Our Project Manager, James, talks about our latest Giants in Miniature figure, Shaka Zulu. When the first production casts of this figure arrived in the office I have to admit to falling in love, just a little bit, with how Shaka Zulu had been sculpted. The quality’s not surprising as he
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Has our latest Giants in Miniature - Shaka kaSenzangakhona - inspired you to bring this great leader to the tabletop? Take a dive into the history of Shaka and the Zulu people through previous Wargames Illustrated articles and more! Shaka in The Vault Shaka's Bloody Ascent - Wi378 - page 28 to
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THEME: IF YOU CAN KEEP YOUR HEAD Neil Smith introduces our theme this month, using rules examples and moments from history to draw us into the world of the ‘blunder’. FIGURE SPOTLIGHT: WARLORD GAMES PLASTIC FALLSCHIRMJÄGER Phil Lewis looks at creating 28mm German Paratroopers for a range of different theatres. THEME: MAKING A GAME
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The Raising of the Rising sun One of the challenges of creating a new Rising Sun handbook for Flames Of War was introducing a new nationality to the rules. This meant for the rules writers a little more work and testing to create a new batch of national special rules for
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The Devil’s Den One hundred and fifty years after the events that took place near a small town in Pennsylvania turned Gettysburg into one of the most famous battlefields in the world, we refight a section of that battle; theFight for the Devil’s Den. Games designer (Foundry’s Bull Run to
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! Scenarios The Zulu War 1879 Skirmish Wargame rules The Wall that Stopped an Army ACW battle The Night belongs to Charlie Vietnam convoy ambush Decision Games Part 3 "Will God forgive me?" The Franco-British Attack on Petropavlovsk, 1854 The Italian "Conquest" of British Somaliland 3rd - 18th August 1940 How Horatius
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! Off to fight the Zulus The effectiveness of firepower in the Zulu War A Vauban Gateway Can we introduce Generalship into the Tabletop Wargame? Wargaming Night Actions ‘Loose files and American Scramble’ Wargaming Battles of the American War of Independence The Siege of Durban, 1842 An unusual South
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