A new bonus for WiPrime members: read Observation Post ahead of its publication in Wargames Illustrated and see what we think of some of the latest wargaming releases. In this instalment, we have some Space Westerners from Anvil Industry, a boatload of figures from Flags of War, Partizan Press' Refighting History:
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Our WiPrime members can read this preview piece ahead of its publication in our next issue. We visited Alan Perry to find out about Perry Miniatures' latest project; Napoleonic Prussian and Russian Dragoons and Jägers. Download the full PDF.
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Our WiPrime members can read this preview piece ahead of its publication in our next issue. Learn how Chris Swan's new Beyond the Empire rules encompass the conflicts fought in Central Asia after WWI. Download the full PDF.
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It was quite flattering to discover that one of our readers had been to nine different stores in the Staffordshire, Cheshire, and Birmingham areas of England to try and get hold of a copy of the April issue of Wargames Illustrated magazine. On the flip-side it wasn’t so good was
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April rolled around quickly, didn’t it? This is a month that is always clearly timestamped in our old issues by the presence of pre-Salute adverts and build-up. With Salute cancelled this year it makes April a slightly melancholy time for those in the UK wargaming scene but with a hint
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This new box set of plastic minis from Wargames Atlantic was slightly delayed due to shifting production from China to the US, but the figures are worth the wait. The set of five infantry frames offers up six different bodies, and there are also two frames featuring a command figure
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Our WiPrime members can read this preview piece ahead of its publication in our next issue. Learn how Adam J. Sharp created a colossal realistic WWI board with waterlogged trenches crossing the cratered earth on either side of no man's land. Download the full PDF.
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Our WiPrime members can read this preview piece ahead of its publication in our next issue. We asked some of wargaming's elite about gaming with the elements for Wi412's first theme article. Warlord Games CEO John Stallard, North Star boss Nick Eyre, game designer Rick Priestley, sculptor Michael Perry, and others
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The 40th anniversary of the Falklands War is less than a month away and we’ve been looking back at previous issues in the Wi archive that feature articles about that conflict. We’re working on something new to commemorate the Falklands War; that article will appear in an issue a little later
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Somebody once said “It’s not what you know it’s who you know” and when that somebody you know is a very good and pro-active Game Designer they are certainly worth knowing! Andy Callan has been writing wargames rules since I was in short trousers. His 'Loose Files and American Scramble' rules
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Our WiPrime members can read this preview piece ahead of its publication in our next issue. Pete Brown introduces this month's theme, taking us on a wargamers' tour of our animal friends in military service and how they are employed in our games. Download the full PDF.
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Our WiPrime members can read this preview piece ahead of its publication in our next issue. We test The Army Painter’s new set of 24 Speedpaints to see if they really can help you ‘base, shadow, and highlight in one’ as the box claims. Download the full PDF.
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“I thought this would be sacrilege!” said Andy Callan. He was referring to the fact we were about to play a wargame using unpainted figures, and feature them in the pages of Wargames Illustrated. He had a fair point because I can’t remember the last time we did such a
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Between November and December of last year more Wargames Illustrated readers and social media followers than ever before (2,707 to be exact) put their fingers to their keyboards and voted for their best of the best in the Wargames Illustrated Awards 2021. As you scroll down you can nod in agreement
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Our Prime members can read this preview piece ahead of its publication in our next issue. Barry Hilton examines the show scene and asks where we find ourselves in a 'new normal' world of global wargaming and conventions. Download the full PDF. https://www.wargamesillustrated.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/409-Rude-Health.pdf
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Our Prime members can read this 14-page preview article ahead of its publication in our next issue. Follow the Wi team's adventures at Salute with interviews, new releases, trader reports, and a load of great looking gaming. Download the full PDF. https://www.wargamesillustrated.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/2021-Salute-report.pdf
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With the release of Wi408, our covermount gave you the option of some Black Powder: Epic Battles Waterloo British or French Napoleonic Heavy Cavalry figures. In the magazine, Marc guided you through painting the British. Now, he's guiding you through the French. Download the full PDF. Enjoy. https://www.wargamesillustrated.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Painting-French-Dragoons.pdf
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If you're visiting Salute make sure you head over and see us at the Wargames Illustrated stand - TL07. Show us this very article (you'll prove your 'Primeness' by being logged in and accessing it) and you'll get money off everything we sell, be given a free Warlord Games Epic Waterloo
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Check out this article from Wi408, available early for our Prime members to enjoy. Gee Walsh kitbashes a selection of Warlord Games plastics and makes figures for some of WWII's more unusual and less commonly available British units. Download the full PDF. https://www.wargamesillustrated.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Great-British-Kit-Bash.pdf
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Check out this article from Wi408, available early for our Prime members to enjoy. Geek Nation Tours' Teras Cassidy travelled to Wasteland Weekend - A Mad Max styled post-apocalyptic weekend of vehicular carnage - and somehow managed to find tabletop gaming amidst the wild tribes, converted cars, and vehicular mayhem. Download the
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It’s that time of the year again when we ask Wargames Illustrated readers to get their thinking caps on and cast a vote for their favourite Miniature Manufacturer, New Rules, Wargames Article, and more in the ‘Wargames Illustrated 2021 Awards’. Here Editor Dan talks a bit about the awards process. Compiling
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“Oh good, great. I didn’t think you were here, or I thought I’d missed you. Quick, come over here. Come and look at this!” That was the unexpectedly enthusiastic greeting I was met with when I bumped into Paul Sully at the recent Partizan Wargames Show in Newark. Paul, the proprietor
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We take our monthly dive into the Vault and blow the virtual dust off some of the articles of yesteryear. Rulesets in the Vault! Before we get into the back issues, we want to draw your attention to a recent addition to the Vault. Our webby chap Joe has been adding various
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In this Editor's Exploits, Dan pulls back the curtain on the trials and tribulations of getting a monthly magazine printed exactly how we want it (or in Wi406's case, exactly how we didn't want it)! Dan: The conversation a few months ago went something like this: Printer rep: I’m afraid the cost
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Want to paint up our latest Giants in Miniature release Dante? Marc, our in-house painter shows you how! Download the full PDF. https://www.wargamesillustrated.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Painting-Dante-.pdf
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Whilst packing away, after leading my miniature warriors to an inglorious defeat on the tabletop last Wednesday evening, it occurred to me that the two wargames I have recently played have probably been as contrasting as they can be. The former was a ten-player Black Powder game, taking place on a
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Want to paint up our latest Giants in Miniature release? Ben Macintyre shows you how! Download the full PDF. https://www.wargamesillustrated.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Painting-Takeda-Shingen.pdf
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Marc and James take a look through the Blaster - Games Anthology 03 in this WiPrime exclusive video. There's an eclectic mix of gaming shenanigans within. What will take your fancy? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BltRKpPDQ_c
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Sometimes you don’t choose a wargaming period; it chooses you. Via a small contribution to the latest issue of the Wargames Illustrated magazine (Wi405) I wrote about my appreciation of the author Thomas Hardy and how his book The Trumpet-Major provided some interesting background material for wargames based around Napoleon’s
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The Wargames Illustrated team dig through the Vault to bring you some latest issue tie-ins. The theme of the next magazine (September 2021, Wi405) is ‘What if?’, it’s a subject we have visited, re-visited, then visited again numerous times over the years in Wi, leaving us, or rather you, with an
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