The heat's back, so we're staying inside the shoppe with a variety of cool games, magazines, and books. Most are either in stock or in a week or two.
SERGEANTS…
SERGEANTS: DAY OF DAYS This hybrid boardgame with miniatures for WWII starts with the basic set and builds with expansion packs. Some clever mechanisms in here, like the event deck of cards governing actions and sequence of play per phase, and, the jigsaw puzzle-like map terrain tiles (the 5 x 5 inch and 10 x 10 inch tiles are also backprinted with different terrain) that allow you to create lots of different battlefields. The inch-and-square move/shoot mechanism takes getting used to and fire effects are determined by turning over cards and checking the range bands. Includes: eight pre-painted figures, 128 coated playing cards, 18 tiles for terrain and landmarks (make a mapboard up to 20 x 30 inches in size), rules, and two plastic rulers with grenade template at one end. $90.00 USD
A few, but by no means all, of Sergeants expansions (see the OMM website for a complete list):
SERGEANTS: Road to Carentan Includes: 16 5 x 5 map tiles and two 10 x 10 Landmarks tiles, four borders, scenario book (20 scenarios), two SMG Rulers, one HE Grenade Template, one Panzerfaust Template, and Road to Carentan Story Deck of 64 cards. $65.00 USD
SERGEANTS: U.S. Paratrooper BAR Team Includes: four fully painted 20mm pewter miniatures, four sets of eight cards each with: one private soldier M1918 BAR, one private soldier with M2 Carbine, two private soldiers with M1 Garand, and four bases and accompanying markers. $40.00 USD
SERGEANTS: U.S. Paratrooper M1A1 Thompson Leader Includes: one fully painted 20mm pewter miniature, 16 action cards with: four standard action cards, one private soldier card with three matching action cards, one junior NCO soldier card with three matching action cards, one senior sergeant soldier card with three matching action cards, and one base and accompanying marker. $20.00 USD
SERGEANTS: German Light Infantry (GLI) Assault Team Includes: four fully painted 20mm pewter miniatures, four sets of eight cards, each with a soldier card and seven action cards: one MP40 soldier, one Mauser 98 with a Panzerfaust, two Mauser 98, and four bases and accompanying markers. $40.00 USD
SERGEANTS: DAY OF DAYS – Squad Bundle Any combination of (2) leaders and and (2) teams. For example: U.S.: one Thompson Leader, one M1 Garand Rifle Leader, six M1 Garand Riflemen, one .30 Cal Light Machine Gun, and one MG Assistant w/ M2 Carbine – or – German: one MP40 Leader, one Rifle Leader, six Riflemen, one MG42 Light Machine Gun, and one MG Assistant w/ Rifle. $120 USD each. (You'll need to head to the OMM website to see all the various leaders and teams available.)
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GAMES…
POLTAVA'S DREAD DAY: The Great Northern War The Great Northern War began as the rulers of Denmark and Saxony/Poland perceived weakness in the 18 year old Charles and thought this was a chance to regain lost lands. Peter I of Russia (before he was called 'the Great') also saw his chance to reverse earlier misfortunes and gain access to the Baltic. Operational level with map stretching from France to Russia, Sweden to Austria. Counters record manpower in strength points. $30.00 USD
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AGAINST THE ODDS #36 – Defeat into Victory Wargame packaged with magazine covers WWII Burma – uses chit-pull activation system, and the game map stretches from Dimapur in the north to Rangoon in the south. Rules cover supply (a crucial aspect in terrain that was among the most inhospitable of the war), various types of combat (fire, maneuver, and assault), morale, leadership, random events to simulate the effects of battles and decisions by higher-ups elsewhere, weather, Japanese suicide attacks, and changing war goals. $35.00 USD
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BLACK CROSS/BLUE SKY – LOST SQUADRONS Supplement allows you to field Polish, Dutch, and French aircraft. Includes 184 full-color counters of aircraft rendered in 1:300 scale, two solitaire scenarios, one solitaire mini-campaign, six standard scenarios, two standard mini-campaigns, one massive full campaign, 44 plane and ship stat cards, two strategic mission displays, five hex-stacker displays, and variety of warship counters. $80.00 USD
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MAGAZINES…
