OMM: New Rules, Books, Magazines & AQMF Offer

After a great NJ Con, On Military Matters is back in the shoppe stocking up for summer. Here's the new items coming in over the next couple weeks…

First… A Special AQMF Offer…

All Quiet on the Martian Front: Starter Set: 15mm SF Rules and Miniatures Special Offer

Buy a starter set with a box full of tripods, tanks, infantry, dice and templates, and get a pack of Martian Scout Tripods (three in a pack) for free. $100.00 USD

Rules…

Trireme Commander: Ancient Naval Tactical Combat Rules

Full-color rulebook, 28 pages plus one token cardboard sheet. Best played with two to four galleys per player. $32.00 USD

Battles with Model Soldiers: An Introduction to Wargaming

Reprint of classic Featherstone book. Includes brief overview of the different wargaming periods, some simple rules, and a detailed description of an American Civil War tabletop battle. $32.00 USD

Tercios: 30 Years War Rules

Ruleset for large-scale battles includes armies: Holy Roman Empire, Spanish Empire, German Protestant, Kingdom of Denmark-Norway, Kingdom of England, Kingdom of France, Principality of Transylvania, Swedish Empire, and United Provinces of the Low Countries. $30.00 USD

Bolt Action: Germany Strikes

Early war Europe, including the fall of Poland, the breaking of the Maginot Line, and the dramatic retreat to Dunkirk. $30.00 USD

TMP Special Offer: Save 15%. New price: $25.50 USD

Flames of War: Berlin

Final 1945 battles includes German Kleinpanzer Wanze and Waffentrager. $20.00 USD

TMP Special Offer: Save 10%. New price: $18.00 USD

Uniforms & Images of War…

Waterloo Warriors: Selected Uniforms of the Hundred Days

To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Waterloo, and not duplicate the torrent of other Waterloo books coming out this year, Bob Marrion created 55 color plates of unusual uniforms of the campaign. $48.00 USD

The Rise of Hitler Illustrated: Images Of War Series

A Nazi propaganda book found in the ruins of a bomb-damaged German home in 1945 and recovered as a souvenir by a British soldier. It forms the basis for this photographic account of Hitler's early days as he gains acceptance and eventually took over the hearts and minds of the German people. Includes 150 black-and-white photos. $25.00 USD

TMP Special Offer: Save 15%. New price: $21.25 USD

T-34/76 & T-34/85: The Red Army's Legendary Medium Tank – Images Of War Series

Includes 200 illustrations and color profiles, including photographs of a surviving example of the T-34. $25.00 USD

TMP Special Offer: Save 15%. New price: $21.25 USD

Hitler's Light Panzers at War: Images of War Series

Includes 250 rare and unpublished photographs together with detailed captions and accompanying text that analyzes the development of the light Panzer, which ranged from the Panzer I and II to the Czech build Panzer 35 & 38t. It also depicts how these tanks were adapted and up-gunned to face the ever-increasing enemy threat. $25.00 USD

TMP Special Offer: Save 15%. New price: $21.25 USD

The Few: Fight for the Skies – Images of War Series

A pictorial history of the Blitz (September 1940 to May 1941) from the perspectives of both RAF and Luftwaffe airmen. Accounts and photographs of some of the most notable participants caught up in the proceedings include: Al Deere, Geoffrey Page, Brian Kingcome, Peter Townsend, Bob Doe, and Ginger Lacey. $25.00 USD

TMP Special Offer: Save 15%. New price: $21.25 USD

Books…

Fighting Emperors of Byzantium

Assesses the contribution of those emperors whose military leadership determined the survival of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire for a thousand years after the fall of Rome. $40.00 USD

TMP Special Offer: Save 15%. New price: $34.00 USD

The Hammer of the Scots: Edward I and the Scottish Wars of Independence

Known to posterity as Scottorum Malleus – the Hammer of the Scots – Edward I was one of medieval England's most formidable kings. This book offers a fresh interpretation of Edward's military career, within the context of his Scottish wars. In part, this is a study of personality: Edward was an extraordinary man. His struggles with tenacious opponents – including Robert the Bruce and William Wallace – have become the stuff of legend. It also considers the wider impact of Edward's campaigns, describing the effects on people at all levels of society and providing a compelling portrait of the British Isles at war. $45.00 USD

