Sometimes you don’t choose a wargaming period; it chooses you. Via a small contribution to the latest issue of the Wargames Illustrated magazine (Wi405) I wrote about my appreciation of the author Thomas Hardy and how his book The Trumpet-Major provided some interesting background material for wargames based around Napoleon’s
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The arrival of Crooked Dice new releases at WiTower usually incites a discussion or two. The main discussion point this month was who was everyone’s favourite character in the 1980s TV classic The A-Team. Project Manager James surprised nobody by revealing he’s a fan of Hannibal (they have a mutual love
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In a new Wi online series, our in-house painter Marc talks about the projects he's been working on each week. In this episode Marc shows how he created and painted the Leper Terrorists, Victrix Normans, and Assault Group modern Chinese to go into the Wi405, September issue's theme of 'What If'. https://youtu.be/2YKL7dd7x1I
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! 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 interactive. You are no longer just reading about
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Want to see what our new in-house painter's been up to? You've come to the right place! Fine looking figures and terrain are making their way from the desk of our new in-house painter and into the pages of Wargames Illustrated. You'll see a lot of Marc's work in our upcoming issue
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! French troops are never very far from the wargames table: whether that be Charlemagne's Frankish warriors, Napoleon's legions, the Poilus of the Western Front, and more. The martial prowess of the soldiers from the various regions that have come to
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Mortem et Gloriam’s 15mm Hundred Years' War French Army starter pack delivers on its promise. It provides all you need to build a nicely balanced French army from the middle period of the Hundred Years' War. The figures are nicely proportioned and crisply cast with very little flash. They are compatible
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These two houses represent the start of what promises to be a sizeable range of buildings in Adrian’s Walls fully constructed and painted for the ‘Renaissance Onwards’ range. It’s worth underlining these last two points; the buildings come constructed and painted. That’s Adrian’s Walls shtick, they provide buildings that are tabletop
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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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An interesting one here, as we unbox Delta One Zero. This is a fairly hefty starter set for a new modern combat game from Australian based company Bonza Games … telling you the country of origin was probably redundant there! https://youtu.be/oYxI4XbLLcc The text below is a transcript of the video, for those
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We’re opening up a new box of Death Fields models today. Inside are 24 multi-part, hard plastic, 28mm minis, ready to partake in the greatest sport. We’re as surprised as you probably are that Wargames Atlantic has invested what must be a sizable amount of money and time investment in
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There’s some great stuff in Studio Miniatures ever-expanding Horror Characters range; we’ve got three of their latest releases to take a look at, all one-piece metal models in 28mm scale. The Harlequin With the old fashioned clown outfit, spooky balloon, and maniacally gleeful face, this is a great representation of Bill Skarsgård’s
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We see all kinds of minis at Wargames Illustrated, made for various genres, periods, scales, and levels of hobbyist; this means there's usually someone on staff who has a special interest in each thing we get. But it's rare that person is Ian. He's hands on with all the models
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Autumn (or Fall, to our North American friends) is very much here. Bare branches slice the cold October air, a stiff wind blows through their gnarled, skeletal fingers … it seems to be wailing out a message, a soft, barely perceptible sound … “Halloweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen!” That’s right, the spookiest of times is fast
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Black Seas presents an intriguing modelling challenge for those wanting to do it 'properly', what with the complexities of the sails and rigging that need adding. Here at Wargames Illustrated we wondered how much of a challenge it was to build these ships, so we threw some new boxes at
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There’s no shortage of people producing MDF terrain right now; for anyone new to make their mark it’s going to take something a bit different. Enter Brutal Cities, a relatively new company who are creating some impressive laser cut kits, themed to a cyberpunk style. We’ve got a selection of buildings
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The second wave of Order Militant models has arrived from Gripping Beast –the Grand Commander of The Order Militant leads the way and 8 Fanatics follow in support, ready to take part in SAGA: Age of Magic. These metal models are all sculpted by Wargames Illustrated favourite Matt Bickley (who has
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The Gripping Beast boys coined the phrase “Generic Hairies” when they released their plastic ‘Dark Age Warriors’ box set a few years ago and I would say this pack of six figures, soon to be released by Crusader Miniatures (October 2020), also match that description. Fitting seamlessly into several different Dark
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! 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
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook 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 flipbook 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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Being the splendid people we are here at Wargames Illustrated we don’t mind giving a heads up to another, new, wargaming magazine (especially when it’s so different to our own). Blaster is a collaboration between five bright young(ish) games designers who have come together to produce what they are calling a
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook 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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Viva Mexico! Neil Smith takes an extended look at a new book - ideal for wargaming the Mexican Revolution. Did you know that sincronicidad is Spanish for synchronicity? Neither did I until very recently when looking for a new project and Mike Blake’s Armies of the Mexican Revolution (Partizan Press, 2020)
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When Peter Dennis isn’t supplying fantastic artwork to the biggest names in wargaming and military history he works on a series of books with Helion and Company which he affectionally calls Paperboys. https://youtu.be/kObao_ODYsM Note: The text below is the transcript of our flipthrough video (for those who would rather read than listen). I
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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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Godseye Games are a new company who have just released Contact Front, ‘modern warfare rules’. This is a 94-page softback book, which aims to “puts you in the shoes of the platoon commander, balancing mission objectives with the lives of those under your command”, with its main area of focus
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Since Modiphius Entertainment first gained the licence to produce a tabletop miniature game based upon the Fallout franchise, they have consistently supported it with excellent miniatures. One of the latest core boxed sets represents the mysterious Institute, stealers of people and creators of synthetic warriors. The 32mm figures inside the
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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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North Star Military Figures have a couple of new packs of Spanish for their 1672 range. Pikemen and Command are joining the ranks of Musketeers. But why should we be interested in late 17th Century Spanish? And what actions were they involved in? We asked North Star boss Nick Eyre
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