updates and cleans some minis.
These miniatures, rules, magazines, uniform plates, books, and other items are coming into the shoppe mostly in early August, but the Ospreys are coming mid-to-late August.
Miniatures…
Test of Honor: Chobei's Renegades Boxed set containing ten 28mm plastic miniatures, one metal miniature, and 18 new gaming cards. Also contains ten new metal heads to give your miniatures extra character. Chobei, a hero to the common man, leads a ragtag band of renegades against all those who intimidate and steal from the weak. The first of two new expansions for Test of Honor has all you need for a new faction. $29.00 USD
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Test of Honor: Daimyo's Retinue Boxed set containing five 28mm plastic cavalry miniatures, one metal cavalry miniature, and 18 new gaming cards. Also contains five new metal heads to give your miniatures extra character. Daimyo Osugawa charges recklessly into battle, leading his fearsome, masked retinue to spill the blood of his foes. More cavalry for your forces in this new Test of Honour Expansion. $24.00 USD
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Test of Honor: Scenery Pack Five fantastic period building kits to enhance your games. This pack contains two houses, a bridge, a water mill, and a torii gate to create the look of a small Japanese village. Made from MDF. 28mm. $60.00 USD
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Rules…
Bonnie Blue Flag: Fast Play ACW Rules Fast play rules, extensively tried and tested by League of Gentlemen Wargamers, whose ranks contain not a few wargaming authors. Any scale of figures, no need for re-basing. As a rough guide, three to five 28mm figures per base, with six bases per infantry regiment. Works with most base sizes. A typical game involving a four Regiment strong Infantry brigade with a battery of guns attached can be easily accommodated on a 6 x 4 table, and can be played to a conclusion in around two hours. Works on an attrition points system represented by small marker dice so figures are not removed. Includes full-color pictures and artwork by Bob Marion throughout. $20.00 USD
Bolt Action: Campaign New Guinea In 1942, Japanese forces invaded the island of New Guinea and started a bitter, three-year campaign against allied Australian and American forces. Fought in dense jungles and across rugged mountaintops, the grueling fight pushed men to their very limits and forced commanders to adopt new strategies and tactics for the harsh island terrain. Filled with new rules, scenarios, and unit types, this supplement for Bolt Action provides players with all of the information they need to set their games in this unforgiving battlefield. $30.00 USD
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The Old West Skirmish Wargames: Wargaming Western Gunfights Reprint of classic rules that launched American Wild West skirmish wargaming – from stage coach and bank robberies to U.S. cavalry actions to recreations of gunfights from the pages of history – in the U.K. and the North America and were played in most wargaming clubs on a regular basis. This edition includes many previously unpublished chapters. Chapters include: Movement, Orders, Terrain, Weapon effects, and Hand-to-hand fighting. Optional rules include Machine guns, artillery, fire, explosions, saloon brawls, Indians, Iron Horse (trains), frontier towns, and solo games. Also included: Various scenarios and campaigns, narrative campaigns, and Indian buffalo hunting game. $22.00 USD
Napoleonic: Napoleonic Balloon Warfare Introducing Volume Three of Supplementary Wargaming Rules, with 25-28mm scale miniature figures and models. Covers scenarios such as balloon attacks and parachute landings, as an alternative history of Napoleon's invasion of England. A history of the French revolution balloon unit, with wargaming rules; that is also applicable to the American civil war balloon units. An additional set of alternative history wargaming rules and scenarios based on actual plans, that never got-off the ground, so to speak are also part of this new book. This volume contains a general overview of the history of military ballooning during the revolutionary and later Napoleonic wars; and descriptions of the balloons used, and their operations. Using both historical events and scenarios based on alternative and fictional history, these supplementary rules have been written to develop a range of possible wargaming scenarios, with historical backgrounds as examples, and some rules based on these events. These are intended to include within larger games, or as small roleplays. $28.00 USD
Dracula's America: Shadows of the West – A Skirmish Wargame It is 1875, and Count Dracula is President of the United States of America. In the wake of the Civil War, with the country struggling to regain its balance, Dracula seized power. The Count's thralls assassinated President Lincoln and his entire administration in a single night and, in the ensuing chaos, their master made his move. Dominating the Senate, he declared himself President-for-Life, and now rules the Union with fear and an iron fist. His vampiric progeny, the Coven of the Red Hand, infest every strata of society, and enforce Dracula's will with ruthless efficiency. This is a skirmish game of gothic horror set in an alternate Old West. Secret wars rage across the country – from bustling boom-towns to the most remote wilderness – as cults and secret societies fight for power and survival. Players will throw their support behind one of these factions, and will lead a Posse in fast-paced, cinematic battles for dominance and survival. $30.00 USD
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Uniform Plates…
333: Kingdom of Sardinia: Regiment Alessandria 1814-1815 Peter Bunde Uniform plate with 20, plus color figures, flags or standards, facings, etc. and explanations on reverse. $14.00 USD
