{"id":7966,"date":"2017-09-21T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T07:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=7966"},"modified":"2017-09-19T10:14:03","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T09:14:03","slug":"imperial-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2017\/09\/imperial-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Imperial Article"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2017\/09\/imperial-article\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>This month&#8217;s issue of Miniature Wargames magazine has a five page Imperial Skies article in the Darker Horizons sci-fi section &#8211; it&#8217;s also the cover photo of said section. The article is centered around a fleet engagement between Spain and the USA over Cuba which we fought out at a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/\">Maidstone Wargames Society<\/a> meeting earlier this year. As an added bonus, the stats cards for the Spanish fleet are available from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tabletopgaming.co.uk\/historical-games\/information\/downloads\/\">download section<\/a> of the MW website. So what are you waiting for? Get out and buy a copy!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7977\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2017\/09\/imperial-article\/mw414\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/MW414.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,848\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"MW414\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/MW414-600x675.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/MW414.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"848\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7977\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month&#8217;s issue of Miniature Wargames magazine has a five page Imperial Skies article in the Darker Horizons sci-fi section &#8211; it&#8217;s also the cover photo of said section. The article is centered around a fleet engagement between Spain and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2017\/09\/imperial-article\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-imperial-skies"],"views":2354,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/MW414.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-24u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10876,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2020\/02\/cavalier-2020\/","url_meta":{"origin":7966,"position":0},"title":"Cavalier 2020","author":"Tony","date":"February 11, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Our first show of the year is coming up in just under two weeks. 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