Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! I’m writing this editorial from a position of ignorance. Currently (early March 2024) I have got everything crossed that a container ship transporting, amongst other things, several thousand plastic frames of Special Ops figures, will be docking at Portsmouth, England, with enough time for said frames to be unloaded and transported up the country, to then be bagged with this issue of Wargames Illustrated. By the time you read this, you will know if that has happened. If there is not a free model frame with your magazine you will know that, despite our best efforts, events beyond our control have conspired against us. Those events have been on the fringes of world news for a couple of months now, as the Houthi rebels in Yemen continue to target shipping in the Red Sea; striking at a number of western container vessels, causing massive delays for goods, including our model frames as they travel via that route. Regardless of whether this magazine is bagged with an accompanying Special Ops frame, it does contain an article influenced by those figures (page 60), and you will have to do a bit of interactive editing by replacing the introduction text: “… this month’s free Warlord Games Special Operations team frame…” with “… a future issue’s free…”, if forces have conspired against us. If the Special Ops frames haven’t made it here in time, they will be bagged with a forthcoming issue of the magazine. Thank you for your understanding. That protracted explanation has left me with very little space to point out all the fantastic content we have for you in this issue and to highlight our theme of From the Screen. We present six articles inspired by wargaming’s relationship with TV, movies, and video games, and there’s a whole lot more too. Phew! I just about managed to mention everything! Dan Faulconbridge Editor OBSERVATION POST This month’s reviews include Wargames Atlantic plastics, Dead Man’s Hand cowboy scatter, Oathmark characters, and interwar MDF kits. RELEASE RADAR Dom Sore’s here to tell us about a stack of new and upcoming releases. QUICK FIRE Short, quick-read posts from Wi readers about their hobby projects, notes, news, and observations THEME: BIG SCREEN TO SMALL BOARD Want to translate your favourite movie or TV show to the tabletop? Pete Brown’s here to help you out. SALUTE 51: PIRATE PAINTING Wi Painter extraordinaire Matt Parkes applies brushwork to preview versions of this year’s Salute show minis. THEME: RIDLEY SCOTT AT AUSTERLITZ Colonel (Retired) Bill Gray compares two very different versions of Austerlitz. One is seen through a historical lens, the other, through the lens of director Ridley
