Most of the new items coming into the On Military Matters shoppe will be here in mid-July.
Rules…
Grand Battles Napoleon: Miniature Rules – Adapted from Koenig Krieg, units represent infantry regiments, cavalry regiments, artillery batteries, and skirmish battalions and screens. Driven by two important mechanisms: command initiative and response. Commanders test initiative several times during the turn. The player who wins the initiative test may activate one of his divisions or force his opponent to activate one of their divisions instead. Both players roll for initiative round after round until all units on both sides have had a chance to act. Response is divided between command response and unit response. Commanders need to perform response tests if they wish to perform sweeping grand tactical orders, maintain command control should they find themselves outside command range of their corps, wing or army general or to steady the troops from becoming demoralized as casualties in the division mount. $38.00 USD
Napoleon's Grand Armee – Grand Battles Napoleon Supplement – Design your own French Grande Armee using the army lists in this Grand Battles Napoleon supplement. Recruit famous French leaders like Napoleon, Ney, Nansouty, Massena, and Soult to lead your brave army. The lists are based on historically flexible divisions of the day and allow players to field French Conscripts, Veterans, Foreign and Marine regiments, Chasseurs, Hussars, Dragoons, and Cuirassiers as well as foot and horse batteries and divisions of the Imperial Guard for really big battles. $28.00 USD
Airfix Battles Game: Quick Battles With Your Plastic Soldiers – Introductory wargame playable with all your Airfix figures and vehicles. Includes die cut cardboard counters for tanks, infantry, and guns in case you don't have any figures to hand. $42.00 USDAirfix Battles Game: Card Expansion Set – 24 bonus Force Cards covering variety of British, American and German troops and vehicles for the Airfix Battles wargame. $9.00 USD
Frostgrave: Into the Breeding Pits – Supplement for Frostgrave, players can lead their warbands into the vast network of catacombs, sewers, and dungeons that run underneath the Frozen City. $18.00 USD
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Ospreys…
296 Milvian Bridge AD 312: Constantine's Battle for Empire and Faith – Identifies the location of the battlefield and explains the tactics Constantine used to secure a victory that triggered the fundamental shift from paganism to Christianity. $24.00 USD
297 The Gempei War 1180-85: The Great Samurai Civil War – $24.00 USD
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075 Bradley vs BMP: Desert Storm 1991 – $20.00 USD
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236 U.S. Navy Light Cruisers: 1941-45 $18.00 USD
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Books…
KING ARTHUR'S WARS – Months of fieldwork and map study allow us to understand, for the first time, how the Anglo-Saxons conquered England; county by county and decade by decade. King Arthur's Wars exposes what the landscape and the place names tell us. As a result, we can now know far more about this 'Dark Age'. $50.00 USD
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The Roman Army: A History 753 BC – AD 476 – Covers the complete history of the Roman Army from 753 BC to AD 476, including its successes and failures against Rome's enemies such as Gauls, Carthaginians, Goths, and Persians. $23.00 USD
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The Campaigns of Sargon II, King of Assyria, 721-705 B.C. – Backed by an unparalleled military force, Sargon II outwitted and outfought powerful competitors to extend Assyrian territory, secure his throne, and also to ensure regional security. Under his leadership, skilled chariots, cavalry, and infantry excelled in all types of terrain against an array of culturally diverse enemies. With detailed analysis of each of his campaigns, this includes 13 black-and-white illustrations, five maps, and two tables. Available late July. $33.00 USD
Fatal Sunday: George Washington, the Monmouth Campaign, and the Politics of Battle – Account of the battle, including both American and British perspectives. Criticism of Washington's performance in command was considerably broader and deeper than previously acknowledged. In light of long-standing practical and ideological questions about his vision for the Continental Army and his ability to win the war, the outcome at Monmouth-a hard-fought tactical draw-was politically insufficient for Washington. The general's partisans, determined that the battle for public opinion would be won in his favor, engineered a propaganda victory for their chief that involved the spectacular court martial of Major General Charles Lee, the second-ranking officer of the Continental Army. $35.00 USD
The Frozen Chosen: The 1st Marine Division and the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir – account of the breakout from the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea by the First Marine Division from November to December 1950, following the intervention of Red China in the Korean War. Fought during the worst blizzard in a century, it is considered by the United States Marine Corps to be 'the Corps' finest hour' with 14 Medals of Honor, a record for any American battle, and 85 Navy Crosses – many awarded in lieu of an original nomination for the Medal of Honor – attest to the intensity of the battle.Based on first-person interviews from surviving veterans. $28.00 USD
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Elf Warfare – Compiles all of the information known about these elegant warriors and how they practice war. From an initial examination of the fighting methods of the individual Elf fighter, it expands to look at how they do battle in small companies and vast armies. It covers all of their troop types from their justifiably famous bowmen and swordmasters to their lightning fast cavalry, making note of regional variations and highly specialized fighters such as war mages. $15.00 USD
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And Don't Forget the Magazines…
Vae Victis # 128: Montenotte 1796 – First game of a new series on revolutionary and Napoleonic campaigns: La Grande Tactique. Units are divisions and brigades, a force point equals 1000 infantrymen or 500 cavalrymen. A hex is around six km (3.7 miles) and a turn is a day. Units are hidden from the enemy (on their backside) to preserve the fog of war. Activation of formations is determined randomly but the initiative player gets a special advantage. Battles are resolved on the map and include tactical advantages and disadvantages, units can march to the sound of the gun. Command, morale, and fatigue rules complete a medium complexity system. Includes magazine. French Text. $24.00 USD
Modern War # 25: October War – Wargame of the 1973 Arab-Israeli War. There are two theaters of operation: Sinai and Golan, both portrayed as a point to point system (since most of the major actions were fought over key points or lines of communications). Driven by the drawing of event markers which represent major tactical and strategic factors that affected the course of the campaign historically. Includes two 22 x 34 inch maps and 352 counters. $60.00 USD
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More at the OMM Website…
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