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Wargame Vault announces the availability of:

From Eglinton Books

Watermarked PDF – $9.92 USD

Fourth Portable Wargame Compendium

The Portable Wargame concept has continued to evolve since the first book was published in 2017, and Portable Wargame compendia have been published annually since 2022.

The Fourth Portable Wargame Compendium has been compiled and edited by Bob Cordery and Arthur Harman, and contains contributions from John Armatys, Justin Barrett, Antoine Bourguilleau, Bob Cordery, Mark Cordone, Ian Dury, Arthur Harman, Nick Huband, and Archduke Piccolo.

This is the fourth Portable Wargame Compendium, and it contains the following:

  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Hoplite: The Peloponnesian War in a Tin
  • Gridded Age of Sail Naval Wargames
  • The Portable Charge! Wargame (PC!W) … or Recreating the Classic Wargame Rules in a more manageable form
  • Belle Époque Naval Wargame Rules
  • The Portable Naval Wargame: Russo-Japanese War
  • Chubby Mini-Marine War Game Rules
  • Building a 'Chubby Marine' for Portable Naval Wargames
  • Contact!: High intensity modern warfare at Division Level
  • The Portable War of the Worlds
  • Sci-Fi Skirmish Squared – A Portable Wargame 3 x 3 Variant
  • 'Duae Aleae Iactae Sunt' (Two Dice Are Rolled): A simple fire or combat resolution system using only two dice
  • The Extended Battlefield
  • Further thoughts on Portable Little Wars
  • The Dominion of… Rules Supplement
  • Dominion of… Conan the Barbarian
  • Dominion of… the Oar and Ram
  • Intestinal Fortitude: An optional rule for the Dominion of… rules
  • Dominion of… the Britain's 4.7-inch gun
  • Taking something from the Dominion of rules… and adding it to the Portable Wargame rules
  • Appendix 1: Hex and Square gridded maps for the Battle of Blasthof Heath
  • Appendix 2: Board and Unit Counters for Contact!

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