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 a twice monthly giveaway - if you’re WIPrime, you’re in! To find out more about the additional benefits of WIPrime membership click here.
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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 a twice monthly giveaway - if you’re WIPrime, you’re in! To find out more about the additional benefits of WIPrime membership click here.
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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, two sets of Event cards and the exclusive Kickstarter miniature. 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 of WIPrime membership click here.
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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 all-seeing Engine, which has the ability to change people into new forms. We have a starter set and two of the main factions to giveaway to one lucky winner, so if you like your VSF a bit different, if you’re Primetime, you’re in! 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 of WIPrime membership click here.
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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 several ways in which the ambush can be gamed. In our lead article, Pete Brown discusses several ways in which he and his club mates have gamed ambushes over the years, and in our ‘Best Laid Plans’ article, Mike Bradford shares an ambush mechanic which will work with several different periods and rulesets. Jim Graham presents an article on the use of a surprise attack on a much larger scale, in his Yom Kippur War
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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 a Japanese Shiboto Squad. They’d make great gifts for any gamer and would help a hobbyist get started with a whole new period! 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 of WIPrime membership click here.
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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 at Historicon. Come and find us at GB15 and TD41 to enter your figures into the competition, or to check out the talent on display. You can find the full 'Rules' here: WI-Hammerhead-Painting-Comp Historical Single Miniature A single figure, foot or mounted, for any historical period. Historical Unit/War Machine Any unit of 3 or more models (foot or mounted) or a single vehicle or war machine with crew, for any historical period. Fantasy Single Miniature A single figure, foot or mounted, for non-historical
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If you live anywhere north of the River Humber in England, you will know that winter can last a long time. And if you are waiting for a show to attend and get the wargaming juices flowing, winter seems interminable. Thankfully, there is a cure for that: every February for the last thirty years York Wargames Society has hosted Vapnartak, a show that seems to get better every year. Read the full article PDF here!
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As we go to press with the March issue of magazine, Wargames Illustrated Ltd are just putting pen to paper on the tenancy agreement for new premises. For the last five years WI has been sharing offices with Battlefront Europe and they have been great ‘building buddies’, but following expansion to their operation we are vacating our BFHQ plot and moving around the corner into new offices.
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We’ve moving offices and want to avoid pulling muscles in the process, so for one week only - 12th - 16th February - all our hard-copy back issues are reduced in price to JUST 50p PER COPY (plus P&P*). Get them while their hot, CLICK HERE. * Postage will be charged at cost, but be warned - it can be quite pricey.
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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 is courtesy of Plastic Soldier Company and consists of ten 15mm tank kits suitable for a whole number of post-WW2 armies. 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 of WIPrime membership click here.
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We’re kicking off 2018 by launching an offensive on two fronts. Our main weapons are discounts and freebies to entice you to give our digital products a try. Front One – Wargames Illustrated Interactive – Our Digital Magazine Get a FREE copy of our ‘Best of 2017’ interactive magazine, downloaded to your iPad. If you are impressed with our Interactive magazine, then why not sign up for a year’s subscription? Front Two – Wargames Illustrated Prime – Our Online Club Become a member of WIPrime for only £1 (about $1.35 USD, €1.10, $1.70 AUD) for the first month, and access 364 copies of Wargames Illustrated magazine (on and offline) as well as our weekly newsletter, special offers (including a £5 North Star voucher) and more. Combined Packages Print and Prime, and Interactive
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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. For this week’s bonus Freebie Friday giveaway, one lucky Prime member will win a complete Star Saga: The Eiras Contract supplied by our friends at Mantic. As with all Freebie Friday competitions, you don’t need to do anything to enter – all members are in with a chance of winning. 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 of WIPrime membership click here.
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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. For this week’s bonus Freebie Friday giveaway, one lucky Prime member will win a complete Walking Dead – All Out War box set supplied by our friends at Mantic. As with all Freebie Friday competitions, you don’t need to do anything to enter – all members are in with a chance of winning. 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 of WIPrime membership click here.
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Why not give the wargamer in your live a Wargames Illustrated Gift Card for Christmas? We’ve got a few options for you; We have Gift Cards specifically available for subscriptions, OR you can select the amount to load onto your gift card e.g. a £20 Gift Card, OR you have the option to ‘Gift this product’ – that goes for anything available from our website. Simply choose your gift amount and proceed to the checkout. You can set a date on which the recipient will receive their Gift Card (via email), and you will also receive confirmation. To Gift any item in the store, Pick this option and fill out the form. For example - To Gift an amount of your choice, Click below! If you need any more information on
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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, it is with great pleasure that I would like to announce the winners of the 2017 Wargames Illustrated awards. Over the last couple of months, our readers, Facebook followers and wargamers from around the globe have been voting in nine different categories for their wargaming favorites. All the winners have been contacted and in the February issue of Wargames Illustrated, WI364, we will be getting reactions from all of them, but without further ado here’s the results! BEST WARGAME RULES/GAME Winner: Chain of Command by Too Fat Lardies Congratulations to the Too Fat Lardies and their platoon level World War Two rules, they managed to hold off close competition from fellow WWII rules Bolt Action by Warlord Games. BEST MINIATURE MANUFACTURER Winner: Perry Miniatures Well done to
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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. Thanks to our friends at Pen and Sword Books Ltd., we have a selection of some of their most popular books to giveaway. If you’ve ever wanted to walk some of the key battlefields of World War One, check out the Walking…series from this excellent author. Plus, we have both volumes of the Waterloo Campaign of 1815, full of facts and anecdotes, plus new thinking upon the available evidence. And one lucky winner can add to their Christmas holiday reading - remember, if you’re a Primetime member, you are automatically entered into the competition, so you could be receiving a box of books that any
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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. Thanks to Warlord Games, this week we have a complete Japanese Army Starter Set for Konflikt '47 up for grabs. You can also see our unboxing of the huge box 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 of WIPrime membership click here.
