While pacing The Other Partizan last Sunday, doing my best to pick a path between the crowds of attendees, I realised I’m getting to know too many people in the wargaming world! It’s one of those good problems, of course - my job allows me to mix with talented game
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The end of the year may be a few festive and spooky holidays away, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t already thinking about it here at Wargames Illustrated. In this Insider Insight I’ll touch on some of our 2025 plans. Every new year brings new themes for our magazine and, while
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Earlier this month, at the Britcon wargames show, I was lucky enough to have a sneaky, behind closed doors chat with Sarissa’s Steve Cumming about a new project his company have been working on. It’s a hefty new range of full-colour fantasy terrain that will be released over the next
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It may be summer here in the UK, but I’m already writing and editing articles for our December issue. We don’t exactly go for a Christmas theme in the magazine (partly because there are loads of holidays over this period; why focus on just one?) but it looks like we
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I’m writing this month’s Insider Insight after spending the day going through the test version of our redesigned Wargames Illustrated website with designer Joe. He’s been chipping away at this new and improved site for months and the end is in sight (which I think Joe is happier about than
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Last Sunday’s excellent Partizan wargames show is still a fresh, exciting, inspiring, and happy memory. After repeatedly circling the show, with cameras and microphones in hand, doing our best to document the very best games on offer, Dan and I rapidly transcribed our interviews at the start of this week
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We’re back from Salute and the Wi team is busy putting together our post-show articles and videos, which will cover the impressive gaming tables and beautiful painting competition winners. Pre- and post-Salute is always a busy time for us and Joe, the trooper that he is, got down to video editing
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As this Insider Insight goes online, the freebie ruleset that will come with May’s issue of Wargames Illustrated - Ruckus - is getting its final layout done before it heads to the printers. I’ve worked closely with Mike Peters, the ruleset’s author, over several visits to Wi Tower and it’s been
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James previews some of the new STL files we’re preparing for WiPrime Members and looks ahead to some magazine content we’re working on. We’re getting fresh WiDigital models sculpted right now, after taking a break over the holidays and reassessing the direction this part of our WiPrime offering should take. Assorted
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What’s a fair cross-section of the wargaming world? How about 2,046 Wargames Illustrated readers? That was the total number of votes we received for our 2023 Wargames Illustrated Readers’ Awards and, while I say 2,046 Wi readers, the reality is that quite a few of those voters probably don’t flip through
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As we prepare for 2024 we’re busy emailing our regular contributors with a list of planned themes. This preparation ensures that our best writers have a chance to pen fascinating pieces that are suited to their interests and matched to each issue’s overall focus. At the same time, we’re also
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November is reaching its end, the days have well and truly darkened, and there’s less than a month left until Wi Tower gets locked up so we can head off for our festive break. I’m excited to have some time to rest and recuperate ahead of me but at Wargames
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We look ahead to 2024 and work out upcoming themes in this month's Insider Insight While the last couple of months of 2023 approach we at Wi Tower are already thinking ahead to 2024. It's time to work out our themes and decide on the magazine schedule for next year so
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We’ve focused on bringing together our Pulp and Peninsular War themes recently. Each of those issues are just about done, waiting on their timelier regulars such as product reviews. Once those are added the magazines will get signed off and head to the printers. You can see some page previews
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We’ve encountered a good problem whilst sorting out the content for recent issues of Wargames Illustrated - it’s tough to fit everything we’ve got into each issue! There are some great submissions from contributors ready to go but they keep on getting pushed back due to new releases or more
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I’m writing this month’s Insider Insight as the sign-off date for our next issue hits. At this point we need to have all articles finished and laid out, adverts ready to go (sent to us from the various fine companies that show off their wares on our pages), photos snapped
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There’s much excitement in the Wi world as we bring together our next issue and prepare to send it to be printed. Sometimes this is a last-minute scramble with new articles or products sneaking in but this issue’s theme - Revisited - means there’s not such an opportunity for newness. Various
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