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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
QUICK FIRE! - Quick Fire is a new (and hopefully expanding) feature in which we present short, quick-read posts from Wi readers about their hobby projects and observations.
OBSERVATION POST - Your monthly round-up of new product releases in the hobby.
FULL PAPER JACKET - Our new look, wargamer friendly, military history book preview column.
THEME: DESIGNER’S NOTES: NEVER MIND THE BILLHOOKS - ‘Billhooks’ Games Designer Andy Callan gives us the inside track on your free Wars of the Roses ruleset.
THE PRESSURES OF COMMAND PART 2 - In the second part of his article on Command and Control, Pete Brown looks at overhauling how we approach the topic in our wargames.
THEME: FEUDS, RAIDS AND ANARCHY - Beyond the big bashes of the Wars of the Roses like Towton and Bosworth, there were countless smaller battles and big skirmishes. Simon MacDowall introduces us to some of these wargame-able “Deadly Brawls”.
SAND AND GRAVEL - Swedish model making maestro Jan Karrman hails the use of cheap sand in terrain making.
NEVER MIND THE BILLHOOKS -HERE’S THE PAINTING GUIDE - Steve Wood provides an easy ‘wargames standard’ painting guide aimed at getting your forces battle ready for Never Mind the Billhooks in super-quick time.
HINTERLAND STRATEGY - The first article in this short series (Wi392) looked at the crusaders’ coastal strategy in the Holy Land. In this article Professor Steve Tibble leads us into the next phase of the Crusaders’ military activity - the ‘hinterland strategy’ that broadly ran from 1125- 1153.
THEME: WARS OF THE ROSES WARGAMES ARMIES - Simon MacDowall continues this month’s theme content with a beginners guide to Wars of the Roses armies.
CONVERSIONS MASTERCLASS - Bob Arney has been converting figures man and boy for over 40 years. In this article he shares his wealth of experience, with a focus on his 15mm Ancients collection.
DESIGNER’S NOTES: SWORDPOINT 2 - Gripping Beast have just released the second edition of their large scale ancient and medieval battle rules Swordpoint. We asked the rules writer, Martin Gibbins, to tell us “why?”.
WHY I LOVE: SCIENCE VS PLUCK - For our irregular “Why I Love ...” series Pete Brown shares his affection for the umpire-led Colonial rules Science versus Pluck.
BYRCHO’S CELESTICHORD...The recent release of Frostgrave: Second Edition prompted us to give friend of the magazine and Frost grave author Joseph A. McCullough a prod and ask him to supply us with a new and exclusive scenario.
PAINTING LORD CALLAN - In tribute to the author of Never Mind the Billhooks, for our latest Giants in Miniature figure release we present Lord Callan; fearless fighting commander of the Wars of the Roses the perfect frontman for your ‘Billhooks’ army.
COMPANY PROFILE: CIBO’S LITTLE DUDES - We continue our look at some of the smaller figure manufacturers in the hobby, focusing here on Cibo’s Modem Africa range.
Article Snippets
FROM THE EDITOR
Following several months delay caused by Coronavirus, it is with great pride that we present our free ruleset, Never Mind the Billhooks with this issue of Wargames Illustrated magazine.
A fast-paced small battle/large skirmish game, ‘Billhooks’ first came to my attention when friend of the magazine Andy Callan (who first wrote for us in WiOl!) and Steve Wood (of Arcane Scenery) asked if I would like to play a game of “these fun Wars of the Roses rules Andy has devised”. I was (bill)hooked after only half an hour of play!
Fast forward a couple of months and then fast forward through a global pandemic, and forsooth here it is! Playtested, fine-tuned and presented as a 32 page rulebook free with every issue of Wargames Illustrated (and as a PDF to Wi Prime members). We hope you won’t mind us stealing 16 pages of magazine content to go some way towards alleviating the horrendous shipping costs. Play ‘Billhooks’ and you will be sure it was worth it.
In tandem with your free rules, this month’s theme is the Wars of the Roses, in which we present a couple of painting articles, Andy’s Designer’s Notes for the rules and two smashing articles by Simon MacDowell in which he tells us about some smaller battles in the WotR - ideal (but not exclusively) for ‘Billhooks’ - and talks us through the make-up of a WotR army.
But what’s in the magazine for those of you for whom the Wars of the Roses is “not my period”. Fear not, there’s plenty more in the form of Frostgrave, Hail Caesar, Mortem et Gloriam, Swordpoint 2, converting 15mm figures, Command and Control and more besides.
P.S. Make sure you check out our ‘advert’ on page 25 for more ‘Billhooks’ news.
Happy reading.
Dan Falconbridge
Editor and Owner
Following several months delay caused by Coronavirus, it is with great pride that we present our free ruleset, Never Mind the Billhooks with this issue of Wargames Illustrated magazine.
A fast-paced small battle/large skirmish game, ‘Billhooks’ first came to my attention when friend of the magazine Andy Callan (who first wrote for us in WiOl!) and Steve Wood (of Arcane Scenery) asked if I would like to play a game of “these fun Wars of the Roses rules Andy has devised”. I was (bill)hooked after only half an hour of play!
Fast forward a couple of months and then fast forward through a global pandemic, and forsooth here it is! Playtested, fine-tuned and presented as a 32 page rulebook free with every issue of Wargames Illustrated (and as a PDF to Wi Prime members). We hope you won’t mind us stealing 16 pages of magazine content to go some way towards alleviating the horrendous shipping costs. Play ‘Billhooks’ and you will be sure it was worth it.
In tandem with your free rules, this month’s theme is the Wars of the Roses, in which we present a couple of painting articles, Andy’s Designer’s Notes for the rules and two smashing articles by Simon MacDowell in which he tells us about some smaller battles in the WotR - ideal (but not exclusively) for ‘Billhooks’ - and talks us through the make-up of a WotR army.
But what’s in the magazine for those of you for whom the Wars of the Roses is “not my period”. Fear not, there’s plenty more in the form of Frostgrave, Hail Caesar, Mortem et Gloriam, Swordpoint 2, converting 15mm figures, Command and Control and more besides.
P.S. Make sure you check out our ‘advert’ on page 25 for more ‘Billhooks’ news.
Happy reading.
Dan Falconbridge
Editor and Owner
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