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 stores from 21 March and in High Street stores (inc. WH Smith from) 30 March. EDITORIAL Spies and Assassins are not standard fare in a wargame, I know that, but in the theme for this issue of Wargames Illustrated we are looking to push their role onto the tabletop by suggesting many, varied and dynamic ways in which both (along with WWII resistance fighters) could be used in your games. You will have noticed that this issue of the magazine comes with a freebie copy “How To … A Guide To Modelling (2)”. In a pique of generosity we have decided that rather than sell this excellent publication – which we did with ‘How To … A Guide To Modelling (1)’ – we would give it to you for free! This is part of our ongoing commitment to give freebies away with as many copies of WI as possible. During the rest of 2020 we have another four Warlord Games frames to give away plus at least two rulebooks. We would like every freebie to be a welcome surprise, so we’ll keep you guessing as to what is coming and when … although the ‘Next Issue Page ‘ will often carry a clue! Dan Faulconbridge, Editor and Owner. OBSERVATION POST A look at what’s new in the hobby, with a focus on neu releases at Tactica 2020. THEME: PLAYING THE LONG GAME Pete Brown offers some thoughts and ideas for using covert operatives during the course of your campaign. WWI PORTUGUESE Mark Hargreaves takes on another challenge, creating Portuguese troops ready for service in Africa during the First World War. THEME: THE ASSASSINS Stephen Tibble, author of Crusader Armies from Yale Press, draws us into the world of the Crusades, and introduces the sect which came to be known as the Assassins. PAINTING BLACK HAWK DOWN The latest figure set from Giants in Miniature pays tribute to this pair of Delta Force snipers made famous by the movie Black Hawk Down. ‘Demon Brush’ Ben Macintyre provides a step by step guide on how to get them colour ready for the tabletop. THEME: ORDINARY PEOPLE, EXTRAORDINARY SPIES Having been enthused by reading a collection of World War Two spy books, Dom Sore recounts some of the exploits of various spy agencies and commando forces featured in their pages and goes on to suggest how they could be re-created on the
