Buy this in Print Do you like this month’s cover mount freebie? (Prime members can find theirs here) We figured that even if you are not into naval wargaming you would like to ‘have a play’ with the great new 1/700th scale ship models designed by Warlord Games for their forthcoming
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Buy this in Print We do hope you are enjoying your free plastic frames every month, this offer is set to continue throughout 2019 (and hopefully beyond). This month’s offering is quite special, the Crimean War Russians bagged with this issue have only just been released by Warlord Games, so this
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OBSERVATION POST Spoilt for choice, we take a look at a selection of the myriad of products that are new or upcoming. THEME: GUNS, GALS AND GREEN GRIPPING HANDS Just what is pulp and where can we leap upon this careering mine wagon of a genre? Howard Whitehouse steps into the limelight to
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THEME: SOLDIERS OF THE EMPRESS So, you want to field a force to support Matilda in her quest for the throne back in the 12th Century? Then this is the perfect article for you! UP THE BEACHES Chris Townley from Battlefront Miniatures shows us how to paint Marine Amtanks for use in your
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The Duke of Marlborough! We begin our theme content with an outline of England’s last great General. Hit the Beaches! The Flames Of War team presents a look at the new format and focus behind their foray into the hard fought Pacific War. Young Churchill Nick Eyre takes us back to a time when the
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Imperial Playground In our lead article for this month’s theme, Neil smith takes a look at the background to and gaming opportunities for World War Two in the Pacific Team Yankee The flames Of War team presents a first look at their new boxed game based on an alternate history mid 1980’s World
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Sound the Retreat! In our lead article for this month’s theme, Neil Smith and Jim Graham discuss the finer points of gaming a retreat and provide some examples that would make great tabletop battles. Ori Orr’s Six Day War Phil Yates provides an account of Captain Ori Orr’s Palsar Seven, an Israeli
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Whatever Happened to 20mm Moderns? Having asked this question, Sub-Editor Wayne Bollands enlists the assistance of the LeicesterPhat Cats Gaming Club for a day of Modern gaming at WIHQ in a quest to answer it. The Soviet Barbarossa Surprise As a precursor to the upcoming release of Barbarossa, Wayne Turner of
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Divide and Conquer In this, the first of two theme articles for this month, Mike Haught discusses the theory behind ‘divide and conquer’, then brings the theory to the wargames table in the form of battles set in the “pockets” resulting from the practice, with a focus on pocket battles in
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Origins of the Huns We begin our theme content with a look at exactly who the Huns were, where they came from, and the mark they left on military history and wargaming. Japanese! I have a few ideas for those Flames Of War writer Wayne Turner presents some thoughts on using the
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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 the Forgotten Army - Part 1 WW2, WWII, World War Two Nicholas Stock The first 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, the background to the Burma campaign, 1941 - 45. Rebellion! - Part 1 Medieval Ebob The first part of
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Vehicle to Die-cast for Wheels for The Back of Beyond Kevin Calder The Battle of Kalka The Mongols move West Ralph Weaver Napoleon’s Campaigns in Italy 1796-1800 2: The Battle of Lodi A.Michael Sayce Lost, but not forgotten! Vietnam skirmish scenario David Bickley Shogun A themed WAB mini-tournament John Kersey Krieg am Zee WWI naval warfare warfare in the Black Sea Mel ab-Owain Celtic Intertribal warfare Dr. Gavin Hughes Hunts
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Tarawa’d & Feathered Pacific WWII Air & Naval Rules Stanley Kubaik Derby Wargames Club Renaissance game Photo Feature Streetfight: Part 2 A ruleset for futuristic urban violence Matt Keefe & Bryan Ansell “Assemble the Army, beat the drum!” Wargaming 18th Century Abyssinia after Napier Robert Avery Don’t Panic, Captain Mainwaring Or, Mordheim twins with Warmington-on-sea Norman McKenzie Derby Wargames Club Crimean War game Photo Feature Cutthroats
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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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Basing in the Grand Manner Jerry’s tips for figure basing Jerry Miller The March to the Sea, Part 2 ACW PBM Matrix campaign. Bob Cordery A report on the Marston Magna show Good games, good grub John Tuckey Celtic Heroes A game of Chariot warfare Adrian Goldsworthy New lists for Shako – Part 3 Denmark, Wurttemburg, etc Paul Kitcher Starting Wargaming? Part 4 – Scenarios Peter Tanner From
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The Bastogne Scenarios #2 Team O’Hara at Wardin, 19th December 1944 Peter P.H. Heath The British Auxiliary Legion of the First Carlist War (The First Legion 1835-37) Paul Parsons The Invasion of Tarawa, November 1943 A demo game – August 1996 Ian Butcher Befreiungskrieg! A wargamer’s guide to the Spring campaign of 1813 Part 1: The Aftermath of 1812 Mark Davies The
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JFK and the PT109 Incident Anthony R. Tucker Tactics in the Franco-Prussian War Part III: From Reality to Rules Mike Johnson Napoleon’s Last Victory, The Battle of Ligny, 16th June 1815 The Myth & the Reality, Part III Peter Hofschröer Forcing Fox’s Gap, 14th September 1862 A small A.C.W. scenario Paul Stevenson ‘Bursting to shell…’ David Bickley & Philip Robinson “A Savage and
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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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"Enemy on Island - Issue in Doubt" The Japanese landing on the American outpost of Wake Island 23rd December 1941 A WW2 Wake Island Scenario, rules & demo The French Campaign in Egypt 1798-1801 Part 3: The Standards and Colours of the French Army A Dark Age Campaign Background for you to build a Kingdom in
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