Games Workshop has a talent for releasing a wide variety of different gaming experiences. One of the latest to hit the market is Blackstone Fortress, an adventure-style tabletop game where a disparate group of characters venture forth into the environs of the titular Blackstone Fortress, an ancient piece of technology
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We’ve got an eclectic selection of new stuff to tell you about from Gripping Beast. ITALIAN ALLIES Pictured below you can see some of their re-worked and re-released ‘Italian Allies’ suitable for the Punic Wars. Nice looking figures which have benefited for GBs programme of going through their back catalogue of Ancient
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Buy this in Print There is something particularly evocative about warfare on the frontiers. It’s easy to conjure up images of fighting on the great plains or mountain passes on the fringes of empire. In this issue of Wargames Illustrated we explore some of the wargaming potential offered by Frontier Wars,
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Fireforge Games have gone all undead with their latest multi-pose plastic miniatures. The new boxes allow you to field mounted and dismounted undead fantasy warriors, plus a horde of zombified peasants, all ready to aid in enacting the wishes of a fell Necromancer. The first of the boxes received for review
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Buy this in Print I remember my old history teacher telling the class “Britain has only ever been successfully invaded three times throughout history. Once by the Romans, then by the Anglo-Saxons and finally by the Normans in 1066”. As a twelve year old boy I just scribbled this down in
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Great Naval Battles of the Ancient Greek World Owen Rees Pen and Sword Military, 2018 Reviewed by Zachary G Martin The importance of warships to the Greeks cannot be overstated. Indeed, the Athenian Empire was a Thallassocracy in name and nature, existing much like the later British Empire, generally by dint of its overwhelming
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Sally 4th have a range of classic movie inspired miniatures with a Pulp feel that could feature in historical games as well. The first pack, entitled Take the High Road, contains 4 metal miniatures inspired by the main characters from the movie High Road To China (1983). The figures are entitled
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Buy this in Print We do hope you are enjoying your free plastic frames every month, this offer is set to continue throughout 2019 (and hopefully beyond). This month’s offering is quite special, the Crimean War Russians bagged with this issue have only just been released by Warlord Games, so this
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Parabellum Wargames continue to make progress with their Conquest: Last Argument of Kings pseudo-fantasy / historical rules and background. At the UK Games Expo, they had some samples of the figures from the core set on offer, so we grabbed a selection to take a look. The first thing to realise
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Buy this in Print FROM THE EDITOR The dust has now settled on Salute 2019, certainly the biggest wargames show of the year for the WI team. All of our staff attend, hundreds of Salute goers subscribe to the magazine and we run the world’s largest participation game at any show (see
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Clash of Spears is a 101-page hardback book which contains rules for running skirmish battles with an ancient era focus. It is a self-published set of rules, that is not only very professionally produced but is also very ‘gamer friendly’. https://youtu.be/xN2bilWFizI The book begins with a useful introduction to the aims of
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Victrix have added Celtic War Chariots to the Ancients range. These are plastic kits, with a host of options and extras included on the frames. There are three chariots in each set, which gives you plenty of opportunity to customize your ride as desired. In total, there are eight Armoured Gallic
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Men of Bronze is one of the latest ‘blue book’ rules systems from Osprey Games. It consequently follows the usual format, a 64-page softback book. The rules focus upon battles between Ancient Greek warriors and their enemies, often other Greek warriors! https://youtu.be/DpBDSisFMYA The rules begin with a helpful guide to the equipment
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Flying Frog Productions continue to produce core sets and expansions for their Shadows of Brimstone game setting. Set in a Wild West where ancient horrors have emerged to threaten the town of Brimstone and the wider world, players must work together to push back the creatures who would seek to
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This new Harbour Set from Debris of War is designed with 6mm (1/300th scale) figures in mind, although it could be pushed to work with 10mm or even 15mm. Formed from eight off-white resin sections, the harbour wall itself is 20mm wide and 15-20mm high, with a total length (when constructed)
