Warlord Games continue to offer variant packs for their plastic 88mm which is a part of the Bolt Action range. Fundamentally, the core of this boxed set is the previously available plastic kit of the 8.8cm Flak 37 anti-aircraft gun, the infamous ‘88’. This kit comes with the cruciform firing platform
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When Ares Games released their Battlestar Galactica Starship Battles core boxed set, we got the chance to review it. Doing this job week in and week out, it sometimes takes a lot to get me excited. The core set was that product, based upon one of my favourite sci-fi TV
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Debris of War have some interesting items in their resin cast 1/300th scale Coastal Features range which could be of use for those gaming using Cruel Seas or similar rules systems. We have a fairly generic Lighthouse Set and an Atlantic Wall Observation Tower. The Lighthouse Set consists of one unpainted
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Ulfsark Games are a small, new company with a fairly unique range of 28mm ‘heroic’ scale miniatures. Depicting anthropomorphic animals with an oriental setting twist, these are something different on the market place. The miniatures are designed to be used with the Taiyō Dynasties rules system, wherein players take control of
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North Star Miniatures are offering ‘official’ figures to support the Rangers of Shadow Deep game, a solo and co-operative tabletop miniatures game by Frostgrave author Joe McCullough. Players create their ranger, gather companions, and play through a series of missions in their fight to hold back the darkness. If their rangers
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Warlord Games are continuing to add even greater variety to the vessels they have on offer for use with the Cruel Seas rules. One of their most recent is from the British Fairmile ‘family’, a Fairmile D MGB 660. The Fairmile company produced a mass production vessel, which had good seagoing
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Fallen Frontiers: The Battle for Hextrom VI from Scale 75 Games is the first in a series of miniature games. It is set in a futuristic sci-fi society where humans have colonized much of the galaxy and have found powerful energy sources and intelligent life forms with advanced technology. https://youtu.be/RXJ20EML6c8 In the
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In WI378, April 2019 we included an article in Wargames Illustrated in which regular contributor Pete Brown mused on the thorny issue of ‘taking offensive’ in our hobby. Incase you didn’t buy the magazine and see it (at which we take offence!) you will find the said article here. In WI379,
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We took a trip to Partizan 2019 and wanted to share with you some of the games from the event. See more in the July issue of the magazine. The Perrys - Battle of Mandara (Mandorah), Egypt 1801, Boondock Sayntes Burton and District Wargames Club - Black Day at Badrock Chesterfield Old Boys Derby Wargames
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After three years we are rising the price of our Giants in Miniature figure packs by 50p to £4 for single figures and £7.00 for double/mounted packs. Beat the price rise and get your order in before 1st July 2019. Giants in Miniature are available exclusively from the Wargames Illustrated webstore or North
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Helion & Company have once again teamed up with artist Peter Dennis to produce the second book in the Paperboys On Campaign series, this time focussing upon The Peninsular War during the Napoleonic period. This 48-page softback book consists of sheets of paper-based figures that may be photocopied and cut
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Modiphius Entertainment have revealed the Elder Scrolls: Call to Arms Starter Set models. The Elder Scrolls is a series of action role-playing open world epic fantasy video games primarily developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. The series is known for its elaborate and richly detailed open worlds and its focus on free-form gameplay. Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim all won Game of the
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Full Metal Miniatures have added another vehicle to their Vietnam range, the M42 Duster anti-aircraft tank. 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 such
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Alan Perry has been hard at work since Salute, and has some Austrian Cavalry and French Infantry command ‘3ups’ for future release as 28mm plastic figures to show off. The Austrian cavalry set will include the option to field Cuirassiers, Dragoons, Chevauxlegers and Hussars. Austrian Plastic cavalry '3ups' The French Infantry command are
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Khurasan Miniatures sell some of the best and most eclectic ranges of miniatures for the 15mm market. This time around, we’re taking a look at their ‘End Times’ range, a set of characters designed to inhabit any number of post-apocalyptic scenarios. First of all, we have the Mutant Supersoldiers. These are
