Welcome to the Rewards page, just another part of what is on offer to our WI Prime members. Our current Rewards operates as follows: If you’ve been with us for longer than 6 Months, you will be sent a physical copy of the Team Yankee rulebook, post free, anywhere in the world.
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There’s nothing better than seeing ranks of red coated/painted soldiers marching across the wargames table. But then I’m biased, not because I’m British, but because I spend a large part of my working life photographing miniatures and red ones always look the best through the viewfinder! You will be seeing red
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Here’s a graphic image of the mould for our WI exclusive show figure being destroyed! The Young Winston mould is no more and this figure, which was last available at Cold Wars, will never be available again. But… We still have 30 figures left and it would be churlish to throw
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Make sure you call by the Wargames Illustrated stand at this year’s Salute show at London ExCel on 22nd April. We have got loads of special show deals on offer as well as our quick-play '(Semi-Historical) Celebrity Deathmatch' participation game. Take a look below for more information. FINDING US Our trade stand is TA15,
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From Thursday 16th to Sunday 19th March you can find Wargames Illustrated at Cold Wars 2017. We have a booth in the Vendor Hall from which you can purchase the latest magazine, MASSIVELY DISCOUNTED back issues, slip cases, our Giants in Miniature figures and subscriptions. Take advantage of our show special
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The guys and gals from Kallistra, with the able assistance of the Forest Outlaws Wargames Club, have created something really special at the Hammerhead Show held in Newark, Nottinghamshire, England. The buzz around the event is quite different to most other UK shows and, with the focus on participation games,
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In WI353 we included a 'Hobby Talk' article about the future of the US wargames convention Historicon, specifically its relocation from Fredericksburg to New Jersey. Since publication of that article things have changed and it now looks like the venue won't be switching. Prior to its inclusion in Wargames Illustrated this
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Having now hit over 10,000 Facebook ‘Likes’, we thought it was time to celebrate! So, our usual 'hitting another 1,00 likes' giveaway was split into five separate prizes and, as always, we decided to run a survey. Our topic this time was a recurring theme, that perennial question asked wherever
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Wargames Illustrated Interactive is the digital version of Wargames Illustrated magazine, created specifically for iPad. It is available as a download from the Apple App Store or from our website as single copies or a 12-issue subscription. Sales and prices from our own website are controlled directly by ourselves, sales and
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To celebrate reaching over 10,000 Likes on Facebook, we’re offering five lucky winners the chance to win one of the following prizes. To enter, you MUST fill out the form at the bottom of this page. Winners will be chosen at random from those taking part in the survey via our website. Prizes
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At this year’s Salute show in London on 22 April, the Wargames Illustrated participation game will be ‘(Semi-Historical) Celebrity Deathmatch’. We’d like your help with the rules and will giveaway a FREE Giants In Miniature figure to everyone (potentially 64 people!) who helps out. The game is rather silly and dead
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https://youtu.be/6OEyhGG8Ax8 We made the short journey over to the other side of Nottingham on Saturday to visit the Warlord Games Store on its grand opening weekend. For those who weren’t there and are interested to see what it looks like, he’s a walkthrough of the shop and gaming hall.
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At a recent Frostgrave Games Day held at WIHQ we were treated to a talk by Frostgrave's author Joe McCullough about his forthcoming new game set in the FG world 'Ghost Archipelago'. We didn't want our WIPrime members who weren't there to miss out, so here's what he had to say... https://youtu.be/sCDihSiU_NI For a full filpthrough
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It’s FREEBIE FRIDAY again with all Wargames Illustrated Prime members automatically entered into a prize draw to win this week’s stack of goodies. We’ve teamed up with Spiral Arm to give away a Maelstrom's Edge, Battle for Zycanthus Starter Set and Partizan Press to give away a collection of there latest
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As part of it's Extreme Battlefield’s theme, the current issue of Wargames Illustrated (WI351) features a great article by James Morris: This is My Last Pigeon. The article features Mr Morris’ Fort Vaux World War One model and he tells us about the construction of this unique piece of terrain.
