Sweeping in at the last minute we've got May’s From the Vault; we look back at past issues of Wargames Illustrated and suggest interesting, odd, and visually appealing articles that are worth a second look. Wargames Illustrated 355 – May 2017 Five years ago our theme brought the colour, drama, and centuries
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Editor Dan takes you on a tour of Wi413, the May 2022 issue. https://youtu.be/6ZPe0o-ZuAI
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April rolled around quickly, didn’t it? This is a month that is always clearly timestamped in our old issues by the presence of pre-Salute adverts and build-up. With Salute cancelled this year it makes April a slightly melancholy time for those in the UK wargaming scene but with a hint
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Editor Dan takes you on a tour of Wi412, the April 2022 issue. https://youtu.be/0ePxoDLOXIM
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Our WiPrime members can read this preview piece ahead of its publication in our next issue. We asked some of wargaming's elite about gaming with the elements for Wi412's first theme article. Warlord Games CEO John Stallard, North Star boss Nick Eyre, game designer Rick Priestley, sculptor Michael Perry, and others
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Editor Dan takes you on a tour of Wi411, the March 2022 issue. https://youtu.be/jcowqlz-_YU
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The 40th anniversary of the Falklands War is less than a month away and we’ve been looking back at previous issues in the Wi archive that feature articles about that conflict. We’re working on something new to commemorate the Falklands War; that article will appear in an issue a little later
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Editor Dan takes you on a tour of Wi410, the February 2022 issue. https://youtu.be/B-m5pKQSfAM
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Editor Dan takes you on a tour of Wi409, the January 2022 issue, going into detail about its Wargaming Around the World theme. https://youtu.be/HM5hU0OmkXU
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Editor Dan takes us on a tour of the 408th issue of Wargames Illustrated! https://youtu.be/tLBKfz_biZc
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With the release of Wi408, our covermount gave you the option of some Black Powder: Epic Battles Waterloo British or French Napoleonic Heavy Cavalry figures. In the magazine, Marc guided you through painting the British. Now, he's guiding you through the French. Download the full PDF. Enjoy. https://www.wargamesillustrated.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Painting-French-Dragoons.pdf
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We'll be at London's Excel for the first post-pandemic Salute! If you're coming to the show on Saturday 13 November you can get some great deals at the Wargames Illustrated stand - TL07. Those Golden Tickets will allow you to participate in our Dice-Off game, the biggest participation game at the
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Editor Dan takes us on a tour of the 407th issue of Wargames Illustrated! https://youtu.be/bdhQRmLEsgI
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We take our monthly dive into the Vault and blow the virtual dust off some of the articles of yesteryear. Rulesets in the Vault! Before we get into the back issues, we want to draw your attention to a recent addition to the Vault. Our webby chap Joe has been adding various
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Editor Dan takes us on a tour of the 406th issue of Wargames Illustrated! https://youtu.be/Sc_k1u38gMs
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Editor Dan takes us on a tour of the 405th issue of Wargames Illustrated, which comes with a free Anglo-Zulu War British Infantry sprue from Warlord Games! https://youtu.be/SnWJDI14yjU
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In our latest issue Colonel (Retired) Bill Gray returned to the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein to ponder a ‘what if’ that was mere hours away from happening. We couldn't fit the orbats into the print issue so we've included them online for you to access should you want to
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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 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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We continue our Blam! Blam! Aargh! extras with another article from author Daniel Mersey. This time he presents new 'hero' profiles for you to use in the game or take inspiration from when creating new characters of your own. Download the full PDF.
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Editor Dan talks about sorting his way through boxes of fine figures and fond memories in this Editor’s Exploits. Dan: When we lost my good friend, mentor and Wargames Illustrated founder Duncan Macfarlane earlier this year, I inherited his personal collection of Wargames figures. Duncan’s miniature mountain is made up of
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We've got a treat for Prime members with an expansion to an article from Wi404. Bob Giglio examined Samori Ture’s resistance in Western Sudan in his colonial article for the issue, but what of the French expansion in Sudan? Well, we didn't have space for it but have no fear,
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Editor Dan takes us on a tour of the 404th issue of Wargames Illustrated, which comes with a free copy of the Blam! Blam! Aargh! ruleset. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJunAwe7dDU
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! 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 2021, just as we went to print with the
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In a second pre-release Prime peek at an article from Wi404 (which will arrive in The Vault next week) it's Building Fort Nassau. Glenn Clarke not only shows us how to build a fine looking piece of terrain that would be perfectly suited to Blood and Plunder or other such gaming
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Games Designer Daniel Mersey has at least six Osprey Games titles under his belt, including several in the very popular ‘… Rampant’ series. But, like many a well know author, Dan cut his teeth writing for Wargames Illustrated, years before he made a career out of it; check out the
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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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Editor Dan takes us on a tour of the 403rd issue of Wargames Illustrated, which comes with a free French Line Infantry frame from Warlord Games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VWZceMptLc&ab_channel=WargamesIllustrated
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Mailing subscription copies of Wargames Illustrated Magazine outside of the United Kingdom continues to be a major problem. The April, May and June issues of the magazine: Wi400, 401 and 402 were all seriously affected by “Brexit and Covid” (according to our currier) and magazines are taking up to 60 days
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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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