FROM THE EDITOR
The dust has now settled on Salute 2019, certainly the biggest wargames show of the year for the WI team. All of our staff attend, hundreds of Salute goers subscribe to the magazine and we run the world’s largest participation game at any show (see page 58). The coverage of Salute in this month’s magazine reflects its ‘big deal’ status, with six pages dedicated to our favourite games from the convention and eight pages of Observation Post given over to ‘Spotted at Salute’ – all the new releases showcased at the event.
Not to be outdone, our roving reporter Teras from Geek Nations Tours, provides us with a view of another massive event on the convention circuit – Adepticon in Chicago – taking in some of the tables we think our readers will find the most interesting.
Our theme for this month is ‘Uprising!’ and features four articles that have rebellions, revolutions and civil wars as their focus. We take you from the fall of the Roman Empire in Gaul to the 1946 Greek Civil War, via the struggle for Hungarian independence and the Indian Mutiny.
Your freebie cover mount this month is a Bolt Action World War II US Infantry frame, courtesy of Warlord Games. Tying in nicely with the 75th anniversary of D-Day, at which American troops like the ones represented on the frame played a major part. For more information see our ‘Frame Focus’ on page 26.
Happy reading and rolling.
OBSERVATION POST
A look at new and forthcoming goodies in our hobby. With a focus on ‘spotted at Salute 2019’.
THEME: WARLORDS AND REBELS
Author and wargamer Simon MacDowall presents background, gaming notes and a multi-player scenario for the bacaudae – anti-Roman revolutionaries.
COVER MOUNT FOCUS: U.S. INFANTRY AT D-DAY
Dom Sore presents some thoughts on this month’s cover mounted frame, which commemorates some of those who hit the beaches on D-Day 75 years ago.
THEME. LAKSHMI BAI: WARRIOR QUEEN
Steve Blease explores the efforts of this amazing woman who defied an Empire and led her people against the British in the ‘Great Rebellion’.
DESIGNER’S NOTES: DARK AND BLOODY GROUND
Pete Brown introduces us to his latest Black Powder supplement which covers the French and Indian Wars.
THEME: NO BRIDGE, NO COUNTRY!
Bill Gray takes us to a Revolution that is little known outside Hungary but offers some interesting gaming options and a short but enjoyable campaign option.
SHOW REPORT: SALUTE 2019
A tour of the table-topping highlights from the Salute 2019 wargames show.
THEME: PIECING TOGETHER THE GREEK CIVIL WAR
Matt Moran shows us how to convert models for use in the Greek Civil War
of 1943-49.
SNAKEMEN AND OTHER SCALY THINGS
Gaming Guru Rick Priestley provides us with an army list for using Snakemen in the Warlords of Erehwon.
SAGA AGE OF MAGIC: COULD IT BE MAGIC?
Fanboy Dom Sore takes a close look at the latest SAGA universe.
SHOW REPORT: ADEPTICON
‘Head Geek’ Teras Cassidy shows us some of the less obvious games from the massive U.S. convention.
WARGAMES DESIGNERS, THE NEXT GENERATION
Doctor Peter Wright and Karl Perrotton of Crooked Dice tell us about a group of students from Edge Hill University who have been working on a new set of wargames rules as part of their studies.
WARGAMER’S SQUINT
We asked ridiculously talented figure fiddler Mark Hargreaves to take some WWII plastic figures and turn them into 1930s Tommies for the North-West Frontier, and he did…
WARGAMES SPACES: ERIC THE SHED
Our latest look at one of our reader’s wargames rooms takes us to South West London where we look around Eric’s garden ‘shed’.
MARCHING ON WITH BATTLEGROUP
Games designer Warwick Kinrade talks to us about WWII game Battlegroup’s past, present and future plans.
HOW TO … BUILD A GREEK TEMPLE
Need a temple for your Mortal Gods battlefield? Paul Davies shows us how to scratch-build one.