MINIATURE WARGAMES: #353 September 2012 THE BOLT ACTION BOYS; Crossing the Boisey PART 1: BALANCE OF FORCES; Show Report: NORTH-EAST MEETS NORTH-WEST; Show Report: WARGAMES HEAVEN AT VALHALLA; Games Development: GIVING YOUR GAME A KICKSTARTER; Limitations of the Phalanx Exposed: WARGAMING SPARTOLUS; Borodino Remade: TINKERING WITH TOLSTOY; The High Ground: CONVENTIONAL WISDOM; Next Year, In Jerusalem: WARGAMING WWI PALESTINE; Darker Horizons: HEADLINE SUBJECT TO CHANGE; and Reviews and more. $8.50 USD
WARGAMES SOLDIERS & STRATEGY: #62 August 2012 Theme: Spies and Special Agents! Includes articles: A Look at the Murky World of Espionage; Impossible Mission Scenario Generator; Cold War Spy Diving! Buster Crabb's Last Dive; Espionage Against the Bolsheviks: 'Cud' Thornhill the Archangel Spy; Now pay attention 007. Spies, Henchmen, and Minions; Bond Versus Oddjob; An Interview with Sam Mustafa: Maurice; New Arthurian Rules from Osprey: Walloping Dux Bellorum; A Matrix Game Based Around Boudica's Uprising: Camulodunum Aflame!; Seamless Scenery Terrain; Tips for Assembling Mounted Men-at-arms; Warlord's New WWII Rules Exposed: Let's Play Bolt Action; Wargaming the Roman Principate: Augustus to Aurelian; Interwar Wargame Rules 1918-39: A World Aflame; and Up Front column. $8.50 USD
ANCIENT WARFARE: Volume 6.3 August 2012 Theme: Ancient Cavalry. Includes articles: Historical Introduction: Press Home the Charge!; Xenophon and the Athenian Cavalry: Theory and Practice; Celtic Cavalry at War: Making Epona Proud; Reenactor: Trooper of Ala I Batavorum – Horsemen of the Lower Rhine; Mounted Thureophoroi: Versatile Horsemen; Battle of Taginae, AD 552: The Last Charge of the Ostrogoths; Function of Greek Cavalry in the Classical Period: Hit, Run and Shock; A Look at Two Roman Masked Cavalry Helmets; The 'Ins and Outs' of Throwing a Javelin from Horseback; Battle of Alalia (530 or 525 BC): Colony Wars; and The Experience of Combat and 'Face of Battle' Studies: Blood, Crowd and Fear. $10.00 USD
MEDIEVAL WARFARE Volume 2.4 August 2012 Theme: The Steppe Warrior Defeated: Otto I vs the Magyars. Articles include: Historical Introduction: Migration, Confrontation, and Transformation; Growth of Magyar Power in Europe: From Pannonia to the West; Liudprand of Cremona on the Magyars; Simple Arms and Complex Strategy: The Other Saxon Revolution; Otto I's Destruction of the Magyars: August 955; The Armenians and Maurice's Strategikon: Byzantine Pragmatism vs. Imperial Prejudice; Medieval Fortresses on the Bosporus and the Dardanelles (1): The Byzantine Empire; Battle of Bryn Glas: 1402; and The Use of the Bow by Medieval Knights. $10.00 USD
BOOKS…
WWI SERIES Six books (each containing about 150 color and b/w photographs and 50 artworks) cover the various fronts of WWI. Each $35.00 USD
Eastern Front 1914-1920
Balkans, Italy & Africa 1914-1918
Western Front 1914-1916
Western Front 1917-1918
Naval Warfare 1914-1918
Gallipoli and the Middle East 1914-1918
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LAND BATTLES IN 5th CENTURY BC GREECE: A History and Analysis of 173 Engagements Using carefully researched logical probabilities to extend surviving records, the author places each battle within its historical context and analyzes it with a view to documenting any significant overall patterns of action. $35.00 USD
ROBERT E. LEE AT WAR – The Mind and Method of a Great American Soldier V1: Tragic Secessionist This is the first volume of a remarkable new series, oversized at 9 x 12 inches and with a lavish array of maps and illust in b/w and color. By mining fresh sources, and in adhering to a rigorous historical methodology, Bowden's account of General Lee emerges to be as necessary as it is original. Bowden explains in great detail Lee's ongoing efforts to craft and reorganize the army he inherited from Joe Johnston-a force unevenly led and inefficiently organized-into a modern and fierce fighting machine known as the Army of Northern Virginia. The story of Lee's decision making is laid before the reader, and his relationship with his key lieutenants, along with the complicated and strained relationship with Confederate President Jefferson Davis, appears in fresh, new light. $60.00 USD
MORE AT THE OMM WEBSITE…
As usual, much, much more is available at the OMM website: onmilitarymatters.com or you can email or phone with your questions.