Another Partizan, another record-breaking number of attendees; over 1,100 wargamers and hobbyists pushed through the gates of the Newark Showground for the May 2022 show. They were treated to the high-quality collection of demo and participation games we have come to expect from this stalwart of the UK show circuit. Now, WiPrime members can see more of the tabletops featured in the article in the following galleries. Derby Wargames Society – It’s not a Narva or Great Northern War Game! James Morris and chums – The Battle of Degsastan, 603AD The Immortals – The Battle of Morlaix, 1342 The Billhooks Brothers – Never Mind the Boathooks Perry Miniatures – The Prussians are Coming! Too Fat Lardies – What a Cowboy – A Bad Day in Lardville The Iron Brigade – ACW Coffee Wagon Boondock Sayntes – Cawnpore, 1857 Grimsby Wargames Society – Vicksburg, 1863

Another Partizan, another record-breaking number of attendees; over 1,100 wargamers and hobbyists pushed through the gates of the Newark Showground for the May 2022 show. They were treated to the high-quality collection of demo and participation games we have come to expect from this stalwart of the UK show circuit. Now, WiPrime members can see more of the tabletops featured in the article in the following galleries. Derby Wargames Society – It’s not a Narva or Great Northern War Game! James Morris and chums – The Battle of Degsastan, 603AD The Immortals – The Battle of Morlaix, 1342 The Billhooks Brothers – Never Mind the Boathooks Perry Miniatures – The Prussians are Coming! Too Fat Lardies – What a Cowboy – A Bad Day in Lardville The Iron Brigade – ACW Coffee Wagon Boondock Sayntes – Cawnpore, 1857 Grimsby Wargames Society – Vicksburg, 1863 If you are seeing this message after signing in, PLEASE PRESS THE BROWSER REFRESH BUTTON This page is only viewable by WIPrime members, If you are a Prime member please log in, If you are not a WIPrime member – you should be! Find out more here.

Another Partizan, another record-breaking number of attendees; over 1,100 wargamers and hobbyists pushed through the gates of the Newark Showground for the May 2022 show. They were treated to the high-quality collection of demo and participation games we have come to expect from this stalwart of the UK show circuit. Now, WiPrime members can see more of the tabletops featured in the article in the following galleries. Derby Wargames Society – It’s not a Narva or Great Northern War Game! James Morris and chums – The Battle of Degsastan, 603AD The Immortals – The Battle of Morlaix, 1342 The Billhooks Brothers – Never Mind the Boathooks Perry Miniatures – The Prussians are Coming! Too Fat Lardies – What a Cowboy – A Bad Day in Lardville The Iron Brigade – ACW Coffee Wagon Boondock Sayntes – Cawnpore, 1857 Grimsby Wargames Society – Vicksburg, 1863 If you are seeing this message after signing in, PLEASE PRESS THE BROWSER REFRESH BUTTON This page is only viewable by WIPrime members, If you are a Prime member please log in, If you are not a WIPrime member – you should be! Find out more here. If you are seeing this message after signing in, PLEASE PRESS THE BROWSER REFRESH BUTTON This page is only viewable by WIPrime members, If you are a Prime member please log in, If you are not a WIPrime member – you should be! Find out more here.

Another Partizan, another record-breaking number of attendees; over 1,100 wargamers and hobbyists pushed through the gates of the Newark Showground for the May 2022 show. They were treated to the high-quality collection of demo and participation games we have come to expect from this stalwart of the UK show circuit. Now, WiPrime members can see more of the tabletops featured in the article in the following galleries. Derby Wargames Society – It’s not a Narva or Great Northern War Game! James Morris and chums – The Battle of Degsastan, 603AD The Immortals – The Battle of Morlaix, 1342 The Billhooks Brothers – Never Mind the Boathooks Perry Miniatures – The Prussians are Coming! Too Fat Lardies – What a Cowboy – A Bad Day in Lardville The Iron Brigade – ACW Coffee Wagon Boondock Sayntes – Cawnpore, 1857 Grimsby Wargames Society – Vicksburg, 1863 If you are seeing this message after signing in, PLEASE PRESS THE BROWSER REFRESH BUTTON This page is only viewable by WIPrime members, If you are a Prime member please log in, If you are not a WIPrime member – you should be! Find out more here. If you are seeing this message after signing in, PLEASE PRESS THE BROWSER REFRESH BUTTON This page is only viewable by WIPrime members, If you are a Prime member please log in, If you are not a WIPrime member – you should be! Find out more here. If you are seeing this message after signing in, PLEASE PRESS THE BROWSER REFRESH BUTTON This page is only viewable by WIPrime members, If you are a Prime member please log in, If you are not a WIPrime member – you should be! Find out more here.