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The January issue of Wargames Illustrated is coming soon, and it will be available from more outlets than ever before! Wargames Illustrated is now being stocked at Barnes and Noble stores across the USA, check out your local store to get your hands on a print copy of the world’s
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With Christmas in mind we have released two combination sets of our Giants in Miniature figures. Both sets come with ONE FREE FIGURE plus FREE WORLDWIDE POSTAGE. Choose from – The Hollywood Pack - In this pack you will get one of every movie, fictional or TV related miniature that we currently have in our
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(This content was originally available in the interactive version of WI348) Martin Gibbins, author of the new Swordpoint rules from Gripping Beast, took the time to talk to us about his aims with the book and some of the mechanics that allow for the gaming of large scale battles from Ancient
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https://youtu.be/8_46RYNPTAk Hot off the press we have received a copy of the latest supplement for SAGA the massively popular skirmish game by Studio Tomahawk – Aetius and Arthur. We’ve not even had time to play it yet but we did want to get out a quick flip-through, so our Prime members
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One of the upcoming releases from Warlord Games adds some additional firepower to the Imperial Japanese Army. The Type 98 20mm Anti-Aircraft machine cannon was Japan's most widely used light AA gun between 1938 and 1945. The basic mechanism and method of operation was based upon the French 13.2mm Hotchkiss machine
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Released in the next couple of weeks, this is a single vehicle boxed set of the M3 Stuart tank from Warlord Games. Having previously offered this kit as a platoon deal, this may be one tank but has enough parts to be constructed in a number of ways. This versatile light
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In Wargames Illustrated 348 (available in the Vault if you missed it), we featured a Rules Showcase article introducing you to the forthcoming 'Swordpoint' mass combat rules from Gripping Beast. Below we take a look at some of the pages from the book and provide a brief overview of some of
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Adding to their Cape Frontiers Wars range, Perry Miniatures have seven packs of Boers designed for usage in a number of conflicts from the 1820’s up until the 1840’s. In the Cape Warriors section of the website, these metal figures include Mounted and Dismounted Boers, all in suitable costume of the time
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In the dark, grim, Northern part of the Frozen City, you can find the majority of the city’s temples and cathedrals, the area known as The Hallowed. This area is full of ancient treasures, the arcane lore of the Gods and Demi-Gods, plus the more earthly treasures once offered in
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We thought that, rather than just looking at the upcoming Frostgrave Barbarian sprue, we’d actually try out some of the options available in terms of assembly options. There will be four sprues in the boxed set, providing a whole range of different weapons from crossbows to bows, spears to double handed
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The new boxed set of plastics from the Perry’s contains enough sprues to create 40 miniatures. These can be assembled in a whole range of active poses, with small sprues designed to create figures in skirmishing, loading, charging, advancing poses and marching. All the figures are in the four buttoned sack coat
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To celebrate the launch of the new Team Yankee Intelligence Handbook: Iron Maiden, the staff at Battlefront's European HQ in Nottingham played a 'Big Battle' using British forces from the book and Soviet opposition. We spoke to Adam from Battlefront about how the game went, whilst filming some of the action.
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Shows and conventions present the WI team with a great opportunity to sniff out new releases hitting the hobby. And so it proved at the recent 'Derby Worlds' show held in early October at the Castle Donington Exhibition Centre in the UK. He’s a quick-fire look at some of the
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We visited veteran games designer Rick Priestley and chatted with him about his latest work as co-author of Tabletop Wargames: A Designers’ and Writers’ Handbook and delve into what still inspires him to write wargames rules.If you want to know more, visit pen-and-sword.co.uk
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Once again, having reached a major milestone, in this case over 9,000 Likes on Facebook, we put together a giveaway offer and another of our surveys. We decided to focus on rules systems, offering a select list and the option to add more. Now that the results are collated, we’ve
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