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 the pandemic. So in this issue, I have contributed a ‘Wargames News Special’ in which I speak to the owners of various hobby companies and they divulge what it has been like working within wargaming under lockdown After a one-month hiatus, we return to magazine themes this month with ‘Strategy, Command and Control’ taking centre stage. As usual, our theme is as uninstructive as possible - covering several periods and totalling a modest four articles. Beyond our theme content, we are pleased to be able to bring you a Designer’s Notes by Joseph MacCullough in which he talks us through the changes being introduced in the second edition of Frostgrave - the game voted ‘Best Rules’ in our 2019 readers survey. You will of course have noticed the Victory at Sea Starter Set Rules Manual bundled free with this magazine. Should you read it and have your interest piqued, turn to page 60 to see how it plays and check out Warlord Games for all the ‘playing pieces'. Happy reading Dan Falconbridge, Editor and Owner COPING WITH THE GREAT PANDEMIC OF 2020 Editor Dan finds out how the Coronavirus Crisis affected our industry. OBSERVATION POST A bumper look at some recent product releases in the hobby. THEME: THE PRESSURES OF COMMAND PART 1 In our lead theme article, Pete Brown has a look at how we deal with the thorny problem of command and control in our wargames. COPPLESTONE’S BARBARICA: DRAGON RAMPANT STYLE Author Dan Mersey flies the flag and provides the rules for 15mm fantasy Dragon Rampant gaming. THEME: COMMANDING FROM A DISTANCE Barry Hilton tells us how he pieced together an Anglo-Dutch Wars naval campaign in which all the players are several hundred miles apart. (Previously published in Wi Bite-size.) COVID CAMPAIGNING Bill Gray gives us one wargamers account of keeping his hobby alive during the Coronavirus Crisis. THEME: WARGAMES CAMPAIGNS AND MEDIEVAL STRATEGY Dr Steve Tibble, author of The Crusader Armies and The Crusader Strategy looks at why we might take the idea of ‘medieval strategy’ more seriously. MAKE, DO AND BUILD Chris Breese explains how lockdown restrictions can be turned to a wargamer’s advantage when it comes to creativity in terrain modelling. THEME: SOMEONE HAD BLUNDERED Rick Priestley muses over a couple of examples of how little control battlefield commanders really have in the heat of battle. RULES SHOWCASE: VICTORY AT SEA Naval enthusiast Dom