Another Partizan, another record-breaking number of attendees; over 1,100 wargamers and hobbyists pushed through the gates of the Newark Showground for the May 2022 show. They were treated to the high-quality collection of demo and participation games we have come to expect from this stalwart of the UK show circuit. Now, WiPrime members can see more of the tabletops featured in the article in the following galleries. Derby Wargames Society – It’s not a Narva or Great Northern War Game! James Morris and chums – The Battle of Degsastan, 603AD The Immortals – The Battle of Morlaix, 1342 The Billhooks Brothers – Never Mind the Boathooks Perry Miniatures – The Prussians are Coming! Too Fat Lardies – What a Cowboy – A Bad Day in Lardville The Iron Brigade – ACW Coffee Wagon Boondock Sayntes – Cawnpore, 1857 Grimsby Wargames Society – Vicksburg, 1863 If you are seeing this message after signing in, PLEASE PRESS THE BROWSER REFRESH BUTTON This page is only viewable by WIPrime members, If you are a Prime member please log in, If you are not a WIPrime member – you should be! Find out more here. If you are seeing this message after signing in, PLEASE PRESS THE BROWSER REFRESH BUTTON This page is only viewable by WIPrime members, If you are a Prime member please log in, If you are not a WIPrime member – you should be! Find out more here. If you are seeing this message after signing in, PLEASE PRESS THE BROWSER REFRESH BUTTON This page is only viewable by WIPrime members, If you are a Prime member please log in, If you are not a WIPrime member – you should be! Find out more here. If you are seeing this message after signing in, PLEASE PRESS THE BROWSER REFRESH BUTTON

Another Partizan, another record-breaking number of attendees; over 1,100 wargamers and hobbyists pushed through the gates of the Newark Showground for the May 2022 show. They were treated to the high-quality collection of demo and participation games we have come to expect from this stalwart of the UK show circuit. Now, WiPrime members can see more of the tabletops featured in the article in the following galleries. Derby Wargames Society – It’s not a Narva or Great Northern War Game! James Morris and chums – The Battle of Degsastan, 603AD The Immortals – The Battle of Morlaix, 1342 The Billhooks Brothers – Never Mind the Boathooks Perry Miniatures – The Prussians are Coming! Too Fat Lardies – What a Cowboy – A Bad Day in Lardville The Iron Brigade – ACW Coffee Wagon Boondock Sayntes – Cawnpore, 1857 Grimsby Wargames Society – Vicksburg, 1863 If you are seeing this message after signing in, PLEASE PRESS THE BROWSER REFRESH BUTTON This page is only viewable by WIPrime members, If you are a Prime member please log in, If you are not a WIPrime member – you should be! Find out more here. If you are seeing this message after signing in, PLEASE PRESS THE BROWSER REFRESH BUTTON This page is only viewable by WIPrime members, If you are a Prime member please log in, If you are not a WIPrime member – you should be! Find out more here. If you are seeing this message after signing in, PLEASE PRESS THE BROWSER REFRESH BUTTON This page is only viewable by WIPrime members, If you are a Prime member please log in, If you are not a WIPrime member – you should be! Find out more here. If you are seeing this message after signing in, PLEASE PRESS THE BROWSER REFRESH BUTTON

Sweeping in at the last minute we’ve got May’s From the Vault; we look back at past issues of Wargames Illustrated and suggest interesting, odd, and visually appealing articles that are worth a second look. Wargames Illustrated 355 – May 2017 Five years ago our theme brought the colour, drama, and centuries of Samurai at war to the pages of the magazine. Jonas Svensson provided a great overview piece and it will be as useful now as it was then; Release Radar writer Dom Sore gave his insights on the Ronin; and there were Test of Honour scenarios, painting and basing tips, and more. If you’re looking for a wacky alternative to Samurai then how about Nazi platoons on the moon? Mike Strong discusses his 7TV pulpy moonbase gaming board and there are some excellent photos of his terrain being gamed over. There’s more pulp action with the undead entering the Old West in The Curse of Dead Man’s Hand; our article on that game has a comic book style battle report. Back to the history, there’s an article that ties in neatly with the 40th anniversary of the Falklands war; Chris Abbey presents a Combat Patrol scenario – skirmish at Murrell Bridge. Check out our latest issue, Wi414, if you want a guide on painting participants from the conflict. Wargames Illustrated 235 – May 2007 Looking back fifteen years and blimey, look at page nine! GW was advertising in the pages of Wi; that’s not something likely to happen again any time soon. But enough of that let’s focus on the work of two chaps who escaped from the clutches of the Space Marine Empire – the Perrys tell us how they went about building an impressive Siege of Mafeking board in just six weeks for a BBC documentary. The article is a big one and gives the board and figures the attention they deserve in a great many stunning photos. Not got enough Perry action from that article? We’ve got a look at Alan’s Foundry Sikh War collection too. Other goodies in this issue include a piece by Dave Andrews on World War One Trench Raiding with full custom rules, profiles, and floorplans; battling in Burma by Nicolas Stock; and an article from Chris Peers that looks at the British in the ‘Back of Beyond’. If you want more ‘Back of Beyond’ action check out Wi414 where we’ve got a Designer’s Notes from another Chris, Chris Swan, about his new Beyond the Empire rules. Wargames Illustrated 176 – May 2002 If you think 20 years is a fair bit of time to travel in time for this issue then brace yourself for Terry Hooper’s piece which goes waaaaaaaay

