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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Our theme this month is Infamous Sections and we include four articles which feature famous World War Two units, like The Filthy 13, Popski’s Private Army and Dad’s Army. https://youtu.be/zHNjZMkcGRs There’s plenty more going on outside of our theme content with articles on building an Antietam battlefield, pirates in the Hebrides, gaming
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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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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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Steel and Steed is a ‘Wargaming ruleset for knights at Tournament’. This 112 page softback A4 book pitches the lead player in the role of host of a medieval tournament, or series of tournaments, which can involve: one on one combat, jousting, mounted combat, team combat on foot and horseback
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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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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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Hardsix Gaming of Toronto, Canada have an upcoming tabletop skirmish game entitled Kingdom & Empire. This is a fantasy medieval game setting where technology is powered by magic and warring kingdoms vie for control of resources and land. Shown here is an example of an assembled Missionary MKII Praetorian suit. These
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Modiphius Entertainment have revealed the Elder Scrolls: Call to Arms Starter Set models. The Elder Scrolls is a series of action role-playing open world epic fantasy video games primarily developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. The series is known for its elaborate and richly detailed open worlds and its focus on free-form gameplay. Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim all won Game of the
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War World Gaming have a number of sets and individual buildings that can be used across a range of genres. We’re lucky enough to have been sent a set of models that will be used again and again. The Complete Medieval Township makes the perfect addition to your 28mm fantasy
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Uncertain Scenery is a small company offering some unusual scenery in MDF. Although they have Medieval style buildings and similar items, we’ll be looking at their Gaming Board Systems and some sci-fi items to accompany them. The Gaming Board System developed by the company comes in 10, 15 and 28mm.
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Renedra are the ‘go to’ experts in the UK and Europe if you want high quality plastic moulding. They also produce some great products of their own, as shown by these Stone and Thatch and Wattle / Timber Out Buildings. Suitable for both Dark Ages and Medieval gaming, these are up
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In support of the new ‘universe’ book for SAGA: Age of Magic, Gripping Beast have released their first sets of fantasy figures, showcased at Salute 2019. For the 'Undead Legion' we have Skeleton Warriors (12 in total), Hearthguard with hand weapons and Hearthguard with ‘Great Weapons’ (12 in total) and a
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When is Modern not Modern - when it’s Ultra Modern. At least that’s what we’ve decided here at Wargames Illustrated. For this month’s magazine theme we wanted to go beyond World War Two, but stop before the Millennium, so we’ve decided that the Modern ‘period’ covers 1946 to 1999 and
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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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Elladan are a Germany figure and terrain manufacturer, amongst their offerings they produce a great range of Dark Age, Medieval, World War Two and Modern buildings . One of their most recent releases is this excellent Dark Age Living Hall, which arrives as a kit in a large box. https://youtu.be/vF_QIm3_4Uk The kit
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Between the August 2018 (WI370) and November 2018 (WI373) issues of Wargames illustrated magazine, we have been running a series of articles by Dr Steve Tibble entitled 'Reimagining the Crusades', in which Steve discusses some of the concepts in his recently released book The Crusader Armies, and (crucially!) discusses how
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FROM THE EDITOR This month we commemorate one hundred years since the end of World War One, perhaps the most poignant time for those alive now to reflect on the loss of life during a previous generation. This November also hosts another commemoration or more correctly celebration in the form of
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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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Gladiatoria: Medieval Armoured Combat Dierk Hagedorn & Bartlomiej Walczak Greenhill Books Reviewed by Zachary G Martin Some admonitions from history are so oft repeated in war-gaming circles that it seems surprising that they need to be repeated at all. By now surely it is known that the Wehrmacht was mostly horse drawn, we no
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Who doesn’t like campaign wargaming? What’s not to like about playing through a series of linked battles and adding in entertaining additional elements to your games, like logistics, character development and herding cats (i.e. your fellow wargamers!). In our theme for this issue we have asked Alan Perry (Perry Miniatures), Joe
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