As 2023 draws to a close I have two options for my last Editor’s Exploits of the year; do I look forward? Or do I look back? I choose the former and will take a moment to share some of the Wi-related goings-on we have lined up for 2024. Wi Mobile Early next year Wargames Illustrated is going to go mobile. Not literally, but digitally. Important note: This will be an additional service from Wi – we will still be producing the print and digital/PDF versions of the magazine! As well as that an app will enable you to view, read, and even listen to new (and a few old) copies of Wi on your phone/mobile device. This can already be done via the PDFs we have in the Vault, but reading PDFs on a phone is not easy. With Wi Mobile, each article will be presented in a format that will be easy to read and scroll through, and you will be able to press a button and have articles read to you, in the style of an audiobook - handy for when you are at the painting desk! Screenshot examples of Wi Mobile are shown below. 2024 Freebies We already have four freebie frames and at least two rules supplements lined up for you for next year. To be honest, we are already off to a challenging start with the first of our free frames. It will be Modern Military/Special Ops figures, courtesy of Warlord Games, which are made in China. They have been ordered and the plan is to include them with the March magazine. However, you may have heard about the closure of Red Sea shipping routes after attacks on vessels by Houthi rebels in Yemen that are affecting our shipment of (ironically!) the Special Ops frames, meaning that we will probably have to put that particular freebie back to April. Undaunted, we have at least three other frames planned for you. Two of these come from a secret project Warlord are working on, and the fourth will be a brand-new Bolt Action frame for later in the year. Printed supplement-wise: in spring we will have Never Mind Billhooks: Here’s the Ruckus, the skirmish version of Never Mind the Billhooks, featuring battling bands of a dozen or so Wars of the Roses figures (read all about it in the next couple of issues of Wi). In October we will be providing you with several new periods in which you can play Jervis Johnson’s Valour & Fortitude rules, in the form of a rules supplement. And there’s more… Website development, loads of fab projects for the printed magazine, lots of new Giants in Miniature figures, et al,
