Viva Mexico! Neil Smith takes an extended look at a new book - ideal for wargaming the Mexican Revolution. Did you know that sincronicidad is Spanish for synchronicity? Neither did I until very recently when looking for a new project and Mike Blake’s Armies of the Mexican Revolution (Partizan Press, 2020)
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With Hammerhead 2020 fast approaching, we thought it would be a good idea to show off last year's entrants into our Painting competition. If your heading to Hammerhead on Saturday 14th March 2020 be sure to bring your best painted miniature/s along, you might be lucky enough to be walking away
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One of the outstanding, and award winning, games at last year’s Salute Wargames Show in London, was ‘Gaskin’s Plantation’ an American War of Independence game presented by demo game maestro Bill Gaskin and Friends. Bill’s latest appearance on the UK show circuit prompted us to press him to accommodate us
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As promised (in the Feb 2020 issue of the magazine) for your downloading pleasure here are the three “best” articles from Wargames Illustrated in 2019 - as voted for in The 2019 Wargames Illustrated Awards. The Irish Armys Forgotten Battle Rules Showcase Black Seas Creating The Army Of Charles The Bold
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The current issue of Wargames Illustrated (WI387, January) features an interview with Alan Perry in which we discuss Perry Mins forthcoming range of figures for the The War of The Triple Alliance 1864 - 1870. This fascinating South American conflict was also know as The Great Paraguayan War and in
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Talented figure painter Shannon Shaw supplied us with her take on Captain Flint. Here at WI we decided to give Flint an alternative base, and thought you would like to see how we did it. Download the article here Buy your own Captain Flint here
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The following is a scenario designed to allow the interested gamer to refight this battle using the Two Fat Lardies’ Sharp Practice! Rules The Two Fat Lardies’ Sharp Practice! rules will work very well as they use interesting game mechanics to represent critical variable factors in play pertinent to this scenario.
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William of Tyre recounts that, following the capture of King Baldwin II of Jerusalem by Turks in 1123, a party of Armenian knights attempted to stage a rescue. Disguised as monks, they infiltrated the castle where Baldwin was being held and overpowered the garrison. However, they were unable to get
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Would you like some sails for your free model ship/s found with issue 348? You can download them here, then print them on paper or card.
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This set of event cards is for use with the Ramree island ‘Cacophony of Hell’ game as demoed at Fall In 2016 and seen in Wargames Illustrated 359. The full list of events and quantity of each (as multiples of some occur), are as follows. Feel free to create more appropriate
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Ace painter Ben Macintyre (AKA Brush Demon) has provided us, and you, with a guide to painting King Leonidas from our Giants in Miniature range. Download the Guide here
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In WI378, April 2019 we included an article in Wargames Illustrated in which regular contributor Pete Brown mused on the thorny issue of ‘taking offensive’ in our hobby. Incase you didn’t buy the magazine and see it (at which we take offence!) you will find the said article here. In WI379,
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We took a trip to Partizan 2019 and wanted to share with you some of the games from the event. See more in the July issue of the magazine. The Perrys - Battle of Mandara (Mandorah), Egypt 1801, Boondock Sayntes Burton and District Wargames Club - Black Day at Badrock Chesterfield Old Boys Derby Wargames
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In memory of those who gave their lives for us, we’re offering one person the chance to acquire these four books. Featuring some of the key actions on D-Day and more, you can discover aspects of that first day you may have never heard of before, or use them as
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Issue 380 is now available to buy in the shops and with this issue we're giving away a frame of US Infantry from Warlord Games. Looking for a painting guide? Our friend Pete The Wargamer has done a guide on how to paint the HBT Camouflage they used! In this video I show
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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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Scenario One: CEFEO Sorties The French conducted active defense measures intended to push back the ever-tightening Viet Minh stranglehold the entire time the CEFEO garrison occupied Dien Bien Phu. Sortie scenarios encompass road-clearing operations to maintain the lifeline between Isabelle and the main French base, patrol actions in the vicinity of
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In WI376 Paul Davies showed us how to make the MTB 74. Here’s how he painted it… First I gave the boat an overall spray of Army Painter Uniform Grey. Next step was to apply the camouflage pattern using Coat d’arms Light Grey and Coat d’arms Dark Grey. The hull pattern is
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The January 2018 issue of Wargames Illustrated includes an article on the Battle of Oudenarde, 1708, refought in 15mm by Simon MacDowall and friends. Here’s the Orders of Battle Allied Order of Battle French Order of Battle
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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, it is with great pleasure that we would like to announce the winners of the 2018 Wargames Illustrated awards. Over the last couple of months, our readers, Facebook followers and wargamers from around the globe (1,060 in total) have been voting in nine different categories
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Dear Wargames Illustrated 374 purchasers! We hope you are enjoying the free Cruel Sea’s ship frame we have included with the latest issue of Wargames Illustrated magazine (WI374, December 2018). If yours came/comes with a German S-Boat you may be missing an antenna which should be situated towards the rear
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Between the August 2018 (WI370) and November 2018 (WI373) issues of Wargames illustrated magazine, we have been running a series of articles by Dr Steve Tibble entitled 'Reimagining the Crusades', in which Steve discusses some of the concepts in his recently released book The Crusader Armies, and (crucially!) discusses how
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Today is the anniversary of the most famous battle on British soil - The Battle of Hastings. Refought in miniature many times over the years by wargamers around the world, we would like to share this article by Nick Buxey in which he tells us about the Hastings demo game presented
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UNCLE DUKE SEIFRIED AUGUST 19th 1935 – SEPTEMBER 29TH 2018 It was with great sadness that, just before going to press with this issue of Wargames Illustrated, we learnt of the death of Bruce Seifried. Affectionately known as Duke, or 'Uncle Duke' within the hobby, he was a giant of the miniature gaming
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Every now and again, a club or gaming group needs something, to unite the members, promote a new game system or just to use forgotten parts of our figure collections. Recently, Sub-Editor Wayne ran a campaign at his club bringing a set of rules and an old gaming supplement together
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Wargames Illustrated Showcase Game for HISTORICON 2018 Robert Giglio Editor’s Note: Bob is our US Liaison and has run a WI Showcase Game the last two times WI has journeyed across the Pond to a Historical Miniature Gaming Society (HMGS) convention. At HISTORICON 2015, Bob ran his “Saving Prince Kishan” game, and
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Occasional we post 'magazine' articles on our website. This one hasn't appeared in the print or on iPad version of Wargames Illustrated - it's an online exclusive. FOCH has been written by our French friend Pierre Aymeric and is a collection of rules and amendments for using Osprey's The Men Who Would
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Whoops! In WI370, (August 2018), we accidentally forgot to include a map in The Dragon’s Choice about the US Marines and other Western Powers during the Boxer Rebellion. So, in order to enable gamers to get the full effect, we’ve posted the map here to allow access for all.
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When it came to choosing the theme for this month’s issue we had two clear contenders to choose from; 1) The Thirty Years War - to commemorate 500 years since the beginning of this tumultuous European conflict. 2) Air War - to tie-in with the release of the Battle of
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