Take a tour through the Vault and read some classic Wi articles. We've ground our way through the previous year's struggles and emerged into the greener pastures of hope and potential that they call 2023. Hurrah! The yearly reset, along with the downtime that the Christmas holidays provide, tends to give our
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Read the first painting guide for Thalassa where Callum France shows how to get a quality finish through simple but cunning techniques for your first trireme. Download the full PDF. [pdf-embedder url="https://ed025442.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Wi421-Extra-Painting-your-first-trireme.pdf" title="Wi421 Extra - Painting your first trireme"]
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Take a tour through the Vault and read some classic Wi articles. I'm writing this month's From the Vault at the end of a very busy week. Every December the Wargames Illustrated team has to push to get the next issue of the magazine ready well ahead of our usual sign-off
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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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With postal strikes meaning we couldn’t get any orders out of the door, and rail strikes meaning we couldn’t get any stock in the door, coupled with a fire alarm service meaning the lights in the office were out of action, we could cry, moan, and hope Netflix would give
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These plans should be used alongside the Wi420 How To ... article; they will assist you in building an Old West mine. Download the Old West plans.
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Take a tour through the Vault and read some classic Wi articles. Wargames Illustrated 361 - November 2017 Five years ago Wi's theme explored cavalry but the issue started with Observation Post - our ongoing monthly column that takes a look at new releases... or in this case old releases! It's interesting
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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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The survey for the 2022 Wargames Illustrated Awards has just gone live... But before you rush over to vote for your favourite companies, games, shows, and more, you should also consider the best Wi articles of 2022. Editor Dan and I (Project Manager James) have picked a selection of 24 options
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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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Editor Dan gets behind the wheel with friends Nick North Star and Alan and Michael Perry. What sights did they behold on their 1.5k mile road trip? “How about turning Tactica 2022 into a Road Trip?” said I to friends and Tactica regulars Alan and Michael Perry. Having later recruited our
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September is coming to a close; what better way to finish up the month than taking a look in the Vault and enjoying some vintage Wi goodies? Wargames Illustrated 359 - September 2017 Did Mark's Little Soldiers catch your eye in our latest issue? Can you see some pulp potential? This issue
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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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Editor Dan ponders how the GW generation of game designers resonates with the Wi audience. I’ve never actually played War Games by Donald Feather (first published 1962), or any rules by George Gush, Tony Bath, Charles Grant et al. I have got, and read, several books by those authors, but have
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We've got the orders of battle and some extra photos to accompany Wi417's 'The Battle of Trautenau' article. AUSTRIA X Armeecorps Commander - Feldmarschalllieutenant (FML) Baron Gablenz Assistant - Generalmajor (GM) Baron Koller Chief of Staff - Oberst Baron Bourguignon Chief of Artillery - Oberst Eisler Brigade Oberst Mondl - 12th Jaegerbataillon,
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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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It’s August, it’s cooling down enough in the UK for us to brave trips into the Wi basement where our gaming table lives (so too do many terrible things that we can’t mention here), and we’ve got a gaming theme to this month’s From the Vault, inspired by the new
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July is drawing to a close and after working through a UK meltdown it’s quite a relief to settle down, look back at some old issues of Wargames Illustrated, and imagine the cooler times they were written in! Wargames Illustrated 297 - July 2012 Travel back a decade through the time machine
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Want to paint up our latest Giants in Miniature release Harry Hotspur? Wi Painter Callum shows you how! Download the full PDF. [pdf-embedder url="https://ed025442.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Giants-in-Miniature-Painting-Harry-Hotspur.pdf" title="Giants in Miniature - Painting Harry Hotspur"]
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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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“Why don’t you publish more articles about 6mm gaming?” was the predictable first question I was asked in my capacity as one of the panel at the Joy of Six event which took place in Sheffield, England, in early July. It was a fair question and one I knew was coming
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Another Partizan, another record-breaking number of attendees; over 1,100 wargamers and hobbyists pushed through the gates of the Newark Showground for the May 2022 show. They were treated to the high-quality collection of demo and participation games we have come to expect from this stalwart of the UK show circuit. Now,
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Paul Davies heads to Legionary 2022 to report on various gaming tables he spotted at the event. Download the full PDF. [pdf-embedder url="https://ed025442.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Legionary-2022-Show-Report.pdf" title="Legionary 2022 Show Report"]
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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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It's June's From the Vault; we look back at past issues of Wargames Illustrated and suggest interesting, odd, and visually appealing articles that are worth a second look. Wargames Illustrated 356 – June 2017 Five years ago Wargames Illustrated focused on Death in the Dark Continent (DitDC) - a game that explores
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These plans should be used alongside the Wi414 How To ... article; they will assist you in building a post mill suitable for various periods. Download the post mill plans.
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Sweeping in at the last minute we've got May’s From the Vault; we look back at past issues of Wargames Illustrated and suggest interesting, odd, and visually appealing articles that are worth a second look. Wargames Illustrated 355 – May 2017 Five years ago our theme brought the colour, drama, and centuries
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I do like an umpired game and I’m particularly keen when I'm unfamiliar with the rules but the umpire is a walking, talking, 3D version of the rulebook. That meant I was already keen when friend of the magazine Pete Brown offered to umpire a game based on a battle
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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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