Miniature Wargames Magazine

11 April 2025

In this Issue 505 of Miniature Wargames we have another great selection of rules and scenarios plus two scratchbuilds. The cover features Iconic Shot In this piece we explore what place photography has when inspiring wargaming with some photos of a game by Loughton Strike Force at Salute 2024 and Colours 2023. In Send Three And Fourpence In Oh Canada! Mr Kinch concludes a brace of articles on the American versus British war of 1812. In Command Decision, Jon Sutherland covers Not The Road To Gettysburg. In the last of a two-parter, Mr Sutherland gives us some scenarios for battles in the ACW as part of a campaign. Getting Hammered is a photographic trip around the Hammerhead show in Newark. In White Death we investigate how to game the Retreat From Moscow in 1812. In Box Golem we ask the question: “Have you ever worried that waste cardboard might be coalescing into something even more dreadful?” A scratch build of a hideous creature. With Draw Out The Poison we present The Dyhernfurth Raid: a Rapid-Fire Reloaded scenario. And with Alien Suns you can have warriors clash under a hostile off-world sky with a Hostile Actions scenario. For the toy soldier fans we have a Little Wars Campaign: a Homeopathic Remedy for the Imaginative Strategist by Arthur Harman. In the Scratch Build – it’s building as Pueblo house Finally, we have the review sections with Defence in Depth for Figures and rules, plus we have Forward Observer for news and Recce for insightful book reviews.