We’re riding a wave of Wild West excitement at the moment; while much of that buzz stems from the upcoming plastics for Dead Man’s Hand it doesn’t mean we can’t appreciate goodies from elsewhere. Knuckleduster Miniatures’ latest are a fine example, a set of gunslingers - the Avenging Angels -
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This one falls outside of the wargaming specific releases we usually cover - an audiobook version of translated military instructions from the Prussian King to his Generals - but it is such an oddity that we felt we needed to take a peek at it! Ex-Battlegames Editor Henry Hyde has put his
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This box is all about the frames. To be more precise, it’s about the same frame eight times as that’s all you get! None of the instructions, bases, decals, and so on that a company like Games Workshop includes with its plastics are present here; that might be disappointing, if not
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There's an “I’m cuttin’ me own throat ‘ere guv!” abundance of figures in Wargames Atlantic’s Prussian Reserve set. Inside this little box are no less than 60 hard plastic, multi-part, 28mm figures for your Franco Prussian adventures. Crikey, that’s a lot of figures for the standard box set price of £25
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Cornwall based Piran’s Warriors began as a figure painting company but have now branched out into producing their own miniatures, starting with a 28mm range of Austrians for the Second Italian War of Independence / Franco- Austrian War of 1859. The infantry range is sold as individual miniatures, or they can
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We're still working through the models we received during the UK's last Lockdown and we couldn't ignore these. Fresh from North Star, we’re taking a look at some new models for Joseph A. McCullough’s Rangers of Shadow Deep. We’re eager to get to the biggie, but let’s save it to last.
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One of the most appealing things about Stargrave is the various options that allow you to create a cool crew. If you want that crew themed to existing intellectual property you can make the game work nicely with Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, Starship Troopers, Firefly, Fireball XL-5 [You weirdo! -
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This set has caused much excitement at Wi Tower, offering fans of Dead Man’s Hand (that’d be us!) some plastic Old West miniatures from Great Escape Games for the first time. We’re going to be quick on the draw, put our cards on the table, and summarise our feelings right
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Taking clear inspiration from Sharpe, Wargames Atlantic's British Riflemen feature some likenesses that fans are sure to enjoy. But before we go down the foxhole of Sharpe nostalgia let's examine the box set more closely. Part of their Napoleon’s Wars range, these Riflemen are a generous set of 32 multi-part, hard
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Triguard Miniatures are a New Zealand based company producing 40mm miniatures covering the American War of Independence, Medieval Europe, and the French Indian War, the latter of which we're examining. Triguard's French Indian War range is quite extensive and worth taking a look at if you are considering playing out skirmish
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These two houses represent the start of what promises to be a sizeable range of buildings in Adrian’s Walls fully constructed and painted for the ‘Renaissance Onwards’ range. It’s worth underlining these last two points; the buildings come constructed and painted. That’s Adrian’s Walls shtick, they provide buildings that are tabletop
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Bloody Miniatures are a new manufacturer providing 28mm metal figures suitable for conflicts in the early to mid-17th century, such as the English Civil War or the Thirty Years War. The figures are sculpted by Nick Collier and have been designed to match the ranges he designed for Bicorne and
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Void Scar are a Nottingham based company producing 1/100 scale sci-fi miniatures in resin, along with a free ruleset - From Ashes - which is available on their website. The selection we’re looking at isn’t the newest of new releases, but they’re new to us and it’s always fun to
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We’re diving into Wargames Atlantic's Partisans (1) French Resistance box set from their Second World War World Ablaze range. Within the box, you’ll find enough frames to build 32 partisans, equip them with an impressive array of weapons, and put a load of spares aside for future projects. Clearly, these resistance
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Cast your mind back to 2011: a tsunami smashes the Japanese coast and causes disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, Occupy Wall Street protests begin, US Special Forces 'kill Osama bin Laden', Kim Jong-il and Steve Jobs die, and a company called DreamForge Games emerges. Their first successful Kickstarter
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The Perrys (who you can read a new interview with in Wi400) have just released another plastic box set - this time it’s Austrian Napoleonic Hussars and, once built, they are some of the prettiest plastics we’ve seen. Their wow factor is aided by the visual flair inherent to the
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Hot on the heels of the release of Shakos and Bayonets, the Napoleonic Wars supplement for Musket and Tomahawks (M&T), comes the first release of the official figures for the game. Studio Tomahawk has teamed up with North Star to produce all of the official M&T figures, and the Shakos and
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As part of our current (and unofficially titled) 'Crudload of Cool Wargames Atlantic Sets' series, we're perusing a box of command and heavy weapon options here. Designed to accompany the core Les Grognards box set (which has been available for a while) two different frames are included in this box
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Studio Miniatures have added a large number of 28mm Monty Python and the Holy Grail models to their Medieval Mayhem range of late. We're looking at just a few of them. MM03-Sir Bors & Squire The first minis under our movie microscope is the double pack of Sir Bors and his squire.
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As part of our 'change of scenery' here at Wargames Illustrated HQ, we have gone back to the future by getting hold of loads of 25/28mm painted buildings by Hovels - a well established UK model building manufacturer. In this vid we take you on a tour of our new
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North Star continue their support for ranked fantasy game Oathmark with the release of this human cavalry box set. Produced in their always high-quality injection plastic at 28mm scale, this is a generous set of 15 multi-part Human Cavalry figures and includes a glorious range of weapon and command options. Two
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Victrix now produce packs of 28mm hard plastic Persian Archers - in both armoured and unarmoured variants - and we are taking a look at the armoured version here. This box - or rather bag - (and the unarmoured set) contains 30 hard plastic, multi-pose miniatures, consisting of 24 archers
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There's a new Oathmark supplement on the way, Oathmark: Oathbreakers, which introduces the forces of the dead. To accompany it North Star Military Figures has created a frame of plastic skeletons, packed with everything you might need in your games. These are 28mm scale, multipart plastic fantasy miniatures; each boxed set
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Autumn (or Fall, to our North American friends) is very much here. Bare branches slice the cold October air, a stiff wind blows through their gnarled, skeletal fingers … it seems to be wailing out a message, a soft, barely perceptible sound … “Halloweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen!” That’s right, the spookiest of times is fast
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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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Mortem et Gloriam (MeG) is an increasingly popular set of wargames rules which aims to cover the ancient period from Biblical times through to late medieval. Author, Simon Hall, was a big fan of the various iterations of the DBM rules and was involved in writing their successor, Field of
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These new, plastic 15mm figures from the Plastic Soldier Company are just one box set from a whole variety of armies that are being made available for use with the Mortem Et Gloriam Pacto rules system or any other Ancients rules. There is a complete ‘army in a box’ approach,
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A review by Matt Broughton A welcome addition to the painter's arsenal is the latest product from Instar Paint. It would first seem that the 'Alpha' range steps into an area of the hobby currently created by the Games Workshop Contrast paints. An apparently fast and easy way to get your
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In this extract from an article in the March issue of Wargames Illustrated Editor Dan gets excited about a new range of medieval figures from (sort of…) Footsore Miniatures. What could be better than receiving 21 packs of figures for your favourite historical period? Well, opening them to discover they
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Battlefront has added more terrain to the Flames of War 15mm World War Two range with these three pre-painted resin pieces, which could be said to be able to show different stages of the same brick built factory. https://youtu.be/UP5D9kSkM9Q The first box, entitled Brick Factory, contains three resin pieces, a Factory Ground
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