Having trouble viewing the 3D magazine? View and download the PDF instead. Iron Cross is compact, easy to learn and has tons of decision making, tension and tactical nuances. What it does better than anything on this scale is give you a game that feels like WWII and looks like WWII.
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Owen I, King of Strathclyde, is the latest 'Legendary Warlord’ realise by Gripping Beast, in their (under licence) SAGA range. Both heroic in statue and pose, Owen will make a suitable leader for any Strathclyde Welsh warband, as featured in the Age of Vikings faction. [magic360 id="Strathclyde"] The two version of Owen -
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The theme for this issue is Soldiers on Campaign - and not - Soldiers, on Campaign. A subtle difference which means that rather than focusing on the wargame campaigns the soldiers are on, we are focusing on the soldiers that are on those campaigns. Simple! And if that’s about as
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Gringo 40’s has slowly been adding new figures to their excellent 28mm Vietnam War range. Each figure is meticulously researched and has to pass a whole series of checks before it goes into production. Consequently, rather than releasing pack after pack at a rapid pace, miniatures are mostly released as
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Quickly! Flip to page 36 of this magazine, then come back here…. Good, isn’t it? That’s Alan Sheward’s Stalingrad table. To coincide with this month’s Urban Combat theme Alan, with the help of buddy Adrian Deacon, took the trouble to come to WIHQ with their amazing table and set the whole
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Rubicon Models have one of the fastest growing and highest quality ranges of model kits on the 1/56th scale market. Choosing to specialise in World War Two vehicles, they aim to not only provide some of the missing vehicles from this period but also provide for as many options as
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Gringo 40s continue to provide additional figures for their excellent, uniquely individual sculpts of US Marines during the fighting for the city of Hue during 1968. Some of the most recent releases include MAR36, a US Marine Sergeant firing a Thompson sub machine gun, standing braced for the recoil. MAR35, a US
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You can’t go wrong wargaming with a bunch of mohawk sporting US paratroopers known as the ‘Filthy 13’ or indeed a group of armed British citizen militia known as ‘Dad’s Army’, both (very different!) sets of warriors featured in this month’s ‘Infamous Sections’ theme, along with Popski’s Private Army -
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Hello, hello what’s all this? No bagged magazine this month? No plastic frame of figures? Decals instead! If you are missing your free plastic figure fix please turn to the news on page 4 to be reassured you will be getting another hit before too long. In the meantime, why
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Buy this in Print Do you like this month’s cover mount freebie? (Prime members can find theirs here) We figured that even if you are not into naval wargaming you would like to ‘have a play’ with the great new 1/700th scale ship models designed by Warlord Games for their forthcoming
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Would you like some sails for your free model ship/s found with issue 348? You can download them here, then print them on paper or card.
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This set of event cards is for use with the Ramree island ‘Cacophony of Hell’ game as demoed at Fall In 2016 and seen in Wargames Illustrated 359. The full list of events and quantity of each (as multiples of some occur), are as follows. Feel free to create more appropriate
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Putty Monkey, AKA sculptor Mark Evans, recently ran a Kickstarter campaign to fund the production of a number of figures based upon the Aftermath RPG that first appeared in the 1980’s. Aftermath is set in a post-apocalyptic world in which the characters typically had to fight for food, water, basic supplies and
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Buy this in Print There is something particularly evocative about warfare on the frontiers. It’s easy to conjure up images of fighting on the great plains or mountain passes on the fringes of empire. In this issue of Wargames Illustrated we explore some of the wargaming potential offered by Frontier Wars,
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Mantic Games continue to add to their range of miniatures designed for use with their excellent skirmish game, Vanguard. The game allows players using the Kings of War rules system to play out those ‘special missions’ where hundreds of figures are not required, Consequently, the miniatures are extremely characterful and
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I remember my old history teacher telling the class “Britain has only ever been successfully invaded three times throughout history. Once by the Romans, then by the Anglo-Saxons and finally by the Normans in 1066”. As a twelve year old boy I just scribbled this down in my jotter and
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Ace painter Ben Macintyre (AKA Brush Demon) has provided us, and you, with a guide to painting King Leonidas from our Giants in Miniature range. Download the Guide. [pdf-embedder url="https://ed025442.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Leonidas_painting-guide-compressed.pdf" title="Leonidas_painting guide-compressed"]
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Buy this in Print We do hope you are enjoying your free plastic frames every month, this offer is set to continue throughout 2019 (and hopefully beyond). This month’s offering is quite special, the Crimean War Russians bagged with this issue have only just been released by Warlord Games, so this
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Full Metal Miniatures have added another vehicle to their Vietnam range, the M42 Duster anti-aircraft tank. [magic360 id="M42_Duster"] The M42 Duster was developed as an anti-aircraft weapon armed with twin 40mm bofors guns during the Korean War. During the Vietnam War the air threat never really materialised from the North and as
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Buy this in Print FROM THE EDITOR The dust has now settled on Salute 2019, certainly the biggest wargames show of the year for the WI team. All of our staff attend, hundreds of Salute goers subscribe to the magazine and we run the world’s largest participation game at any show (see
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To go along with Paul Davies ‘how to’ build a Greek temple for 28mm miniatures (WI380), You can download the plans to follow along with this project here. Paul also showed us how to make a Ruined temple which you can read here
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Having trouble viewing the 3D magazine? View and download the PDF instead. Download the Tactical Advantage Cards! Seven Days to the River Rhine is a set of fast-play rules simulating armoured combat during the 1980s in Europe when the Cold War between the NATO alliance and Soviet-led Warsaw Pact could easily have
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FROM THE EDITOR I stand corrected, after chiding Richard Clarke of Too Fat Ladies for giving the characters in his games “silly names”, Rich rebuked with a well reasoned and constructed article on why it’s never a bad idea to give the heroes in your games monikers like Private Parts or
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Studio Miniatures have added a new pack of Afghan Cavalry to their Afghan Wars range, which would actually be useful for most games set out on what was once the North West Frontier. Afghan Cavalry II consists of 4 riders, all wearing the dome-shaped hard hat called a kulla. This headwear
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Lucid Eye have expanded their Savage Core range of ‘Pulp-esque’ miniatures with yet more figures. Some of their latest releases compliment the new supplement for Savage Core, Temple of the Golden Heart. The five figures we have, sculpted by Steve Saleh, represent a pair of jungle dwelling humans, a big game
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FROM THE EDITOR Well, I’m worn out! Having contributed a ‘personal best’ number of articles to this month’s magazine (two) I deserve a lie-down. Having said that there’s no time for lying down at the moment as the show season has well and truly kicked off. We’ve already ‘done’ Vapnartak, Hammerhead
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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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It’s interesting how much wargaming potential there is ‘between the wars’. This month’s theme looks at conflicts that took place after World War One ended and before World War Two began and without even straying into the fertile ‘what if’ territory of A Very British Civil War or Pulp, we
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Last week we ‘unboxed’ the latest Perry Miniatures plastic box set ‘Agincourt Mounted Knights’ for you. At the time we didn’t have any painted examples - but now we do! Here they are in 360 degree technicolor. Painted by top medievalist Simon Chick. [magic360 id="AgincourtKinghts_1"] [magic360 id="AgincourtKinghts_2"] [magic360 id="AgincourtKinghts_3"] [magic360 id="AgincourtKinghts_4"] P.S. See
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Aenor Miniatures of France have a number of different ranges, from Aliens to Trolls. The Fantasy range consists of some extremely characterful miniatures that cover many of the archetypes to be found in a plethora of miniature and role playing games. Although we are dealing with archetypes such as the Barbarian
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