A bonus for WiPrime Members: Editor Dan and the Perry brothers packed their bags (and sculpting tools), and jetted off to see an award-winning wargaming and cultural collaboration
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A bonus for WiPrime Members: since his first look in the last issue of Wi, Dom Sore's managed to get Studio Tomahawk's new WWII game onto the tabletop for a few sessions. Here he gives his expert opinion.
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North Star - Frostgrave Cultists II review The temperature in Felstad may be rather chilly, but the North Star figure forges are still running at high temperature. We take a look at their Cultists II plastic set. The North Star plastic production juggernaut rolls on and this time it’s pumping out new
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Sarissa Precision - World War Europe 15mm review We review a range of new 15mm MDF from Sarissa and James constructs a ruined townhouse. 15mm is a scale that is extremely well suited to mixing the practicalities of gaming with the dramatic sweep of a terrain-heavy board. The only real downside is
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Ark Royal Miniatures by Warfare Miniatures - World War One 1/4800th scale ships review Warfare Miniatures go big on going small with the substantial release of their Ark Royal 1/4800 scale World War One naval range. With an initial glut of over 60 packs, Warfare Miniatures are providing gamers with the entire
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Joseph A. McCullough - Deathship One review We review the new mixed history vs aliens survival game from the creator of Frostgrave, Stargrave, and The Silver Bayonet. Deathship One is a game that was originally published in Blaster volume 4 (a game anthology ‘fanzine’ created by Joe and other notable game designers)
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I’m writing this month’s Insider Insight after spending the day going through the test version of our redesigned Wargames Illustrated website with designer Joe. He’s been chipping away at this new and improved site for months and the end is in sight (which I think Joe is happier about than
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Fenris Games - Assorted Animals review While traversing the traders at this May’s Partizan, we bumped into Fenris Games’ co-owner - Ian Brumby - and left with an armful of animalistic miniatures to review. Fenris Games produces extremely high-quality resin casts, a method that shows off the detail of their diverse sculpts
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Brickskrieg - Tanks, infantry, and rules review Brickskrieg offer an intriguing fusion of ‘LEGO’ and wargaming, with a growing range of ‘build-it-yourself WWII sets available. Their packs take inspiration from the many LEGO ‘My Own Creations’ (MOCs) that fans on the internet build and distribute, and Brickskrieg has packaged their own
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Strategies Games Lab - Close Quarter Battle assortment review Close Quarter Battle is a game of modern, cinematic combat, with operatives heading off around the world on secret missions to take down drug cartels and other criminals. Such a game calls for action movie-inspired, larger-than-life miniatures, and Strategies Games Lab are
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Dave Taylor Miniatures - The Art of... Volumes 7 to 9 review Wi alumni Dave Taylor has taken his hobby knowledge and layout talents to a different realm over the last few years, showcasing the skills of incredible miniature painters in his The Art Of… series. This collection of coffee-table books
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Last Sunday’s excellent Partizan wargames show is still a fresh, exciting, inspiring, and happy memory. After repeatedly circling the show, with cameras and microphones in hand, doing our best to document the very best games on offer, Dan and I rapidly transcribed our interviews at the start of this week
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One of the great pleasures of being the Editor-come-Photographer for Wargames Illustrated is the opportunity to go ‘on location’ and photograph readers' figure collections. Not only do I get to see the ‘toys out on the table’ I also get to see the behind-the-scenes conditions in which gamers store their
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Wargames Atlantic - British Expeditionary Force review It wasn’t so long ago that the British Expeditionary Force, and early WWII in general, got somewhat short shrift in miniature representation. That’s started to shift, with some fine metal figures available already, and now, an excellent set of 30 plastic figures from Wargames
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Wargames Atlantic - The Age of Chivalry Foot Knights review Coming in hot off the casting machine is the first set in a new Wargames Atlantic (WA) range called The Age of Chivalry. For this range, the plastic producers have teamed up with the folks at Footsore, as they did with
