7TV: Fantasy puts all manner of fantasy possibilities in your grubby mitts and lets you direct them, as if you are a film producer, creating a game that has stars, props, maguffins, extras, and more. The end goal is to have fun gaming with an ‘on screen’ narrative as well
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We've got all sorts of smashing new 7TV: Fantasy stuff to look at over the next couple of weeks and to start things off we're reviewing two new sets of figures - Fantasy Stars and Skeleton Command. Left to right - Monster Hunter, Tyrant King, Vicious Henchman, and Tragic Hero. Fantasy Stars The
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Following our look at the plastic Revenants set for Oathmark, we've got some associated characters to have a peep at. The first thing to point out is that these are 28mm resin sub-masters, not the final metal production figures, but we'd imagine those will be to the high-quality standard we've come
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A new selection of plastics have landed on the review desk - Oathmark: Revenant Infantry to go with the upcoming supplement Bane of Kings. There are enough parts on each frame to construct five Revenants in a variety of poses and with different weapon choices. Six of these frames are included
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Arriving too late for us to get them online properly this week, but too cool to leave unmentioned, it's 7TV's extremely pretty new boxed game 7TV: Fantasy! 7TV: Fantasy is the latest game to come from Crooked Dice's partnership with Edge Hill University Press, created thanks to the involvement of students
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Editor Dan embarks on a brave new journey of discovery, involving cardboard and clips. If you’re a 50+ wargamer like myself, you can possibly remember your first model house building project. Perhaps it was something constructed in the 1970s using balsa wood and a toxic (now banned) glue, or maybe the
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We were rather partial to the previous Order Militant figures that came across our review desk; their dark and weird look and quality were apparent in every sculpt. Will we feel the same way about these new ones? SAGA: Age of Magic has got some cracking figures in its evolving range,
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This box is all about the frames. To be more precise, it’s about the same frame eight times as that’s all you get! None of the instructions, bases, decals, and so on that a company like Games Workshop includes with its plastics are present here; that might be disappointing, if not
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Noel Williams is keen on all things riverine (as well as other forms of waterborne) and in this online exclusive PDF he shares his house rules for Oathmark, which adds all kinds of boat and water-based fun to the fantasy game. There are lots of intriguing and useful ideas here, so
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We're still working through the models we received during the UK's last Lockdown and we couldn't ignore these. Fresh from North Star, we’re taking a look at some new models for Joseph A. McCullough’s Rangers of Shadow Deep. We’re eager to get to the biggie, but let’s save it to last.
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We get insider insight from Stargrave designer Joseph A. McCullough in this Expanded Article. This is an extended interview containing an additional three pages that we couldn't fit into Wi401, just for Prime members. Download the full PDF here https://www.wargamesillustrated.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Stargrave-QA_Prime.pdf
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Joseph A. McCullough's all-new science fiction wargame Stargrave throws players into a dangerous galaxy torn apart by the Last War, with nothing but their Captain, crew, and guile to keep them alive. But, how new is Stargrave in comparison to its fantasy older sibling Frostgrave? Find out below, in this
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Studio Miniatures have added a large number of 28mm Monty Python and the Holy Grail models to their Medieval Mayhem range of late. We're looking at just a few of them. MM03-Sir Bors & Squire The first minis under our movie microscope is the double pack of Sir Bors and his squire.
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North Star continue their support for ranked fantasy game Oathmark with the release of this human cavalry box set. Produced in their always high-quality injection plastic at 28mm scale, this is a generous set of 15 multi-part Human Cavalry figures and includes a glorious range of weapon and command options. Two
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An assortment of metal miniatures from Crooked Dice to enjoy here, and some resin cast scenic pieces too. All are appealing in their own ways, and the variety is the first impressive thing, followed by the quality of the metal casting with minimal clean up required on the miniatures. All
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Released by Sally 4th, written by John R. “Buck” Surdu, and backed up by a wide range of new models by Old Glory, Wars of Ozz is a 120-page softback, full-colour rulebook for a new fantasy/historical(ish) wargame. https://youtu.be/p6TYtuscaXI The text below is a transcript of the video, for those who prefer to
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The extremely popular fantasy games Frostgrave and (certainly growing in popularity) Oathmark get quite a lot of coverage here on Wi Prime. That’s partly because of their popularity but it’s also because they get a lot of miniatures released for them, manufactured by the folks at North Star. It’s less
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Wi 397 has a Designer’s Notes on Wars of Ozz, the new fantasy battles game based on the Frank L. Baum’s world, given a post-apocalypse twist. We will have a flipthrough of that rulebook online next week but first there are some models to take a look at - a
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We’re always keen to undertake new adventures in Frostgrave and with The Red King we have the first supplement to the game’s recent second edition. It’s written by game and world creator Joe McCullough, published by Osprey Games, and within the vibrant softback cover are 96 pages of new rules,
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Tied to The Red King, the first supplement for Frostgrave: Second Edition, we’ve got a boxed set of 20 multi-part, hard plastic, 28mm scale Demons. They’re known as the Hrut in the supplement itself but, as with many of the Frostgrave plastics, there’s much potential to use these models elsewhere
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Arriving to bolster Wargames Atlantic’s Classic Fantasy range, this Giant Spiders box contains six identical hard plastic frames. Each frame is just shy of 15cm by 15cm and bristling with arachnid parts. Enough gribbly bits, in fact, to give even the bravest “I’ll remove the spider from the sink” home
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We’ve got Oathbreakers in our grubby mitts and we’re going to give it a damned good flipping! This book, the latest supplement for Oathmark: Battles of the Lost Age, is a full-colour, 82-page, softback offering. Published by Osprey Games, the quality that we have come to expect from them is
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In part one of our Warcry: Catacombs unboxing we focused on the models and their abilities. Now, in part two, we look at everything else – especially the new bits of scenery, the game board, and the Catacombs book. We’ve built the new minis and terrain too, which we’ll show
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It's always a treat to delve into the fantasy worlds of Games Workshop and, with the release of their new Warcry boxed game on the horizon, we decided to delve deep into the Catacombs. In part one of this two part series we look at the new warbands and their abilities.
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Making for a pleasant break from the library of gaming books, modelling, and painting guides we flip our way through, we’re settling into a comfy chair and turning the pages of an art book. This is a chunky, weighty, hardback tome, published by Osprey Games, and showcases the huge amount
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EDITORIAL As we take further steps out of lockdown and head towards a re-opening of gaming clubs and stores (at time of going to print at least), I thought you might be interested to hear how the wargames industry coped during the pandemic. So in this issue I have contributed a
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You can’t go wrong wargaming with a bunch of mohawk sporting US paratroopers known as the ‘Filthy 13’ or indeed a group of armed British citizen militia known as ‘Dad’s Army’, both (very different!) sets of warriors featured in this month’s ‘Infamous Sections’ theme, along with Popski’s Private Army -
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Hello, hello what’s all this? No bagged magazine this month? No plastic frame of figures? Decals instead! If you are missing your free plastic figure fix please turn to the news on page 4 to be reassured you will be getting another hit before too long. In the meantime, why
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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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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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