FROM THE EDITOR

French troops are never very far from the

QUICK FIRE!

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

OBSERVATION POST

RULES, SUPPLEMENTS & FIGURES

FULL PAPER JACKET

BOOK PREVIEWS FOR THE DISCERNING WARGAMER

WHY WE LOVE: Legends of THE OLD WEST

Project Manager James changes our semi regular ‘Why I Love …’ series into a ‘Why We Love …’ interviewing the game’s designer, Mark Latham, who is still a big fan of the first full tabletop game he created

THE BATTLE OF THE GOLDEN SPURS

Last month, in Wi401, Karim Van Overmeire introduced us to the organisation of medieval Flemish communal militia. In this follow up article he examines their most famous victory

TURNIP28 LINE INFANTRY

Wi’s Project Manager James took this month’s free Warlord Games French Napoleonic Line Infantry frame and kitbashed its figures into something very different!

FRENCH ÉLAN

Jim Graham throws caution to the wind, dons the most stylishly voluminous trousers he can find, and charges headlong into this article on élan through the ages

ENFANTS PERDU

FRANCE’S LIGHT INFANTRY REVOLUTION

PAINTING A PLATOON OF POILUS FOR THE GREAT WAR

James Morris shares some of his brushstrokes in this painting guide for WWI French

SONS OF THE DESERT

Pete Brown presents a short campaign for the French Foreign Legion, set in the deserts of North Africa but adaptable for any colonial conflict

MAKING AN OPEN CRYPT WITH FLICKERING LIGHT

James Floyd Kelly show us how to make a spooky tabletop centerpiece, ideal for a Gothic Horror setting

PAINTING MATILDA

Barry Evans got his hands on a 28mm resin Matilda ‘Boss’ Battle Tank from Victoria Miniatures; here he shows us how he went about painting it with both airbrush and brush techniques

PART BUILT TIMBER FRAMED BUILDINGS

Wi regular Andrew Pearsall adds some more scenery to his tabletop - this time it’s part constructed timber framed buildings

DESIGNER’S NOTES: SHADOW OF THE EAGLES

Author Keith Flint sublimely tackles the thorny question of “too many rules”, before going on to tell us about his new set of rules for “Wargaming the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars”

“I’M SORRY DAVE I’M AFRAID I CAN’T DO THAT”

Pete Brown’s got some thoughts on taking AI beyond solo gaming and into our two-player tabletop battles

TALES FROM PENDAWAR

After putting one wargaming project to bed, David Bickley doesn’t rest on his laurels and begins his search for ‘what’s next’? Here he settles on some ‘imagi-nations’ in the Indian sub-continent