Quote from: sultanbev on 23 August 2021, 02:27:57 PM
That article did make me look up Bad Squido and now i want a dark age 28mm female mounted warband, but no idea what I'd use them for. Suspect they'd be too big for GW LOTR games...

I use a lot of het figures and bought into her 28mm WW2 Female Soviet range kickstarter.

No idea what a commander rule set is, but in their time GW have produced some lovely Italian Wars figures in 25/8mm. some great landsknecht plastic arquebusiers, and a lovely set of lighter armoured Italian cavalry, plus artillery, crossbows etc. Used to enjoy going in to GW and asking if my Italian Wars order had arrived. 

Blitzkrieg Commander, Cold War Commander and Future Wars Commander - all (now) published by our hosts here.

Their spiritual predecessor is Warmaster, written by Rick Priestly.

Not that I have bought any gaming mags for years but I always tended to ignore the pretty pics (of larger scale figures) and just read the articles  

Mags such as WI used to have lots of fairly useful or at least interesting articles with a few pics, but now it seems the pretty pics of the latest stuff far outweigh any very meaningful wriiten content.  

When a kid, back in early 70s, Airfix Mag was on order from newsagent. If lucky, managed to find occasional Miniature Warfare (?) copies on visits to Model Shops. Very inspiring at the time.
Started to get Military Modelling (?)... but Mags got too expensive to keep up.
In late 80s, bought a couple of mags.. no idea what... but, although 'of interest'... too much 'focus' on perfectly painted figs in close up pics.

Recently, was amazed to find Airfix Catalogue on Tesco shelf! Bought... but nowhere near the excitement that the 'New Airfix Catalogue!', 'used to have'... back in the day. LOL!

Buy the occasional one if there are interesting Sprues on give away.  Never subscribed to any, although I used to buy MM and Airfix mag on a regular basis. Bit difficult atm since Smiths closed in Birkenhead.

Quote from: pierre the shy on 24 August 2021, 04:46:55 AM
Mags such as WI used to have lots of fairly useful or at least interesting articles with a few pics, but now it seems the pretty pics of the latest stuff far outweigh any very meaningful wriiten content.  

I agree.  I haven't bought a WI for some time when it seemed to be nothing more than a vehicle for advertising Warlord Games stuff.