Wargames Illustrated WI447 March 2025 Edition

OBSERVATION POST

In this month’s OP we’ve got the US in WWII Bolt Action battles and some plastics from Wargames Atlantic.

RELEASE RADAR

Dom Sore mans the new-release early warning system and shares the details of the hobby goodies he’s excited about.

QUICK FIRE

Short, quick-read posts from WI readers about their hobby projects, notes, news, and observations.

COVER MOUNT FOCUS: CAESARIAN ROMANS

WI Brushman Matt Parkes shows what colours to put where on this month’s cover-mounted figures.

THEME: ALTERNATE AGINCOURTS

James suggests a whole host of ‘What if?’ options to make the iconic Battle of Agincourt your own.

MODELLING BOSWORTH

Paul Mackay takes us on an epic adventure (in miniature) through the Battle of Bosworth.

THEME: VICTORY AT VITORIA

Karim Van Overmire plays an alternate Battle of Vitoria 1813 and shows that you don’t need to make grand changes to bring some ‘What if?’ excitement to your battles.

CAESAR’S FIRST LANDING IN BRITAIN

Somewhere on the Thames estuary, Simon MacDowell pits stubborn Britons against a waterborne invasion led by Caesar.

THEME: OLD ENEMIES NEW ALLIES, OLD ALLIES NEW ENEMIES

Friend of the magazine Ron Ringrose and his Essex Gamester buddies gather 20,000 points of figures and play a ‘big battle’ game of Bolt Action, featuring US and German ‘allies’ against the Soviets.

THEME: DEAD MAN’S SWORD

WI Editor Dan takes a set of Wild West gunfight rules and a dozen Medieval miniatures and invents Dead Man’s Sword - the bastard son of Dead Man’s Hand.

HOW TO PAINT VISIGOTHS

Rubén Torregrosa applies paints from Big Child Creatives, a company new to the pages of Wargames Illustrated, on some awesome 1898 Miniaturas Visigoths.

WARGAMES ILLUSTRATED 2024 READERS’ AWARDS WINNERS

The results of the 2024 Wargames Illustrated Readers’ Awards are in. Did your favourites snag a win?