Heer46 have added to their excellent range of German Fallschirmjäger with a three man special weapon team. The first figure is an NCO or officer waving his men forward, armed with a STG44 equipped with a ZG 1229 Vampir 1229 (ZG 1229), also known by its code name Vampir, the infrared night scope and sighting
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Funky Skull Games have added more miniatures to their Street Wars NYC rules and background. After another successful Kickstarter campaign, The Mollies Gang is now available for sale. The Street Wars NYC background takes a partially fictionalised slice of life on the tough streets of 1970’s New York City. The city
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Southern Thunder, the Royal Navy and the Scandinavian trade in World War One Steven R Dunn Reviewed by Jim Graham Southern Thunder, the Royal Navy and the Scandinavian trade in World War One by Steven R Dunn, is published by Seaforth Publishing. It has 304 pages including appendices and index, 16 pages
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Images of War – Fallschirmjäger: German Paratroopers 1937-1941 François Cochet Pen and Sword Military 2019 Reviewed by Bernd Biege If you need image material regarding the Fallschirmjäger during the early war years, this would be a good go-to-book – 112 pages crammed with photos (and a few drawings) of varying quality, but generally of
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Flying, Fighting & Reflection. The life of Battle of Britain fighter Ace, Wing Commander Tom Neil DFC AFC AE Peter Jacobs Greenhill Books Reviewed by Peter Brian Covering the entire career of one of the RAF’s Battle of Britain Heroes, this book starts with the young Tom Neil joining the RAF and follows his
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Tiger I and Tiger II Tanks – German Army and Waffen SS – The Last Battles in the West 1945 Dennis Oliver Pen & Sword, 2019 Reviewed by Bernd Biege While I can spot the differences between a Tiger I and a Tiger II (often called “Königstiger”), I am not a hardware fanatic that
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Buy this in Print FROM THE EDITOR The dust has now settled on Salute 2019, certainly the biggest wargames show of the year for the WI team. All of our staff attend, hundreds of Salute goers subscribe to the magazine and we run the world’s largest participation game at any show (see
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Partizan Press have released a new pair of books for wargaming the so-called ‘Lace Wars’, Face Another Foe. Volume 1 is a 64-page, softback book that provides the core rules and Volume 2 is a 68-page softback full of additional army lists. Based upon Jon Sutherland’s Mad Dogs and Englishmen
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Warlord Games have added to the settings outlined for their Black Powder rules, publishing A Dark and Bloody Ground. Designed to showcase the French and Indian Wars, this 180-page softback book is focussed upon wargaming within this fascinating period. https://youtu.be/2x2l5CnJWpk The book presents basic historical information for battles in North America between
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In amongst the new releases from a number of long-established companies, we discovered this two-player boxed set from Word Forge Games. Rules, miniatures and more all in one small box, this is a ‘quick set-up’, fast play game that is remarkably portable. https://youtu.be/KkW9wmU3gsI Lifting the box lid, we first come upon the
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Warlord Games are adding Crimean War Russian Infantry to their 19th Century Black Powder miniatures range. What makes these particular miniatures different is the fact that they are plastic, posed in the now standard fashion adopted by the company. Each frame of plastic figures allows the gamer to field 6 figures
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Artizan Designs and North Star have added to their World War Two range with three new packs of Soviet Scouts. Each pack contains four metal miniatures. The first pack is SWW415, a Soviet Scout Command team. There is an officer in peaked cap holding a map, a figure kneeling holding a
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Black Cat Bases are a small company who have been around a long time and have an eclectic back catalogue. We picked out four figures from the Cthulhu section to look at in more detail. The first figure we have is Hard Boiled Detective Version 1. The figure comes with a
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To go along with Paul Davies ‘how to’ build a Greek temple for 28mm miniatures (WI380), You can download the plans to follow along with this project here. Paul also showed us how to make a Ruined temple which you can read here
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In issue WI380, gaming Guru Rick Priestley provides us with an army list for using Snakemen in the Warlords of Erehwon. You can download the army list here. This list is inspired by the Snakemen models offered by North Star. I have padded things out a little with various similiarly themed
