Great word isn’t it, ramshackle. Apparently it’s got nothing to do with rams or shackles, but is derived from ransack. It first appeared in a copy of the weekly journal Forest and Stream in 1830. Anyway, I digress. This 28mm Ramshackle House is the sixteenth model in Renedra’s range of flat-pack
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It’s 1870 and the American Civil War isn’t over, it has also taken a rather dramatic twist in that the North has laid waste to the South using chemical weapons and the Confederate States have responded by using Necromancy to raise their dead and retaliate! Artizan Designs’ Grim Prairie Tales (GPT)
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One thing about rule sets from the Lardies is that the titles do make you smile and I was already well disposed toward this publication as soon as I unwrapped it. This A4 size 104 page soft back rulebook is produced in full colour and is illustrated throughout with diagrams
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The latest plastic box set in the expanding and eclectic Wargames Atlantic range, is German Infantry 1916 -18. https://youtu.be/BcJ3bKUdxmY Comparison shot with metal Great War Miniatures WWI figures Below: Spins of six of the figures we made up from one of the frames. Below: A transcription of the video,
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Pirates of the Dread Sea (PODS) is a new release from Dead Earth Games, who have funded it, and the miniature range that supports it, through Kickstarter. First impressions are good, as this 96-page A4 hardback book is full colour throughout and is extremely well produced. https://youtu.be/FBQRbQqGlYo The text below is
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We have got our hands on Two of Killing Kields Terrains premium battle mats and in this video, we put the SG StaticGrass BattleMat to the test. This mat comes in one size 7x5 Foot but can be easily cut down to any size needed, allowing gamers wiggle room when
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1898 Miniatures have released three more packs of foot to expand their 28mm Thirty Years War (TYW) ‘Spanish’ range. As with their previous releases these would fit well in any European army of the first half of the 17th century, but they have been designed in particular with the Spanish
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“Dead Earth Games” are producing a range of miniatures to support their “Pirates of the Dread Sea” (PODS) skirmish wargames rules. The range currently consists of Human, Undead and Dwarf crews but crews from the other races are promised soon. Sent for review here are the human crew, led by
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Any of you who thought that Black Seas by Warlord Games was a serious simulation of naval warfare in the Age of Sail are about to be disappointed, but anyone else who wants to add a bit of silly monster fun to their Black Seas games is in for a
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Having covered the larger battles of the Seven Years War in Europe in previous volumes, Charles S Grant turns to small actions of the war for this latest volume in the “Refighting History” series. This A4 size hard back book runs to 192 pages and is full of colour pictures
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If you are looking to wargame the Chinese in World War Two or in their Civil War of 1945 - 49, then you’re hardly spoilt for choice. Despite featuring heavily in the Bolt Action Empire in Flames Campaign book, Warlord don’t make a dedicated range of figures, and in fact
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Great Escape Games ran a successful Kickstarter campaign in April of this year to bring some Danish World War II figures to the market. From this campaign came; two ten-man squads, a command pack of four figures, and a motorbike sidecar combo. The figures measure 28mm from foot to eye. The
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These are “selling like hot cakes” at North Star apparently. Not surprising really because who wouldn’t want four “scary” plastic trees, two tree stumps, two clusters of mushrooms and two ‘stick-on-able’ (or not) tree faces for £15? These models form part of a forthcoming Mantic Games ‘Terrain Crate’, but Mantic have
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Trent Miniatures is one of those companies that always seems to me to take “the road less travelled”, producing excellent miniatures for some of the less well-covered wargames periods and these new releases continue this trend. First up is a pack for their “Vendean” or “Chouannerie” range. This was the peasant
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Published in collaboration with Sarissa Precision Ltd this full colour A4 book, by Sarissa’s chief designer and building painter Gary Faulkner, is designed to help those of you who want to take your MDF laser cut buildings to the next level. “What’s to learn?” I hear you ask; “don’t you
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If you are a player of Games Workshops “Warhammer 40,000” then you will already be aware that this month sees’ the release of the latest edition of the rules. GW have decided to mark the event with the launch of what they are describing as “the biggest and best boxed
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I think it’s fair to say that any wargamer with a penchant for Normans is well catered for. Whether you’re a fan of plastics from Conquest Miniatures or metals by Gripping Beast, Crusader Miniatures, Footsore, Foundry, V&V or anyone else I’ve missed – there’s a lot of choice out there.
