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In the latest issue of Wargames Illustrated, we are joined by the author the new Bolt Action supplement ‘Campaign: Sea Lion’. Jon Lambshead give us his ‘Designer’s Notes’ behind his book on the German Invasion of Britain 1940.

These mass battle rules from Gripping Beast have been out for several months now, but we wanted to give them a real good test run before bringing you our verdict on the rules. Read all about it in the latest issue of Wargames Illustrated, WI357 July.

When we were preparing for our second Frostgrave Day, WI graphic designer Ian Bennett ‘volunteered’ to create some boards for the gamers to adventure across.

You’ve bought (too?) many miniatures for your new Samurai army. So, time to get them painted but how? In the current issue of Wargames Illustrated Pete Brown offers advice on turning that pile into an army.  

In the latest issue of Wargames Illustrated read all about Oda Nobunaga, a ruthless warrior who championed the arquebus and went from a ridiculed son to placing his choice for Shogun on the throne. Oda is also out latest Giant in Miniature figure. Find out more here. AND download his Test of

The Perry twins reveal their new boxed game and tell us why it’s taken 25 years to make! Read the full story in the current issue of Wargames Illustrated, or on Prime now!

In the lead article for this month’s theme, Jonas Svensson of Mura Miniatures introduces us to this month’s theme, telling us what we need to know about gaming with Samurai. You can get this issue here or read it now using your Prime membership.

Oda Nobunaga, our latest Giants in Miniature figure, was inspired by the release of the new Test of Honour Samurai skirmish game by Warlord Games (see WI355, May). Andy and Graham, the team behind the game, very kindly agreed to create a special card for use with the Test of Honour

In the current issue of Wargames Illustrated we look at the work undertaken to get a fleet of longships ready for the tabletop and how to make the water they sail on. Hopefully you were suitably impressed by both the Viking Fleet and water boards seen in our earlier Foteviken article.

In one of our theme articles from the current issue of Wargames Illustrated Jim Graham charts the early experience of one of the greatest battlefield generals Britain has ever known and how to wargame with the armies he commanded in India. Read the whole article and see all the photos in

For this month’s Rule Showcase Graham Davey, one half of the development team for this new boxed game from Warlord Games, paid WIHQ a visit to talk us through the rules. WI354 contains our roundup of how the game works PLUS WI354 Interactive (for iPad) contains a video interview with

In one of our theme articles from the current issue of Wargames Illustrated, passionate Wellingtonian and wargamer Steve Wood discusses the man at the centre of our theme, Wellington, and his most famous battle, Waterloo 1815. His research has led him to re-evaluate for himself The Waterloo Dispatch – the

Is it possible to invent a wargame that involves 17 different personalities from 2,000 years of human history, all in action on the tabletop at the same time, that takes around 15 minutes to play? No, not really. That’s why we invented ‘(Semi-Historical) Celebrity Deathmatch’. To say our Salute 2017 participation

Following on from his article in WI353, our March 2017 issue, Nick Buxey has provided a set of downloadable cards to enable you to take your Congo games into the dangerous world of the Amazon circa 1925. Take on the mantle of Fawcett’s Expedition as you venture forth on a

Anton Zaleski of Hyacinth Games tells us about Wreck-Age, a Post-Apocalyptic hybrid Skirmish/Role Play miniatures game. “Welcome to the Resurgence. Two centuries ago, the Earth verged on total collapse. Clouds of pollution smothered every major city, rising oceans threatened to burst coastal defenses, crops were failing, and people were starving. Transportation suffered greatly

To go alongside our article From CONGO to Amazon in issue 353. You can download and Print (some of) your own cards Congo-Amazon cards here. There are more cards to come - the 'Character and Column' cards - aren't yet finished I'm afraid. But article author Nick Buxey is working on these and they