My "go to" wargames magazine, Wargames Illustrated, one of the few magazines I still get on a subscription basis, is getting a facelift, new logo and a relaunch with its next issue (#260).Thanks to the magazine's new owners - Battlefront Miniatures, the people behind the Flames Of War (FoW) system - the mag will feature 16 extra pages of FoW content and 16 extra pages of additional general content for no extra cost, bringing the page count up to a tasty 112 pages a month of wargames-related material.
Not that there was anything wrong with the 'old' W.I., but I'm looking forward to the changes with only a slight apprehension that the magazine's broad remit might shift towards a focus on the Second World War (given the games produced by the new owners). This would be a shame as it's not, generally, a period that interests me for gaming (the closest I come is pre-war pulp adventure).
As long as the F.o.W. pages remains "bonus" material and the rest of the magazine, and its sterling range of advertising, continues to cover games from cavemen with sticks to science-fiction supersoldiers with killer lazerguns, I'll be content.
The next issue of W.I. comes out on May 21 and co-incidentally will be the first issue of my new subscription, so they've got me for a year at least.
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