Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all our readers! Our first magazine of 2019 features as its theme: (pre-gunpowder) Empire Building. We have four articles taking us to the great empires of Persia, Rome and Mali then we saddle-up with Genghis Khan and the Mongolian Horde and head to
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OBSERVATION POST Our latest look at what’s new and upcoming in the world of wargaming. THEME: YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION Mitch Reed takes a look at the opportunities for tabletop gaming in a time of Revolution. To the barricades! RULES SHOWCASE: BLOOD RED SKIES We met up with rules writing ace Andy Chambers
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What is Skirmish? Wargaming In our lead article for this month’s theme, Mike Blake offers a comprehensive overview of this popular style of gaming. Team Yankee An excerpt from the Team Yankee novel to whet the appetite of the Cold War Gone Hot gamer. The Skirmish Wargames Group Mike Blake is back to chart the
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Second Ypres, 1915 In our lead article for this month’s theme, Jim Graham demonstrates how warfare had begunto change by 1915, using the events around Ypres as a backdrop. Defending the Reich Wayne Turner discusses the fi ner points of the Nachtjäger Intelligence Handbook for Flames Of War and the new equipment
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The Raising of the Rising sun One of the challenges of creating a new Rising Sun handbook for Flames Of War was introducing a new nationality to the rules. This meant for the rules writers a little more work and testing to create a new batch of national special rules for
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Wargaming World War One We introduce this month’s theme with an article that looks beyond the stalemate of World War One on the Western Front and sells the concept of gaming the confl ict on a global scale. Grossdeutschland Battlefront studio writers Wayne Turner and Phil Yates provide us with background
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On to Kabul Simple rules & sample scenario for the Second Afghan War Gerald Skase Man-at-Arms, Part 2 Medieval rules Gary Chalk ‘The Savage Division’. 1914-1917. Nik Cornish Automatic fire Late 20th Century add-ons to Rapid fire Dominic Skelton The Battle of St Cast, 1758 … as a Shako scenario Jeff Fletcher A Spartan Polemarch Behaves Badly Alex King ‘Bloody Ridge’. Guadalcanal, 13/14th September 1940 Stewart Revelle The
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“Another stripe or a coffin!” ACW escapades of Wm. B. Cushing. David Bickley Command muskets, Firelocks, Independent Companies & Cavalry troops, and the other such Fun Stuff. More bunting to adorn your ‘1644’ ECW rules. Thomas E. Shepard The Nordic Bronze Age Thule, Albion & Ierne 1600-600 BC Nigel Stillman Death on the Nile, Part II The French campaign in
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The Struggle for Stettin, April 1945 Staging a public participation game The Warlords of Loyne (Lancaster) The Battle of Mcdowell, 8th May 1862 Steamer Wars Coastal, Lake and river warfare in the Great War period Robert Morgan Replying to Mr. Tanner Readers Letters Wargames – more signs of decline (He’s reloaded – and he’s shooting again) Peter Tanner The Soviet Air
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War of the Grand Alliance, Part IX French Infantry Colours & Uniforms, Part V Mark Allen The Earl of Peterborough’s Campaigns in Spain, 1705-1706 England’s earlier Peninsular War David Bickley Off the Beaten Track A late WWII wargame scenario Bernard Garaty Further notes on 1/200th scale aircraft Supplement to Chris Peers’ article in WI53 C.G. Sayer Computer game reviews Napoleonic & submarine
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Cobras in Vietnam Combat rules for the Bell Huey Cobra helicopter Paul Elliot ‘Ginsling’ A WWII Far-Eastern skirmish for 20mm figures Colin Rumford “A useful piece of rascality” The conquest of Sind, 1843 Colin Ashton ‘Incoming Rounds’ ‘The Rampant Parrott’ Livonia: A great Northern War mini-campaign (While the cat’s away, the Bear will play!) Angus Konstam V.M.S. Fair report Convention Scene The Great War on the
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The Great War on the Eastern Front Part III: The Imperial Russian Army N.H. Cornish Spanish Gold A Peninsular War skirmish scenario Steve Shann Return to Corregidor WWII U.S. recapture the Pacific island John G. Teasdale MiG Alley Rules for the air over Korea Rob Le Vesconte The Convention Scene Review Reader Letters Lake Trasimene: The Place of Blood Hannibal traps the Romans Mervyn Cartwright The War of
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A SIMPLE WARGAMES FIGURE CONVERSION Crimean War British General THE WAR OF THE GRAND ALLIANCE Part Four: Uniforms of the Army of Louis XIV Mark Allen THROUGH SMOKE AND FIRE Napoleonic rules DARK AGE WARRIORS Part One: The Greeks WARGAMING IN SCHOOLS The Hobby needs new recruits THE WILD EAST COUNTRY MEN Goudhurst! The last battle on English soil? THE GREAT WAR ON
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