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A North-West Frontier Adventure Robert Giglio presents his take on the North West Frontier game that appeared at Salute and at Historicon. Bob will also be running a Wi Showcase game for us at Cold Wars 2017, more details to follow soon! Early in 2016, Wargames Illustrated (WI) contacted me with a

Newark, England played host to the second Partizan show of the year at its new home, the Newark Showground, on Sunday 22nd August 2016. Here’s a quick look at a few of the games from 'The Other Partizan'. For the video highlights from the convention check out WI347 Interactive (the tablet version

A pdf of this rules show case can be downloaded here. Our latest set of rules is the new offering from the famous Studio Tomahawk team, taking the player on a journey into the Heart of Darkness… Congo is an adventure skirmish game set within the classic era of 19th century exploration

In the current issue of Wargames Illustrated we feature an article entitled 'Between the Jaws of Hyenas' which includes a deliberately confusing scenario based on The Battle of Adwa 1896. We got a little too confused and got some of the maps a bit muddled! Below you will find the correct

Our ‘How To’ master Paul Davies shows us how to make an iconic covered bridge for use in Revolutionary, Civil War or Wild West battles. A covered bridge makes a useful addition to any ACW battlefield. A search on the Internet will show that there were several basic designs; some with

Pete Brown muses over when, if ever, it is OK to use the ‘wrong’ figures on the wargames table. All this week my mind has been plagued with one burning question. Is it wrong to want hussars? Let me explain. Recently I have been collecting miniatures for the Second Opium War in

The July 2016 issue of Wargames Illustrated features the theme 'Caesar'. To accompany it's release we thought you might like to read the article below which was first published in WI 262, August 2009. WIPrime members will find several more Caesar related articles in WI 262, along with at least half

The July issue of Wargames Illustrated (WI345) features an article on painting 15mm Romans  by master brushman Ruben Torregrossa (aka Heresybrush) . The eagle-eyed amongst you will notice that in the step-by-step guide to painting shields, the same photo has been used for each step. This was obviously a test to

Starting in WI 305, we ran a series of articles all about the evolution of tanks and tank warfare since the first ‘landship’ hit the design stage. To run with this month's theme of TANKS we have made the first article available for all our readers to enjoy. Of course, if

And the organisers (and most other people) said "Let there be light". And there was light! Partizan has moved and for the first time in years we are going to be able to bring you a magazine feature on one of the UK’s finest wargames shows in the pages (print and

So, in the blink of a blurry eye Salute 2016 has been and gone. For the WI team it was a great day, meeting our readers, running the Hobby University* and the Participation Zone and getting to see some great games. In the forthcoming two issues of the magazine – WI335

In WI342 we featured a photograph of some figures that had previous made an appearance in a painting guide in WI272 by master brushman Dave Taylor. In case you missed that issue of the magazine, here’s how to paint the Old Guard. The figures below are from Victrix Limited’s (www.victrixltd.com) new Napoleon’s Old

The Society of Ancients Battleday takes place in Bletchley, England in early April every year, it’s a mini-convention with a difference, or more correctly it’s a mini-convention without a difference, as all the games played are the same! The subject battle is chosen a year ahead of the big day, with

Hammerhead 2016, Saturday 5th March It seems like this unique show is going from strength to strength. I think it is fair to say that ‘a good time was had by all’ who attended Europe’s only (correct us if we are wrong!) participation only wargames show. There were 55 games dotted around

After the Oscar success of Mad Max: Fury Road (six Oscars in total, bravo!), you might be looking to re-create some high octane Post Apocalyptic action on the tabletop. Well, you need look no further than our March issue where recent convert to the genre Dave Taylor talks about your

Support For All You Swashbucklers Out There! We're enjoying the En Garde! rules from Osprey Games so much, we've decided to produce some FREE counters for our own use. So it seems only fair to share them with you! Simply download them to your computer or similar device, then print them off

In WI 340, our February issue, we present our first article in the ongoing Club Focus feature. Sub-Editor Wayne went for a trip to see the Sheffield and Rotherham Wargames Club to find out what they get up to – the rules they use, games they play and the set

In conjunction with our Pony Wars article in the February issue of Wargames Illustrated; “A Road We Do Not Know”, we present Black Powder stats for using John Ford’s Rangers and Iron Jacket Comanches. You can download the stats sheet here: Pony Wars Black Powder Stats Sheet

As our bonus content to run alongside this month's magazine, we have a roster sheet and some rules ideas for using the Danger Close rules from Empress Miniatures during your games set within the world of Winter of ’79. These reflect the main focus of the rules and provide full

In the 1960’s Charles S. Grant went to war with his father and wargaming pioneer Charles Grant. The struggle between Lorraine and the Vereingte Freie Städte would take the Grants into the wonderful world of fantasy wargaming. Of course nowadays with that phrase comes images of elves, goblins and animated skeletons,

Sgt. John Stryker AKA John Wayne from the movie ‘The Sands of Iwo Jima’ We published this figure spotlight and painting guide for our first ‘Giants In Miniature’  figure back in the October magazine. You can now download it for free by clicking on the image on the left. And you can

As part of our recent Frostgrave Campaign Day, Joe created a special ‘one-off’ adventure for us to use, including a new magic item. As requested, we have made this available to any interested players. All aspects of the campaign are now ‘Official New Content’ for the game, including the magic

The inspiration for this month’s ‘How to…’ is the cover photograph from the excellent book, Lost London 1875-1945. You can find the guide to build this project in WI338, December 2015 Download the plans here: Make a Victorian shop

A couple of years ago we got the opportunity to photograph Bill Gaskin's excellent American War of Independence collection. This article appeared in WI312 - October 2013, but incase you didn't get to see it, you can download it here. Photographing the AWI