Men of Bronze is one of the latest ‘blue book’ rules systems from Osprey Games. It consequently follows the usual format, a 64-page softback book. The rules focus upon battles between Ancient Greek warriors and their enemies, often other Greek warriors! https://youtu.be/DpBDSisFMYA The rules begin with a helpful guide to the equipment
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Modelling British World War II Armoured Vehicles and Modelling German World War II Armoured Vehicles are two guides published by Crowood Press. Both address largely the same approaches to their respective subjects, albeit with a few differences in the exact focus. https://youtu.be/5ruKBYUjk-U The British book begins with a thorough exploration of the
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Thud & Blunder is a 164 page hardback book. The rules are intended to replicate the ‘High Fantasy’ gaming of the past, with Warbands skirmishing with one another in a range of settings. https://youtu.be/tizTYjYBKEQ The introduction succinctly outlines the key concepts behind the game and offers a number of resources via the
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Offensive Miniatures are seemingly unstoppable at the moment, expanding their 28mm World War Two range on a regular basis. One of their latest releases is this pack of Late War German Tank Riders. There are 8 figures in the pack, dressed in the Late War uniform of short boots with gaiters
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Sally 4th have provided us with one of their resin kits from the Albedo Combat Patrol Miniatures Game, ACP164. This is an AV8B Armoured Personnel Carrier, one of the variants available. Designed to represent a late war version of an AV8 APC, these kits are supplied unpainted & un-assembled. In the
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Knight Models have a licence to produce rules and miniatures based upon the DC Comics Multiverse, most notably the Batman Miniature Game. There are a host of excellent miniatures which are constantly being expanded to provide as wide a variety of options as possible. Chosen for review are Batgirl and the
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Fullmetalminiatures is a new UK based company with an expanding range of miniatures for the Vietnam War. Received for review are two packs from the range. The four figure pack has standard US Marines armed with M16s and an M79 "blooper" grenade launcher. The second pack contains two figures, one with
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Scenario One: CEFEO Sorties The French conducted active defense measures intended to push back the ever-tightening Viet Minh stranglehold the entire time the CEFEO garrison occupied Dien Bien Phu. Sortie scenarios encompass road-clearing operations to maintain the lifeline between Isabelle and the main French base, patrol actions in the vicinity of
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Subtitled The Second Book of the Elf King, Troll Wars is a 74 page softback book. It is the first supplement to the Red Book of the Elf King rules, and you need a copy of the core rules to use it. The book adds new new characters, races, spells
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Crooked Dice Game design Studio has added a second boxed set to their range, this time themed around the movies, fiction and TV shows which focus upon the End Times and beyond. Cunningly entitled 7TV: Apocalypse, the rules focus upon allowing players to re-create and game their own chosen Post
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The Plastic Soldier Company have taken Richard Borg’s tried and tested Command and Colors and worked with him to publish a set of space combat rules, Red Alert. These come in a large boxed set which contains rules, punchboards, spacecraft and a play mat. https://youtu.be/aQpOGMjOcA8 Once you lift the lid of this
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Having published the Burrows and Badgers rules via Osprey Games, Oathsworn Miniatures have continued to add yet more miniatures to their range of anthropomorphic animal characters. With most figures available in metal or resin, they have an excellent level of detail and represent a quirky option for any gamer interested
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Copplestone Castings have an expanding range of 15mm fantasy figures as part of their Barbarica range. Available from North Star Military Hobbies, they have a selection of ‘in scale’ giants, from which this Frost Giant is taken. This figure has a wealth of sculpted detail which is etched into it. In
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Miniature Building Authority of the USA has added two rather unique vehicles to their range of resin products. The Refugee Car and the Three-Wheeler with Flatbed are vehicles you’ve probably seen on the news or whilst overseas but may not have realised you needed until now. The Refugee Car is typical
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Knight Models have produced some benchmark miniatures for this literary and movie franchise. Based as closely as possible on the characters from the movies, the figures for the Harry Potter Miniatures Adventure Game have managed to surpass all expectations. These figures are fairly thin and tall but subscribe more to the
