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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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! The ‘best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, gang aft agley’, as Rabbie Burns would have said if he had planned to include a free rules supplement in a wargames magazine and then several things conspired against him at the last
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! It was great to feel the buzz at the Partizan Wargames Show in Newark, Nottinghamshire recently. So enthused were we by the excitement of the crowds and the quality of the demo games on offer we struggled to contain our
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! Prussians, Prussians everywhere: on the new plastic frame from Perry Miniatures (page 50), invading England (page 60), fighting communism (page 78), and indeed lots of other locations thanks to our Prussia at War intro article on page 32. Most importantly,
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! Well, it finally got us! After holding out for over two years WiHQ was finally awash with the Coronavirus in March, with five out of six office staff scumming to various levels of infection. Production of this venerable organ, and
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! It felt slightly indulgent sitting in a pub on a Wednesday afternoon drinking, eating, and talking wargames, but ultimately I hope you find the fruits of my ‘labours’ interesting. In the name of research for this month’s magazine theme, I
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! Who doesn’t like to see a parade of elephants, a caravan of camels, or a mute of hounds on the tabletop? There are some great animal miniatures out there, capable of taking on a number of wargaming roles; from the
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! All hail the 2021 Wargames Illustrated award winners! Whether you voted for them or not, I am sure you will be interested to read about the winners and runners-up in the eight categories that made up our annual awards, as
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! I hope the festive season brought you (more than) your fair share of gaming goodies, and that you are heading into 2022 with a renewed hobby vigor which will see your paintbrush whizz through those undercoated minis at the back
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! Changes to Wargames Illustrated Overseas Subscriptions Over the last few weeks, we have been forced to make major changes in regard to Wargames Illustrated subscriptions for overseas subscribers. Some of these changes will bring welcome improvements to the service we are
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! Download the Saxon church plans. This 'How To... A Guide to Modelling (4)' is a compilation of articles published over several years in Wargames Illustrated magazine. It is the fourth in an ongoing series which began with the publication of 'How
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! I would like to immediately point you in the direction of page 28 where you will find an article we are particularly proud of; ‘Introduction to Airbrushing’ provides the advice you’ll need to start effectively airbrushing your wargames figures. My wargaming
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! Having been the first to arrive, set up, and subsequently become totally engaged in a game of Death in the Dark Continent, it wasn’t until halfway through the evening that I looked up from my slice of tabletop Africa then
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! If you can play the guitar, music can become interactive. You are no longer just listening to music, you're taking part in it. If you play a wargame, you can make history interactive. You are no longer just reading about
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download the PDF instead. Wargames Illustrated Paints is your definitive guide to painting Wargames figures by two of the best professional painters in the hobby, compiled by the publishers of the world's best-selling tabletop gaming magazine. Wargames Illustrated Paints is a collection of material
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download the PDF instead. Wargames Illustrated has been working with model maker and wargaming maestro Ron Ringrose for many years. His articles have been the highlights of several issues of the world’s best-selling tabletop gaming magazine, through which his models and games have
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download the PDF instead. One battle looms larger than any other in the psyche of the wargamer; Waterloo. Over the last 25 years, Wargames Illustrated has featured articles on this battle more than any other. More than any other battle Waterloo seems to fascinate
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! Blam! Blam! Argh! Tokens. The Search for Spuck scenario. The Snatch! scenario. Larger than Life Heroes extra 'Hero' profiles. With comic book heroics to play whatever's on your shelf, Blam! Blam! Aargh! comes free with the nation's favourite wargames magazine
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! Little did we know, when we choose Turning Points as our theme for this issue, that Wargames Illustrated would be facing a turning of its own. At the end of May 2021, just as we went to print with the
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! French troops are never very far from the wargames table: whether that be Charlemagne's Frankish warriors, Napoleon's legions, the Poilus of the Western Front, and more. The martial prowess of the soldiers from the various regions that have come to
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! Download the plans for this How To... now. This 'How To ... A Guide to Modelling Volume 3' is a compilation of articles published over several years in Wargames Illustrated magazine. It is the third in an ongoing series which began
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! This month we are going micro mini with our theme, that doesn’t mean we are going “all 2mm” on you, but rather our ‘Billhooks Redux’ theme consists of just two articles. Both are an expansion on the Never Mind the Billhooks
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! We’re back with the bagged free frames this month, and tied into the recent release of SPQR by Warlord Games, we are hoping that you find your new Caesarian Romans particularly useful for some ‘warband combat in the ancient world’.
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! Death in the Dark Continent is a set of rules for small scale battles set in sub-Saharan Africa in the late 19th century. What you have in your hands is the Lite version of the game - it contains all
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! We’re celebrating our 400th issue by giving all you lucky readers access to the previous 399 magazines online (via WiPrime) PLUS a free copy of Wargames World 6 - an online, PDF only, bonus magazine - again accessible via WiPrime.
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! Welcome to Wargames World 6. If you are wondering where the previous five issues are, then clearly you weren’t paying attention back in the late 1980s! Wargames World 1 through 5 were produced in 1988 - 89 as sister publications to
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