Wargames Illustrated: July 2024

- OBSERVATION POST: This month's review section includes modern military miniatures, brick-building, amazing painting, and enticing animals.

- RELEASE RADAR: Dom Sore's back after a two month break; he's found some great new and upcoming releases to tempt you!

- QUICK FIRE: Short, quick-read posts from Wi readers about their hobby projects, notes, news, and observations.

- THEME: COVER MOUNT FOCUS - EPIC HAIL CAESAR: Carthaginians, Republican Romans, Allied Troops, War Elephants, or Celt Warriors - we talk through the free frames that are randomly bagged with this issue.

- KNIGHT FEVER: We check out Victrix's new Medieval range, along with some superb prototype decals to decorate them.

- THEME: SMALL… FAR AWAY…: Thoughts on Warlord's Hail Caesar Epic Battles and small-scale wargames, by Rick Priestley.

- RECREATING EL CID: Paul McKay builds and paints his own reimagining of the El Cid legend with inspiration from history and Hollywood.

- THEME: WHY I LOVE - WARGAMING IN THE OLD TESTAMENT: This month, Pete Brown returns with the first "Why I Love…" article we've featured for quite a while, and this time, its Biblical!

- A WAR TRANSFORMED: We had a chat with A War Transformed author Freddie Silburn-Slater at Salute 51 to see how things were going after the release of his weird WWI game.

- THEME: BIG ANCIENT BATTLES: Simon MacDowall presents his way of conquering the tabletop challenges presented by the big set-piece battles of the Ancient World.

- PARTIZAN MAY 2024: Team Wi had a great time at the Lead Belt's premiere wargaming event, held at Newark Showground. We show off some of the brilliant gaming in this report.

- THEME: AN ABUNDANCE OF ANCIENTS: Take a tour of Nick Gilmore's collection of 25 marvellous looking Ancient armies.

- WHAT A CARTEL!: John Savage discusses the game he ran at Partizan 2024, which showed off the versatility of his What a Cowboy! rules by transplanting them to drug-busting battles of the 1980s.

- THEME: EDGE OF EMPIRE: A wargame inspired by the novel Warrior of Rome - Fire in the East.

- SALUTE 51 PAINTING COMPETITION WINNERS: The quality of entries in the Salute painting competition gets increasingly spectacular, as the winners here show!

"I KNOW HOW TO DEFEND MY OWN KEEP!": Mark Clayton poured his love of The Lord of the Rings into this impressive Helm's Deep model.