It's a bit of a cliché that Medieval naval battles were just like land battles at sea, but what if you take a successful set of medieval land battle rules and set them afloat, does it work? That’s what rules writer Andy Callan did with Never Mind the Billhooks. If you
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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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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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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! Well, it finally got us! After holding out for over two years WiHQ was finally awash with the Coronavirus in March, with five out of six office staff scumming to various levels of infection. Production of this venerable organ, and
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! If you can play the guitar, music can become interactive. You are no longer just listening to music, you're taking part in it. If you play a wargame, you can make history interactive. You are no longer just reading about
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Editor Dan talks about sorting his way through boxes of fine figures and fond memories in this Editor’s Exploits. Dan: When we lost my good friend, mentor and Wargames Illustrated founder Duncan Macfarlane earlier this year, I inherited his personal collection of Wargames figures. Duncan’s miniature mountain is made up of
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! French troops are never very far from the wargames table: whether that be Charlemagne's Frankish warriors, Napoleon's legions, the Poilus of the Western Front, and more. The martial prowess of the soldiers from the various regions that have come to
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Editor Dan embarks on a brave new journey of discovery, involving cardboard and clips. Dan: If you’re a 50+ wargamer like myself, you can possibly remember your first model house building project. Perhaps it was something constructed in the 1970s using balsa wood and a toxic (now banned) glue, or maybe
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! This month we are going micro mini with our theme, that doesn’t mean we are going “all 2mm” on you, but rather our ‘Billhooks Redux’ theme consists of just two articles. Both are an expansion on the Never Mind the Billhooks
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As the co-founder and the first Grand Master of the Knights Templar, Hugues de Paynes along with Bernard of Clairvaux created the Latin Rule, the code of behaviour for the infamous Order. If you want to learn more about de Paynes and his mission worldwide, make sure you check out Wi400.
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! Death in the Dark Continent is a set of rules for small scale battles set in sub-Saharan Africa in the late 19th century. What you have in your hands is the Lite version of the game - it contains all
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! A smorgasbord of delights! Why would you pick a theme for the magazine when you can include 15 different articles drawn from the whole of human history and across the whole broad wargaming spectrum? Well, because it gives direction to the
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! I sincerely hope that your monthly copy of Wargames Illustrated magazine whisks you away from the stresses and strains of a Coronavirus ravaged world and into your miniature ‘happy place’ for some quality immersion, inspiration and escapism. So, it is with great
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! For those of you who are still resisting the temptation to refight some Wars of the Roses action using your free Never Mind the Billhooks rules from last month’s magazine, you will hopefully be further tempted by a ‘Billhooks’ scenario which
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Regular Wargames Illustrated ‘How To …’er Paul Davies has a terrain building guide that is exclusive to you, our lovely Prime subscribers. This great article covers his build of a medieval bridge and quayside in 12mm with visually stunning end results. The techniques used (and templates that are also available
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! Following several months delay caused by Coronavirus, it is with great pride that we present our free ruleset, Never Mind the Billhooks with this issue of Wargames Illustrated magazine. A fast-paced small battle/large skirmish game, ‘Billhooks’ first came to my attention when
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download the PDF instead. Download the Cards, Tokens and Cribsheet. Never mind the Billhooks is a simple, Wars of the Roses-themed wargame pitched at the Big Skirmish/Small Battle level. This sort of thing probably went on a lot of the time, particularly up around
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! As we take further steps out of lockdown and head towards a re-opening of gaming clubs and stores (at the time of going to print at least), I thought you might be interested to hear how the wargames industry coped during
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download the PDF instead. Victory at Sea is the game of naval combat during the Second World War. Throughout 1939–45, the nations of the world duelled across the oceans across the globe, only to discover the fundamental nature of naval warfare changing in
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download the PDF instead! This is it, you are reading the last issue of Wi Bite-Size. When we temporarily mothballed production of the print magazine back in April we went into production with Wi Bite-Size and since then we’ve produced six issues with
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download the PDF instead. By the pricking of my thumbs, something printed this way comes. The easing of the lockdown here in the UK and the ‘roadmap’ for the way forward (all be it that the roadmap is fuzzy around the edges) seems
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download the PDF instead. It has been great getting all the positive reactions and constructive criticism back from readers of Wi Bite-Size over the last few weeks. It’s also been really interesting finding out what you and your fellow gamers have been getting
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download the PDF instead. Time flies by when you’re the editor of a weekly magazine*. Bite-Size number Issue 3 is already upon us, or rather upon you (we’re already working on Issue 4!). This week we have another four new articles for you, and
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Having trouble viewing the 3D magazine? View and download the PDF instead. Welcome back to Wi Bite-Size - this is the second of our mini PDF magazines aimed at keeping our subscribers well-fed with wargaming reading material during the lockdown - whilst the print magazine is mothballed. BITE-SIZE BANTER We’re back with more
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This issue comes with a FREE 48 page modelling guide! Available as a free PDF and/or free to purchase as a hard copy for WIPrime members. WI390 was mailed to subscribers on 18 March 2020. It was made available to WIPrime members on 20 March 2020. It will be in hobby
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Having trouble viewing the 3D magazine? View and download the PDF instead. Download the plans for this How To... now. This ‘How To…’ guide is a compilation of articles published over several years in Wargames Illustrated magazine. This volume is an eclectic mix of the best of the articles from our regular
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Having trouble viewing the 3D magazine? View and download the PDF instead. Download the plans for this How To... now. This ‘How To…’ guide is a compilation of articles published over several years in Wargames Illustrated magazine. This first volume (like the following two, which will be published annually) is an eclectic
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It’s time we paid tribute to that staple of the wargame - the charge. Whether on foot in command of 15,000 Confederates trying to finally get to those damn Yankees, or riding to glory with the Scots Greys whilst re-fighting Waterloo, the charge is often the watershed moment in both real
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Quickly! Flip to page 36 of this magazine, then come back here…. Good, isn’t it? That’s Alan Sheward’s Stalingrad table. To coincide with this month’s Urban Combat theme Alan, with the help of buddy Adrian Deacon, took the trouble to come to WIHQ with their amazing table and set the whole
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You can’t go wrong wargaming with a bunch of mohawk sporting US paratroopers known as the ‘Filthy 13’ or indeed a group of armed British citizen militia known as ‘Dad’s Army’, both (very different!) sets of warriors featured in this month’s ‘Infamous Sections’ theme, along with Popski’s Private Army -
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