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MAGAZINES…
WARGAMES ILLUSTRATED #458 w/Bolt Action Soviet Army Infantry Sprue
Theme: Greek Myth and Legend
Features:
- Frame Focus: Soviet Army Infantry Sprue
- Heroes, Gods, and Stop-Motion Monsters: Scenario ideas for Greek myth games based on a Hollywood classic
- Designer's Notes, Trench Crusade's Twisted History: Discusses historical inspirations behind the world and rules of Trench Crusade
- Designer's Notes, Warriors of Athena: New game set in the world of Greek myth
- The Germans Are Coming: Novel transformed into a wargaming spectacular
- Going Greek with Gamers Grass Terrain: Terrain pieces for Warriors of Athena
- Back to the Future, FoW Early War: Questions about all things Early War
- More Life in the Landsknecht: Revisits Warlord's Death and the Landsknecht Italian Wars supplement
- Slogging Through The Mud In Trench Crusade: Trench Crusade painting guide with muddy basing
- Ron Ringrose, Mega Wargamer: Last wargaming hurrah
Departments:
- Observation Post: Reviews cover new books, and resin and plastic minis
- Release Radar: New and upcoming releases
- Quick Fire: WI readers' hobby projects, notes, news, and observations
$10.00 USD
JOURNAL OF THE SEVEN YEARS WAR ASSOCIATION: Issue 26.3
Cover: Front-and-back views of troops from the von Reusch Hussars
Contents:
- Review and Outlook
- Convention News
- Call for Submissions
- Article Submission Guidelines
- 'Soldats negres' New France, 1760
- Josef Theodr Freiherr von Reusch
- The Ruesch Hussars in the Seven Years' War
- Book Reviews
- Convention Flier
- Items of Interest
- Subscriptions
- Journal Staff
$14.00 USD
WARGAMING RULES…
COFFEE BREAK CAMPAIGNS: Junction Jeopardy – Linked Games for Any Historical or Fantasy Setting
First mini-campaign scenario in a new series by Henry Hyde. Centers around the domination of a crossroads, regardless of the setting. Presents unique challenges, since there are likely to be significant variations in terrain around the key point, which might demand a great deal of tactical and sometimes strategic nous. Can be used by historical, fantasy, or sci-fi gaming; roleplayers; etc. The setting can be used by a group of adventurers, feuding gangs of post-apocalyptic warriors, a wary platoon of special forces in a hot climate, or a newly-arrived squad of Space Marines as readily as a company of the 95th Rifles in the Peninsula, the 24th Foot in Zululand, or Rommel's 7th Panzer Division charging through France in 1940. $12.00 USD
RETAKING THE IMPERIAL CITY
Examines the battle to regain the city of Hue's south side and recapture the historic imperial citadel in 20 squad-to-company-level scenarios for roleplaying and miniatures. The Battle of Hue is the bloodiest of the Vietnam War, and a turning point not just in that conflict, but in American history. $42.00 USD
KOREAN WAR: China Intervenes
This book begins where Seoul of a Nation ends. It chiefly examines the time of China's entry into the war, from October 1950 to February 1951, in ten historically researched scenarios for wargaming with miniatures. $32.00 USD
ARMORED CAVALRY: 67-68
Examines the combat experience of the 1st Cavalry Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, from September 1967 to February 1968 in twelve historically researched scenarios, and will follow them through some of the most intense engagements of the Vietnam War. $33.00 USD
WARGAMING…
BATTLE HYMN VOLUME 2: Shiloh, Bentonville, Gettysburg '62
Brigade-level system that includes three complete games: Shiloh, Bentonville and Gettysburg 1862. Shiloh: The First Great Battle depicts the two-day battle of Shiloh, containing four scenarios and one full campaign. Bentonville: The Last Great Battle simulates the final major battle of the war, containing four scenarios. Gettysburg 1862 is pure conjecture and simulates a completely hypothetical battle, containing one stand-alone scenario and two new scenarios. Includes rules to modify existing scenarios to add the new map to Volume 1 scenarios and full campaign. Special features include an innovative combat system, chit-pull system, high solitaire playability, optional formation morale, and full Standard Rules compatible with Battle Hymn Volumes 1 and 2.
