Ask anyone about the highest-quality fantasy miniatures available in plastic, and two letters will immediately come to mind: GW. While Games Workshop’s offerings remain at the top of the pile for technical achievement, their sets do have some downsides: they’re i...
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Renedra’s new Windmill and Timber Cabin kits will be a welcome addition to any gaming table, delivering good-looking, versatile terrain that’s perfect for historical play but is also suited to more modern environments, representing older structures, and even some...
Salute Saturday is probably a distant memory for many of the show’s 9,000+ attendees, but it has remained at the forefront of our minds here at WiHQ. Videos have been made, photos edited, and articles brought together. In this Recon Report I’m dragging out the Sa...
North Star’s new Elf Heavy Infantry are here and as has become the norm for a plastic Oathmark release, the new box set is supported by some metal character figures. The plastic box is great value at £25, holding six frames that build 30 figures and enough 25mm sq...
Warlord Games’ latest supplement for their excellent Pike & Shotte game takes us to the historical Asia-Pacific, specifically Japan and the Sengoku Jidai period. It covers the fighting from the early 16th Century to the dawn of the 17th Century. This period se...
With Pacific Command, Mike Hutchinson presents a grand strategic-level wargame that focuses on aircraft carrier engagements in World War Two’s Pacific Theatre. That’s a far cry from the post-apocalyptic car carnage found in his popular game Gaslands, or the sci-f...
We get a decent selection of new miniatures delivered to us early here at WiTowers; it’s a job benefit that offsets the pain of being a worker drone in the magazine mines run by evil overlord Dan!
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...
Joe McCullough’s Stargrave keeps growing, and Death Vector heralds the arrival of a new expanse to explore: the Outlaw Technology Sector (OTS). This abandoned part of space offers rich rewards, but it also hides terrible dangers. The game’s trademark dose of sci-...