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**This magazine comes with a FREE frame of Warlord Games, Bolt Action US Marines. Six figures, worth $12.
- QUICK FIRE!
Our readers ‘take aim and fire’ in posts about their current hobby projects.
- OBSERVATION POST
From the Dark Ages to World War III, we look at some recent releases in the wargaming world.
- FULL PAPER JACKET
Your monthly book preview column.
- THEME: IN AT THE DEEP END – INTRODUCING ‘HIT THE BEACH’
Regular contributor and amphibious enthusiast Pete Brown introduces this month’s ‘Hit the Beach’ theme, taking a deep dive into the ocean of wargaming possibilities.
- DESIGNER’S NOTES: LION RAMPANT: THE CRUSADER STATES
Co-author of the new Lion Rampant expansion supplement The Crusader States Dr Gianluca Raccagni gives us his Designer’s Notes on the latest edition to the Rampant stable.
- THEME: INVASION SUSSEX!
Games Designer Dan Mersey introduces
us to some early Saxon battles that begin with beach-hitting action on the south coast of England.
- BILLHOOKS FIELD DEFENCES AND STAKES
This month model-making maestro James is making field defences and stakes, adding flexibility and defensive potential to his Never Mind the Billhooks army.
- THEME: WHAT A CORKER! MARLBOROUGH’S IRISH INVASION, 1690
Barry Hilton provides the words and (glorious!) pictures for this ‘Hit the Beach’ article in which John Chrurchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough leads his forces into Ireland.
- WARGAMING CRÉCY
Simon Macdowall tackles one of the most famous battles of the Hundred Years War and throws in a bit of Billhooks and Zoom along the way.
- THEME: THE BRITISH INVASION OF EGYPT, 1801
The beach landing at Abu Qir Bay led to the defeat of the French in Egypt – a not widely known action within the Napoleonic period. That relative obscurity didn’t stop Alan Perry designing an entire range.
- HOW TO … BUILD AN AFGHAN GATEHOUSE AND WALL
Paul Davies builds a gateway and walls which could be used as the starting point for a fort or even a walled town or city. The Kabuli Gate at Fort Rohtas in the Pakistani province of Punjab provided his inspiration.
- THEME: ANGUAR ISLAND AMPHIBIOUS INFANTRY, 1944
Our pals at Warlord Games have provided us with an unused scenario from their latest Bolt Action book Campaign Mariana & Palau Islands. There’s also a new special rule for a Preliminary Airstrike!
- FREE FRAMES ‘HIT THE BEACH’
Taking inspiration from this month’s free US Marines frame, along with Neil Roberts’s ‘Hit the Beach’ cover art, James has created a set of models landing in the Pacific.
- HOW TO … BUILD AN IRISH ROUND TOWER
Turn a Pringles tube into a model of an Irish Round Tower! Glenn Clarke show us how.
- THEME: HIT THE BEACH (MAT)
If you want your wargames figures to go hitting the beach, you are going to need some beach to hit – we look at the ready-made options available.
- LITTLE BIG HORN – FROM BOARD TO BATTLEMAT
John Hart takes a trip down Memory Lane, turning a much-loved childhood boardgame into a retro wargame.]
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