TMP Special Offer: Save 15%. New price: $38.25 USD

Mons-En Pevele – 18 Aout 1304: Forgotten Battle Series

Includes 60 B/W and color illustrations of the battle between the French, led by King Philip IV 'the Fair', and the Flemish. French Text. $28.00 USD

La Batalla de Villalar 1521

Battle in the Revolt of the Comuneros fought on April 23, 1521 near the town of Villalar in Valladolid province, Spain. The royalist supporters of King Charles I won a crushing victory over the Comuneros rebels. Spanish Text. $28.00 USD

Mont-Saint-Jean 6-7 Juillet 1794: Forgotten Battle Series

On July 6-7 1794, the French Sambre-et-Meuse army, commanded by Kleber and Lefebvre, battled an army commanded by the Prince of Orange and supplemented by the rearguard of the Austrian army. With 60 black-and-white and color illustrations. French text. $28.00 USD

Tudela 1808: La Primera Derrota de los Vencedores de Bailen

An Imperial French army led by Marshal Jean Lannes attack a Spanish army under General Castanos. Spanish Text. $28.00 USD

With Wellington's outpost: The Peninsular and Waterloo Letters of John Vandeleur

John Vandeleur's letters home to his parents are a lively and engaging account of active service during the Napoleonic Wars, recounting everything from day-to-day life on campaign to the experience of pitched battle at Vitoria and Waterloo. $40.00 USD

TMP Special Offer: Save 15%. New price: $34.00 USD

Strike Them A Blow: Battle Along the North Anna River, May 21-25, 1864

Includes 174 images and 11 maps. Account of the mistakes and missed opportunities of the third and least understood phase of the Overland Campaign. $13.00 USD

TMP Special Offer: Save 15%. New price: $11.05 USD

Fighting the Kaiser's War: The Saxons in Flanders 1914-1918

Personal accounts and includes 330 mostly unseen wartime photographs and other images that recorded the German experience of the war and gave a rounded picture of how the Saxons lived and died in Flanders. $40.00 USD

TMP Special Offer: Save 15%. New price: $34.00 USD

Battle Beneath the Trenches: The Cornish Miners of the 251st Tunneling Company, RE

In February 1915, eight Tunneling Companies were created and operational in Flanders from March 1915. By mid-1916, the British Army had around 25,000 trained tunnelers, mostly volunteers taken from mining communities. This is their story. $40.00 USD

TMP Special Offer: Save 15%. New price: $34.00 USD

Don't Forget the Magazines…

Wargames Illustrated: Issue #333 July 2015

Theme: Alexander the Great: Includes: Armies and battles; Battle of Hydaspes 326BC; Small scenarios; and Society of Ancients Battle Day – Hydaspes with 15 different rulesets. Other articles include: Flames of War: Berlin; U.S. uniforms in Iraq and Afghanistan; Frostgrave rules spotlight; Salute 2015 report; Gripping Beast Arab Cavalry spotlight; Three Musketeers adventures; Modeling thatch; Saltanovka 1812 scenario; Post-apocalypse scenario; 95th Rifles profile; and more. $8.50 USD

Miniature Wargames/BG: Issue #387

Includes the surprise changeover of the magazine's ownership to Warners Group Publications; Making tents; Why boardgaming is superior to miniatures gaming; Chancellorsville 1863 scenario; WWII Ostfront card game and campaign system – Operation Bagration 1944; Battle of Evesham 1265 scenario; Battle of Trenton 1776 scenario; Salute 2015 show recap; Interview with Brigade Models owners Tony Francis and Phil Richards; and more. $9.00 USD

Pretorien #35

Contents include: L'equipement et l'organisation du fantassin pretorien; L'empereur Probus; les suites armees dans l'antiquite; le chateau d'Ancy-le-Franc; Abusima – fort du limes romain; and more. French Text. $18.00 USD

La Revue Napoleon #17 (New series)

Contents include: Waterloo: Quel Vainquere?; Le culte des morts apres Waterloo; Grouchy: le coupable ideal; and more. French Text. $26.00 USD

Gloire & Empire #61

Battle of Ligny and more. French Text. $28.00 USD

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