In another scoop for Miniature Wargames, legendary games designer Rick Priestley gives his first interview since leaving Games Workshop exclusively in the magazine's January issue. Rick reflects on three decades of wargames writing, explains how and why he parted company with GW, and what he has planned for the future.
This issue of Miniature Wargames is available now to order U.K. post-free from miniwargames.com.
Subscriber copies will be mailed this week, and the issue will be in the shops on 18 December, just in time for Christmas.
The January issue is also jam-packed with other features to keep you going through the holidays.
Readers Competition
Courtesy of History Channel, we have five copies of the Great Battles Medieval computer game to win in this month's competition.
- Cover Story
- Garry Harbottle-Johnson provides an offbeat take on WWII gaming, with a Western Desert scenario that shows what happens when some young women gum up the battle plans of both sides.
- Ancients
- Steve Bainbridge presents an in-depth study of the finer points of gaming with the new DBMM 2 rules.
- The High Ground
- Steve Eardley continues his new monthly column on historical wargaming by looking at the flank attack, and reviewing the latest product releases.
- Medieval
- Neil Smith looks at wargaming the siege of Harfleur, an English setback usually overshadowed by the victory at Agincourt shortly afterward.
- Napoleonic
- John Walsh provides wargaming hints for the Peninsula battle of Gebora, the 200th anniversary of which falls in February 2011, and asks: could it have been a Spanish Bussaco?
- Early 20th Century
- Richard Baber concludes our Forgotten Fronts series with a look at wargaming the U.S. invasion of Mexico in 1916-17.
- Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Gary Mitchell gets us in the festive mood in his regular Dark Horizons column.
- Painting
- In an exclusive extract from his new Painting & Modelling Guide Master Class, Kevin Dallimore explains how to tackle drybrushing.
- Plus
- Figure, rule and book reviews