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Dixon Miniatures have a number of fairly ‘venerable’ ranges which offer good quality sculpting at a reasonable price. In amongst the more historical 28mm Samurai is the Legends of Nippon range, which covers much of the mythology of Japan. One of the aspects of the historical range that is particularly useful
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Butlers’ Printed Models supplies 3D printed wargames models for wargames from ancient to WW2 to modern and beyond into the stars. Sent in for review were two different vehicles in two different scales. We have an M3 Stuart Light Tank from World War Two and an M2 Bradley IFV. The two
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all our readers! Our first magazine of 2019 features as its theme: (pre-gunpowder) Empire Building. We have four articles taking us to the great empires of Persia, Rome and Mali then we saddle-up with Genghis Khan and the Mongolian Horde and head to
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Gripping Beast have re-released their Ancient Libyan range after carrying out a great deal of work to refresh them. The ‘new’ figures are the result of having re-made the old moulds. As a consequence, the resulting casts are crisp and cleaner than they have been for years, allowing the high quality
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Daydream Miniatures produce a whole host of different miniatures for a number of historical periods. However, they also produce a range of excellent animal figures that can be used across a number of genres. At the present time, there are 22 separate packs of animals, divided into African, Fantasy, Forest and
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Steve Barber has been sculpting miniatures for many years. In amongst his 28mm ranges are some well sculpted miniatures, some of which take a different approach to the creation of an army. The latest range on offer is designed for the Thirty Years War. These come with separate heads, allowing you
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I always get a bit nervy when our theme content doesn’t include the wargaming ‘big three’ of Ancients, Napoleonics and World War Two, and in truth we could have crowbarred articles on all of these subjects into our ‘Bush Wars’ theme, but we decided to embrace the eclectic in the
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Watchful I Studios and Ainsty Castings have formed a partnership, with the latter acting as the European manufacturer and distributor for the US-based company. Shown here are a number of painted examples from the Ancient Chinese range, a trademark part of what Watchful I produces, with more planned in the future. Offering
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A Wargamer’s Guide to the Early Roman Empire Daniel Mersey Daniel Mersey Reviewed by Neil Smith Dan Mersey should require no introduction to historical wargamers: he is an award winning rules writer and his articles have graced the pages of many a wargaming magazine. So when Mersey produces A Wargamer’s Guide to the Early
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Have you ever wanted to go a step further and get right into the tabletop action? Well, Minuteman Miniatures can help, creating a miniature that not only represents you on the tabletop but looks like you as well! Whether you take part in sci-fi, ancients, American Civil War or World War
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We have a bonus eight pages again for you this month. Our article submissions are on a real roll at the moment and as the print deadline for each magazine looms nearer we are struggling to fit all the articles we have into the magazine. Having said that, always bear
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Available from Watchful I Studios and Ainsty Castings, these Ancient Chinese Warriors are designed to serve as any one of the factions associated with the Warring States era, a time of great turmoil in Chinese history. The first pack sent to us for review is 5 figures from the Light Archers
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The Salute Wargames Show is the biggest in the world and with attendees numbering over 9,000 it has become an annual launchpad for new product releases for several of the companies that attend. Wargames Illustrated reporters spent the day stalking the hall at Excel in London A) taking photographs and reporting
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The theme for this issue is End of Empire and we have seven articles which relate to this very board topic. We begin by dealing with wargaming the collapse of Bronze Age civilizations around the Mediterranean and head all the way through to the French Indo-China War in 1954, with
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tssAOTqVJxk&t OBSERVATION POST Our latest look at what’s new and upcoming in the world of wargaming. THEME: AMBUSH! Pete Brown shares some ideas for replicating the military art of ambush in our tabletop battles. SAGA 2 – ITERATION OR NEW GAME? Dom Sore takes a close look at the new rulebook and discusses what’s changed or
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