Welcoming a New Year of Wargaming

As the calendar turns to January 2026, it’s

OBSERVATION POST

New and forthcoming wargames stuff you need to know about

Release Radar

Dom Sore’s Release Radar keeps cranking out new-release news into the new year.

The Best of 2025

Wi ’s Dan and James take a look back some of their favorite hobby releases of 2025.

THE BATTLE OF MONTARGIS, 1427

We talked to Simon Chick, the main mini

A BIG YEAR FOR JOAN OF ARC

Simon’s got a few years left to prepare

What Mogsy made of 2025

James Morris had a busy year, with various army projects leaving his workbench and his Midgard Heroic Battles ruleset charming players across the globe. He describes how Wargames Atlantic’s Grand Battle Scale plastics enhanced his hobby in 2025, and gives us a little report on another of his 2025 highlights - September’s Colours wargames show.

CIVIL WAR NEWS HOBBY

Inspired by last month’s article on how to use Topps’ Civil War News cards in campaign play, Matt Parkes makes a couple of scenes based on the pulpy artwork.

Assassins and Templars paperboys

We’ve teamed up with wargaming’s favourite illustrator, Peter

THE PAPER SOLDIER HOBBY

Since the 18th Century, a variety of different

TEMPLARS AND THEIR TURCOPOLE ALLIES

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BASES

ASSASSINS

Inside The Encyclopedia of Wargames

Rubén Torregrosa, aka ‘HeresyBrush’, discusses the epic collection

GAME MATS

NEW CAPITAL CITY DESIGN 6X4, 4X4, 3X3, 30X22,

1151: Vikings Versus Knights

A Four-Game Lion Rampant Campaign

ANCIENTS ARE DEAD, LONG LIVE ANCIENTS!

THE INEVITABLE DEMISE OF ANCIENTS WARGAMING MAY BE GREATLY EXAGGERATED.

SIMON MILLER’S LUST FOR GLORY

James found some time at this year’s The

THE QUICK AND THE LEAD EPIC GUNFIGHTS, EASY GAMING!

James reports on a showdown between Great Escape Games’ Mark Wheatley and Wi ’s Joe, who duelled it out in a game of The Quick and the Lead. He also grills Mark about the year that was and the year ahead in wargaming.

The Joy Of Less

The case for small-scale wargaming

BLACK POWDER STATISTICS

BRITISH FORCES Crack : The British regulars are

Dead but Not Gone

Frostgrave author Joseph A. McCullough discusses ‘living’ and ‘dead’ wargames.

TITO’S PARTISANS IN BOLT ACTION

Manel Barros Silva builds and paints a characterful Bolt Action army and shows us how he did it!

BASING FOR THE COLD

Rubén Torregrosa returns with a new hobby guide;