Take a tour through the Vault and read some classic Wi articles. Wargames Illustrated 369 - July 2018 With no prior planning or intent (beyond setting a 'Revisited' theme) our current issue has become bizarrely interwoven with the offerings of Wi369, our July issue from five years ago. Simon MacDowall kicks off
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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.delivery.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.delivery.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.delivery.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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A good umpire can make or break a game. I’ve played loads of multiplayer wargames that meandered along at such a tediously slow pace half of them had to be wrapped up early with a guess at what would have happened if we had another three hours. Other times players
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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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It’s always a pleasure; never a chore visiting Gripping Beast down in Evesham. I had several boxes of what they warmly refer to as “Dark Age Haries” to return to them - painted figures Wargames Illustrated had borrowed for a recent photo session. What made this trip particularly interesting was that
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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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Wargames Illustrated’s themes get shunted around more than enthusiastic bumper car drivers and our best-laid plans are ruined by various things. Those things are usually far more exciting than they are troublesome, so it’s not too bad really! The issue we will send to the printers very soon was going to
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The June issue of Wargames Illustrated comes with a free ruleset: Never Mind the Boathooks. It’s the nautical neighbour of our successful medieval small battle rules Never Mind the Billhooks, but Boathooks is a stand-alone set of rules, supported by downloadable cards and tokens. Players take to the high seas in a
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Take a tour through the Vault and read some classic Wi articles. The feeling of pollen agitation in my hay fever-prone nostrils tells me that Spring is springing today. I may not appreciate the sneeze-inducing evils this new season brings, but I do like the extra daylight the longer days bring
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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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I must be slacking. I clocked up 20,000 steps/eight miles walking around the Salute hall at ExCel last Saturday. Looking back in my diary I did nearly nine miles in 2021. Mind you, eight miles felt enough by the time I got home on Saturday night! Not only did Team Wi
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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.delivery.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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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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Take a tour through the Vault and read some classic Wi articles. Under no circumstances should you forget to peek into the Vault this month; there’s a £1,000 voucher for wargaming supplies inside … APRIL FOOL! Ah, what an elaborate prank. Sorry, no voucher (beyond the wonderful discounts you do get each
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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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Looking back in my diary at March 2020 was an interesting experience. It’s largely a collection of entries about different daily Lockdown rules and restrictions announced by the UK government, but just a few days before the big 'everyone in stay inside' announcement there was Hammerhead 2020. The Newark (participation game
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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.delivery.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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Take a tour through the Vault and read some classic Wi articles. “Ok, ok, settle down and bring it in everyone. That’s it … gather closer my brave time travel recruits and listen up! Today’s a big day, you’re about to head out on your first field trip; we’re going into
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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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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, does it work? That’s what rules writer Andy Callan did with Never Mind the Billhooks. If you
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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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Take a tour through the Vault and read some classic Wi articles. The new year is now enough underway that we have to stop calling it the new year... instead, why not head into the Vault and focus on some of the stuff from old years instead? Wargames Illustrated Wi006 - February
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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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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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In my office here at Wi Mansions I have a glass display cabinet which houses my favouritest painted miniatures. Suffice to say, none of them have been painted by me; the work which features more than anyone else is by Brushman Matt Parkes. I’ve known Matt since about 2008 when we
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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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Take a tour through the Vault and read some classic Wi articles. We've ground our way through the previous year's struggles and emerged into the greener pastures of hope and potential that they call 2023. Hurrah! The yearly reset, along with the downtime that the Christmas holidays provide, tends to give our
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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.delivery.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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