Product Information:
- Complexity: Medium
- Solitaire Suitability: Medium
- Time Scale: 1 turn = 60 to 90 minutes depending on the day
- Map Scale: 1 hex = 300 yards across
- Unit Scale: Brigades, with some regiments
- Players: One to two, best with two
- Playing Time: 1 to 3 hours (scenarios), 5 to 8 hours (campaign)
Components:
- Two full-size maps
- One half-size map
- Six counter sheets
- Standard Rules booklet
- Special Rules booklet
- Ten double-sided player aid cards
- Four ten-sided white dice, one ten-sided black die
$85.00 USD
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THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR 1898
Two-player game that recreates the strategic naval-and-land campaign against Spanish forces in Cuba and Puerto Rico. One player controls the American and Cuban units, while the other controls the Spanish ones. The game is played in game turns, consisting of alternating player turns in which each player moves his pieces and resolves any resulting combat. When all the game turns have been completed, the game is over, and the winner is determined. The game is divided into separate but closely related land and sea systems, and the introductory scenarios should be played before attempting the full campaign game. Up to four players can play the campaign game.
Product Information:
- Complexity: Medium
- Playing Time: 3 to 6 hours
- Solitaire Suitability: Medium
- Players: Two to Four (suitable for solitaire play)
- Map Scale: Variable (for both areas and hexes based on map)
- Time Scale: 1 Turn = 20 Minutes
- Unit Scale: 1 Unit = 1 ship or battalion/regiment
Game Components:
- Three 22 x 34-inch color maps
- Two sheets of 5/8-inch counters
- Two sheets of 3/4-inch counters
- Five land set-up displays
- Three naval set-up displays
- Three player aid cards
- Two random event cards
- Two laminated naval status cards
- Rules Booklet
- One dry-erase marker
- Two six-sided dice
- Box and Lid set
$89.00 USD
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PAPER WARS ISSUE 112: Sinking Yamato, The Final Cruise of the Super-Battleship April 7, 1945
Low-complexity, solitaire, tactical-level (single ship versus aircraft formations) game, with three waves of incoming aircraft broken down into four sub-waves each, with each aircraft marker representing roughly 20 attacking aircraft. The player controls the decisions on starting preparations, facing the larger gun turrets, firing decisions of the multitude of AA guns, movement and use of damage-control teams, and when to counter-flood to prevent capsizing. There are options for a historical or random setup, and a hypothetical scenario with additional U.S. aircraft. The rules cover fires and fire spreading, counter-flooding, strafing, damage-control radar warning, and spare gun crews. Contains one 34x22-inch small-hex map and over 100 counters. $47.00 USD
OMM Discount 15%: Now $39.95 USD
BOOKS…
BLOOD AND TREASURE: The Economics of Conflict from the Vikings to the Modern Era
A history of the economics of warfare from the Viking Age to our current era, revealing how armed conflict has influenced world power. Examines how incentives and institutions have changed over the centuries, surveys how warfare helped drive Europe's rise to global prominence, and it explains how the total wars of the 20th Century required a new type of strategy that took economics seriously. Asks whether Genghis Khan should be regarded as the father of globalization, explains how New World gold and silver kept Spain poor, ponders why some economists think of witch trials as a form of non-price competition, notes how pirate captains were pioneers of effective HR techniques, asks if handing out medals hurt the Luftwaffe in World War II, and assesses if economic theories helped to create a tragedy in Vietnam. $32.00 USD
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THE GAELIC WORLD AT WAR: Soldiers and Soldiering in Ireland 1366-1547
Challenges assumptions that medieval Irish and Scottish soldiers were outmoded and poorly equipped by examining the methods of military organization, training, armament and tactics followed by late medieval Irish leaders. Explores how Gaelic military leaders were not as isolated from the European mainstream as has often been believed; Gaelic armies embraced many of the trends occurring in Western Europe. Rather than being backward and isolated, Gaelic armies recognized that the world was changing around them and that they needed to keep pace with those changes. Contains 43 black-and-white illustrations and photos, 17 color illustrations and photos, and 1 black-and-white map. $40.00 USD
