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 for category nine: Best Recent Wargames Illustrated Article. Our eclectic mix is, we think, a great representation of the varied hobby excellence that contributors submit each year; it's just the tip of a beautiful iceberg of wargaming possibilities across over 1,200 pages of the magazine. Our thanks to the authors mentioned for their efforts; more thanks to the numerous other excellent contributors who aren't mentioned in this small selection. We couldn't get to press each month without your knowledge, ideas, words, and photos! But enough of that, let's get into the articles themselves! This From the Vault links to each of the last twelve issues and briefly explains why we gave a gold star sticker to some of the articles we did: Wargames Illustrated 409 - January 2022 A World of Painting by Noel Williams Published posthumously, this article celebrates how the hobby can bring gamers and painters together. It stands as a showcase for Noel's painting passions and his productivity during the Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge. Wargames Illustrated 410 - February 2022 Going Epic by Andy Callan and Steve Wood Bring some Napoleonic/Black Powder experts together, provide them with a gaming board and enough of Warlord Games' new Epic: Waterloo figures to swamp it, and good things happen. This article is in the running because it's a great showcase of Andy and Steve's fun gaming, but also because it's another chance for us to upset the vocal minority who were spitting blood about us featuring unpainted miniatures in the magazine. Bless! Plus Ça Change by Keith Flint From Andy and Steve's gaming fun to a more serious (but still entertaining) examination of tactics. Keith Flint looks at how strategy changed from the Seven Years' War to Napoleonic battles and how our gaming should change along with it. Lots of lovely photos of grand battles here too! Wargames Illustrated 411 - March 2022 Into the Woods We Go by Ara Harwood Articles arrive in the Wargames Illustrated inbox in different forms. Some contributors provide good copy but don't send photos (or the ones they provide aren't quite up to our exacting standards). Others excel at photos but their article needs tweaking to reach its full potential. The most welcome (and rare) contributions arrive with a welcome ping in the Wi inbox needing minimal editing and bearing a link to a folder full of usable photos. That was the case
