Take the High Ground In this month’s lead article, Pete Brown presents some thoughts on using hills in our gaming, and how they should/could fi t into any set of rules. The road to El Arish Another insight into the new Fate Of A Nation intelligence briefing for Flames Of War, the Battlefront
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The Battle of Smolensk An Early War Battle Report from Wayne Turner and Casey Davies of the Battlefront Design Team. These are dark days for the Soviet Union as the seemingly unstoppable forces of the Third Reich push ever deeper into the Motherland. “With the Black Flags Hanging over US” Author of
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Whatever Happened to 20mm Moderns? Having asked this question, Sub-Editor Wayne Bollands enlists the assistance of the LeicesterPhat Cats Gaming Club for a day of Modern gaming at WIHQ in a quest to answer it. The Soviet Barbarossa Surprise As a precursor to the upcoming release of Barbarossa, Wayne Turner of
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Battles in Literature: Wargaming as Inspiration Simon Scarrow, author of the bestselling Eagle Series, tells us how wargaming has influenced his storytelling. The Boyne Avenged Barry Hilton provides us with a wealth of Williamite ‘What if’s’, in this follow up to last month’s Ireland’s Bloodiest Day article. Render unto Caesar A scenario based upon the
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Download 'Great War' pdf Mythbusting the Great War Battlefront’s Phil Yates examines some widely held beliefs regarding the Great War and offers a introductory perspective on life amongst the mud and blood of the conflict. Collecting a Polish Army Roger Murrow of Murawski Miniatures provides information on the importance of the Polish
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And now for Something Completely Different Roger Gerrish provides a primer for the world of Pulp gaming across a range of genres, so don your favourite headgear and gather your equipment as we invite you to embark on a journey into new realms of action and adventure! The Battle for the
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Hell’s Crossroads To celebrate the release of the new Flames Of War Bridge at Remagen Intelligence Handbook, the guys from the Battlefront Studio report on a US and German armoured forces clash in the Ruhr. The Rolling Hills of Arklow The Master Builder behind the Wargames Illustrated 2014 show table - Nick
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A PROPER GAME OF THRONES We begin this month’s theme content with the last battle of the Wars of the Roses. York and Lancaster clash in the green fields of Nottinghamshire, and on the tabletops of the Abingdon Wargames Club, as they refight this medieval slugfest, with the Yorkists attempting to
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Legion Versus Phalanx We kick off this month’s theme content with an introduction to the concept of legion and phalanx warfare. Rules writer Simon MacDowall places both legion and phalanx in their historical context for us, and outlines the challenges of representing them accurately on the tabletop. The Battle of Raymond Don
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Rebels Abandon Vicksburg! Our War Correspondent Paul Leach sets the scene for our theme articles on the fall of the “Gibraltar of the Confederacy” with his overview of the events that led to the vital hammer blow in the West. How the West was Lost Over a decade ago, ACW aficionado Bill Moreno
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Godwine’s Great Gamble Our multi-period theme content begins in the Dark Ages with some Saxon-on-Saxon longship raiding, pillaging and burning action, from the pen (or rather keyboard) of Early Medieval expert Dr. Ryan Lavelle. Welcome to the world of Dust In an alternative 1940s reality, alien technology fuels gigantic machines of war
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Divide and Conquer In this, the first of two theme articles for this month, Mike Haught discusses the theory behind ‘divide and conquer’, then brings the theory to the wargames table in the form of battles set in the “pockets” resulting from the practice, with a focus on pocket battles in
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Wargaming the War of Spanish Succession This month’s theme author Simon MacDowall begins our journey into the War of Spanish Succession with this guide to everything you need to start gaming WoSS. Outfitting: ACW Command We continue our “Outfitting” series with the fourth instalment from Don Effinger & Mike Evans. This time
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Last post for the Toy Soldier General Close friends of Don Featherstone, Chris Scott and Duke Siefried, pay tribute to the Godfather of Wargaming, who sadly passed away in September. Ah, Les Brave Gens Franco-Prussian War advocate Gerard Miller introduces us the this month’s theme and tells us a little about FPW weapons,
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The Six-Day War Our theme content kicks off with your handy guide to the Six-Day War, arming you with background information to get you swiftly into the period. Outfitting: Confederate Infantry Don Effinger and Mike Evans return to continue their look at the uniforms and equipment of the American Civil War. This
