It's the first Freebie Friday of 2019 and were kicking off with these two sets from our friends over at Valiant Miniatures. Up for grabs is a box of German Infantry and a team of Mortar and Tripod MG-42 from their Fighting 20's range. You can watch our unboxing of this product here Don’t
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After the success of last year's inaugural event, the organisers of Hammerhead in Newark have asked us to return to the show in March to run the Hammerhead Painting Competition for a second year. You can find the full 'Rules' here: WI Hammerhead Painting Competition 2019 You can read all about last year's
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EVERY print copy of the January 2019 issue of Wargames Illustrated magazine comes with a free Warlord Games plastic Cruel Seas frame! Each magazine has been randomly bagged with either two US PT Boats or a frame of 16 Torpedoes. WHERE CAN YOU BUY YOUR COPY? The January issue of Wargames Illustrated is available
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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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EVERY copy of the December 2018 issue of Wargames Illustrated magazine comes with TWO free Warlord Games plastic Cruel Seas boats, worth £6GBP/$10USD (or they would be if you could buy them at all!) Each magazine has been randomly bagged with either two Royal Navy Vosper MTBs or two German Kriegsmarine
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For this weeks Freebie Friday all Prime members have the chance to win this Terrain Crate from Mantic Games! You can watch our unboxing of this product here Don’t forget - Freebie Friday is a twice monthly giveaway - if you’re WIPrime, you’re in! To find out more about the additional benefits
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Thanks to our friends at Asmodee, we have a complete Star Wars: Legion starter set to give away to one lucky Primetime member. See our review for more details. And don’t forget, if you’re Prime, you’re in! Don’t forget - Freebie Friday is a twice monthly giveaway - if you’re WIPrime, you’re
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Drum roll please…. 2018 sees the continuation of ‘gongs’ for your hobby, after the success of last years Wargames Illustrated Awards as chosen by you, the WI readers.This year we will again be awarding prestigious trophies for: rules, games, figures and manufacturers who have been voted king of the hill,
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This week, our Prime members have the chance to win two forces for the campaign in the Western Desert during World War Two. We have a box of plastic multipose 8th Army and a box of Afrika Korps for one luckiy winner, and don’t forget, if you’re Prime, you’re in! And
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Plastic Soldier Company have added yet another plastic kit to their World War Two range. The latest kit is a version of the Soviet SU-76, with the option to create early and late war versions. The boxed set consists of enough parts to create 5 self-propelled gun models. Each sprue contains
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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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Thanks to our friends over at Warlord Games, This weeks Freebie Friday is there latest British 8th Army Starter Set of which you can see our unboxing here! Get ready to build and battle across North Africa with the British 8th Army starter army box set! And don’t forget, if you’re Prime,
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Thanks to our friends at Mantic Games, this week we have there Dungeon Depths Terrain Crate to give away to one lucky Prime member, You can see our unboxing of this product here. And don’t forget, if you’re Prime, you’re in! Don’t forget - Freebie Friday is a twice monthly giveaway -
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Thanks to our friends at Hobby Co. and Italeri, we have this great 1/72nd 'Battle of Malinava 1944’ wargaming set, consisting of two forces to re-fight battles on the Eastern Front. And don’t forget, if you’re Prime, you’re in! Don’t forget - Freebie Friday is a twice monthly giveaway - if you’re
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Firstly we would like to announce our winners of last weeks Strontium Dog giveaway! 1st - Ian Saltmarsh, UK 2nd - Harold Oney, US 3rd - Richard Phares, US 4th - Mick Wilson, UK 5th - Julian Bowden, UK Its time to take to the skies! This week's Freebie Friday is from our friends over at Plastic
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Bounty to be won! To celebrate the release of the new Strontium Dog skirmish game from Warlord Games, we have a bounty-load of prizes! First Prize is a complete copy of ‘ The Good, the Bad & the Mutie’ boxed game, with something extra added in. Second prize is a copy of the
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We've just got back from The Host in Lancaster, PA, the venue for Historicon 2018 and we thought we would share some of the action from the convention (any beyond!) in this photo feature. You can read a full report on the show in WI371 - the September issue of the
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Once again, it’s FREEBIE FRIDAY! All our Wargames Illustrated Prime members will be automatically entered into a prize draw to win this week’s items. This week's prize is from our friends Hexy Studio, We have a complete card game from there Star Scrappers universe - Cave-in to give away! Don’t forget -
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Battlefront hosted their inaugural ‘Open Day’ at Cleve Lodge, near Nottingham, England, on 30th June and what a treat it was for fans of all things Flames Of War, Team Yankee and everything else from the Battlefront stable. We interviewed event organiser Tim Harris about what was going on on the
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Between now and 1st July we are taking Historicon pre-orders for anything in the Wargames Illustrated web store. When you get to the checkout just tick ‘H’Con Pre-order’. We will have your order for you at the convention on Friday 13th or Saturday 14th July, and you won’t have to pay
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Once again, it’s FREEBIE FRIDAY! All our Wargames Illustrated Prime members will be automatically entered into a prize draw to win this week’s items. This week's prize is perfect for any WWII players. We have a M4 Sherman Crocodile, Flak 37 AA/AT Gun, pre-painted scenery from Conflix and a mystery 'white
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An interview with Andy Hobday, one of the partners in the up and coming War Banner Games company, creators of the Gangs of Rome rules and miniatures. https://youtu.be/u7gJTS8iOlE
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Once again, it’s FREEBIE FRIDAY! All our Wargames Illustrated Prime members will be automatically entered into a prize draw to win this week’s items. A great prize for this week’s Freebie Friday, a whole bunch of Frostgrave goodies, including the new Maze of Malcor campaign book! Don’t forget - Freebie Friday is
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Once again, it’s FREEBIE FRIDAY! All our Wargames Illustrated Prime members will be automatically entered into a prize draw to win this week’s items. This week’s Primetime Giveaway is the two-player starter set for Gangs of Rome, Blood on the Aventine. If you’re Prime, you’re in! Don’t forget - Freebie Friday is
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Once again, it’s FREEBIE FRIDAY! All our Wargames Illustrated Prime members will be automatically entered into a prize draw to win this week’s items. Looking for a rumble? Up for grabs this week is the new Street Wars NYC rulebook from Funky Skull Games, complete with cards for two Starter Gangs,
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Once again, it’s FREEBIE FRIDAY! All our Wargames Illustrated Prime members will be automatically entered into a prize draw to win this week’s items. This week’s giveaway prize comes from Demented Games of Australia. Twisted is a Victorian era VSF/Steampunk game with a twist, with factions vying to protect or enslave the
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Ambushes are a common military operation which don’t translate well to our tabletop battles. Declaring that you are playing an ‘ambush scenario’ to your opponent has the instant effect of ruining that key element of an ambush – the surprise With this month’s theme ‘Ambush – taken by Surprise’ we present
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Once again, it’s FREEBIE FRIDAY! All our Wargames Illustrated Prime members will be automatically entered into a prize draw to win this week’s items. This week’s Prime Giveaway is three Konflikt ’47 boxed sets courtesy of Warlord Games.We have a British Churchill Meteor tank, a US M3A2 Pondskater Scout Walker and
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The organisers of Hammerhead have asked us to run their inaugural painting competition at Hammerhead 2018. We jumped at the opportunity to add another element to this already highly popular and dynamic convention. The painting comp will be organized along the same lines as the one we run across the pond
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