We are beginning a new Prime feature this week - exclusive to our Prime members we will be sharing an advanced preview of an article from the upcoming issue of Wargames Illustrated magazine. If you don't want any spoilers and would rather have the whole next issue as a fresh,
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To go with Pete Brown's Erin Go Bragh! article from Wargames Illustrated 397, we asked former Wi Editor and owner of Trent Miniatures, Duncan Macfarlane, to turf out some suitable models from his range. Being Duncan, he went much further, providing us with a load of extra details and conversion
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As we deal with the changes Lockdown has brought to the Wargames Illustrated office we’re digging out photographs of models we snapped but didn’t get around to featuring in 2020. So, these fine-looking Warlord Games Napoleonic Spanish Mounted Infantry Officers trot forth for their somewhat late time in the limelight! A
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Diane Sutherland, better known as the Wargames Widow, continues her semi-regular terrain building contributions to Wi Prime with a look at Little Blue Bricks. To be a little more precise, she takes some offcuts of blue insulation foam and makes a ruined building with the bricks she creates from it. Many
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We’ve had this article, from Pete Brown, lined up for months. We keep having to push it back due to more timely stuff landing in our laps. Sorry Pete! We are upset that we couldn’t get this not quite Christmas-themed but certainly snowy scenario out for our December issue. It will
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“We’re, dreaming of a Brown Christmas We mean Pete Brown, to be clear Where the board is snowy Things are scenarioey And we’re gaming in the snow, oh, the snow!” Yes, we’re throwing regular contributor Pete Brown’s three Christmas scenarios (from 2019, 2018, and 2017) together for your gaming enjoyment. There’s festive chaos with Krampusnacht,
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Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls, please be upstanding for the winners of the 2020 Wargames Illustrated Awards. The year MMXX is probably best summed up by this review: “One star. Wouldn’t recommend”. But, at least amongst the depression and despair caused by Coronavirus, there were some great new wargame rules,
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We’ve got an assortment of pouches from PSC, ready for us to add to our ‘what if?’ WW3 gaming. Within are various options for the Battlegroup rules expansion NORTHAG. Coming in at 10mm, and all made with Ultracast resin, there’s some heavy armour for the Soviets and lighter Patrols for the
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New from Warlord Games, for use in their ever-popular WW2 Bolt Action rules, we’ve got the Hungarian 10cm 37M Medium Howitzer and the 40M Nimrod SPAA Gun. These will cover your artillery slot and tank slot in a standard platoon and they are each powerful units in their own ways. 10cm
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Mention monks to Wargames Illustrated’s first Editor Duncan and he’ll tell you “there’s no more versatile a mini to put in your collection!” Well, we’ve paraphrased that. What he’ll actually do is eruditely extol the virtues of them, over the course of several pints, until any counter-debate you might throw his
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All Hell Let Loose is a new set of rules for World War 2 refights in 6mm or 1/285 scale, often called Micro Armour. Written by David Wasilewski, produced in hardback, and the size of an issue of Wargames Illustrated, the first thing you will notice is the pages feel
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Representing the workers and citizens of Soviet cities, this Soviet People’s Militia set gives you the chance to sound the call and create your own Opolcheniye for your games of Bolt Action (or other WW2 systems). Included in the £15 ($20 US) box are 12 metal cast 28mm models – three
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Peter Brown’s The Army of George II 1727 – 1760 is #53 in Helion’s excellent From Reason to Revolution series of military history books. At nearly 300 pages, including appendices and bibliography, this book provides comprehensive coverage of a less-studied and under-appreciated army that, in many ways, laid the foundations
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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 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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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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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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We can't get enough of Bob Amey’s fantastic 15mm ancients. Hopefully you can't either, because we've found some more spins of his armies. We genuinely didn't hold these back on purpose either, they got lost in our file system for a few weeks! To see more of Bob's models check out
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In the October issue of Wargames Illustrated (Wi394) you had the pleasure of ogling Bob Amey’s fine collection of converted 15mm ancient armies. As a bonus exclusive Prime members can ogle them some more with these extra photographs and spins. Wargames Illustrated' September issue (Wi393) also featured a masterclass on Bob's
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In connection with our ’Third Crusade - Conquest of Egypt’ article in Wi394, as promised - here is our bonus content on The Battle of Babayan, 1167. https://www.wargamesillustrated.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/THE-BATTLE-OF-BABAYN-1167.pdf
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In connection with our 'Death of a Revolution’ article in Wi394, as promised - here are the Orders of Battles. https://www.wargamesillustrated.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/The-Battle-of-Temesvar-Orders-of-battle.pdf
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One hundred points is considered "about right" for a game of Never Mind the Billhooks, so we thought we would pictorially show you what that looked like. So the photo below of Pete Harris's splendid army (as featured in the Billhooks rulebook). All Perry Mins, and exactly 100 points.
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In what seems like a different world, where people could gather in groups and show off their painted miniatures, Dave Taylor photographed all of the winning entries at the Wargames Illustrated/HMGS Historicon Painting Competition 2019. These 10 pages of eye-candy were shown in Bite-Size issue number 5, at the height of
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Two upcoming releases from Warlord Games arrived in the office this week, both for their Warlords of Erehwon fantasy game. We don’t get to talk about the stuff that lurks in the ‘Other Games’ section of Warlord Games’ website as much as we’d like so this is a real treat,
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Regular Wargames Illustrated ‘How To …’er Paul Davies has a terrain building guide that is exclusive to you, our lovely Prime subscribers. This great article covers his build of a medieval bridge and quayside in 12mm with visually stunning end results. The techniques used (and templates that are also available
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Frostgrave fanboy Dave King reports on his first look at the Second Edition rules Way back in late 2014 early 2015 I was asked if I wanted to try out a new “top secret” game with the North Star crew. Always one to try something new I said: “yes, why
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In tribute to the author of Never mind the Billhooks, for our latest Giants in Miniatures figure release we present Lord Callan; fearless (and totally made up) fighting commander of the Wars of the Roses – the perfect frontman for your Billhooks army. Ben Macintyre of Brush Demon show us
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Steve Wood provides an easy ‘wargames standard’ painting guide aimed at getting your forces battle ready for Never Mind the Billhooks in super-quick time. The following article should help you paint your retinue for Never Mind the Billhooks and hopefully give you some ideas regarding colour schemes. But first, a couple
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Never Mind the Billhooks is a forthcoming set of wargames rules for fighting fun small battles during the Wars of the Roses. Ahead of next week’s WiPrime release of Billhooks (which in turn is ahead of the printed release at the end of the month!) we’re giving you the change to
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