A bonus for WiPrime Members: Rick Priestley, ace Game Designer, and the champion of silly article titles, provides an insight into designing Warlord’s new Scipio Battle Game. If you are seeing this message after signing in as a WiPrime Member, Please refresh your browser. This page is only viewable to WiPrime Members, If you are already a Member, please log in,...

North Star – Muskets & Tomahawks Germans review We examine the new Hessians from North Star. North Star are expanding their Muskets & Tomahawks range further, with four packs that will allow you to build a compact collection of characterful Hessians, ready to support the British in the American War of Independence. There’s a German Officer to lead the troops,...

Mad Dogs, Mughals & Marathas review Ian Cluskey casts his expert eye over this in-depth tome. Who could fail to be drawn to the saga of a crumbling, once-mighty Mughal Empire, that had long cast a tall shadow over the emerging European states, now gambling its economic and military resources to survive? The bold new upstarts were the Mahrattas –...

Flags of War – Border Wars Miniatures review Steve Wood reviews some fine figures from Flags of War. Having already recruited some of Flags of War’s (FoW) Fighting Irish for my late-medieval collection, I was keen to review some of the latest releases from the same manufacturer. Like the Irish, these new figures come from FoW’s Border Wars range, which...

I don’t really get excited by new technology, however, the modern magazine editor would be a fool to bury their head in the sand and pretend there isn’t a world of publishing outside of printed paper. They would also be out of business. At Wargames Illustrated we already embrace Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, online flip-books, and digitally downloadable PDFs as a...

The end of the year may be a few festive and spooky holidays away, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t already thinking about it here at Wargames Illustrated. In this Insider Insight I’ll touch on some of our 2025 plans. Every new year brings new themes for our magazine and, while we don’t have everything locked down for 2025, we’ve...

Caliver Books – No Dachi No Dice review Read our review of No Dachi No Dice and see if it gets you enthused for some Sengoku period wargaming. No Dachi No Dice’s release is perfectly timed for anyone who has just purchased a few boxes of Wargames Atlantic’s new 10mm plastic Samurai and Ashigaru. Adrien Rousset’s rules work around a...

Athena Miniatures – Wars of the Roses Vignettes review Read about Athena’s Wars of the Roses vignettes, including (but not limited to), knights, a surgeon, drunken soldiers, ruffians, farmers, and more. We all like a vignette or two on the tabletop, and Athena Miniatures have provided us with several new options for just that (and more) as part of their...

Modiphius – Fallout: Factions ‘Battle for Nuka-World’ Starter Set review Is this set all you need to get gaming in the post-apocalypse? Find out in our thorough review! A lot of different Starter Sets make their way to Wi Towers and, while they’re often a good-value entry into a new or existing game, most focus on quantity to lure players...