We've pulled this video from the archives for your viewing pleasure. It’s handy having neighbours like Warlord Games (their UK offi ce is just half a mile from our own) - you get to game with all their cool stuff! When our UK Editor, Dan Faulconbridge, saw Warlord’s Pegasus Bridge table (designed
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Are you a Print or Prime subscriber to Wargames Illustrated magazine? If so you can access the latest issue of WI Bite-size, plus previous issues of Bite-size and the full magazine for FREE via The Vault. If you are not a subscriber you can purchase a copy of WI Bite-size for
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BITE-SIZE BANTER We’re back with more of your lockdown observations, tips, projects and general Bite-size banter. Let’s take a look at what your fellow wargamers have been up to over the last week ... WARGAMING IN THE TIME OF CORONAVIRUS For this week’s WittoC we are joined by Rich Clarke of Too Fat
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WI390, the April issue of the Wargames Illustrated magazine (including free ‘How to…’ booklet) was mailed out from the UK on 20 March 2020. Understandable in the circumstances; there have been significant delays in magazines arriving in mail boxes across the US. But, finally our sources on the ground in
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We've pulled this video from the archives for your viewing pleasure. The two ships stole swiftly through the moon-kissed sea like thieves in the night. Their crews remained silent on pain of death, their lights extinguished as they flitted around the decks, attending to their duties. The landing parties looked out across
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We've pulled this video from the archives for your viewing pleasure. By autumn of 1914, the war on the Western Front had transformed from a series of open battles to the grinding trench warfare that would come to characterize the contest. Stalemate caused each nation’s leaders to look beyond a decision in
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Are you a Print or Prime subscriber to Wargames Illustrated magazine? If so you can access the latest issue of WI Bite-size, plus previous issues of Bite-size and the full magazine for FREE via The Vault. If you are not a subscriber you can purchase a copy of WI Bite-size for
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BITE-SIZE BANTER We’re back with more of your lockdown observations, tips, projects and general Bite-size banter. Let’s take a look at what your fellow wargamers have been up to over the last week ... WARGAMING IN THE TIME OF CORONAVIRUS In this episode of WittoC we hear from author and gaming grandee Rick
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Bring together a world-famous movie director, the former chief of the nation’s defence forces, two of the foremost miniature figure manufacturers in the world, a leading special effects company, and a load of enthusiastic wargamers, and you know something special is going to happen! Project coordinator Roly Hermans takes up
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A Hero of great renowned Beowulf has sailed from the pages of his epic story, and joined the Giants in Miniature range. Such an epic hero deserves something a little bit special. So as well as a step by step guide in getting him ready for the tabletop, we have also
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Full Metal Miniatures already have an impressive range of vehicles (at least ten at the last count) for the Vietnam war. They describe them thus “These vehicles are 1/56th scale and are designed to be handled and used for wargaming!” so they fit right in with the current crop of
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North Star continue to release new miniatures to support their 1866 Austro-Prussian War range, with the release this week of some Austrian Generals. We have been sent three mounted Generals, two with distinctive feathered hats and one in a forage cap. I know it is becoming something of a cliché, but
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After having been suitably impressed by the first wave of Barons’ War figures from Footsore, I was looking forward to getting my hands on ‘wave two’ to see if this second tranche lived up to expectations. I was handed nearly 30 figures in total, a cross section of those being made
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New for review this week are some additions to Footsore miniatures Dark Age range, specifically some ‘Later Saxons’. Included in our review pack are three new slingers (resin), three archers (resin) and two command figures (metal). All the miniatures measure about 30mm from base to the top of the head, and
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Great War Miniatures already have an extensive Crimean War range in 28mm and we have received some new releases to bolster your British army. These miniatures represent the 21st, or Royal North British Fusiliers, who were the only regiment in the campaign to be issued covers for their shakos that
