"Wargames Illustrated magazine - Under New Management!" Topic

Just seen this on their website; wargamesillustrated.co.uk

"We are pleased to announce that as of 1 April 2015 Wargames Illustrated Limited is now under the sole ownership of previous editor Dan Faulconbridge.

Dan has been working on WI for ten years now (since WI200) under the stewardship of original owner/creator Duncan Macfarlane and most recently for Battlefront Miniatures.

Dan would like to thank all the guys at Battlefront and particularly the previous Editor in Chief John Paul and owner Peter Simunovich for allowing him to wrestle complete control of the magazine from them, and for their guidance over the last few years.

Wargames Illustrated' s relationship with Battlefront will continue to be a close one, with the two companies continuing to share premises in Nottingham, WI continuing to feature top quality Flames Of War articles on a regular basis, and Battlefront continuing to distribute the magazine.

The look of the magazine won't alter radically for the foreseeable future – we will continue to ‘illustrate wargames' to the highest possible standards. We will also be working tirelessly behind the scenes on creating new ventures and new platforms for ‘the world's foremost wargames magazine'."

Paul
emperorslibrary.com

I was excited there for a minute that all the tedious tank articles would disappear!

Same here.

Does that mean it is not going to be an FOW rag anymore?

What the last three said …

Phil

79thPA. It's now independently owned.

I wish the best of luck to Dan, we've been pals for 28 years, we first met as young mail order trolls at GW.

North Star will continue to advertise in WI and support them as much as possible in terms of lending painted figures for photos etc.

Cheers
Nick
northstarfigures.com

Hopefully this will mean it makes a return to my newsagent here in Australia. It disappeared about 2 years ago.

Excellent news….good luck to Dan and the rest of the WI team

I didn't hate the existing product but I'm optimistic that whatever changes are made will improve it.

I love the current issues, great writing and a variety of historical periods keeps me interested.

I wish the new management all the best for the future and thank the past management for all the great issues.

What Flashman14 said.

It's my favorite mag, and a leader in the digital space. I too, however, would like to see occasional Flames of War articles rather than the mandatory 20 pages every issue.

Yes, maybe I would buy it again if it were not so heavily Flames of War.

Tom

I don't get every issue – but presumably this is part of it carrying on so I'm all for it. Magazines are good, more magazines is better.

I wonder if they will keep the digital version….

There will still be a digital version

It's been a long time since it was filled with tank articles. Still, if you want to trot out hoary clichés be my guest.

"continuing to feature top quality Flames Of War articles on a regular basis" and "the magazine won't alter radically for the foreseeable future".

So it sounds like it will be still "Flames of War Monthly" which is the change that stopped me first subscribing and then even buying.

Don't agree with Ubercommando – whenever I look at WI it still seems to have a preponderance of Tank stuff with what little other historical stuff is present is superficial and poorly researched, as though written as a precis of an Osprey book. Where are the pieces from Duncan days of good stuff such as from Mark Allen or Gabriel Mykaj