It’s not often we unbox boardgames here on Wargames Illustrated TV, but we are going to take a look at Britannia by Plastic Soldier Company for two reasons: 1). it’s by PSC who are in the main and Wargames company. 2). It’s really, really good, oh and it’s about war. https://youtu.be/u2hi4gONK8c Below
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Regular Wargames Illustrated ‘How To …’er Paul Davies has a terrain building guide that is exclusive to you, our lovely Prime subscribers. This great article covers his build of a medieval bridge and quayside in 12mm with visually stunning end results. The techniques used (and templates that are also available
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Four years on from its original release, Gripping Beast bring us Swordpoint Second Edition, a softcover, 56-page, full-colour revision of their 28mm large scale ancient and medieval battle game. https://youtu.be/01QbbB8z_p8 The below text is a transcript of the video, for those who prefer to read rather than to listen. The book starts with
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EDITORIAL Following several months delay caused by Coronavirus, it is with great pride that we present our free ruleset, Never Mind the Billhooks with this issue of Wargames Illustrated magazine. A fast-paced small battle/large skirmish game, ‘Billhooks’ first came to my attention when friends of the magazine Andy Callan (who first wrote
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Never Mind the Billhooks is a forthcoming set of wargames rules for fighting fun small battles during the Wars of the Roses. Ahead of next week’s WiPrime release of Billhooks (which in turn is ahead of the printed release at the end of the month!) we’re giving you the change to
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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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Lurkio Figures are a new-ish 15mm manufacture fronted by the author of popular ancients rules; Mortem et Gloriam (MeG). Unsurprisingly Lurkio produce a range of figures for the ancient period, although they do also have Nine Years War and Victorian Sci-fi miniatures in their catalogue. Recently released and received for review
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Mortem et Gloriam (MeG) is an increasingly popular set of wargames rules which aims to cover the ancient period from Biblical times through to late medieval. Author, Simon Hall, was a big fan of the various iterations of the DBM rules and was involved in writing their successor, Field of
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We've pulled this video from the archives for your viewing pleasure. Guest contributor Arthur Wells-Lee provides us with a Napoleonic variant of Osprey’s Lion Rampant rules, followed by WI Editor Dan’s exploration, (courtesy of the Perrys) as to whether it actually works! This video and photographs originally accompanied an article published in
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BITE-SIZE BANTER We’re back with more of your lockdown observations, tips, projects and general Bite-size banter. Let’s take a look at what your fellow wargamers have been up to over the last week ... WARGAMING IN THE TIME OF CORONAVIRUS For this week’s WittoC we are joined by Rich Clarke of Too Fat
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After having been suitably impressed by the first wave of Barons’ War figures from Footsore, I was looking forward to getting my hands on ‘wave two’ to see if this second tranche lived up to expectations. I was handed nearly 30 figures in total, a cross section of those being made
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BITE-SIZE BANTER We’re back with more of your lockdown observations, tips, projects and general Bite-size banter. Let’s take a look at what your fellow wargamers have been up to over the last week ... WARGAMING IN THE TIME OF CORONAVIRUS We continue our series by hearing from the man who is the League
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Have you been grabbing the proverbial bull by the horns whilst in lockdown and using all this extra time to maximum hobbying effect? Even if you haven’t other WI readers have and in WI Bite-size they have been sharing some of their observations, tips, projects and general lockdown banter. Bite-size Banter
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This issue comes with a FREE 48 page modelling guide! Available as a free PDF and/or free to purchase as a hard copy for WIPrime members. WI390 was mailed to subscribers on 18 March 2020. It was made available to WIPrime members on 20 March 2020. It will be in hobby
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This 192 page hardback book is the eagerly anticipated “fantasy mass-battle” game from Osprey. Penned by Frostgrave author Joseph A. McCullough and having been playtested over the course of the last two years, Oathmark is already supported by an extensive range of figures by North Star Military Figures and has
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The Lithuanian battlemat manufacturers have branched out into buildings. Their first line of painted 28mm - 32mm houses err on the large side and have a classic medieval-fantasy look, although they would work for any characterful middle-ages European setting. They also have new boxes and barricades to add urban scatter.
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It’s time we paid tribute to that staple of the wargame - the charge. Whether on foot in command of 15,000 Confederates trying to finally get to those damn Yankees, or riding to glory with the Scots Greys whilst re-fighting Waterloo, the charge is often the watershed moment in both real
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In this extract from an article in the March issue of Wargames Illustrated Editor Dan gets excited about a new range of medieval figures from (sort of…) Footsore Miniatures. What could be better than receiving 21 packs of figures for your favourite historical period? Well, opening them to discover they
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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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Antediluvian Miniatures continue to release some excellent miniatures for their small but ever-increasing ranges of miniatures. This time around we have Medieval era spearmen from the Wars of the Bruce’s period, plus the more unusual, a packet of Conquistador zombies. The Wars of the Bruce’s were battles between King Robert I
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Quickly! Flip to page 36 of this magazine, then come back here…. Good, isn’t it? That’s Alan Sheward’s Stalingrad table. To coincide with this month’s Urban Combat theme Alan, with the help of buddy Adrian Deacon, took the trouble to come to WIHQ with their amazing table and set the whole
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Wargames Atlantic have moved into the fantasy market with the release of these multi-part hard plastic halflings in 28mm. The box contains 8 of the same frame, enough parts to create 40 figures with a distinctly pseudo-Medieval look. Each frame contains the option to outfit your militia with either slings, bows,
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Triguard Miniatures of New Zealand have a number of ranges in 40mm. One of these is based upon the Medieval period, with a number of knights, men at arms and peasants in different poses and a variety of weaponry, including both mounted and dismounted figures. The first figure sent for review
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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 Do you like this month’s cover mount freebie? (Prime members can find theirs here) We figured that even if you are not into naval wargaming you would like to ‘have a play’ with the great new 1/700th scale ship models designed by Warlord Games for their forthcoming
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William of Tyre recounts that, following the capture of King Baldwin II of Jerusalem by Turks in 1123, a party of Armenian knights attempted to stage a rescue. Disguised as monks, they infiltrated the castle where Baldwin was being held and overpowered the garrison. However, they were unable to get
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Footsore Miniatures have added more packs to their Later Dark Ages range. These are warrior monks or Milites Christi which can be used for both the late Dark Ages or Medieval periods. We’re reviewing two of the five available Milites Christi packs - Warrior Monks with Cross and Warrior Monks with
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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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