Welcome to Wargames World 6. If you are wondering where the previous five issues are, then clearly you weren’t paying attention back in the late 1980s!

Wargames World 1 through 5 were produced in 1988 – 89 as sister publications to Wargames Illustrated magazine. The then editor of Wi, Duncan Macfarlane, had so much material he couldn’t contain it all in one mag, so decided to print two. Ultimately Wargames World had a pretty short run for its money, and issue five was the last, or it would have been had we not decided to breathe new life into WW as part of the celebrations for our milestone 400th issue of Wargames Illustrated.

Quite a few things have happened in the world since Wargames World was last published, something that probably doesn’t stand out quite as much as the presidency of Nelson Mandela or the attack on the Twin Towers, is the conception of the Portable Document Format, or PDF. Whist it would have been great to be able to paper print Wargames World 6, both the cost and life under Lockdown made that idea an impossible dream, however PDF makes it entirely possible to produce a new version of WW and get it to all our readers for free – all we had to do was have about a dozen people working on the content for hours on end!

In format Wargames World is strikingly similar to Wargames Illustrated (if it’s not broke – don’t fix it!) in concept WW6 is a continuation of the theme in Wi400. So expect to find several celebratory or reflective articles that mark our 400th issue milestone.

We hope you enjoy the next 108 pages of gaming goodness, and who knows maybe we’ll release Wargames World 7 sometime in the next 32 years!