QUICK FIRE!
A few short, shots
from your fellow hobbyists.
OBSERVATION
POST
Our look at new and upcoming releases in the wargames
world.
RELEASE RADAR
Dom Sore mans the
radar and searches for some less obvious hobby releases.
FULL PAPER JACKET
Neil Smith takes a look at
wargaming relevant books you need to know about.
THEME:
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS OF
BRONZE
After considering the different angles of our
Combined Operations theme, Colonel (Retired) Bill Gray looks at
combined operations in Western antiquity. The first article in this
two-parter takes in the Sea Peoples and their adversaries, the
Egyptians.
HAMMERHEAD PAINTING
COMPETITION
For the fourth year in succession Wargames
Illustrated ran the Hammerhead 2022 painting competition, supported
by Kalistra. Here you will find photos of the winners for your
delectation and dissection.
THEME:
A
WILD GAMBLE: OPERATION LÉA
Karim Van Overmeire looks at
Operation Léa in the First Indochina War. In examining the French
attempt to bring armour, paradrops, and riverine operations
together, we can learn about some of the challenges of combined
operations in a war without fronts.
TRANSFORMING
READY-MADE DUNGEONS INTO TABLETOP RUINS
Wargames
Illustrated’s in-house terrain tinkerer Marc trains his tools on a
plastic dungeon set from Dungeons and Lasers.
THEME:
COMBINED ARMS
River Horse
designers Alessio Cavatore and Jack Caesar talk to Wargames
Illustrated about their new WWII campaign game, Combined Arms,
created for Warlord Games.
THEME:
BEOWULF AND MOONSUND
Jim Graham
explores two World War Two combined operations to seize a group of
Estonian islands: Operation Beowulf and the Moonsund Landing
Operation.
PAINTING CARNEVALE LESSER
UGDRU
Ben Porter talks reference material, mood boards,
and brushwork, then applies paint to some Lovecraft looking
sub-aquatic beasties from the fantasy skirmish game
Carnevale.
THEME:
THE BATTLE OF
BLACKPOOL SANDS, 1404
A story of (and scenario for)
medieval-era combined operations going badly wrong, by Andy
Callan.
TRAVEL SIZED 28s: WIGLAF
MINIATURES
Daniel Mersey has shifted from game design to
miniature design with his new Wiglaf range. We ask him all about
it.
WHY I LOVE…
ALTAR OF
FREEDOM
Grayson Brill finds beauty in simplicity while
playing this 2013 ACW ruleset by Greg Wagman of Little Wars TV
fame.
CREATING A SNOWY DIORAMA:
THE
RETREAT FROM MOSCOW
Inspired by last issue’s ‘facing the
elements’ theme, some new North Star figures, and Napoleon’s costly
defeat, Painter Marc builds a snowy diorama for the Retreat from
Moscow.
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