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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! I’ll begin this month’s editorial with a brief FAQ: no, you don’t need Never Mind the Billhooks to play Never Mind the Matchlocks, it’s a completely self-contained ruleset. Matchlocks is ideal for bringing small armies of around 150 figures per

Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! Welcome to the first compendium to the Valour & Fortitude rules. It was just over a year ago that we published the second edition of Valour & Fortitude in Wargames Illustrated. In the last twelve months we’ve added numerous new

Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! Valour & Fortitude was first given away free with the October 2022 issue of Wargames Illustrated. We followed that up in October 2023 with the second edition of V&F - free with Wi430. So, it would make sense to follow

Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! Our 2023 Revisited magazine theme proved to be so popular we have decided to revisit it again with this month’s issue! The premise of Revisited is that: we ask several of our regular contributors to return to subjects or projects

Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! For this month’s Vietnam War theme we intentionally sidestep a history lesson on the conflict and instead focus on several different hobby projects and wargaming ideas. From the skies above, to below ground, our five theme articles take in transport

Having trouble viewing the flipbook collection? View and download it instead! The amount of hobby content that’s been published in the pages of Wargames Illustrated over the years is, frankly, staggering. In my search for articles, I picked out enough to fill PDFs many times over (hence this being part one

Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! The advent of Warlord Games’ Hail Caesar Epic Battles has sent us into Ancients adulation here at Wi Towers. Naturally, we were very keen to get the new Epic scale (that’s roughly 15mm to me and you) models to you

Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! The Thompson submachine gun, Mosin-Nagant rifle, pikes, and chariots are the eclectic mix of instruments of war that were chosen by our contributors to feature in this month’s Weapons theme, along with an article in which we chat to game

Having trouble viewing the flipbook ruleset? View and download it instead! Never Mind the Billhooks: Here's the Ruckus, better known as Ruckus, is a Medieval skirmish game of narrative-heavy tabletop battles. It is inspired and influenced by Andy Callan's ruleset, Never Mind the Billhooks (Billhooks), but while there are key similarities

Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! Let’s get ready to Ruckus!! We have already provided you with a couple of teasers for Never Mind the Billhooks - Here’s the Ruckus, with Designer’s Notes in Wi433 (January) and battle reports in Wi434 (February), now it’s time for the

Having trouble viewing the flipbook collection? View and download it instead! Welcome to the first PDF in our new WiPrime Collections series. In each of these online omnibuses, available exclusively to WiPrime Members, we bring together themed articles from the Wargames Illustrated archive for your reading pleasure and referencing ease. This month

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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