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Winning hearts & minds Regular contributor Neil Smith takes us on a journey from Boston in 1775 to Philadelphia in 1777, tracing the steps of two armies at odds with each other in many ways. This sets the scene for our other theme articles. Roadblocks The Roadblock mission was one of those
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Origins of the Huns We begin our theme content with a look at exactly who the Huns were, where they came from, and the mark they left on military history and wargaming. Japanese! I have a few ideas for those Flames Of War writer Wayne Turner presents some thoughts on using the
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The Raising of the Rising sun One of the challenges of creating a new Rising Sun handbook for Flames Of War was introducing a new nationality to the rules. This meant for the rules writers a little more work and testing to create a new batch of national special rules for
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The lament for an empire After suffering through the disastrous 1812 campaign in Russia, Napoleon had struggled to bring his Grand Armée back up to strength. Despite his army’s lack of experience and horses, Napoleon’s enemies still did not underestimate his ability in the field. It took until October 1813 before
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The Devil’s Den One hundred and fifty years after the events that took place near a small town in Pennsylvania turned Gettysburg into one of the most famous battlefields in the world, we refight a section of that battle; theFight for the Devil’s Den. Games designer (Foundry’s Bull Run to
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Third tour Battlefront games designer Phil Yates talks us through Tour Of Duty’s “escalation” from a Flames Of War side project to a fully-fledged game and a core part of Battlefront’s range Martinique, 1809 - the battle Following on from last month’s ‘set up’ article (WI305), we return to the Caribbean, and present
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1066, Hastings We begin our theme content with a battle report on Hastings - Touchstone for the Conquest. Paul Kerrison of Kallistra and friends gathered around a 12' wargames table and played out a 10mm refi ght ofthe battle, with the Saxons attempting to change the course of history and
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Where’s my Kampfgruppe? When Flames Of War games designer Mike Haught wrote the Market Garden books; Hell’s Highway and A Bridge Too Far, he created a battlegroup that could cover as many possible angles in one company diagram as possible, in this article Mike gets more specific, highlighting various battlegroups
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Wargaming World War One We introduce this month’s theme with an article that looks beyond the stalemate of World War One on the Western Front and sells the concept of gaming the confl ict on a global scale. Grossdeutschland Battlefront studio writers Wayne Turner and Phil Yates provide us with background
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War in the wilderness In our first article for this month’s theme, Neil Smith and Chris Peers introduce us to the history and guide us through the practical information required for bringing an F&IW force to bear on the tabletop. Operation market garden Battlefront writer Mike Haught previews the forthcoming Operation Market
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I’m here and taking over On 13 January 1945, the 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute regiment of the 101st Airborne Division attacked the town of Foy in Belgium. The assault was spearheaded by the men of ‘Easy’ company. In this article (in support of their new Intelligence Handbook - Nuts!) Battlefront Studio
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Open fire! Our 300th issue ‘opens fi re’ with an article from our colleagues at Battlefront, announcing, and showcasing, their forthcoming Flames Of War boxed game - Open Fire! Crimson & Bronze First-time contributors to Wargames Illustrated, Ben Johns (an avid student of history) and Tim Toolen (an enthusiastic modeller and painter)
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Bloody treachery on the fields of England We kick off our Wars of the Roses theme with an introduction to gaming the confl ict by rules writer Simon MacDowall. He takes us through raising armies, troops types, organisation and more. All accompanied by Neil Smith’s brief history of the wars. Shine
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A peninsular war primer Barry Hilton guides us through a wonderful introduction to Napoleonic wargaming on the dusty plains of Spain and Portugal, where thousands of men from dozens of nations fought hard for or against the will of Emperor Napoleon. We find out more about the reasons the French were there
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Peiper’s charge The quintessential image of the Battle of the Bulge is that of a line of German King Tigers with Fallschirmjäger troops riding atop and Jochen Peiper pushing them forward with words of ‘encouragement’. With the release of the Flames Of War
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