Wargames Illustrated (affectionately known as Wi) is the world’s leading and best-selling magazine dedicated to the hobby of miniature wargaming.
Each month Wi features news, views, reviews, and over 100 pages of articles relating to the noble hobby of miniature wargaming – the pursuit of collecting, painting, and gaming with miniature figurines (known variously as figures, miniatures, figs, minis, or toy soldiers).
This Month's Issue Features:
- RELEASE RADAR – Dom Sore’s here to show off the more esoteric new releases in the wargaming world.
- QUICK FIRE – Short, quick-read posts from Wi readers about their hobby projects, notes, news, and observations.
- DESERT RAIDS IN THE DARK – 02 Hundred Hours’ next expansion – Desert Raid – takes the game to previously unexplored territory with night raids in the desert. James interviews the game’s designer, Grey for Now’s owner Graham Davey, to find out all about it.
- ALESIA: CAESAR’S GREATEST VICTORY – A photo-heavy look at a Swordpoint game featuring an impressive model of the Alesia siegeworks.
- HOW DID I MISS… TEST OF HONOUR – James takes on Test of Honour’s designer Graham Davey in his semi-regular ‘How did I miss…’ series.
- “A VERY FIERCE AND HOT DISPUTE” PART ONE – The man behind Bloody Miniatures, Richard Lloyd, presents the first part of a two-part article about a little known English Civil War battle he has extensively researched.
- 1066 AND ALL THAT – Jim Graham looks at how we can wargame the battles of 11th Century England.
- TALKING MINIATURES – Wargames Illustrated Editor Dan takes a trip across town to chat with Robin Dews and John Stallard about their new book, Talking Miniatures… or how the Lincoln Model Railway and Wargaming Society changed the world.
- TOUGH GUT – Dom Sore disects the new Bolt Action Campaign book.
- SCRATCH-BUILDING TERRAIN FOR THE DOOMED – In the final part of Ana Polanšćak’s The Doomed trilogy, she makes some fantastic hand-crafted terrain, suitable for many games or genres.
- PATRON CLASS TRIREMES – Ricard Fortun revisits Thalassa’s ancient naval battles with rules for a new ship class that brings the divine powers to the tabletop.
- COMMUNAL CONSTRUCTION – Collin Farrant tells the tale of a collaborative project to build a Salute gaming board recreating the attack on the US Embassy in Saigon during the Vietnam War.
- HISTORICON 2023 – Our man in Pennsylvania, Dave Taylor, joins the throng at Historicon, and reports from this massive US convention.
