Editor’s Exploits

Exclusive to WiPrime Members, this monthly staple, has Dan talking with industry icons and reporting on his travels.

Trumping controversy

I’ll begin this Editor’s Exploits by sharing some comments in response to a recent Wargames Illustrated Facebook post: “As an American, who watched it happen live, I find this in very poor taste and I agree with others, this is beneath your publication’s stan...
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UK Games Expo – A journey out of the comfort zone

Since its inception in 2007, the UK Games Expo has grown significantly. Wargames Illustrated sponsored the event in 2008, recognising its potential and the organisers’ philosophy of bridging different gaming genres. Today, major sponsors such as Waterstones and...

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Hammerhead: The Editor’s Choice Award

It wasn’t supposed to be this good! The quality of entries in the Hammerhead/Wargames Illustrated Painting Competition have significantly exceeded our expectations when we began the competition five years ago. Our original directive to “simply grab the best f...

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Flavour-less

“Flavour” is a popular buzzword in the promotion of any modern wargame. Many rules are keen to push their “period flavour” credentials. Our own Never Mind the Billhooks rules proudly boast that they “produce battles that are full of period flavour, but alwa...

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How the other half games

Test cricket is very different from Twenty-Twenty cricket, 3×3 basketball is very different from that played in the NBA, and tournament wargaming is very different from how I like to play my wargames. That latter fact was underlined recently at Britcon, one of t...

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Trumping controversy

I’ll begin this Editor’s Exploits by sharing some comments in response to a recent Wargames Illustrated Facebook post: “As an American, who w...
Read More 5

Flavour-less

“Flavour” is a popular buzzword in the promotion of any modern wargame. Many rules are keen to push their “period flavour” credentials. Our ow...
Read More 5