I do like an umpired game and I’m particularly keen when I’m unfamiliar with the rules but the umpire is a walking, talking, 3D version of the rulebook. That meant I was already keen when friend of the magazine Pete Brown offered to umpire a game based on a battle in the Irish rebellion of 1798. On this occasion I was familiar with the rules – Black Powder – but I wasn’t familiar with the concept Pete was going to introduce; freeform gaming. Inspired by roleplaying games such as D&D, Pete wanted to umpire a game that was based on Black Powder, but which allowed players to bend, break, and invent new rules in order to introduce elements which, in a normal two-player game of BP, would not be possible. Based on the historical Battle of New Ross, Pete was able to introduce myriad (almost unbelievable!) events from the actual battle – drunken Irishmen, sleeping generals, stampeding cows – which we players had to cope with, and we were allowed to do whatever we liked without conforming to the rules. This led to fighting taking place between the internal walls of houses, a unit of troops being waylaid in the pub, and a man sticking his wig down the barrel of a cannon in an effort to spike it! That was just a few of the entertaining events in this hoot of a game. Pete will be covering all the action from our game in a two-part article that begins with the history and concepts of freeform gaming and concludes with how it practically worked out in our battle. Suffice to say, once you’ve freeformed it’s hard to go back to sticking to the rules! P.S. Trent Miniatures (available from Skytrex) Irish Rebellion figures are used throughout.

I do like an umpired game and I’m particularly keen when I’m unfamiliar with the rules but the umpire is a walking, talking, 3D version of the rulebook. That meant I was already keen when friend of the magazine Pete Brown offered to umpire a game based on a battle in the Irish rebellion of 1798. On this occasion I was familiar with the rules – Black Powder – but I wasn’t familiar with the concept Pete was going to introduce; freeform gaming. Inspired by roleplaying games such as D&D, Pete wanted to umpire a game that was based on Black Powder, but which allowed players to bend, break, and invent new rules in order to introduce elements which, in a normal two-player game of BP, would not be possible. Based on the historical Battle of New Ross, Pete was able to introduce myriad (almost unbelievable!) events from the actual battle – drunken Irishmen, sleeping generals, stampeding cows – which we players had to cope with, and we were allowed to do whatever we liked without conforming to the rules. This led to fighting taking place between the internal walls of houses, a unit of troops being waylaid in the pub, and a man sticking his wig down the barrel of a cannon in an effort to spike it! That was just a few of the entertaining events in this hoot of a game. Pete will be covering all the action from our game in a two-part article that begins with the history and concepts of freeform gaming and concludes with how it practically worked out in our battle. Suffice to say, once you’ve freeformed it’s hard to go back to sticking to the rules! P.S. Trent Miniatures (available from Skytrex) Irish Rebellion figures are used throughout. If you are

I do like an umpired game and I’m particularly keen when I’m unfamiliar with the rules but the umpire is a walking, talking, 3D version of the rulebook. That meant I was already keen when friend of the magazine Pete Brown offered to umpire a game based on a battle in the Irish rebellion of 1798. On this occasion I was familiar with the rules – Black Powder – but I wasn’t familiar with the concept Pete was going to introduce; freeform gaming. Inspired by roleplaying games such as D&D, Pete wanted to umpire a game that was based on Black Powder, but which allowed players to bend, break, and invent new rules in order to introduce elements which, in a normal two-player game of BP, would not be possible. Based on the historical Battle of New Ross, Pete was able to introduce myriad (almost unbelievable!) events from the actual battle – drunken Irishmen, sleeping generals, stampeding cows – which we players had to cope with, and we were allowed to do whatever we liked without conforming to the rules. This led to fighting taking place between the internal walls of houses, a unit of troops being waylaid in the pub, and a man sticking his wig down the barrel of a cannon in an effort to spike it! That was just a few of the entertaining events in this hoot of a game. Pete will be covering all the action from our game in a two-part article that begins with the history and concepts of freeform gaming and concludes with how it practically worked out in our battle. Suffice to say, once you’ve freeformed it’s hard to go back to sticking to the rules! P.S. Trent Miniatures (available from Skytrex) Irish Rebellion figures are used throughout. If you are