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EVERY print copy of the March 2019 issue of Wargames Illustrated magazine comes with a FREE Warlord Games plastic frame, courtesy of Warlord Games! Each magazine has been randomly bagged with one of either; French Chasseurs, Hussars or Line Lancers plastic frames. WHERE CAN YOU BUY YOUR COPY? Wargames Illustrated is available from
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North Star Miniatures and Osprey Publishing continue their titanic team-up to produce top quality multi-part plastic miniature. The latest collaboration has resulted in the frankly excellent Frostgrave Wizards boxed set. This boxed set offers enough parts to build eight wizards or apprentices for Frostgrave. It includes a wide range of heads,
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Modelling and Painting Fantasy Figures is a 176 page softback book, one of the latest in the Crowood Press Wargaming Guides series. In essence, the book is a basic introduction to the world of miniature gaming, painting and sculpting. https://youtu.be/NsGecSjhSQM The guide begins with an overview of the world of miniatures, the
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Mike Owen of Artizan Designs has added a new pack of three figures to his Grim Prairie Tales range, introducing some characterful figures into his own Weird West background. These are three representatives of the Catholic Church, sent to the USA to battle the forces of unlife and those dedicated
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Having run a successful Kickstarter campaign, Flags of War have managed to fund a new range of Jacobite Rebellion Scots that cover many of the troops types of the period. These figures are pleasingly ‘chunky’ whilst still retaining a sense of realism. The detail is nicely etched and the attention to
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Bob Murch of Pulp Figures has teamed up with Crucible Crush to expand the Black Sun miniatures range. This is a ‘Weird War’ setting for Vietnam, where US and Vietcong become trapped in an alternate reality of Elder gods and an even more deadly jungle. Various figures are already available,
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Victorious Miniatures have added yet more characterful miniatures to their 28mm Boxer Rebellion range. This time, we have Chinese figures, ranging from the highest level in the land down to the more earthy peasants. The figures received for review come in two figure packs. We have the head of the Imperial
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Flying Frog Productions continue to produce core sets and expansions for their Shadows of Brimstone game setting. Set in a Wild West where ancient horrors have emerged to threaten the town of Brimstone and the wider world, players must work together to push back the creatures who would seek to
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When is Modern not Modern - when it’s Ultra Modern. At least that’s what we’ve decided here at Wargames Illustrated. For this month’s magazine theme we wanted to go beyond World War Two, but stop before the Millennium, so we’ve decided that the Modern ‘period’ covers 1946 to 1999 and
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Campaign: Fortress Budapest is a 168-page softback gaming supplement, published by Warlord Games and Osprey. It is designed to provide new army lists, rules information and scenarios for players of the Bolt Action World War II wargames rules. https://youtu.be/T0OTsP3JT_E The book follows a fairly familiar format by emphasizing that this is a
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Spectre Miniatures have added a pack of figures intended to represent a Chinese Special Forces Jungle Squad. They have a mixture of standard and specialised weapons for jungle combat, as dictated by the Chinese way of waging warfare. The riflemen in the six-man squad carry standard-issue Chinese bullpup QBZ95 assault rifles.
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Empress Miniatures have worked with the incomparable Paul Hicks to add some extremely characterful miniatures to their 28mm World War Two range. Intended to represent typical British infantry of the Late War (Winter 1944 / 5), these figures could also feature in conflicts up to the late 1950’s. These figures are
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Early War Miniatures are known for offering the familiar and the esoteric in their 20mm Inter War ranges. Two of their latest offerings for the British Army of the 1920s and 30s are the Carden-Loyd 1-Man Tank Mark I and the Lanchester Armoured Car. The Carden-Loyd 1-Man Tank Mark I was
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1st Corps have an interesting and ever expanding 1/48th World War Two vehicles range. Received for review are two British vehicles, the Morris CS9 Armoured Car and the MKII Universal Carrier. The Morris CS9/Light Armoured Car was a British armoured car used by the British Army in the Second World War.
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Battlefront have released more plastic figures for their Flames of War range. Based upon their recent releases for the Stalingrad period on the Eastern Front of World War Two, we have a Storm Group and SMG Company. https://youtu.be/J72DOrjjf50 The Storm Group contains 68 plastic figures, moulded in a vinyl style plastic on
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