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OBSERVATION POST
This month’s review section includes modern military miniatures, brick-building, amazing painting, and enticing animals.
RELEASE RADAR
Dom Sore’s back after a two-month break; he’s found some great new and upcoming releases to tempt you!
QUICK FIRE
Short, quick-read posts from Wi readers about their hobby projects, notes, news, and observations.
THEME:
COVER MOUNT FOCUS – EPIC HAIL CAESAR
Carthaginians, Republican Romans, Allied Troops, War Elephants, or Celt Warriors – we talk through the free frames that are randomly bagged with this issue.
KNIGHT FEVER
We check out Victrix’s new Medieval range, along with some superb prototype decals to decorate them.
THEME:
SMALL… FAR AWAY
Thoughts on Warlord’s Hail Caesar Epic Battles and small-scale wargames, by Rick Priestley.
RECREATING EL CID
Paul McKay builds and paints his own reimagining of the El Cid legend with inspiration from history and Hollywood.
THEME:
WHY I LOVE – WARGAMING IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
This month, Pete Brown returns with the first ‘Why I Love…’ article we’ve featured for quite a while, and this time, it’s Biblical!
A WAR TRANSFORMED
We had a chat with A War Transformed author Freddie Silburn-Slater at Salute 51 to see how things were going after the release of his weird WWI game.
THEME:
BIG ANCIENT BATTLES
Simon MacDowall presents his way of conquering the tabletop challenges presented by the big set-piece battles of the Ancient World.
PARTIZAN MAY 2024
Team Wi had a great time at the Lead Belt’s premiere wargaming event, held at Newark Showground. We show off some of the brilliant gaming in this report.
THEME:
AN ABUNDANCE OF ANCIENTS
Take a tour of Nick Gilmore’s collection of 25 marvellous-looking Ancient armies.
WHAT A CARTEL!
John Savage discusses the game he ran at Partizan 2024, which showed off the versatility of his What a Cowboy! rules by transplanting them to drug-busting battles of the 1980s.
THEME:
EDGE OF EMPIRE
A wargame inspired by the novel Warrior of Rome – Fire in the East.
SALUTE 51 PAINTING COMPETITION WINNERS
The quality of entries in the Salute painting competition gets increasingly spectacular, as the winners here show!
“I KNOW HOW TO DEFEND MY OWN KEEP!”
Mark Clayton poured his love of The Lord of the Rings into this impressive Helm’s Deep model.
FULL PAPER JACKET
Neil Smith cracks the spines of a selection of recently released and wargamer friendly history books.
THEME: PRUSSIA AT WAR
Neil Smith is back introducing this month’s theme by taking us on a brief tour of the rise of the Prussian Empire and its wargaming potential.
DESIGNER’S NOTES:
BEYOND THE EMPIRE
Chris Swan explains how his Beyond the Empire rules encompass the many conflicts fought in Central Asia immediately after WWI.
THEME: Frame Focus - Quick fix Prussians
Warlord Games’ Alister Daire shares how he got his Prussian plastics tabletop ready with minimal effort.
HOLD FAST!
Editor Dan takes on Game Designer Gabrio using a scenario and new rules from Hold Fast! the first supplement for Black Seas.
RUSSIAN AND PRUSSIAN NAPOLEONIC CAVALRY
Wargames Illustrated visited Alan Perry to find out about his latest plastic project, Napoleonic Prussian and Russian Dragoons and Jägers.
NEPTUNE AND MARS GO TO WAR
Following on from last issue’s combined operations theme and his article on the expedition warfare of the Sea Peoples, Colonel (Retired) Bill Gray casts his gaze over the conquests of Alexander and the Roman Empire.
THEME: THE PRUSSIANS ARE COMING
Michael Perry’s latest gaming project sees a Prussian army, buoyed by their success in the Franco-Prussian War, set their sights on England’s green and pleasant land.
HOW TO … BUILD A POST MILL
Paul Davies shows us how to build a small scale post mill usable across various periods.
THEME: FRAME FOCUS - PRUSSIAN PERFECTION
WI Painter Callum painted a spectacular looking Epic Battles: Waterloo Prussian Brigade Commander; he explains some of his advanced techniques.
THE MISADVENTURES OF DOMNAL BRECC
Game Designer Daniel Mersey looks at a feckless Dark Age warlord and the challenge of gaming with underachieving generals.
THEME:
END OF THE PRUSSIAN EMPIRE
Jim Graham looks at the part the veteran Friekorps played during the war in Latvia and the Prussian Empire’s last adventure in the East.
FALKLANDS WAR ANNIVERSARY - PAINTING THE COMBATANTS
In this first part of our Falklands trilogy, WI Painter Marc shows how he brought the combatants to life with his fine brushwork.
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