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Warlord Games continue to add to their product line for their Blood Red Skies WW2 aerial combat game. There latest release cover the fictional war on the frozen Eastern Front to the reality of combat in the tropical Pacific. First of all, we have the ace pilot Johnny Red and the
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Your freebie cover mount this month is a Bolt Action World War II US Infantry frame, courtesy of Warlord Games. Tying in nicely with the 75th anniversary of D-Day, at which American troops like the ones represented on the frame played a major part. WHERE CAN YOU BUY YOUR COPY? Wargames Illustrated
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War World Gaming have a number of sets and individual buildings that can be used across a range of genres. We’re lucky enough to have been sent a set of models that will be used again and again. The Complete Medieval Township makes the perfect addition to your 28mm fantasy
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In memory of those who gave their lives for us, we’re offering one person the chance to acquire these four books. Featuring some of the key actions on D-Day and more, you can discover aspects of that first day you may have never heard of before, or use them as
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Issue 380 is now available to buy in the shops and with this issue we're giving away a frame of US Infantry from Warlord Games. Looking for a painting guide? Our friend Pete The Wargamer has done a guide on how to paint the HBT Camouflage they used! In this video I show
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Large Scale Warship Models Kerry Jang Seaforth Publishing, 2019 Reviewed by Neil Smith Kerry Jang’s guidebook Large Scale Warship Models takes potential modellers through all the stages of building a big model ship from scratch to completion, but along the way he teaches us something a little more profound about our hobby. The essentials of
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Panther Tanks: German Army and Waffen-SS Defence of the West, 1945 Dennis Oliver Pen & Sword, 2019 Reviewed by Neil Smith It sometimes strikes me as extraordinary the lengths some writers will go to research their subjects. Dennis Oliver’s Panther Tanks: German Army and Waffen-SS Defence of the West, 1945, part of Pen &
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Wargames Terrain & Building The Napoleonic Wars Tony Harwood Pen & Sword, 2019 Reviewed by Neil Smith One of the biggest joys our hobby provides is the aesthetics of miniature figures displayed on well-crafted terrain. And while skirmish games are all the rage, there is nothing quite like seeing the big armies fighting it
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Case Red: The Collapse of France Robert Forczyk Osprey Reviewed by Neil Smith Most of Wargames Illustrated’s readers will have a grasp of the Dunkirk story when it comes to the narrative of World War II. On 10 May 1940, the Germans poured over the French, Dutch, and Belgian borders and trounced a seemingly
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Images of War – M1 Abrams Michael Green Pen and Sword Military 2019 Reviewed by Phillip Herbert This new offering from Pen & Swords excellent Images of War series of books focus’ on one of the most iconic main battle tanks of the last forty years the M1 Abrams. The book follows the same format
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Crusader Miniatures and North Star have continued to add to their excellent American Civil War range with new packs of infantry and artillery crew for both sides in this ‘brother against brother’ conflict. Each pack contains four metal miniatures. The first pack is ACW033 - ACW Infantry Shirt & Hat Skirmishing,
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Warlord Games and Osprey Games have released the latest supplement for Bolt Action, this time covering the Allied invasion of Europe in 1944, D-Day: Overlord. This is a 216-page softback book, a combination of historical background, scenarios, new force and theatre selectors and new rules. https://youtu.be/5VKPJrmKaFE The first 130 pages of the
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Fireforge Games will soon be releasing yet more plastic, multi-part fantasy figures for their Forgotten World concept. We’ve been lucky enough to get hold of 3 boxes, all from the Northmen range, and enough to make a compact skirmish level force for a number of games. https://youtu.be/-9oV6BARTwE The Northmen Warriors box consists
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Pen and Sword have released a new book written by a wargamer, for wargamers. Wargames Terrain & Buildings: The Napoleonic Wars is basically a series of model making projects in various scales that can also be used for other periods and contains a wealth of techniques. This is a 160-page
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New company Pulp Miniatures (not to be confused with the similar sounding Pulp Figures) first foray into figure production offers something new, moving away from the world of the Chicago-based gangsters and focusing upon the equally troubled New York during the classic Prohibition Era and beyond. The intent behind the range
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