Take a tour through the Vault and read some classic Wi articles. Wargames Illustrated 369 - July 2018 With no prior planning or intent (beyond setting a 'Revisited' theme) our current issue has become bizarrely interwoven with the offerings of Wi369, our July issue from five years ago. Simon MacDowall kicks off the mag's theme (Wars of Succession) with an article on the Diadochi. In Wi428, he looks back at the first ancient figures that grabbed his attention way back when. That's just the first of a great many connections. Pete Brown and Jerry Richardson also discuss gaming the Battle of the Boyne at a smaller scale than their norm. Which, in our new issue, they do exactly the same thing, but with the Battle of Aughrim! Barry Hilton shows off his horse-heavy Tactica 2018 participation game in Wi369 and in our latest offering, he makes the case for more cavalry on the tabletop. Roly Hermans describes a surprise attack on Boulcott Farm during the New Zealand Wars in Wi369; in Wi428 Mark Piper examines Māori Pā with inspiration from Roly's own initial Pā construction. To finish things off Wi369 visits the gaming room of everyone's favourite wargaming pixie Rick Priestley; in August 2023's issue Wi chats to the very same fella about his growing and increasingly museum-like collection of old-school armies. Two great issues five years apart! Wargames Illustrated 190 – July 2003 Every 'From the Vault' has a revisited theme, of course! Heading back 20 years Wargames Illustrated magazine looks rather different but still has some cracking content. Things begin with Steve Jones' piece on the Battle of Hanging Rock from the American Revolutionary War. This is a neat little game designed to use the Bloodybacks rules published several issues earlier (see Wi188 in the Vault) and is enticing, in part, due to its tidy presentation. 'In the Heart of German East' is an interesting oddity and the type of time capsule piece that the Vault often offers. Chris Peers adapts his 'Darkest Africa' rules to fit the 1914 to 1918 campaign. This is before his 'In the Heart of Africa' ruleset had become 'Death in the Dark Continent' fully, though, so it's an earlier version of rules you might be familiar with getting a theatre and timeframe twist! If you like tasty wargaming visuals then check out the spread of ACW figures from the League of Augsburg. Barry Hilton's two-decades-old offerings hold up pretty well even if they don't quite hit the highs of his more recent creations. Wargames Illustrated 001 - September 1987 What better time than this month to head as far back as Wi goes? Brace yourself for the nostalgia and take a look
