Dave Taylor Miniatures - The Art of... Volumes 7 to 9 review Wi alumni Dave Taylor has taken his hobby knowledge and layout talents to a different realm over the last few years, showcasing the skills of incredible miniature painters in his The Art Of… series. This collection of coffee-table books
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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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One of the great pleasures of being the Editor-come-Photographer for Wargames Illustrated is the opportunity to go ‘on location’ and photograph readers' figure collections. Not only do I get to see the ‘toys out on the table’ I also get to see the behind-the-scenes conditions in which gamers store their
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Wargames Atlantic - British Expeditionary Force review It wasn’t so long ago that the British Expeditionary Force, and early WWII in general, got somewhat short shrift in miniature representation. That’s started to shift, with some fine metal figures available already, and now, an excellent set of 30 plastic figures from Wargames
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Wargames Atlantic - The Age of Chivalry Foot Knights review Coming in hot off the casting machine is the first set in a new Wargames Atlantic (WA) range called The Age of Chivalry. For this range, the plastic producers have teamed up with the folks at Footsore, as they did with
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Footsore Miniatures - Gangs of Rome Accessory Set review We were very impressed by Gangs of Rome when we looked at the ruleset in Wi435, and the goodies keep on coming with this excellent Accessories Set, containing everything you need to play, if you have the book. ‘Accessories’ is somewhat underselling
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Osprey Games - Stargrave: Dead or Alive review Solo gaming is nothing new, and certainly not new to Joseph McCullough’s systems, but a full book devoted to it is something fresh and welcome. This new Stargrave supplement puts its full focus on intriguing solo scenarios that will challenge bold players by
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Dungeons & Lasers - PrismaCast Dwarven Mine review We can understand if this terrain, very clearly designed for Dungeons & Dragons style roleplay gaming, seems like an odd choice to showcase in Wi. Our content is focused on tabletop wargaming, after all - not so much delving into dwarven mines! It’s the
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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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If you were to stand directly in front of the Wargames Illustrated stand at Salute on Saturday, then sidle two yards to the right, before then shimmying four meters to the left, you would have seen a living breathing timeline of Europe’s largest wargames show. To the right of our stand
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Helion & Company - Victory or Death: A Wargamers Guide to the American Revolution 1775-1782 review Helion’s latest release in their Wargames series is written by David C Bonk and focuses on the American Revolution. The first chapter provides a Strategic Overview that begins with the causes of the war, before
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Wargames Atlantic - Afghan Cavalry review Arriving like a bolt from the blue (in their method of attack and their unexpected appearance through the Wi letterbox), Wargames Atlantic (WA)’s Afghan Cavalry is here. This new set includes two different frames - riders and light horse - with four of each packed
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Bloody Miniatures - A Regiment of Foote review Bloody Miniatures specialise in 28mm figures aimed at conflicts such as the War of the Three Kingdoms (ECW), or the Thirty Years’ War, in the first half of the 17th Century. Their releases so far have focused on filling some of the characterful
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Modiphius Entertainment - Fallout: Factions Raiders review The last time we reviewed Modiphius Entertainment figures it was their plastic Brotherhood of Steel, in heavy armour. We were impressed with the three high-detail, high-quality, hard plastic figures in the set, and how they perfectly replicated the look of the Fallout video game
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Osprey Games - The Silver Bayonet: Egypt - Shadow of the Sphinx review If you’re paying attention to this, you’re probably already a fan of The Silver Bayonet, so we’re going to skip over getting into detail on the entirety of the book. You know what to expect from the chapters
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On Military Matters - assorted books review We sent our Observation Post skirmishers through On Military Matters’ book library and they returned with this report! Small Deadly Space Second Edition Small Deadly Space 2.0 is an American Civil War battle manual by Steve Fratt that takes an interesting look at the subject matter.
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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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Something’s gone wrong - the entries in the Wi/Hammerhead Painting Competition weren’t supposed to be this good! When we first teamed up with the organisers of the Hammerhead Wargames Show back in 2018, we collectively decided we wanted to run a painting comp in which anyone coming to the show could
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Great Escape Games - Dead Man's Hand Street Scatter review You can never go wrong with some good scatter terrain and this set, made for Dead Man’s Hand but usable with other Wild West games (or in European and Eastern areas for that matter), is certainly that. Two frames are included
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North Star - Oathmark Human Command review Ready to enhance your new unit of plastic Human Light Infantry [reviewed in Wi435 - Ed] are two blisters of three human characters. These will add command options for your Oathmark army but could also fit into some historical forces or village terrain. One pack
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Wargames Atlantic - Skeleton Cavalry and Chariots review Games Workshop’s recent release of Warhammer: The Old World has seen the Tomb Kings (sand-cleaned and reanimated skeletal warriors from the desert) return to stores. These figures haven’t received flashy new kits though; old plastic frames in updated boxes have been flying off
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Wargames Atlantic - Great War Russian Infantry review We look to World War One with this new Wargames Atlantic (WA) box set. The plastic producers have made a frame that brings the massive army of Russia onto the wargaming table, joining the British, German, and French Infantry boxes that are already
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You’ve probably already noticed the first of our new WiPrime Collections in the Vault. These leather-bound tomes (digital PDFs if you’re the less romantic type) are a new addition, packed with themed articles that will make browsing your favourite subjects a pleasure. The first Collection covers the Crusades and since its
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Do you like the cover artwork for our April magazine (see below)? I do, but then I would, because I commissioned it, and it's by one of my favourite artists working in the hobby: Neil Roberts. Neil has been knocking out cover illustrations for us since October 2017, and we’ve managed
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Partizan Press - Setting the East Ablaze: 3rd and Final Edition review Hot off the press comes the third (and, we are assured, final) edition of the popular Setting the East Ablaze (StEA) wargames rules. Produced by Partizan Press, the rules comes as a soft cover A4 book that runs to
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North Star - Oathmark Human Militia review A new box set of plastics has arrived for use in Oathmark: Battles of the Lost Age, adding to the sizable range that North Star produce for the Joe McCullough /Osprey Games system. This one brings lighter-armed and armoured humans to the fantasy meets
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Osprey Games - Frostgrave: Mortal Enemies review If there’s one thing every good hero needs, it’s a great enemy. Would anyone care about grumpy ol’ Batman without the Joker? Would John McClane have done much beyond making fists with his toes if it wasn’t for Hans Gruber? Who would care about
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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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The new year is ushering in a new style for From the Vault. James talks about what's ahead for our monthly WiPrime exclusive article. We're working towards a better WiPrime offering this year and, once we're a little further into 2024, we should have an all-singing, all-dancing, new Member offering. This
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