Wargames Illustrated Issue 428

For this month’s theme, we originally asked several of our regular contributors to ‘revisit’ articles they had written for Wargames Illustrated in the past, and several of them have done that, but as is often the case, our themes and our contributors take the magazine in different and more interesting directions than we planned.

Dan Mersey (Lion Rampant author) has been writing for the magazine for many years, but rather than revisit one of his previous articles he has revisited a late 1970s wargame for us: Thane Tostig. Wargaming luminary, Rick Priestley, tells us about his project to revisit wargames figures from the early ’70s, and in our interview with Alan and Michael Perry we revisit their early historical sculpts for Citadel Miniatures and Wargames Foundry.

Sticking to our original brief, we do have several articles that hark back to previous publications, not least Andy Callan’s American War of Independence rules: Loose Files and American Scramble, which were originally published in Wi001. The rules are published here in their original form, but with added Designer’s Notes which suggest improvements and add insight or rather hindsight.

We don’t generally go big into retro gaming here at Wargames Illustrated – there is too much good stuff happening here and now – and I maintain that this month’s magazine is less about retro and more about revisiting – but we do like to take the opportunity to look back where we came from now and again.

Dan Faulconbridge
Editor and Owner

CONTENT

OBSERVATION POST
Plenty of varied new hobby releases to take a look at this month, including Test of Honour: Takeda’s Court and Stargrave: Scavengers.

RELEASE RADAR
Dom Sore looks at new releases that have piqued his interest.

QUICK FIRE
What projects have your fellow Wi readers been up to recently?

LOOSE FILES AND AMERICAN SCRAMBLE
Wargaming Battles of the American War of Independence by Andy Callan.

RETURNING TO OLD FAVOURITES
Assorted Wi contributors and luminaries look back at memorable moments in their wargaming history.

BIGGIN’ IT UP BY SHRINKING IT DOWN!
Pete Brown and Jerry Richardson update us on their planned refight of the Battle of Aughrim and how they dealt with the size of the battlefield.

FASHODA SHOWDOWN
Nick Buxey, inspired by a piece he wrote in 2020, presents a ‘what if?’ scenario for Death in the Dark Continent and our Revisited theme.

CITADEL OF PERRY MINIS, VIA FOUNDRY
We caught up with Alan and Michael Perry and chatted about their historical figures and assessed the progress they’ve made since their early days at Citadel and Wargames Foundry.

MAKING ACACIA TREES
Matt Parkes creates showpiece and gaming-level versions of Africa’s thorny Acacia trees with their iconic umbrella canopies.

GO AGAIN, SIR!
Barry Hilton makes the case for more cavalry on the tabletop.

THANE TOSTIG
Daniel Mersey’s quest for Thane Tostig: delving back into retro wargames.

MĀORI PĀ IN THE EARLY NEW ZEALAND WARS
Australian wargamer Mark Piper revisits the early New Zealand Wars and offers Muskets and Tomahawks scenarios along with special rules for fighting in Māori Pā.