The end of the year may be a few festive and spooky holidays away, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t already thinking about it here at Wargames Illustrated. In this Insider Insight I’ll touch on some of our 2025 plans. Every new year brings new themes for our magazine and, while we don’t have everything locked down for 2025, we’ve already got a few themes in mind. While these things often shift around, Special Forces looks set to feature in February, and will bring a range of periods, units, and battles to the pages of your favourite wargaming magazine. Two that are already being worked on look at the varied subjects of the Hashashin (and how you can work them into campaigns) and MACV-SOG and Intelligence Gathering in the Vietnam War. The schedule’s always open, though, so if you’ve ever fancied writing something for Wi and there’s a specialist unit from history that you’ve got expert knowledge of, why not check out our Contributor’s Guidelines and send something in? If not Special Forces, how about ‘What if?’, which is another theme lined up for the first half of 2025? I’ve started to ponder a broad one: what if the Black Death had been even more devastating than it was and truly decimated the power structure in Europe? How might the rest of the world have developed and how would history have changed? It’s a rich well to dunk the speculation bucket into, but the breadth of possibilities is intimidating. Will I end up writing an article about it? Look for the ‘What if?’ theme in March or April next year to find out! Other proposed themes for 2025 include a hobby issue, Future War, Folklore, and lots more. We already have some great regular contributors suggesting ideas but would welcome your own suggestions. Get in touch! Podcasting We’ve been talking about this between ourselves for a while, yet it remains something we keep talking about rather than doing. In writing it down here, I’m hoping it makes it more likely that our talking gets a little more focused, gets recorded, and gets out there as a Wi podcast! It’d be a great opportunity for us to share regular updates in a timelier fashion than our printing schedule allows. We could talk over behind-the-scenes magazine stuff, share the latest news from the world of wargaming, and gossip about what’s happening in the Lead Belt. We’d like to include plenty of interviews with the various ‘industry notables’ who we know too, as they’ll be a lot more interesting to listen to than us! WiPremium? Another upgrade for the new year is our plan to create an extra level of WiPrime Membership. This