334: Kingdom of Wurttemberg: 2nd Line Infantry Regiment Herzog Wilhelm 1808-1812 Peter Bunde Uniform plate with 20, plus color figures, flags or standards, facings, etc. and explanations on reverse. $14.00 USD
Osprey's…
249: Railway Guns of World War I Details the design and development of railway guns during World War I from the very first basic designs to massive purpose built monster railway guns. Accompanying the text are many rare, never-before-published, photographs and color illustrations depicting how these weapons were used during World War I. $18.00 USD
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512: Armies of the Italian Wars of Unification 1848-70 (1): Piedmont and the Two Sicilies. $18.00 USD
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056: Sharpshooting Rifles of the American Civil War: Colt, Sharps, Spencer, and Whitworth $20.00 USD
027: Viking Warrior versus Anglo-Saxon Warrior: England 865-1066 $20.00 USD
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311: Savannah 1779: The British Turn South. $24.00 USD
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Books…
Sparta: Rise of a Warrior Nation Explores two themes: how Sparta came to be the unique society it was, and the rise of the city from a Peloponnesian village to the military superpower of Greece. But above all, his focus is on the Spartan hoplite, the archetypal Greek warrior who was respected and feared throughout Greece in his own day, and who has since become a legend. The reader is shown the man behind the myth; who he was, who he thought he was, and the environment which produced him. $40.00 USD
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The Siege of Vienna Classic account of the last threat to the Western states by the Turks in 1683. Details the campaign, map, black-and-white illustration, index, and biblio. Paperback Reprint. $13.00 USD
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British Battle Tanks: British-Made Tanks of World War II Second of a multi-volume history of British tanks. Covers the development and use of the Matilda, Crusader, and Valentine tanks that pushed back the Axis in North Africa, the much-improved Churchill that fought with distinction from North Africa to Normandy, and the excellent Cromwell tank of 1944-45. It also looks at Britain's super-heavy tank projects, the TOG1 and TOG2, and the Tortoise heavy assault tank, designed to smash through the toughest of battlefield conditions, but never put into production. $30.00 USD
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The Battleship HMS Warpsite: 1914-1919 Featuring over 100 computer generated color images this volume covers, in full, the majesty of this great ship. From the initial design to the ship's armor and operational history the authors cover the complete history of this mammoth vessel. Numerous scale plans are included. $35.00 USD
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22 on Peleliu: Four Pacific Campaigns with the Corps, The Memoirs of an Old Breed Marine Bio of Marine Corps 22-year-old George Peto. His combat experience at Finschhaven, Cape Gloucester, Peleliu, and Okinawa. $33.00 USD
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U-Boats Beyond Biscay: Donitz Looks to New Horizons When France fell in the summer of 1940, the ports in the Bay of Biscay gave direct access to the Atlantic, and the ability to extend their reach even to. The Royal Navy was unable to escort convoys much beyond the Western Approaches. In a short time, the Allies were losing 500,000 tons of shipping a month, every month. Donitz now looked over the far horizons, Americas Eastern Seaboard, the coasts of Africa, and the Mediterranean, where Allied merchantmen habitually sailed alone and unprotected. $35.00 USD
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And Don't Forget the Magazines…
Ancient Warfare: Volume 11.3 – Roman Against Roman Theme: Caesar Versus Pompey in the Balkans. Articles include: Caesar, Pompey and the Roman Senate: Road to Civil War; Propaganda in Caesar's Bellum Civile: Restitutor Libertatis; Caesar Prepares for the Balkans Campaign – Doing What They Least Expect; The Dyrrhachium Campaign: A Painful Defeat for Caesar; The Battle of Pharsalus, 9 August, 48 BC – When Eagles Clashed; The Armies of Caesar and Pompey: Setting the Stage; Pompey and the Senate: Shackled to a Corpse; Further Reading: Pompey and Caesar; The Cavalry of the Legion: Glorious Horsemen; The Art of Tactics: Taktike Techne Part III (Tacticus); Armoured Cavalry in Northwest Europe: The Cataphract of Borbetomagus; and more. $11.00 USD
Ancient History Magazine #11: The End Of Antiquity Theme: The End of Antiquity. Articles include: The End of Antiquity: Historical Introduction; Constantine and the Rise of Christian Rome: Crossing the Milvian Bridge; The Last Non-Christian Roman Emperor: Julian the Apostate; How St. Ambros Tried to Influence Rulers: Christian Advice; The End of the Roman Empire in the West: Attack of the Visigoths; The Link Between Ancient and Medieval: Augustine of Hippo; Closure of the Academy at Athens: Plato's Second Death?; Recommended Books on Late Antiquity: Beyond the Magazine; Vultures in the Ancient World: Rejected or Revered?; The Quest for Immortality in Ancient China: Forever Alive; An Enigma Tailor-Made for Hollywood: Pontius Pilate; and more. $11.00 USD
Novels…
Agincourt 1415: Field of Blood Fiction. On 25 October 1415, a trapped and vastly outnumbered force of exhausted and demoralized English archers and men-at-arms faced a colossal army of French knights on a desolate field in northern France. What took place that day became one of the greatest moments of the Hundred Years' War and English history. This novel offers a dramatic, minute-by-minute retelling of the battle as seen through the eyes of the commanders and soldiers on both sides. $17.00 USD
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More on the Website…
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