Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! Our mentor here at Wargames Illustrated, Duncan Macfarlane, regularly used to quip “What do you call gamers who buy the first edition of your rules? Playtesters”. It’s been a year since Wi teamed up with Jervis Johnson and the Perry
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An extra for WiPrime Members: Richard Lloyd (the man behind Bloody Miniatures) provides a wargaming angle on the Battle of Maidstone, 1648. Download the full PDF. [pdf-embedder url="https://ed025442.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Wi429-Extra-A-very-fierce-and-hot-dispute-Part-Two.pdf" title="Wi429 Extra - ''A very fierce and hot dispute'' Part Two"]
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Looking to download the Thalassa patron ship profile cards? Well, look no further than here! Download the full PDF. [pdf-embedder url="https://ed025442.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Wi429-Extra-Thalassa-patron-ship-profile-cards.pdf" title="Wi429 Extra - Thalassa patron ship profile cards"]
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An extra for WiPrime Members: What we couldn't fit into Wi429's article detailing Historicon 2023 you can find here. From the Battle of the Alamo to a Revolt in Austria, there are plenty more tables to see! Download the full PDF. [pdf-embedder url="https://ed025442.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Wi429-Extra-Historicon-2023-extended-Show-Report.pdf" title="Wi429 Extra - Historicon 2023 extended Show Report"]
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! What a megamix of topics we’ve got for you in Wargames Illustrated this month! Every so often we break with our theme tradition and go with what, in-house, we call a smorgasbord of articles. This approach means we get to take
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Access the extra scenarios to accompany the Wi428-featured 'Māori Pā in the Early New Zealand' article. Download the full PDF. [pdf-embedder url="https://ed025442.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Maori-Pa-in-the-Early-New-Zealand-Wars-Scenarios.pdf" title="Māori Pā in the Early New Zealand Wars Scenarios"]
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Download the Black Powder Amendments and Command Cards for use in The Battle of Aughrim by Pete Brown and Jerry Richardson. Download the full PDF. [pdf-embedder url="https://ed025442.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/The-Battle-of-Aughrim-Black-Powder-Amendments-and-Command-Cards.pdf" title="The Battle of Aughrim Black Powder Amendments and Command Cards"]
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A bonus for WiPrime Members: take a trip back in time to download and read Andy Callan's 1987 AWI Loose Files and American Scramble ruleset. Download the full PDF. [pdf-embedder url="https://ed025442.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Loose-Files-and-American-Scramble-Ruleset.pdf" title="Loose Files and American Scramble Ruleset"]
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! For this month’s theme, we originally asked several of our regular contributors to ‘revisit’ articles they had written for Wargames Illustrated in the past, and several of them have done that, but as is often the case, our themes and
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There’s much excitement in the Wi world as we bring together our next issue and prepare to send it to be printed. Sometimes this is a last-minute scramble with new articles or products sneaking in but this issue’s theme - Revisited - means there’s not such an opportunity for newness. Various
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! What could be more fun than modelling with motor torpedo boats? Not much we figured, which is why we are giving one away with every copy of this From the Workbench to the Gaming Table-themed magazine. You will have received
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Take a tour through the Vault and read some classic Wi articles. Wargames Illustrated 368 - June 2018 We head back five years, and the Lardies are at the office showing off their then-new game, What a Tanker! Interesting how things come around again as those rules inspired the newest game from
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! It's a bit of a cliché that Medieval naval battles were just like land battles at sea, but what if you take a successful set of medieval land battle rules and set them afloat? Much to my surprise, my Never
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! When we gave Never Mind the Billhooks 1.0 away with the August 2020 issue of Wargames Illustrated, we never expected it to evolve into a 200-page all-singing all-dancing rulebook, with 3,500 followers on Facebook and a reputation as the most
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We’re closing in on our sign-off date for another issue; always a busy time for us as we put the finishing touches to articles, track down final photos, and frantically try and fact-check something obscure and odd from one of the articles (which invariably tends to turn out to be
