Marc knocks together a Franco-Prussian War railway embankment, with a fitted track. We needed some raised embankments to decorate the gaming board for Bill Gray's Blut und Eisen article in Wi406. I got the track and train elements as MDF kits from Sarissa, which made life easier, but I needed
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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! Order a print copy of this magazine in our store! Editorial: If you can play the guitar, music can become interactive. You are no longer just listening to music, you're taking part in it. If you play a wargame, you can make history
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Hot on the heels of the plastic Prussian Infantry box set (see our in-depth feature in Wi404) we’ve snagged some new and (at the time of writing) unseen Franco-Prussian War figures from sculptor Michael. We even got some finely painted versions for you to enjoy spinning around! Prussian Infantry Command First up
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! Order a print copy of this magazine in our store! Editorial: 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
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Project Manager James sat down with Michael Perry to chat about his new plastic Prussian Infantry frames for the Franco-Prussian War. So, here’s Michael with a painted line of Prussians, a handful of plastic frames, and a pint of Tiger before him, ready to talk us through the details of his
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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've got a sneaky peeky at a plethora of Prussian prettiness from Perry Miniatures. The passion project of Michael for quite a while now, he's finally got the first frames back for his plastic Prussians. These frames are test shots so there are some minor details that will be refined for
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This one falls outside of the wargaming specific releases we usually cover - an audiobook version of translated military instructions from the Prussian King to his Generals - but it is such an oddity that we felt we needed to take a peek at it! Ex-Battlegames Editor Henry Hyde has put his
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There's an “I’m cuttin’ me own throat ‘ere guv!” abundance of figures in Wargames Atlantic’s Prussian Reserve set. Inside this little box are no less than 60 hard plastic, multi-part, 28mm figures for your Franco Prussian adventures. Crikey, that’s a lot of figures for the standard box set price of £25
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Cornwall based Piran’s Warriors began as a figure painting company but have now branched out into producing their own miniatures, starting with a 28mm range of Austrians for the Second Italian War of Independence / Franco- Austrian War of 1859. The infantry range is sold as individual miniatures, or they can
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Studio Tomahawk has raised the flag and fixed their bayonets with their Napoleonic supplement for Muskets & Tomahawks - Shakos & Bayonets. Fans of Tomahawk's previous supplements have an all-new one to sink their Napoleonic teeth into. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_cwsRGz8Z0&ab_channel=WargamesIllustrated The text below is a transcript of the video, for those who prefer to
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! Death in the Dark Continent is a set of rules for small scale battles set in sub-Saharan Africa in the late 19th century. What you have in your hands is the Lite version of the game - it contains all
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Hot out of the mould this week are some new releases for the Perry Miniatures metal range of Napoleonic Saxons and Prussians. This range will represent the Saxon army as it appeared between 1806 and 1809 before they adopted French style uniforms. First up is a pack of Grenadier command
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In this unboxing video we take a look at two new Prussian Cavalry Black Powder sets from Warlord Games. Each set contains 12 horses and 12 cavalrymen, manufactured using Warlord Resin. How does this new wonder material stand up to close scrutiny? https://youtu.be/p1bDX0mMe6c
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Having trouble viewing the 3D magazine? View and download the PDF instead. Download the Cards, Tokens and Cribsheet. Never mind the Billhooks is a simple, Wars of the Roses-themed wargame pitched at the Big Skirmish/Small Battle level. This sort of thing probably went on a lot of the time, particularly up around
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Having trouble viewing the 3D magazine? View and download the PDF instead. Victory at Sea is the game of naval combat during the Second World War. Throughout 1939–45, the nations of the world duelled across the oceans across the globe, only to discover the fundamental nature of naval warfare changing in
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Having trouble viewing the 3D magazine? View and download the PDF instead. This is it, you are reading the last issue of Wi Bite-Size. When we temporarily mothballed production of the print magazine back in April we went into production with Wi Bite-size and since then we’ve produced six issues with
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Having trouble viewing the 3D magazine? View and download the PDF instead. Welcome back to Wi Bite-Size - this is the fifth of our mini PDF magazines aimed at keeping our subscribers well-fed with wargaming reading material during the lockdown - whilst the print magazine is mothballed. BITE-SIZE BANTER The Lockdown around the
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Having trouble viewing the 3D magazine? View and download the PDF instead. Welcome back to Wi Bite-Size - this is the fourth of our mini PDF magazines aimed at keeping our subscribers well-fed with wargaming reading material during the lockdown - whilst the print magazine is mothballed. BITE-SIZE BANTER We’re back with more
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Having trouble viewing the 3D magazine? View and download the PDF instead. Welcome back to Wi Bite-Size - this is the third of our mini PDF magazines aimed at keeping our subscribers well-fed with wargaming reading material during the lockdown - whilst the print magazine is mothballed. BITE-SIZE BANTER We’re back with more
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Having trouble viewing the 3D magazine? View and download the PDF instead. Welcome back to Wi Bite-Size - this is the second of our mini PDF magazines aimed at keeping our subscribers well-fed with wargaming reading material during the lockdown - whilst the print magazine is mothballed. BITE-SIZE BANTER We’re back with more
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North Star continue to release new miniatures to support their 1866 Austro-Prussian War range, with the release this week of some Austrian Generals. We have been sent three mounted Generals, two with distinctive feathered hats and one in a forage cap. I know it is becoming something of a cliché, but
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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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These new releases are part of North Stars expanding range of miniatures designed for the 1866 war between Prussia and Austria, although they are suitable for the earlier conflict with Denmark in 1864 and the later Franco Prussian War. First up are the Prussian Dragoons, wearing pickelhaube style helmet, Prussian
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Wee Wolf Miniatures is an American manufacturer which offers a number of quite eclectic ranges, from Franco-Prussian War French to World War One Russians. However, they have recently released something familiar but different, the beginnings of a range from a world you’ll recognise but from an angle you may not
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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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The fourth in a series of wargaming guides from Crowood Press, the Creating a Napoleonic Wargames Army 1809 – 1815 book serves as a very comprehensive guide to starting out in the Napoleonic Period and provides access to a number of possibilities. This is a 159-page softcover book that is
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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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Charles XI’s War – The Scanian War Between Sweden and Denmark, 1675-1679 Michael Fredholm von Essen Helion (Century of the Soldier) 2019 Reviewed by Bernd Biege We all heard of the Thirty Years War, and the Great Northern War, but apart from that, Scandinavian military history is often lost in a bit of fog,
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