WARGAMES ILLUSTRATED #457

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Theme: Best of 2025

Features:
*The Battle of Montargis, 1427: Incredible Hundred Years' War collection
* What Mogsy Made of 2025: Wargames Atlantic's Grand Battle Scale plastics; report on September's Colours wargames show
* Civil War News: Scenes based on the pulpy artwork of Topps' Civil War News cards
* Peter's Assassins and Templars Paper Boys: Free-to-print Assassins and Templars Paperboys
* Designer's Notes, Inside the Encyclopedia of Wargames: discussion on project editing painting tomes
* 1151, Vikings Versus Knights: Campaign for Lion Rampant ruleset
* Ancients are Dead: The state of Ancients with a view from the US wargames scene
* Simon Miller's Lust for Glory: Progress report on ruleset
* The Quick and the Lead: Battle report and discussion from Great Escape Games
* The Joy of Less: Discussion on collecting and painting with fewer miniatures at a smaller scale leads and ACW scenario
* Dead But Not Gone: Discusses 'living' and 'dead' wargames
* Tito's Partizans in Bolt Action: Builds and paints a characterful Bolt Action army
* Basing for the Cold: Basing the figure painted in Wi453, preparing it for snow

Departments:
* Observation Post: Reviews cover new books, and resin and plastic minis
* Release Radar: New and upcoming releases
* Quick Fire: WI readers' hobby projects, notes, news, and observations