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We’ll be at stand 8b04 in the Hall 2 (see map) with copies of the latest magazine at the special show price of 6 Euros! We’ll also have our Giants In Miniature range of figures, back issues and our usual special offers on subscriptions. If you renew or subscribe at the show, we’ll give you a choice of Osprey books and your first issue for FREE, meaning you get 13 issues for the price of 12! We’ll also have limited stocks of our slipcases, Wargames Illustrated Paints guidebook and more, all at show special prices. So, pop by our stand to take advantage of our deals or just to have a chat - we’ll see you there!
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As the impending end of the year brings up consideration of wargames shows in the next, we thought we would give you a rundown of the events and conventions Wargames Illustrated will be attending in 2018. February We’ll be at Vapnartak in York on 5 February 2018, a curtain raising UK show for gamers in the north of England. A week later, 11 February, we will be supporting ROBIN in Nottingham, this will be the second year for the ‘Lead-Belt’s’ own wargames event. At the end of February, we head over to the vibrant and very photogenic Tactica in Hamburg, Germany. WI will be there on the Saturday of this two day show (24 - 25), trading and reporting for the magazine. We highly recommend European gamers make 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 giveaway prize is a pre-release copy of the latest supplement for Bolt Action, The Road To Berlin, plus a beast of war in the form of one of the latest plastic kits, the King Tiger. 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 of WIPrime membership click here.
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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. Our latest giveaway is two Allied and two Axis 1/56th model kits. For the Allies, we have two classic vehicles, a Sherman M4A3 / M4A3E8 and a Willys MB, both as used by the US Army. For the Axis, we have 1/56th versions of the SdKfz 251/1 Ausf.C and a SdKfz. 250/1 Neu half-tracks, plus an expansion set to turn the Neu into a Reconnaisance version. That’s four World War Two model kits, one expansion set and a whole lot of gaming fun! Don’t forget - Freebie Friday is a twice monthly giveaway - if you’re WIPrime, you’re in! To find out more about the additional
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Join Wargames Illustrated at the Warlord Games 10th Anniversary Open Day for: (Semi-Historical) Celebrity Deathmatch! Have you ever wanted to see Julius Caesar take on Lord Kitchener? Do you believe that Flashman can overcome Napoleon? Would you like to marvel at Steampunk Victoria’s battle with George Washington? This gladiatorial style participation game takes about 10 seconds to learn and 15 minutes to play. You take the role of one the WI Giants in Miniature figures and if you can make it to the top of the leader board you will receive a ‘prize every time’, with the overall winner on the day receiving a full set Giants in Miniature figures. In addition to our participation game, WI Editor Dan Faulconbridge will be presenting a talk on thirty years of
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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 time around, we’re offering you the chance to journey to the Final Frontier! Thanks to Modiphius Entertainment, we have four boxes of Star Trek miniatures to give away to one lucky winner. These are ex-review figures but all the relevant parts are there. 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 of WIPrime membership click here.
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When Duncan Macfarlane sold 300 copies of the September 1987 issue of Wargames Illustrated magazine at the Sheffield Nationals, little did he know that WI would still be going some thirty years later! Duncan sold the magazine to Battlefront in January 2009 and it changed hands again in April 2015 when Editor Dan Faulconbridge took on the magazine. We have subscribers in 21 different countries around the world and the magazine continues to be the best selling wargames magazine on the market, now in digital as well as paper format. We would like to celebrate our 30th birthday by giving you, dear wargamer, the chance to win hundreds of £££$$$€€€ worth of wargaming goodies. To be in with a chance of picking up one of three prizes you
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Drum roll please…. 2017 sees the introduction of a new set of ‘gongs’ for your hobby. Chosen by Wargames illustrated readers, we will be awarding prestigious trophies for: rules, games, figures and manufacturers who have been voted king of the hill, top of the list, A-number one in nine different wargames related categories. As well as immeasurable kudos, the winners will receive a no expense spared trophy and an award logo to proudly display on their website and literature. All the award winners will be chosen by Wargames Illustrated readers and Facebook followers. You can give an answer to as many categories as you like but please only give ONE answer in each section and only give the name of the Game/Company/Rules etc (If more that one answer
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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. Our friends at Warlord Games have very kindly provided us with this week’s giveaway in the form of several packs of recently released troops and vehicles from their Bolt Action Japanese range. You don’t have to do anything to be in with a chance of winning, just keep your fingers crossed that our random-number-generator-master-computer picks your Prime membership number, and we will contact you if you’re a winner. 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 of WIPrime membership click here.
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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. As always, we try to bring you something new or extra special. Our friends at Foundry have very kindly provided us with two boxes of their previously Limited Edition miniatures, which have been placed into collections for the first time. 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 of WIPrime membership click here.
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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. As always, we try to bring you something new and this time, if you liked the look of those 28mm Australians, this is your chance to win some of them! (To be honest, you could win them whether you like them or not, but that’s just the way it is). 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 of WIPrime membership click here.
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