Wargames Illustrated: January 2025

- OBSERVATION POST: This month's OP looks at the latest SAGA book and a selection of Wargames Atlantic plastics.

- RELEASE RADAR: Dom Sore's monthly column highlights a wide range of new and upcoming wargaming ephemera.

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

- THEME: TURNIP28 TOFFS AND TOADIES: Callum France shows how to paint neat and precise mess on some converted Turnip28 figures.

- THE MAD TRAPPER OF RAT RIVER: Daniel Mersey heads to the freezing cold of Northwest Canada to play a manhunt through the dangerous wilderness conditions.

- THEME: A NOSTALIGIC LOVE LETTER IN MINIATURE: Paul Cubbin takes his wargaming nostalgia to the next level, and paints some Airfix Napoleonic Highlanders to a standard that will pass muster with the most judgmental modern wargamer.

- "WAS THERE A MAN DISMAYED?": David Bickley tells us about his second foray into collecting the waring factions for the Crimean War.

- THEME: DESERT BASES: Paul Mackay follows up on his winter basing guide from WI444 with suggestions for sandier options.

- THE OTHER PARTIZAN - PART TWO: The second part of our look at The Other Partizan wargames show includes games covering WWI, the AWI, Middle-earth, Napoleonics, and more.

- MIDGARD: HEROIC BATTLES DEEP DIVE: We delve into James Morris' new game and highlight some of the gaming treats and visual splendour its rulebook offers.

- THEME: MDF SCENIC ENHANCEMENT: Matt Parkes takes Sarissa's intentionally simple terrain pieces, made to accompany Mark Copplestone’s Little Soldiers range, and ups their realism.

- BANG!: Glenn Clarke looks to the origins of gunpowder, its early uses, and how to make your early period games go with a "Bang!".

- THEME: BUILDING MIDDLE-EARTH: THE HOUSE OF BEORN: Mark Clayton finishes his Middle-earth trilogy by building the impressive home of Beorn, from The Hobbit.

- MATCHLOCKS IN NOTTS: Never Mind the Matchlocks designer Andy Callan takes on Wi Editor Dan Faulconbridge in this battle report.

- THEME: BUILD FOR YOURSELF A CITY: Pete Brown searches out some Bronze Age terrain that brings broad opportunity with its ambiguity.

- THEME: MAKING RENAISSANCE GALLEYS: Simon Cato turns his hobby desk into a shipyard and produces close to 50 Renaissance galleys and lanternas.

- SIX MONTHS OF LIFE: Bill Gray examines Mendigorría, the largest battle of the Carlist Wars, fought on 16 July 1835.