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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Here are the build instructions for the Warlord Games - Black Seas: Third Rate Frigate model which comes free with copies of Wi425 in Tesco, Sainsbury’s, and Salute 50. Download the full PDF. [pdf-embedder url="https://ed025442.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Wi425-Extra-Warlord-Games-Black-Seas-Third-Rate-Assembly-Guide.pdf" title="Wi425 Extra - Warlord Games - Black Seas Third Rate Assembly Guide"]
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! If you are a UK subscriber you might have received this magazine just prior to the world-famous Salute; if not it will just have happened. Either way, there has been a big buzz about this year’s premier wargaming event. After
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In Wi424, the April 2023 issue, Valour & Fortitude Game's Designer Jervis Johnson presents a Strategy & Guile campaign scenario followed by a V&F battle scenario. However, featured in that very same article is a design fault present in the War of Liberation, 1813 map on page 85 where the edges
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! For this month’s theme, we sat four wise old wargaming men down in a pub in Nottingham, brought them a round of drinks (or two), and posed the question “What have been the gamechanging developments in our hobby over the
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We’ve made it our monthly mission to pull back the curtain and show off the goings-on at WiHQ; we’ve decided to make this edition of Insider Insight a multimedia spectacular to reveal more than mere words and photos could! The video below shows behind-the-scenes footage of the team putting tabletop setups
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Chris Peers tweaks his own rules and creates a Death in the Dark Continent supplement that covers the exciting possibilities found in China during the Boxer Rebellion. Download the full PDF. [pdf-embedder url="https://ed025442.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Wi423-Extra-The-Boxer-Rebellion-A-Death-in-the-Dark-Continent-supplement.pdf" title="Wi423 Extra - The Boxer Rebellion - A Death in the Dark Continent supplement"]
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! I hope you enjoyed the Valour & Fortitude freebie ruleset we gave away with the October 2022 issue of the magazine. It certainly looks that way - October’s issue was our bestselling magazine of 2022. You will no doubt be
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We’re back with February’s edition of Insider Insight. Take your WiPrime exclusive monthly peep behind the Wargames Illustrated curtain at some of the exciting things ahead. WiDigital We gave you an advanced look at a new Billhooks leader for Bohemia in last month’s Insider Insight and promised there were figures for the
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The ELEGOO Mercury X wash machine is an invaluable piece of kit, speeding up the vital cleaning stage of the process, but these machines can suffer from a fairly common problem; one that we encountered on ours straight away. Turning it on and setting a time worked just fine but as
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Wargames Illustrated’s Office Manager Ian has become Wi's 3D printing champion over the last few months. You can read about the start of his 3D printing adventures in Wi422 where he presents an introduction to this exciting new technology. If you’re eager to get started, then you’ll need some kit. Ian's
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! Insurgency. Noun. An insurgency is a violent attempt to oppose a country’s government carried out by citizens of that country. A great background to a wargame. The first part of the above quote comes from the Collins English Dictionary, the second
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Welcome to Insider Insight, a monthly behind-the-scenes peek at what the Wargames Illustrated team is up to. This new feature, exclusively available to our WiPrime Members, is a chance to highlight some of the exciting things we are working on for future issues of the magazine as well as some of
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We talked to Daniel Molina, Thalassa’s digital sculptor and the man behind the STLs available in this month’s WiDigital selection, to find out more about his work. Wargames Illustrated: What’s the appeal of sculpting the Thalassa range? Daniel Molina: I feel a bit like a naval engineer of that period. Digital 3D
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Read the first painting guide for Thalassa where Callum France shows how to get a quality finish through simple but cunning techniques for your first trireme. Download the full PDF. [pdf-embedder url="https://ed025442.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Wi421-Extra-Painting-your-first-trireme.pdf" title="Wi421 Extra - Painting your first trireme"]
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! Thalassa is a fast-paced game of ancient naval battles. Build a fleet of Triremes and Penteconters, choose their crew and special options, and then take on your enemies in tactically rich gameplay. Use the currents of the seas to aid your manoeuvres
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! This month’s magazine sees an exciting tie-in between printed paper and 3D printing. The paper element you are holding in your hands in the form of this magazine and your free Thalassa ancient naval battles rulebook. The 3D printing side
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These plans should be used alongside the Wi420 How To ... article; they will assist you in building an Old West mine. Download the Old West plans.
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! It's been over two years since we gave away a free rules supplement called Never mind the Billhooks with Wi393. Since then, this ‘big skirmish, small battle’ set of Wars of the Roses rules has grown legs, donned armour, and
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! This month’s theme is Twisted History. But what exactly is twisted history, I hear you think? Well, it’s a phrase we’ve coined for wargaming anything with a historical base that ‘twists’ into something fantastical: fictional nations and conflicts in interwar
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! What a special treat we have for you lucky people this month! Bagged free with the printed issue of Wargames Illustrated magazine (and included as a PDF for WiPrime Members) we have a complete and exclusive set of wargames rules
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We've got the orders of battle and some extra photos to accompany Wi417's 'The Battle of Trautenau' article. AUSTRIA X Armeecorps Commander - Feldmarschalllieutenant (FML) Baron Gablenz Assistant - Generalmajor (GM) Baron Koller Chief of Staff - Oberst Baron Bourguignon Chief of Artillery - Oberst Eisler Brigade Oberst Mondl - 12th Jaegerbataillon,
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! After a couple of months without a bagged gift we decided to hit you hard with a haul of possible freebie frames this month. Courtesy of our friends at Warlord Games you will have received one of four splendid sprues:
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Want to paint up our latest Giants in Miniature release Harry Hotspur? Wi Painter Callum shows you how! Download the full PDF. [pdf-embedder url="https://ed025442.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Giants-in-Miniature-Painting-Harry-Hotspur.pdf" title="Giants in Miniature - Painting Harry Hotspur"]
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! The ‘best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, gang aft agley’, as Rabbie Burns would have said if he had planned to include a free rules supplement in a wargames magazine and then several things conspired against him at the last
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Another Partizan, another record-breaking number of attendees; over 1,100 wargamers and hobbyists pushed through the gates of the Newark Showground for the May 2022 show. They were treated to the high-quality collection of demo and participation games we have come to expect from this stalwart of the UK show circuit. Now,
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Paul Davies heads to Legionary 2022 to report on various gaming tables he spotted at the event. Download the full PDF. [pdf-embedder url="https://ed025442.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Legionary-2022-Show-Report.pdf" title="Legionary 2022 Show Report"]
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! It was great to feel the buzz at the Partizan Wargames Show in Newark, Nottinghamshire recently. So enthused were we by the excitement of the crowds and the quality of the demo games on offer we struggled to contain our
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These plans should be used alongside the Wi414 How To ... article; they will assist you in building a post mill suitable for various periods. Download the post mill plans.
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! Prussians, Prussians everywhere: on the new plastic frame from Perry Miniatures (page 50), invading England (page 60), fighting communism (page 78), and indeed lots of other locations thanks to our Prussia at War intro article on page 32. Most importantly,
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