Wargames Illustrated Issue 306 - (April 2013)

THIRD TOUR. Battlefront games designer Phil Yates talks us through Tour Of Duty’s “escalation” from a Flames Of War side project to a fully-fledged game and a core part of Battlefront’s range.
GOING UP COUNTRYFor many of the Battlefront Studio team the “Third Tour” (as they have been calling it) of Flames Of War: Vietnam has really taken root, and several of the guys have been getting excited about fielding their first Vietnam armies. In this article Mike, Kyran, Wayne and Casey discuss what has got them hooked on Tour Of Duty.
ROLLING THUNDER. A look at some of the armoured vehicles and helicopters you can expect to find on the battlefields of Vietnam, as featured in the new Tour Of Duty rules.
MARTINIQUE, 1809 - THE BATTLE. We return to the Caribbean and present a photographic walk through of our game which pits a French Napoleonic invasion force against the British garrison on the island.
DEUS VULT. Following the release of their new rules for “wargaming the time of the Crusades”, Dylan Owen and Alessio Cavatore tell us about the game they created for Fireforge Games.
HIDDEN MOVEMENT. How do you represent hidden movment in wargames? Pete Brown of the Worcester Wargames Club investigates....
WARGAMING IN THE BAR. Osprey author Vincent W. Rospond tells us a little more about the late-18th Century Bar Rebellion, when the Polish Commonwealth had to fight her own to survive.
FROM ARMED TO ARMOURED. As part of our ongoing Evolution of the Tank series, Nick Buxey provides us with a look at the development of armoured trains in the 19th Century and then the armoured cars of the early 20th Century.
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY.... A modern tale of how friendship on the Internet turned into war on the tabletop!
BORODINO WORLDWIDE. September 2012 saw the 200th anniversary of one of the most pivotal battles in history, the Battle of Borodino. Wargamers around the world took to their gaming tables to refight Borodino and now we hear from three groups.
THE BATTLE OF JERSEY. Graham Burke brings the American War of Independence back to the British Isles in this series of scenarios that pit the forces of the France against valiant redcoat defenders.
AIR COMBAT WARGAMING. Rob Wubbenhorst is an enthusiastic air combat wargamer who has noticed a dearth of articles on the subject in our pages. Here is his treatise on fighting in the skies.