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This A4 size full colour publication by Partisan Press is the fourth in this series of “how to” guides for budding terrain makers. Each of these chapters originally appeared as articles in wargames magazines, but have been reproduced here in more length, with extra detail and photographs to help guide
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Being the splendid people we are here at Wargames Illustrated we don’t mind giving a heads up to another, new, wargaming magazine (especially when it’s so different to our own). Blaster is a collaboration between five bright young(ish) games designers who have come together to produce what they are calling a
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Ultimately the Kriegsmarine was too small to match Germany's ambitions plans during World War Two, yet it managed to produce the most famous ship of the war; The Bismarck. Despite only having one, eight-day, combat operation, it is fitting that this ship is one of the early releases for Warlord Games'
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It’s always nice to be reminded of the wealth of 72nd scale models there are on the market, and the arrival of this Nakajima Ki-43 from Oxford Diecast did just that. Scalable with 20mm minis, this robust metal diecast plane represents one of the 5,000 plus Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa ("Peregrine Falcon") planes
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“Dangerous Dames” is a new line of miniatures from Pulp Figures of Canada, featuring, as the name suggests, the ladies of Pulp. The first pack of “Rugged Adventurersses” (PHP 20) consists of a pilot, with pistol drawn and flying jacket over one shoulder, a beret wearing resistance fighter with an HMG
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Lucid Eye Publications offer several eclectic figures range, all with intriguing names like ‘Savage Core’ or ‘Blades and Souls’. One such is the ‘Toons’ range. Perfectly fitting their title, the Toons are squat but perfectly formed miniatures, designed to look like cartoon characters. The Toons range is sub-divided into: Toon
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Victory at Sea is the new naval wargame from Warlord Games. Following a tried and tested formula Warlord have released a boxed ‘Starter Set’ which contains everything you need to get going. Victory at Sea: Battle for the Pacific focuses on the World War Two sea war between the US
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This is the latest book in Partizan Press range of “how to” painting guides for wargamers. It is an A4 softback book running to 112 pages, which, as you can see, are stuffed full of colour pictures of Sudan era miniatures. https://youtu.be/BbyGInqBurw The author begins by stating the aim of the book.
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Artizan Designs have released a second/alternative set of figures for their World War Two Command Post. This diorama set is a combined effort between Artizan, Sarissa and Renedra. To accompany the MDF ruined farmhouse Artzan originally provided a set of five 28mm figures representing: two senior officers, one medic, one radio
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RGD have been around as an online retailer since 2008, but this these plastic mythical creature box sets appears to be their first independently produced miniature range, which has come about as part of a successful Kickstarter. https://youtu.be/c09Zgzs1rRU The Faun Warband box contains eight plastic sprues, four identical male frames and four
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Diana Sutherland coined the name “The Wargames Widow” several years ago when she discovered she had a desire and skill for creating model terrain and buildings to populate her husband’s wargames tables (Note: Hubby Jon is affectionately referred to as “the Wargamer” in her articles). Since then she has gone
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This new plastic Napoleonic box set from Perry Miniatures was due to be released at Salute 2020, but we all know what happened there, so this latest offering - Austrian Napoleonic Cavalry 1798 - 1815 designed by Alan Perry, was pushed back slightly and came out early June. https://youtu.be/9rfeIPZqsXo Inside the instantly
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With the release of this latest set in their Napoleonic Wars range Victrix declared “We think this is one of our greatest sets to date, the detail is superb and the figures are packed with animation and character.” And indeed they are both highly detailed and characterful. Let’s take a
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