Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! Did you enjoy reading this issue? Why not vote for your favourite article and be in for a chance to win a signed copy of Neil Roberts' Wi cover art? Submit your entries now. For this month’s Vietnam War theme we
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! Did you enjoy reading this issue? Why not vote for your favourite article and be in for a chance to win a signed copy of Neil Roberts' Wi cover art? Submit your entries now. Let’s get ready to Ruckus!! We have already
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! Did you enjoy reading this issue? Why not vote for your favourite article and be in for a chance to win a signed copy of Neil Roberts' Wi cover art? Submit your entries now. I’m writing this editorial from a position
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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
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! As we were putting the finishing touches to this issue of Wargames Illustrated we received the sad news of Bryan Ansell’s death. Bryan was a titan of the tabletop miniatures world, initially forming Asgard, then Citadel Miniatures in the 1970s.
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! Oi, oi, what’s this? No freebie with Wi this month? Having spoilt you for three consecutive issues with frames of Napoleonic infantry, Epic Covenanters, and Valour & Fortitude rules, we’re taking a brief breather from all that generosity. As it’s the
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! We’re going mini with this month’s theme, in two senses of the word. A mini trio of articles focused on the Napoleonic Peninsular War, 1807 - 1814, and some free minis are being given away with the magazine*. You will
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! Welcome to the 2nd edition of the Valour & Fortitude (or V&F for short) rules. I have received a lot of fantastic feedback about Valour & Fortitude since its first publication in 2022, from players quite literally all over the
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! This month’s magazine sees an exciting tie-in between printed paper and 3D printing. The paper element you are holding in your hands in the form of this magazine and your free Thalassa ancient naval battles rulebook. The 3D printing side
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! It's been over two years since we gave away a free rules supplement called Never mind the Billhooks with Wi393. Since then, this ‘big skirmish, small battle’ set of Wars of the Roses rules has grown legs, donned armour, and
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! This month’s theme is Twisted History. But what exactly is twisted history, I hear you think? Well, it’s a phrase we’ve coined for wargaming anything with a historical base that ‘twists’ into something fantastical: fictional nations and conflicts in interwar
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! What a special treat we have for you lucky people this month! Bagged free with the printed issue of Wargames Illustrated magazine (and included as a PDF for WiPrime Members) we have a complete and exclusive set of wargames rules
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! After a couple of months without a bagged gift we decided to hit you hard with a haul of possible freebie frames this month. Courtesy of our friends at Warlord Games you will have received one of four splendid sprues:
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