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Fresh out of the mould comes the first in a range of 1812 figures for the “Muskets and Tomahawks” game. We have only been sent a sneak preview of a member of the militia, armed with a musket. He is wearing a fringed coat and the distinctive top hat style of
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While the print version of Wargames Illustrated is mothballed we’re producing a weekly PDF magazine FREE to all Print and Prime subscribers and now available as a one of purchase to anyone else. Filled with new articles, features, classics from The Vault and adverts (free to the advertisers) WI Bite-size is an
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BITE-SIZE BANTER We’re back with more of your lockdown observations, tips, projects and general Bite-size banter. Let’s take a look at what your fellow wargamers have been up to over the last week ... WARGAMING IN THE TIME OF CORONAVIRUS We continue our series by hearing from the man who is the League
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Have you been grabbing the proverbial bull by the horns whilst in lockdown and using all this extra time to maximum hobbying effect? Even if you haven’t other WI readers have and in WI Bite-size they have been sharing some of their observations, tips, projects and general lockdown banter. Bite-size Banter
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BITE-SIZE BANTER We asked our readers to tell use what wargaming activities they were getting up to whilst in lockdown. This is what you told us.... WARGAMING IN THE TIME OF CORONAVIRUS During the imposed lockdown of the wargames industry we thought it would be interesting to find out how various luminaries, personalities
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Free to subscribers of both WI Prime and Print, WI Bite-size is your weekly 'Wargames Illustrated Lockdown Fix’. Containing new articles, features, classics from The Vault and adverts (free to the advertisers) WI Bite-size is an on-screen mini magazine that aims to keep our subscribers onboard and entertained whilst the print
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Following a suggestion from illustrator and king of the Paperboys Peter Dennis, we are making available to download this article from the archive (June 1994 to be precise) to keep anyone in lockdown with access to some Fimo and some rudimentary sculpting tools busy for a few hours or several
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This 44 page soft back A5 ruleset from Partzain Press is designed to be used with Matchlock Miniatures “Bullets and Brains” range of 28mm figures, and not surprisingly these feature in the colour photographs that adorn this book. That said, you could use any range of 28mm human and Zombie
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The modus operandi of Trent Miniatures is 28mm figures for the 1790s. Their ranges include: The French Revolutionary Wars (1796 – 1800), Internal France, Otterman Empire and… musicians. We have some new samples from all of those ranges for you to look at. First up (seen below) are a some Austrian
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Rangers of Shadow Deep is a solo and co-operative tabletop miniatures game in which players create their ranger, gather companions and play through a series of missions along the way. The Shadow Deep employs all kinds of creatures in its armies, including ogres. Big, slow-witted, and prone to violence, ogres are often
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Following the release of ‘Westland Warriors’ and ‘Highway Patrol’ North Star have expanded their ‘Friends of Gaslands’ range of 20mm figures and accessories with the release of five pedestrians and five riders designed for use with this ‘Post-apocalyptic vehicular mayhem’ game. The Corporate Drivers and Passengers will sit neatly in Hot
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PDF Guides by The League of Augsburg Born and raised in Ulster, I am no stranger to the Williamite wars in Ireland, and I have wargamed them in various scales, most recently investing heavily in a 10mm recreation of the battles of Aughrim and the Boyne. Anyone with even a passing
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Campaign Stalingrad is the latest softback supplement book for Warlord Games ‘company level’ World War Two rules Bolt Action. Let’s take a look inside it’s 176 pages and see what’s on offer. https://youtu.be/tX2efWvde0c Note: The text below is the transcript of our flipthrough video (for those who would rather read than listen). ‘Prelude’
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The Abyss is the second expansion supplement for Osprey Games’ Viking Age fantasy skirmish rules Ragnarok. Ragnarok’s style is heavy on background narrative and this 112 page hardback book begins with a couple of pages of what I presume to be scene setting, which will no doubt excite anyone who can
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I don’t know if Knuckleduster are trying to take us back to the Old West with this latest pack for their Gunfighters Ball 28mm Western gunfight game, or take us back to the heady days of the mid-eighties. “The Young Posse” is a homage to the movie “Young Guns” which
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