A bonus for WiPrime Members: we're very impressed with The Army Painter's new Fanatic paints and asked Adam Abramowicz to shine a light on the development of such an expansive range.
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A bonus for WiPrime Members: Wi Painter extraordinaire Matt Parkes applies brushwork to preview versions of this year's Salute show minis.
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The Hammerhead Painting Competition, sponsored and run by Wargames Illustrated, was a fantastic time this year. There were 100 great entries and the standard was higher than previous years. There will be an article with the full story and the winners of all ten categories in Wi437 for all to see,
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook collection? View and download it instead! Welcome to the first PDF in our new WiPrime Collections series. In each of these online omnibuses, available exclusively to WiPrime Members, we bring together themed articles from the Wargames Illustrated archive for your reading pleasure and referencing ease. This month
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! As we were putting the finishing touches to this issue of Wargames Illustrated we received the sad news of Bryan Ansell’s death. Bryan was a titan of the tabletop miniatures world, initially forming Asgard, then Citadel Miniatures in the 1970s.
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After tallying the votes from over 2,000 submissions we're ready to announce the winners of the Wargames Illustrated Readers' Awards 2023. This article summarises the top three from each category and we'll have a full report on the winners in Wi435. Best Wargames Rules Burrows and Badgers Chain of Command Bolt Action Best
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We're sponsoring the Hammerhead Painting Competition again in 2024! Here are the details you'll need to enter. The basics There's no entry fee and up to one entry can be submitted to each category. Entries must be your own work. Each entry must be accompanied by an entry form. There will
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! Oi, oi, what’s this? No freebie with Wi this month? Having spoilt you for three consecutive issues with frames of Napoleonic infantry, Epic Covenanters, and Valour & Fortitude rules, we’re taking a brief breather from all that generosity. As it’s the
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Check out this extended online-exclusive version of Wi432's 'The Other Partizan' article.
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! We’re going mini with this month’s theme, in two senses of the word. A mini trio of articles focused on the Napoleonic Peninsular War, 1807 - 1814, and some free minis are being given away with the magazine*. You will
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Enjoy 'The Cult of Dracula' article from November's issue? Download the following cards to print off and play with!
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We were so impressed with Messrs Andrews and Imrie’s American Civil War demo table at Partizan 2023, that we insisted they give us an in-depth tour of the board, sharing some details on how they brought it together along the way.
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! Welcome to the 2nd edition of the Valour & Fortitude (or V&F for short) rules. I have received a lot of fantastic feedback about Valour & Fortitude since its first publication in 2022, from players quite literally all over the
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! Our mentor here at Wargames Illustrated, Duncan Macfarlane, regularly used to quip “What do you call gamers who buy the first edition of your rules? Playtesters”. It’s been a year since Wi teamed up with Jervis Johnson and the Perry
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An extra for WiPrime Members: Richard Lloyd (the man behind Bloody Miniatures) provides a wargaming angle on the Battle of Maidstone, 1648. Download the full PDF. [pdf-embedder url="https://ed025442.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Wi429-Extra-A-very-fierce-and-hot-dispute-Part-Two.pdf" title="Wi429 Extra - ''A very fierce and hot dispute'' Part Two"]
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Looking to download the Thalassa patron ship profile cards? Well, look no further than here! Download the full PDF. [pdf-embedder url="https://ed025442.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Wi429-Extra-Thalassa-patron-ship-profile-cards.pdf" title="Wi429 Extra - Thalassa patron ship profile cards"]
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An extra for WiPrime Members: What we couldn't fit into Wi429's article detailing Historicon 2023 you can find here. From the Battle of the Alamo to a Revolt in Austria, there are plenty more tables to see! Download the full PDF. [pdf-embedder url="https://ed025442.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Wi429-Extra-Historicon-2023-extended-Show-Report.pdf" title="Wi429 Extra - Historicon 2023 extended Show Report"]
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! What a megamix of topics we’ve got for you in Wargames Illustrated this month! Every so often we break with our theme tradition and go with what, in-house, we call a smorgasbord of articles. This approach means we get to take
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Access the extra scenarios to accompany the Wi428-featured 'Māori Pā in the Early New Zealand' article. Download the full PDF. [pdf-embedder url="https://ed025442.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Maori-Pa-in-the-Early-New-Zealand-Wars-Scenarios.pdf" title="Māori Pā in the Early New Zealand Wars Scenarios"]
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Download the Black Powder Amendments and Command Cards for use in The Battle of Aughrim by Pete Brown and Jerry Richardson. Download the full PDF. [pdf-embedder url="https://ed025442.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/The-Battle-of-Aughrim-Black-Powder-Amendments-and-Command-Cards.pdf" title="The Battle of Aughrim Black Powder Amendments and Command Cards"]
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A bonus for WiPrime Members: take a trip back in time to download and read Andy Callan's 1987 AWI Loose Files and American Scramble ruleset. Download the full PDF. [pdf-embedder url="https://ed025442.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Loose-Files-and-American-Scramble-Ruleset.pdf" title="Loose Files and American Scramble Ruleset"]
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! For this month’s theme, we originally asked several of our regular contributors to ‘revisit’ articles they had written for Wargames Illustrated in the past, and several of them have done that, but as is often the case, our themes and
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There’s much excitement in the Wi world as we bring together our next issue and prepare to send it to be printed. Sometimes this is a last-minute scramble with new articles or products sneaking in but this issue’s theme - Revisited - means there’s not such an opportunity for newness. Various
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! What could be more fun than modelling with motor torpedo boats? Not much we figured, which is why we are giving one away with every copy of this From the Workbench to the Gaming Table-themed magazine. You will have received
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Take a tour through the Vault and read some classic Wi articles. Wargames Illustrated 368 - June 2018 We head back five years, and the Lardies are at the office showing off their then-new game, What a Tanker! Interesting how things come around again as those rules inspired the newest game from
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! It's a bit of a cliché that Medieval naval battles were just like land battles at sea, but what if you take a successful set of medieval land battle rules and set them afloat? Much to my surprise, my Never
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! When we gave Never Mind the Billhooks 1.0 away with the August 2020 issue of Wargames Illustrated, we never expected it to evolve into a 200-page all-singing all-dancing rulebook, with 3,500 followers on Facebook and a reputation as the most
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We’re closing in on our sign-off date for another issue; always a busy time for us as we put the finishing touches to articles, track down final photos, and frantically try and fact-check something obscure and odd from one of the articles (which invariably tends to turn out to be
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