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The Making of Mafeking
Alan Perry

To celebrate the centenary of Lord Baden- Powell’s book Scouting for Boys the BBC enlisted the help of the Perry twins to create a model of Mafeking; the Boer War township and battleground where the Boy Scout movement was born. This is the story of the making of the model and the subsequent filming.

 

The Battle of Marengo – Part 3
‘Eclaireur’

One of Napoleon’s greatest victories – Marengo, Italy 1800. In this issue, Desaix’s Counter-Attack.

 

Advertising Feature: The Sikh Wars

To mark the launch of the re-prints of Donald Featherstone’s At them with the bayonet and All for a shilling a day; a collection of Sikh War photos.

 

Trench Raiding
Dave Andrews

A set of rules (including floorplans!) for trench raiding actions behind enemylines on the Western Front in WWI.

 

Cavalier 2007 Report
Paul Davies

Photos from some of the best games at this year’s Cavalier show in Tonbridge, U.K.

 

Two Thousand Years of Wargaming – The Battle of Xi Xia
Steve Lill

The fourth in our twelve month series covering 2000 years of warfare. In this article we present a scenario for the Battle of Xi Xia, Genghis Khan’s Mongol hordes against the Chinese in Asia.

 

Wargaming the Forgotten Army – Part 3
Nicholas Stock

The third in a series of articles looking at the opportunities for wargaming with the Chindits and the Forgotten Army in the Second World War. This month, two Scenarios; The Roadblock and Crossing the Chindwin.

 

The Battle of Dushakh
Chris Peers

The British in the ‘Back of Beyond’, Central Asia, 1918

 

War on the Streets – Part 1
Chris Peers

Generating scenarios and a campaign for Prohibition era gangsters.

 

DBMM
Phil Barker

A look at the new Partisan Press Ancient and Medieval rules.