UPDATED: Wargame Pillage allegedly features undisclosed AI-generated images

UPDATE 07/08/2025: Victrix responded to Rascal's request for information yesterday, June 7. The company's spokesperson confirmed that Midjourney was used by the creator Guillaume Rousselot in the production of some of the images in the Pillage rulebook. As suggested by Rascal in our article, the book is mostly identical to the original French version, and Victrix's involvement was limited to the translation and publication of the English-language version.

Victrix felt that because the French-language version of Pillage had been in publication for almost two years with the AI-generated images present, and because those images had been further edited by Rousselot, that it wouldn't be an issue and there was no need to disclose the use of generative AI.

Victrix will add disclosure of the use of Midjourney in further printings of the book, and has assured Rascal that it will not be using AI-generated images in future Pillage products, including any updated versions of the rulebook.

Rascal will not be covering Pillage at this time due to our strict policy on generative AI, however we have informed Victrix that we are open to covering the game in the future once editions free of AI images have been released.

The original article continues below:

The English-language rulebook for Pillage, recently released by Victrix, contains images that show signs of being AI-generated. Written by Guillaume Rousselot and originally published in French by Triskell Interactive, this skirmish wargame that focuses on attacks by Vikings and other raiding forces in the early medieval period.

The book features an array of photography and art, but it’s the pieces rendered in a painterly style that have been identified as possibly AI-generated by an anonymous post on Victrix’s official Pillage Facebook group. That post and the ensuing discussion have since been deleted, but screenshots were preserved in this thread on r/Wargaming. Close examination of the images reveals multiple-reined horses, trees growing through houses, and improbable amalgamations of carts and fences. One or two instances could be chalked up to the art style’s typically ambiguous nature, but there’s simply too many examples piling up.