Thanks to our friends at Hobby Co. and Italeri, we have this great 1/72nd 'Battle of Malinava 1944’ wargaming set, consisting of two forces to re-fight battles on the Eastern Front. And don’t forget, if you’re Prime, you’re in! Don’t forget - Freebie Friday is a twice monthly giveaway - if you’re
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The Spy Toolkit Dr Stephen Twigge Opsrey Publishing Reviewed by Peter Brian This pocket sized hardback book consists of photographs and illustrations selected from the National Archives to demonstrate the more bizarre side of spying and resistance during the Second World War. From dummy tank track markings to exploding cigarettes, the imagination of the
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We March Against England: Operation Sea Lion, 1940-41 Robert Forczyk Osprey Publishing Reviewed by Kevin Rolko First off, every book written by Robert Forczyk deserves a rightful place on the list of recommended reading for WW2 aficionados because of his unique ability to provide the reader with new outlooks. Correspondingly, Forczyk in We march
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Firstly we would like to announce our winners of last weeks Strontium Dog giveaway! 1st - Ian Saltmarsh, UK 2nd - Harold Oney, US 3rd - Richard Phares, US 4th - Mick Wilson, UK 5th - Julian Bowden, UK Its time to take to the skies! This week's Freebie Friday is from our friends over at Plastic
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Have you ever wanted to go a step further and get right into the tabletop action? Well, Minuteman Miniatures can help, creating a miniature that not only represents you on the tabletop but looks like you as well! Whether you take part in sci-fi, ancients, American Civil War or World War
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Luftwaffe 1946 Miniatures is perhaps best known for producing miniature aircraft from the beginning of World War Two up to the present day. Many of these miniatures are based upon both historically accurate and hypothetical aircraft designs. However, some of the newest releases in the range are focused upon a
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Battlefield Terrain Concepts have a number of terrain products in their range, and offer a scratch building service that can cope with most gamer’s needs. One of their latest releases is ‘flexible fields’ (seen below), a series of ploughed fields made from a flexible resin compound. They can be supplied fully
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To the shores of Tripoli… and then back again. It only struck me when I sat down to write this editorial that our theme for this month, America at War, takes us from the famous US Marine action near Tripoli in 1804 (subject of the Marine Corps Hymn), via the
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Bounty to be won! To celebrate the release of the new Strontium Dog skirmish game from Warlord Games, we have a bounty-load of prizes! First Prize is a complete copy of ‘ The Good, the Bad & the Mutie’ boxed game, with something extra added in. Second prize is a copy of the
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Warlord Games add to their Bolt Action range with these Australians designed for use in the Pacific theatre. These clamshell packs build upon those released for the operations on New Guinea and add yet more unit options. The latest releases add some much needed support units to those forces outlined in
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Hobby Co. Ltd. have once again very kindly sent us a number of kits to review. This time around, we have three Dragon kits and two Italeri kits to talk about, all themed around World War Two. https://youtu.be/7YmafcCA5Po The three Dragon kits are from the Armor Pro series. We have a German
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Panzer Ace: The Memoirs of an Iron Cross Panzer Commander Richard Freiherr von Rosen: Foreword by Robert Forczyk GreenHill Books Reviewed by James Dorey When I received this book, I’m going to have to admit, I did a little cheer, for as a wargamer with two growing German armies for Flames of War and
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Once again, it’s FREEBIE FRIDAY! All our Wargames Illustrated Prime members will be automatically entered into a prize draw to win this week’s items. This week's prize is from our friends Hexy Studio, We have a complete card game from there Star Scrappers universe - Cave-in to give away! Don’t forget -
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We have a bonus eight pages again for you this month. Our article submissions are on a real roll at the moment and as the print deadline for each magazine looms nearer we are struggling to fit all the articles we have into the magazine. Having said that, always bear
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Once again, it’s FREEBIE FRIDAY! All our Wargames Illustrated Prime members will be automatically entered into a prize draw to win this week’s items. This week's prize is perfect for any WWII players. We have a M4 Sherman Crocodile, Flak 37 AA/AT Gun, pre-painted scenery from Conflix and a mystery 'white
