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  • The Battle of Evesham Festival 2015 and our ‘De Montfort Must Die’ Game

    Aug 18, 2015 0 comment(s) Categories: Events

    Wargames Illustrated recently attended the 'Evesham 2015' festival in Worcestershire, England, an event to mark the 750th anniversary of the Battle of Evesham. We took along with us our 'De Montfort Must Die' game, originally showcased at Salute 2015. Our friends from the Sons of Simon De Montfort Wargames Club in Loughborough did a great job of running seventy participation games (yes 70!) over the course of the weekend. 'Sons' club member and umpire Matt takes up the story. It was an early start on Saturday morning for myself, Chris and Rich as we headed down in the cars from Loughborough, although special mention has to be made of Dan (WI Editor) and his family's huge efforts in not only successfully transporting all the terrain boards, figures and display items to

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  • In Her Majesty’s Name Day at Wargames Illustrated 27th June 2015

    Jul 01, 2015 0 comment(s) Categories: Articles, Events

    Being an account of the nefarious Adventures of various Ne’er Do Wells and Plucky Heroes around the streets of London, Heart of the Empire, circa. 1895. Whilst lesser mortals were languishing a-bed, brave men were arriving at Wargames Illustrated HQ in Beeston, Nottingham, UK to take part in our latest gaming event. The whole day was themed around a series of games which came together to make one overall adventure, complete with clues to find, group discussion amongst the two factions (Stalwart Heroes and Dastardly Villians) and an awful lot of dice orientated carnage! All the scenario information used on the day is available for free from our website, just look for the relevant title and use it to your heart’s content. Unfortunately, we can’t offer you

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  • The Historicon Painting Competition

    May 15, 2015 0 comment(s) Categories: Events

    Wargames Illustrated is proud to be working with the HMGS team once more on this joint venture. At the 2015 HISTORICON show, we will be running the Painting Competition at the largest historical wargaming show in the US! There are ten categories ranging from Historical through Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Flames Of War, Open and Youth. Single miniatures, units and war machines are all catered for and those who are placed in each category get to see their creations in the pages of the print and digital issues of the World’s Premier Tabletop Gaming Magazine. Click here to download the full rules. HISTORICONPaintCompRules

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  • De Montfort Must Die – The Dress Rehearsal

    Apr 20, 2015 0 comment(s) Categories: Events, News

    Yesterday saw our final dress rehearsal for one of the (4!) Wargames Illustrated participation games at Salute 2015. The 'Sons of Simon De Montfort Wargames Club', who will be running the game at the show, joined us at WIHQ for a run through of the rules. The game is designed to be 'drop in, drop out' - you can play for as little as 10 minutes. The player who records the highest score at the end of the day will receive the painted version of Prince Edward as their prize. Come and see us Salute, Stand Number GD04

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  • “The Russians are coming, let’s give them a warm welcome…”

    Apr 13, 2015 0 comment(s) Categories: Events

    It’s 198_, the balloon’s gone up and the Cold War has turned Hot! Join either the NATO or Warsaw Pact forces and try to stem the tide of men and machines flowing along the autobahn.   It’s Soviet-era Armoured and Mechanised Divisions versus British NATO Battalions and Bulldog Spirit as the Red Tide attempts to sweep into more of West Germany and beyond.   For the Warsaw Pact, it’s all about pushing past the largely static NATO defenders before enough heavily armed troops are committed to prevent their onslaught, pushing hard and battling for every metre of roadway, regardless of the cost in men and machines – push on, drive hard and take the enemy strongholds, sweep the feeble Capitalists aside!   For the NATO forces, it’s about buying enough time

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  • De Montfort Must Die!

    Apr 01, 2015 0 comment(s) Categories: Events

    August 4th 1265, on a hill above the town of Evesham, an English Royal Army led by Prince Edward joins battle with that of an opposing rebel force under Simon De Montfort, Earl of Leicester. To his own supporters De Montfort is a freedom fighter and force for positive change in the land, to the royalists he is a usurper and traitor who must be killed. Twelve handpicked royalist men-at-arms have been tasked with assassinating the rebel leader, they stalk the battlefield letting nothing get in their way in pursuit of their target. In this Battle of Evesham participation game you control one of the twelve assassins, you must cut a path across the battlefield, taking out whoever gets in your way, find the rebel leader and slay

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