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Here are the build instructions for the Warlord Games - Black Seas: Third Rate Frigate model which comes free with copies of Wi425 in Tesco, Sainsbury’s, and Salute 50. Download the full PDF. [pdf-embedder url="https://ed025442.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Wi425-Extra-Warlord-Games-Black-Seas-Third-Rate-Assembly-Guide.pdf" title="Wi425 Extra - Warlord Games - Black Seas Third Rate Assembly Guide"]
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! If you are a UK subscriber you might have received this magazine just prior to the world-famous Salute; if not it will just have happened. Either way, there has been a big buzz about this year’s premier wargaming event. After
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In Wi424, the April 2023 issue, Valour & Fortitude Game's Designer Jervis Johnson presents a Strategy & Guile campaign scenario followed by a V&F battle scenario. However, featured in that very same article is a design fault present in the War of Liberation, 1813 map on page 85 where the edges
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! For this month’s theme, we sat four wise old wargaming men down in a pub in Nottingham, brought them a round of drinks (or two), and posed the question “What have been the gamechanging developments in our hobby over the
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We’ve made it our monthly mission to pull back the curtain and show off the goings-on at WiHQ; we’ve decided to make this edition of Insider Insight a multimedia spectacular to reveal more than mere words and photos could! The video below shows behind-the-scenes footage of the team putting tabletop setups
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Chris Peers tweaks his own rules and creates a Death in the Dark Continent supplement that covers the exciting possibilities found in China during the Boxer Rebellion. Download the full PDF. [pdf-embedder url="https://ed025442.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Wi423-Extra-The-Boxer-Rebellion-A-Death-in-the-Dark-Continent-supplement.pdf" title="Wi423 Extra - The Boxer Rebellion - A Death in the Dark Continent supplement"]
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! I hope you enjoyed the Valour & Fortitude freebie ruleset we gave away with the October 2022 issue of the magazine. It certainly looks that way - October’s issue was our bestselling magazine of 2022. You will no doubt be
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We’re back with February’s edition of Insider Insight. Take your WiPrime exclusive monthly peep behind the Wargames Illustrated curtain at some of the exciting things ahead. WiDigital We gave you an advanced look at a new Billhooks leader for Bohemia in last month’s Insider Insight and promised there were figures for the
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The ELEGOO Mercury X wash machine is an invaluable piece of kit, speeding up the vital cleaning stage of the process, but these machines can suffer from a fairly common problem; one that we encountered on ours straight away. Turning it on and setting a time worked just fine but as
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Wargames Illustrated’s Office Manager Ian has become Wi's 3D printing champion over the last few months. You can read about the start of his 3D printing adventures in Wi422 where he presents an introduction to this exciting new technology. If you’re eager to get started, then you’ll need some kit. Ian's
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! Insurgency. Noun. An insurgency is a violent attempt to oppose a country’s government carried out by citizens of that country. A great background to a wargame. The first part of the above quote comes from the Collins English Dictionary, the second
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Welcome to Insider Insight, a monthly behind-the-scenes peek at what the Wargames Illustrated team is up to. This new feature, exclusively available to our WiPrime Members, is a chance to highlight some of the exciting things we are working on for future issues of the magazine as well as some of
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We talked to Daniel Molina, Thalassa’s digital sculptor and the man behind the STLs available in this month’s WiDigital selection, to find out more about his work. Wargames Illustrated: What’s the appeal of sculpting the Thalassa range? Daniel Molina: I feel a bit like a naval engineer of that period. Digital 3D
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Read the first painting guide for Thalassa where Callum France shows how to get a quality finish through simple but cunning techniques for your first trireme. Download the full PDF. [pdf-embedder url="https://ed025442.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Wi421-Extra-Painting-your-first-trireme.pdf" title="Wi421 Extra - Painting your first trireme"]
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! Thalassa is a fast-paced game of ancient naval battles. Build a fleet of Triremes and Penteconters, choose their crew and special options, and then take on your enemies in tactically rich gameplay. Use the currents of the seas to aid your manoeuvres
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