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May brings a number of miniatures, rules, wargames, and other releases, just in time for prepping summer gaming. Most due at the shoppe in two to three weeks.
MINITAURES…
DEAD MAN'S HAND GANGS Seven 28mm Old West miniatures per box.
Outlaw Gang $33.00 USD
Cowboy Gang $33.00 USD
Desperado Gang $33.00 USD
Lawmen Gang $33.00 USD
Napoleon's Middle Imperial Guard: 28mm Figures Box of Victrix 28mm Napoleonics contains 60 hard-plastic miniatures representing Middle Guard: 'Fusiliers – Chasseurs' and 'Fusiliers-Grenadiers.' Includes: four officers, four standardbearers, four drummers, 16 line (firing, priming, and loading), 16 march attack with arms fully attached, and 16 either march attack or advancing at porte/charge. $38.00 USD
RULES AND SUPPLEMENTS…
LIBERATORS Vol. 1: Napoleonic Wargaming in So. America First of a three-part series offers a concise guide to battles and campaigns in Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, and Peru. 8.5x11-inch booklet contains history, organizational data, nine pages of uniform guides (eight color uniforms per page), one page of 23 color flags, and eight color pages of uniform colors (20 uniform representations per page). Also includes twelve battle scenarios (from 1811 to 1823) including OBs and color maps. NEW PRICE: $20.00 USD
LIBERATORS! Supplement 1: The War in the South Add-on to Liberators! Volume 1: The War in the South America. Building on the material presented in the first volume, this supplement provides six new scenarios, along with new uniform charts and the highly successful Quick Play Rules used by the author in convention games. A simple set of 'beer and pretzels' rules, they were designed to have players moving units and rolling dice 15 minutes after set up. $20.00 USD
DBMM: DE BELLIS MAGISTRORUM MILITUM – Version 2.0 Radical development of DBM, retaining the main structures and procedures along with much of the basic rules; the most major difference is the new Command and Control and the C in C's plans. V2 introduces more changes, most notably in the marching rules, and clears up and refines unclear rules. BACK IN STOCK….. $30.00 USD
WARGAMES…
Battle of the Metaurus – How Hannibal Lost the War… Wargame The Romans have numbers and overall troop quality on their side. Hasdrubal has a wide range of troops, from crack heavy infantry and light cavalry from Africa to poor quality Celtic levies. And, they have the superior position. The game calls on both players to 'do better' than their historical counterparts. Richard Berg's design emphasizes morale and the importance of getting troops to execute the right commands. The Battle of the Metaurus includes: One 17x11-inch mounted map, 160 counters, Rules Booklet, one Historical Background Essay, Charts and Tables Player Aid, and one ten-sided die. $30.00 USD
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BATTLE FOR BRESLAU: Wargame Festung Breslau saw some of the most intense urban fighting of the whole war. The inhabitants were besieged for almost three months as the Soviet Sixth Army fought its way through the shattered streets towards the center until, four days after Berlin had fallen, the city surrendered on the 6th May, 1945. $15.00 USD
UNIFORM INFO…
275: Empire of Austria: Lancers No.2 Prince Schwarzenberg 1809-1815 Peter Bunde plate. $15.00 USD
La Invasion Bizantian de Hispanis 533-625 in this century-long struggle, Byzantium clashed with the armies led by the Visigoth kings and Sisebuto Leovigild between 533 and 625. 80 pages, softcover, includes 71 photographs maps and illustrations b / w and 8 color plates. [Spanish text] $24.00 USD
BUSSACO 1810 This is a detailed account of the maneuvers, skirmishes and clashes of both British and French armies, including the decisive battle, and also explains the Spanish intervention in this campaign – very much under-appreciated until now. [Spanish text] $24.00 USD
CENTRAL AFRICA: Tribal and Colonial Armies in the Congo, Gabon, Rwanda, Burundi, Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland, 1800 to 1900 Oversized at 8.25x12 inches. Describes the organization, tactics, costumes, and weapons of the protagonists in this unique theater of conflict. Chris Peers' authoritative text is accompanied by photographs, maps, and 120 B/W drawings of warriors, troop types, and flags. $63.00 USD
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BOOKS…
CHURCHILL'S SECRET DEFENCE ARMY: Resisting the Nazi Invader 'Auxiliary Units' were formed in the summer of 1940 to 'stay behind' and act as saboteurs and assassins to cause havoc behind the German front line should the Wehrmacht gain a foothold in Britain. Their mission was to hide in underground bunkers for the first 14 days of invasion and then spring up, at nightfall, to gather intelligence, interrogate prisoners, and destroy fuel and ammunition dumps. Dad's Army they were not. $50.00 USD
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CHIEFTAIN Main Battle Tank – Development and Active Service from Prototype to MK.II 8x11, 17 b/w photos, and 137 color photos. $20.00 USD
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BMW R 75 – And Other BMW Motorcycles in the German Army in 1930-1945 8x11, 44 3D graphics, and 30 archive photos. $20.00 USD
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KURSK – The Greatest Tank Battle Text is complemented with detailed maps that explain the troop movements that took place during the battle. It also includes appendices with information on orders of battle, losses and equipment. Kursk is an expert account of the moment when the Nazi state lost the initiative against the U.S.S.R. and how then the course was set for the eventual destruction of Nazi Germany. $30.00 USD
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STALINGRAD – The Infernal Cauldron Authoritative text and rarely seen photographs, Stalingrad shows how the rubble-strewn city gave rise to a bitter hand-to-hand struggle between both sides, and how landmarks such as the Mamaev Kurgan Hill could change hands 17 times in a single day. With battle maps, 200 photographs, and appendices. $30.00 USD
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AND DON'T FORGET THE MAGAZINES…
MINIATURE WARGAMES/BG: #362 June 2013 Articles include: CAMERONE: THE LEGION'S LAST STAND, CAN YOU ESCAPE THROUGH THE SWAMP?, BRASSICA FOR BATTLES, CAMPAIGNING AN ALTERNATIVE 1644, Salute: AN OVERVIEW, and much more! $9.00 USD
AGAINST THE ODDS #39 – These Brave Fellows Three weeks before Austerlitz, as Napoleon and most of his army headed for Vienna, the French VIII Corps chased the Austrians out of Bavaria. VIII Corp commander Marshal Edouard Mortier separated his cavalry, leaving him without recon, and his three-division advance straggled. The lead division under Gazan stumbled into a trap set by Russian Army commander Kutuzov. The wargame includes 22x34-inch full-color map, 216 9/16-inch full-color die-cut counters, charts, and only ten pages of rules. The magazine also includes other articles and columns, including an article on Napoleonic game design edited by Russ 'Snappy Nappy' Lockwood. $35.00 USD
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AGAINST THE ODDS 2012 ANNUAL – Forlorn Hopes Covers the two-month campaign for the Borneo/Java region. Includes one full-color 22x34-inch mapsheet, 288 full-color die-cut 5/8-inch counters, 16 pages of rules, four pages of charts and tables, medium complexity and low solitaire suitability. Playing time from two to ten hours, depending on the scenario. $45.00 USD
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VAE VICTUS # 110: March 2013 Stalingrad 1942 – Hall #4 The Red Barricades Introductory wargame that simply simulates the combat for control of one of the many buildings constituting the weapons factory 'Krasnaya Barrikady' (Red Barricade) in Stalingrad in the autumn of 1942. French magazine text, but English translation of the game rules. $24.00 USD
AND MORE…
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