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The new multi-part plastic US Infantry from Warlord Games are a much-needed update to the previous offering. Like the majority of Warlord’s more recent plastics, these are a top quality product in the Warlord style that offers the gamer a multitude of options. These figures may be assembled in much more
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When we wargamers aren’t giving our generic generals ‘hilarious’ made up names like Major Lee Small or General E. Speaking, we like nothing better than gaming with the big guns of military history, and in this issue of WI we provide the opportunity to do just that with some of
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Bachmann have re-released the Conflix range of buildings in new packaging but with the same high quality. Designed for use with either 15, 20 or 28mm sized miniatures, these pre-painted and assembled buildings are just what ‘time poor’ gamers need to create a suitable tabletop layout in seconds. The first building
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This 204 page hardback is the latest set of rules for 15mil scale tanks and figures in a join venture with Osprey Publishing and Battlefront. The revamped Fate of a Nation is a variant of the Team Yankee rules system which focuses upon the Arab-Israeli Wars of the late 1960’s
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The latest book from Iron Fist Publishing / Plastic Soldier Company is Battlegroup Torch, the ninth book to be published and the second based upon the ‘desert war’ of early to mid-World War Two. This is really two books in one, and covers the arrival of US forces. The rules
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Once again, it’s FREEBIE FRIDAY! All our Wargames Illustrated Prime members will be automatically entered into a prize draw to win this week’s items. This week’s Primetime Giveaway is the two-player starter set for Gangs of Rome, Blood on the Aventine. If you’re Prime, you’re in! Don’t forget - Freebie Friday is
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The Bolt Action rules from Warlord Games now cover pretty much every earthly location where World War Two was fought. So, having covered every location, they have moved on to offering troops for every season, in this case German, British and American troops ready for battle during the depths of
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The Salute Wargames Show is the biggest in the world and with attendees numbering over 9,000 it has become an annual launchpad for new product releases for several of the companies that attend. Wargames Illustrated reporters spent the day stalking the hall at Excel in London A) taking photographs and reporting
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Back in 1970, Charles Grant wrote and had published Battle - Practical Wargaming, one of the first guides to tabletop wargaming exclusively for World War Two. This new 2017 edition contains six chapters that were never previously published, plus new material by Charlie M Grant, the original author’s grandson and
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Once again, it’s FREEBIE FRIDAY! All our Wargames Illustrated Prime members will be automatically entered into a prize draw to win this week’s items. Looking for a rumble? Up for grabs this week is the new Street Wars NYC rulebook from Funky Skull Games, complete with cards for two Starter Gangs,
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When it came to choosing the theme for this month’s issue we had two clear contenders to choose from; 1) The Thirty Years War - to commemorate 500 years since the beginning of this tumultuous European conflict. 2) Air War - to tie-in with the release of the Battle of
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Once again, it’s FREEBIE FRIDAY! All our Wargames Illustrated Prime members will be automatically entered into a prize draw to win this week’s items. This week’s giveaway prize comes from Demented Games of Australia. Twisted is a Victorian era VSF/Steampunk game with a twist, with factions vying to protect or enslave the
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Once again, it’s FREEBIE FRIDAY! All our Wargames Illustrated Prime members will be automatically entered into a prize draw to win this week’s items. This week’s Prime Giveaway is three Konflikt ’47 boxed sets courtesy of Warlord Games.We have a British Churchill Meteor tank, a US M3A2 Pondskater Scout Walker and
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It’s always interesting to peruse the new characters that have been released in Thomas ‘Stoessi’ Stoesser’s range of World War Two character figures, when we're at Tactica, and Thomas actually treated us to a few sneak peeks of pre-releases, including Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Vandervoort (as played by John Wayne from
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tssAOTqVJxk&t OBSERVATION POST Our latest look at what’s new and upcoming in the world of wargaming. THEME: AMBUSH! Pete Brown shares some ideas for replicating the military art of ambush in our tabletop battles. SAGA 2 – ITERATION OR NEW GAME? Dom Sore takes a close look at the new rulebook and discusses what’s changed or
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