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Ocelot Games and Crooked Dice Game Design Studio have come together to create Grandville, a ‘Programme Guide’ which allows players into the comic book universe of Bryan Talbot’s internationally acclaimed graphic novels. This is an 80-page, hardback book that provides rules and support material to run the games, plus a
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Issue 9 in the Painting War series deals with Holy War, the various periods of what is called collectively ‘The Crusades’ and the reaction of those already resident in the Holy Lands who were the target. This is a 105-page softback book, which follows the established pattern of previous issues. https://youtu.be/ZYDWofeliRU The
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Bombshell Miniatures ran a successful Kickstarter campaign to re-launch their Counterblast pulp sci-fi rules in a second, enhanced edition. This 194-page, hardback book is packed with rules, background information and great artwork that not only re-introduces the game universe but does so with some style. https://youtu.be/QtChqv25Lwg The book begins with a useful
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The 1967 Aden Emergency was one of those ‘End of Empire’ wars in which many British troops served but is now largely overlooked. However, Eureka Miniatures have a range of figures for both sides in the conflict, and very nice they are too. The two packs we have for review represent
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Sally 4th continue to support their Albedo Combat Patrol Miniatures Game, ACP164, based upon the comic book from the 1980’s. Two of the most recent miniature releases are for the two different factions, a ConFed Home Guard Air Mobile Squad and the ILR Blue Wind Special Forces Team. The ConFed Home
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Battlezone Miniatures have once again teamed up with Early War Miniatures to produce more additions to their excellent 20mm Soviet range. We’ve picked out two of those releases to look at this time around. The first tank is the T-26 Twin Turret Tank which was produced from 1931-33, although some were
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Tiger I and Tiger II Tanks Dennis Oliver Pen & Sword, 2019 Reviewed by Neil Smith If you ask anyone interested in military history to name a type of tank, the German Tiger would surely be in their top three. Indeed, the Tiger is the symbol for German panzers during World War II, and
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T-54/55 Robert Jackson Pen & Sword, 2019 Reviewed by Neil Smith Arguably the most easily recognized Cold War Soviet tank, the T54/55, with its distinctive, rounded dome turret, has been deployed in just about every main theatre of war since the 1950s. It is, therefore, one of the most ubiquitous and important vehicles in
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Armies and Enemies of Louis XIV Volume I – Western Europe 1688-1714: France, Britain, and Holland Mark Allen Helion, 2018 Reviewed by Neil Smith The latest book in Helion’s Century of the Soldier series is Mark Allen’s survey of Louis XIV’s armies and those of his main enemies between 1688 and 1714. Allen originally
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German Battleship Helgoland Aidan Dodson Seaforth Publishing, 2019 Reviewed by Neil Smith In German Battleship Helgoland, Adrian Dodson takes an unusual look at this German World War I battleship through the lens of technical warship plans maintained by the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich. The result is a quite mesmerising coffee-table book in a
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German Destroyers Robert Brown Pen & Sword, 2019 Reviewed by Neil Smith It must be annoying when the pretty girls get all the attention. I am talking about battleships and aircraft carriers, of course, but it is the destroyers that seem to do all the work so that the sisters can go to the
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Osprey Games’ latest game is Ragnarok, which plunges players into a universe of Heavy Metal Combat In The Viking Age. This 208-page, hardback book provides rules to run a War Clan in a Viking era ‘End Times’, with the quest for godhood being the ultimate goal. This is also the
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Why yes, we do know this game from Fantasy Flight has been out for a while, and there are tens of thousands of gamers worldwide. But what about those who haven’t managed to see inside the box or are looking to find out what you get? After all, our hobby
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The A Song of Ice and Fire: Tabletop Miniatures Game places players at the heart of the saga found in George R.R. Martin’s novels. Of course, with such an epic story, your games need an epic cast of thousands, and that’s why CMON and Dark Sword Miniatures have come together,
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