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Footsore Miniatures - Gangs of Rome Accessory Set review We were very impressed by Gangs of Rome when we looked at the ruleset in Wi435, and the goodies keep on coming with this excellent Accessories Set, containing everything you need to play, if you have the book. ‘Accessories’ is somewhat underselling
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Osprey Games - Stargrave: Dead or Alive review Solo gaming is nothing new, and certainly not new to Joseph McCullough’s systems, but a full book devoted to it is something fresh and welcome. This new Stargrave supplement puts its full focus on intriguing solo scenarios that will challenge bold players by
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Dungeons & Lasers - PrismaCast Dwarven Mine review We can understand if this terrain, very clearly designed for Dungeons & Dragons style roleplay gaming, seems like an odd choice to showcase in Wi. Our content is focused on tabletop wargaming, after all - not so much delving into dwarven mines! It’s the
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We’re back from Salute and the Wi team is busy putting together our post-show articles and videos, which will cover the impressive gaming tables and beautiful painting competition winners. Pre- and post-Salute is always a busy time for us and Joe, the trooper that he is, got down to video editing
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If you were to stand directly in front of the Wargames Illustrated stand at Salute on Saturday, then sidle two yards to the right, before then shimmying four meters to the left, you would have seen a living breathing timeline of Europe’s largest wargames show. To the right of our stand
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Helion & Company - Victory or Death: A Wargamers Guide to the American Revolution 1775-1782 review Helion’s latest release in their Wargames series is written by David C Bonk and focuses on the American Revolution. The first chapter provides a Strategic Overview that begins with the causes of the war, before
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Wargames Atlantic - Afghan Cavalry review Arriving like a bolt from the blue (in their method of attack and their unexpected appearance through the Wi letterbox), Wargames Atlantic (WA)’s Afghan Cavalry is here. This new set includes two different frames - riders and light horse - with four of each packed
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Bloody Miniatures - A Regiment of Foote review Bloody Miniatures specialise in 28mm figures aimed at conflicts such as the War of the Three Kingdoms (ECW), or the Thirty Years’ War, in the first half of the 17th Century. Their releases so far have focused on filling some of the characterful
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Modiphius Entertainment - Fallout: Factions Raiders review The last time we reviewed Modiphius Entertainment figures it was their plastic Brotherhood of Steel, in heavy armour. We were impressed with the three high-detail, high-quality, hard plastic figures in the set, and how they perfectly replicated the look of the Fallout video game
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Osprey Games - The Silver Bayonet: Egypt - Shadow of the Sphinx review If you’re paying attention to this, you’re probably already a fan of The Silver Bayonet, so we’re going to skip over getting into detail on the entirety of the book. You know what to expect from the chapters
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On Military Matters - assorted books review We sent our Observation Post skirmishers through On Military Matters’ book library and they returned with this report! Small Deadly Space Second Edition Small Deadly Space 2.0 is an American Civil War battle manual by Steve Fratt that takes an interesting look at the subject matter.
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As this Insider Insight goes online, the freebie ruleset that will come with May’s issue of Wargames Illustrated - Ruckus - is getting its final layout done before it heads to the printers. I’ve worked closely with Mike Peters, the ruleset’s author, over several visits to Wi Tower and it’s been
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Something’s gone wrong - the entries in the Wi/Hammerhead Painting Competition weren’t supposed to be this good! When we first teamed up with the organisers of the Hammerhead Wargames Show back in 2018, we collectively decided we wanted to run a painting comp in which anyone coming to the show could
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Great Escape Games - Dead Man's Hand Street Scatter review You can never go wrong with some good scatter terrain and this set, made for Dead Man’s Hand but usable with other Wild West games (or in European and Eastern areas for that matter), is certainly that. Two frames are included
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North Star - Oathmark Human Command review Ready to enhance your new unit of plastic Human Light Infantry [reviewed in Wi435 - Ed] are two blisters of three human characters. These will add command options for your Oathmark army but could also fit into some historical forces or village terrain. One pack
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