Take a tour through the Vault and read some classic Wi articles. We've ground our way through the previous year's struggles and emerged into the greener pastures of hope and potential that they call 2023. Hurrah! The yearly reset, along with the downtime that the Christmas holidays provide, tends to give our
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! What a special treat we have for you lucky people this month! Bagged free with the printed issue of Wargames Illustrated magazine (and included as a PDF for WiPrime Members) we have a complete and exclusive set of wargames rules
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A bonus for WiPrime Members: read Observation Post ahead of its publication in Wargames Illustrated and see what we think of some of the latest wargaming releases. This instalment features a significant collection of books and some 1/600 ACW ships. Download the full PDF.
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! The ‘best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, gang aft agley’, as Rabbie Burns would have said if he had planned to include a free rules supplement in a wargames magazine and then several things conspired against him at the last
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A new bonus for WiPrime members: read Observation Post ahead of its publication in Wargames Illustrated and see what we think of some of the latest wargaming releases. This instalment features Crooked Dice's latest 7TV expansion Vlad's Army, ACW naval rules Dawn of War, and Oprey Games' Frostgrave Fireheart. Download the full
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! Well, it finally got us! After holding out for over two years WiHQ was finally awash with the Coronavirus in March, with five out of six office staff scumming to various levels of infection. Production of this venerable organ, and
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Whilst packing away, after leading my miniature warriors to an inglorious defeat on the tabletop last Wednesday evening, it occurred to me that the two wargames I have recently played have probably been as contrasting as they can be. The former was a ten-player Black Powder game, taking place on a
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The Wargames Illustrated team dig through the Vault to bring you some latest issue tie-ins. The theme of the next magazine (September 2021, Wi405) is ‘What if?’, it’s a subject we have visited, re-visited, then visited again numerous times over the years in Wi, leaving us, or rather you, with an
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! Little did we know, when we choose Turning Points as our theme for this issue, that Wargames Illustrated would be facing a turning of its own. At the end of May 2021, just as we went to print with the
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Following on from our look at the Skirmishers last week we are unboxing the Dismounted Cavalry for Black Powder Epic Battles. The basics Within the box are 54 dismounted cavalry miniatures and the Epic Battles bases you’ll need to mount them on. The figures come cast as groups of two which allows
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The Wargames Illustrated team dig through the Vault to find exciting articles from previous issues. 400+ issues is a feast too great for anyone to tackle with ease, even the greatest of gaming gluttons, yet that's what you can find in The Vault. Where on earth should you start browsing in
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We’re unboxing the new Skirmishers box set for Warlord Games’ Black Powder Epic Battles and ranking up some troops! When the plastic Epic Battles ACW frame first arrived at the office it caused quite a kerfuffle (and much discussion) as we pored over the figures. Wargames Illustrated consensus was that they
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! French troops are never very far from the wargames table: whether that be Charlemagne's Frankish warriors, Napoleon's legions, the Poilus of the Western Front, and more. The martial prowess of the soldiers from the various regions that have come to
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! This month we are going micro mini with our theme, that doesn’t mean we are going “all 2mm” on you, but rather our ‘Billhooks Redux’ theme consists of just two articles. Both are an expansion on the Never Mind the Billhooks
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The Wargames Illustrated team dig through The Vault in this new, Prime exclusive feature. With over 400 issues in The Vault you might be at a loss for where to start browsing - there are literally thousands of articles available and that's rather overwhelming. Well, fear not, each month we’re going
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Wargamers can be a bit sniffy about using 2D figures, often saying that they are not “real” miniatures. If you hold the belief that if it does not weigh a ton in lead and takes you a year to collect and paint then it’s not real wargaming. Well, please read
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Wargames Illustrated readers were given a preview of the star attraction from this set when we gave away a free Epic American Civil War sprue with the January 2021 issue of the magazine, and now the full starter set is here. https://youtu.be/dJ1sYaMYkCI The first thing to note is what we’re unboxing isn’t
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! In this issue, we include features on three demonstration games that will be "doing the rounds" of various conventions later in the year: Killiecrankie, Wagram, and - least famous of all - Berbera. (Every household should have an atlas!) It would
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! Welcome to Wargames World, the 'first birthday' special of Wargames Illustrated. Having said that, the main reason for this publication is not a celebration of our first year, but a 'thank you' to the many contributors to W.I., who send in articles
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In the March 2021 issue of Wargames Illustrated magazine (Wi399) Nick Eyre of North Star Military Figures takes us on a tour of his 28mm American Civil War figure collection, based on the battle of First Bull Run – the opening encounter in the war. Below you will find some spins
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! A smorgasbord of delights! Why would you pick a theme for the magazine when you can include 15 different articles drawn from the whole of human history and across the whole broad wargaming spectrum? Well, because it gives direction to the
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! I sincerely hope that your monthly copy of Wargames Illustrated magazine whisks you away from the stresses and strains of a Coronavirus ravaged world and into your miniature ‘happy place’ for some quality immersion, inspiration and escapism. So, it is with great
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We are beginning a new Prime feature this week - exclusive to our Prime members we will be sharing an advanced preview of an article from the upcoming issue of Wargames Illustrated magazine. If you don't want any spoilers and would rather have the whole next issue as a fresh,
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! HAPPY NEW YEAR! God knows we all deserve a happy new year after the trials and tribulations of the one just gone, which will be remembered infamously for the rest of our lives. From a wargames hobby perspective 2020 saw a decimation of
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It’s 1870 and the American Civil War isn’t over, it has also taken a rather dramatic twist in that the North has laid waste to the South using chemical weapons and the Confederate States have responded by using Necromancy to raise their dead and retaliate! Artizan Designs’ Grim Prairie Tales (GPT)
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Dom Sore gives us a locked-down wargamers eye view of the new(ish) Muskets and Tomahawks Second Edition Rules. Muskets and Tomahawks was not a game I bought into the first-time round; it arrived on the scene just before I returned to wargaming. It also seemed to centre round the French and
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Having trouble viewing the 3D magazine? View and download the PDF instead. Download the plans for this How To... now. This ‘How To…’ guide is a compilation of articles published over several years in Wargames Illustrated magazine. This volume is an eclectic mix of the best of the articles from our regular
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Having trouble viewing the 3D magazine? View and download the PDF instead. Download the plans for this How To... now. This ‘How To…’ guide is a compilation of articles published over several years in Wargames Illustrated magazine. This first volume (like the following two, which will be published annually) is an eclectic
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Steve Barber Models is a company with a swathe of different ranges. Many of these deal with the less obvious aspects of certain periods or fulfil niches that other companies fail to fill. We have examples here of three packs from two different ranges. The first pack is NB1, British Napoleonic
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Alan Perry has embarked upon a brand-new range of miniatures for the 1864 to 1870 War of the Triple Alliance, also known as The Great Paraguayan War. This war took place between the nation of Paraguay and the three-pronged Alliance of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. We spoke to Alan about the
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