaming options to
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Project Manager James talks through some of his recent hobby activity - Billhooks barricades and a scenery piece based around our latest Giants in Miniature release. https://youtu.be/FJQJQy1F_Xs
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We see all kinds of minis at Wargames Illustrated, made for various genres, periods, scales, and levels of hobbyist; this means there's usually someone on staff who has a special interest in each thing we get. But it's rare that person is Ian. He's hands on with all the models
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We're back with part two of our Alan Perry Q&A. In part one Alan talked about the many models he made for this awesome board. In this part, we talk history and gaming, and get a tour of the troops. https://youtu.be/ILvwyEnkwKA
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Doing interviews, writing features, editing and laying out contributions, taking photos, discussing themes, working out Giants in Miniature releases - Wargames Illustrated work keeps us busy! It also means that we get a lot of stuff done that we then have to keep secret for a long time - months,
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In part one of our Warcry: Catacombs unboxing we focused on the models and their abilities. Now, in part two, we look at everything else – especially the new bits of scenery, the game board, and the Catacombs book. We’ve built the new minis and terrain too, which we’ll show
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It's always a treat to delve into the fantasy worlds of Games Workshop and, with the release of their new Warcry boxed game on the horizon, we decided to delve deep into the Catacombs. In part one of this two part series we look at the new warbands and their abilities.
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Tied into Wargames Illustrated 395's theme of Hit the Beach, we had the pleasure of visiting Alan Perry, one half of Perry Miniatures. After exploring the miniatures and scenery in his gaming room, we got him mic'd up to talk in detail about his Aboukir Bay British Invasion of Egypt
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Making for a pleasant break from the library of gaming books, modelling, and painting guides we flip our way through, we’re settling into a comfy chair and turning the pages of an art book. This is a chunky, weighty, hardback tome, published by Osprey Games, and showcases the huge amount
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We're very happy to report that Diane Sutherland, better known as the Wargames Widow, will be contributing semi-regular terrain building articles to Wi Prime. In this, the first of her online guides, the Widow explores donut forts and huts, perfect for Madhists in the Sudan, along the Nile. We're presenting
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We're asking you to place your votes on the Wargames Illustrated Awards 2020 - a chance to reward the fantastic folks in the wargames industry after their work through a challenging and unusual year. The final category is The Best Wargames Illustrated Article of 2020. Editor Dan and Project Manager James
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There's a new Oathmark supplement on the way, Oathmark: Oathbreakers, which introduces the forces of the dead. To accompany it North Star Military Figures has created a frame of plastic skeletons, packed with everything you might need in your games. These are 28mm scale, multipart plastic fantasy miniatures; each boxed set
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15mm fans are getting spoiled by Plastic Soldier Company's releases at the moment. After their recent Ancients army sets, intended for Mortem et Gloriam, they've expanded the range. We're taking a look at more models for Early Imperial Roman and Gallic armies. We give them an unboxing ... or, rather,
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Autumn (or Fall, to our North American friends) is very much here. Bare branches slice the cold October air, a stiff wind blows through their gnarled, skeletal fingers … it seems to be wailing out a message, a soft, barely perceptible sound … “Halloweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen!” That’s right, the spookiest of times is fast
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Another year, another new Saga universe to take a look at. This time we’re heading to the late BCs of the Second Punic War, a rich vein of historical flavour to tap; one the folks behind Saga have syphoned with their usual style and aplomb. https://youtu.be/6wM6-QEZ57g The text below is a transcript
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3,000 years is a long time! Any book trying to map the armies and warfare of such a wide period is showing a level of boldness that is to be admired. That's what this Dadi & Piombo published book attempts to do in this softcover, spiral bound, 66 pages expansion
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We've got some new painting products to look at from the Mig Jimenez AMMO range, both of them aimed at sprayers. Some are f0r use with an airbrush, some not! AMMO Shaders Combining airbrushing and brush work on models can, in the hands of a skilled painter, lead to phenomenal results. These
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To accompany our Q&A with Afghan Tribesmen sculptor Michael Perry (on page 92 of Wargames Illustrated 394) we’ve snapped extra photos and spins of some Afghans. These have all been painted by the other half of Perry Miniatures, brother Alan. The tribal nature of the Afghans meant that they didn’t develop
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Fresh from Winterdyne’s 3D printers are a varied collection of 28mm accessories, to add detail to any 1890s to 1940s (with perhaps a little further wiggle room if you’re so inclined) games, dioramas or bases. We took our first look at Winterdyne’s 3D printed terrain last week with a 15mm Medieval
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Black Seas presents an intriguing modelling challenge for those wanting to do it 'properly', what with the complexities of the sails and rigging that need adding. Here at Wargames Illustrated we wondered how much of a challenge it was to build these ships, so we threw some new boxes at
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This new boxed set for Frostgrave’s Second Edition provides enough parts to build 10 hugely varied, multi-part, plastic miniatures. The models are at 28mm scale and the set consists of two duplicated Frostgrave Knights frames (each allowing you to build five miniatures), plus a frame containing 10 bases. Though "knights" are
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