OMM: New Rules, Books & Mags

These items are coming into the shoppe mostly in late August.

Rules…

A Wargamer's Guide to the Early Roman Empire

Covers the Roman period from 27BC to AD284 from a wargamer's perspective of the many conflicts and offers advice on how to recreate these on the gaming table. Advice is given on factors to consider when choosing an appropriate set of commercially available rules, or devising your own, to best suit the scale and style of battle you want and capture the flavor of the period. The relevant ranges of figures and terrain pieces and buildings are also reviewed. Analysis of the forces involved, organization, tactics and strategies will help with building your armies and there are interesting scenarios included. $17.00 USD

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By Fire & Sword: Revised Edition Rulebook (Pike and Shot Period)

400-page, full-color hardcover book in A4 format (Weighs about 5 pounds!). The book is printed on heavy paper and will stand up to extensive use. Complete 17th Century Pike and Shot period rules with extensive illustrations, diagrams, and examples. A painting and modeling tutorial to help prepare your miniatures for gaming. Numerous skirmish scenarios as well as rules to play varied large battles. Short stories introducing the historical background to the reader. Multiple illustrations by leading Polish graphic artists. Photos of various reenactment groups from Poland and abroad. Includes historical background, unit stats and army lists of the following warring nations in the 1648 – 1676 period: Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Kingdom of Sweden, Ukrainian Cossacks, Ottoman Empire, Crimean Khanate, and Tzardom of Russia. Imported from Poland. Note that weight affects shipping costs. $75.00 USD

Danish Wars 1657-1660: Scenario Book

Expansion for By Fire and Sword covers new rules, battles, armies, commanders, and more for Danish Wars 1657-1660. Description of the army of the Kingdom of Denmark and Norway forms the main part of the supplement. The Danes and Norwegians have six skirmish forces, nine regiments, and seven divisions as well as seven historical commanders which makes them one of the most expanded armies in By Fire and Sword. The book also holds additional materials for Denmark's enemies: the Swedes. These include the elite veterans of Carl X Gustav that attacked Denmark in 1657 as well as their opposite in terms of training and experience – the Swedish territorial defense forces. The supplement also includes organizational structures and descriptions of forces of the anti-Swedish alliance: the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (led by the famous Czarniecki's division), Brandenburg, the Holy Roman Empire and the Netherlands. $40.00 USD

Setting the East Blaze: Warfare in the Back of Beyond 1917-1926 – 2nd Edition

Since the 1st edition of this ruleset in 2012, Setting the East Ablaze has been successfully adapted back to the colonial wars of the late 19th century and as far forward as modern African and the Middle-Eastern conflicts. What is clear from experience is that these rules work perfectly for all 'small wars' from 1914 to the mid-1930s. Based on the intervening years' experience, there are myriad of changes in here, some simplifications, new rules, and an overall general refinement aimed at making them play even better. We have even added some army guidelines! All of this offers endlessly interesting scenarios and armies for the creative gamer. The predominant style of warfare was open and mobile. You therefore get to play with all the toys of the first quarter of the 20th century, with none of the tedium of trench warfare. $30.00 USD

Books…

The Road to Passchendaele: The Heroic Year in Soldiers' Own Words and Photographs

Using diaries and memoirs, and above all, original photographs taken on illegally held cameras by the soldiers themselves, this tells the story of 1917, of life both in and out of the line culminating in perhaps the most dreaded battle of them all, the Battle of Passchendaele. Over 150 rarely or never-before-seen battlefield images are used out of the author's collection of 5000 private photographs. Richard van Emden, who has written 19 WWI books, interviewed 270 veterans of the Great War for his books. $50.00 USD

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Objective Saint-Lo: 7 June 1944 – 18 July 1944

This book provides a day-by-day account, including eyewitness testimony from Allied and Axis sides, of the 42 days of fighting from Omaha Beach to Saint-Lo. The book also acts as a field guide, including maps and both contemporary and modern photographs. Includes the battles over little or unknown routes from the horrors of Omaha Beach to Trvires, La Cambe, and Isigny, through the Aure valley to Hill 108 ('Purple Heart Hill') and Hills 192 and 122. $40.00 USD

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Star-Spangled Spitfires: Images Of War Series

Chronicles the combat operations of the U.S.A.AF units equipped with the iconic Supermarine fighter whilst employed in both the European and Mediterranean theaters of war, from the summer of 1942 right up to the end of the conflict. Employed primarily by the six squadrons of the 31st and 52nd Fighter Groups, initially from airfields in the U.K. and then in North Africa and Italy, the Spitfire was used both as a fighter and fighter-bomber until it was replaced by the P-51 Mustang from the spring of 1944. $23.00 USD

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Malayan Emergency

By the time of the 1942 Japanese occupation of the Malay Peninsula and Singapore, the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) had already been fomenting merdeka – independence – from Britain. The Japanese conquerors, however, were also the loathsome enemies of the MCP's ideological brothers in China. An alliance of convenience with the British was the outcome. Britain armed and trained the MCP's military wing, the Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA), to essentially wage jungle guerrilla warfare against Japanese occupying forces. With the end of WWII, the anti-Japanese fighters became anti-British, and, using the same weapons and training fortuitously provided by the British army during the war, the MCP launched a guerrilla war of insurgency. $23.00 USD

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Don't Forget the Magazines…

Wargames Soldiers and Strategy #92

Special Feature: The British Army of the Napoleonic Wars: The Worst-Treated of Men; The Birth of Combined Operations: Aboukir Bay, 1801; An Unusual Mediterranean Mini Campaign: Capture Capri 1808; A British Disaster in Holland: Walcheren 1809; Collecting a British Napoleonic Army: For King and Country; and Ruben's First Napoleonic Vignette: Hats Off to the British. Other Articles: The Battle of Homildon Hill 1402: Medieval Border Wars; The Roman Struggle with Guerrilla Warfare in Spain: The Battle of Tribola; Part II of the Sharp Practice mini campaign: Tigers in the Valley; Warriors of Athena Campaign: The Witch of Mount Gramos; Skirmish Warfare after the Battle of Sekigahara: Rise of the Tokugawa Shogunate; Modeling the Retreat from Moscow, Part II: Snow Scenery; and Building a 17th Century Portsmouth in 2mm: Small can be Beautiful Too! Departments: Miniature Reviews; Up Front: Don't Keep It Stupidly Simple; Tabletop Tactics: Beware of the Underdogs; The Irregular: Bolt Comic Action; A Fourth Edition for the Popular WWII rules: Let's Play Flames of War; and Reviews: Mad Dogs with Guns, Dracula's America: Shadows of the West, General D'Armee, and Sword Masters: A Supplement for Open Combat. $10.00 USD

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