OMM Discount 15%: Now $34.00 USD
THE BATTLE FOR BRAZIL: Resistance, Renewal, and the War Against the Dutch, 1580-1654
Examines a crucial turning point in the colonial history of Brazil, and the enduring consequences of local and trans-Atlantic resistance to Dutch colonialism. Integrates Portuguese prophecy, myth and tradition with on-the-ground action. Highlights the actions of once-marginalized men and women of European, African, Indigenous and mixed descent who helped force final Dutch surrender by 1654. On both sides of the Atlantic, the battle for Brazil proved a spiritual venture and a reckoning, shaping a new world to come. $35.00 USD
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DIXIE VICTORIOUS: An Alternate History of the American Civil War
A series of alternate-history scenarios that explores how small shifts in key Civil War moments might realistically have led to a Confederate victory. Based on a series of fascinating 'what ifs' posed by leading military historians, reconstructs moments during the American Civil War which could have led to a Confederate victory. Explores how a different choice or minor incident could have set in motion an entirely new train of events, altering history forever. Contains 16 pages of black-and-white photos. $20.00 USD
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WHISKEY ON THE ROCKS: Volume 2 – The Swedish-Soviet Confrontation, 1981
Volume 2 of a detailed account of the 1981 Soviet Whiskey-class submarine incident in Sweden. Describes the submarine incident and presents new research on what happened based on recently declassified Swedish, Soviet and U.S. military intelligence archival documents. Details the submarine's voyage into Swedish waters and the confrontation between Swedish and Soviet navy and air force elements. Also explains the Soviet naval doctrine and fleet organization that formed the background to the submarine incident and indeed the Soviet Union's global naval stance. Contains 43 black-and-white photos, 24 color photos, 18 color profiles, 2 black-and-white maps, and 1 color map. $30.00 USD
OMM Discount 15%: Now $25.50 USD
THUNDER IN THE MOUNTAINS: The First World War on the Italian Front
Explores the brutal and daring battles of World War I on the Italian Alpine front. Part history, part travelogue, and part battlefield guidebook, tells the story of battles fought in the most inhospitable environments, from the 'howling wilderness' of the arid Carso Plateau to the avalanche-ravaged mountains of the Dolomites. Also contains QR codes that link to additional photos, maps, videos, animations, and downloadable battlefield walks. This additional content can be viewed alongside the text, giving readers a deeper understanding of this incredible conflict. Contains 75 black-and-white photos, 89 color photos, 30 color maps, and 1 table. $50.00 USD
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NO BATTLE WITHOUT HIM: Charalampos Seiradakis, 1886-1970
Memoir of Lieutenant Colonel Charalampos Seiradakis, detailing how he had been sent to help rebuild the Greek army in exile and support the Allied cause against the Axis. Details how he took up a rifle at the age of eleven, during the Cretan uprising against Ottoman rule, and his career through the Balkan Wars, then to the battlefields of French Lorraine and Gallipoli during the First World War, and then the deserts of North Africa in World War II. Contains 73 black-and-white photos and 9 black-and-white maps. $45.00 USD
OMM Discount 15%: Now $38.25 USD
GERMAN SELF-PROPELLED ANTI-TANK AND ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS, 1939-1945: Images of War Series
Examines the development and deployment of German self-propelled anti-tank and anti-aircraft vehicles during WWII, both key elements of the Nazi Army. Anti-tank weapons assumed great importance from the outbreak of war as combatants developed ever more effective armored vehicles and tactics. Examples of the development of tank destroyer technology throughout the war are the Marders, Jagdpanzer 38, and Nashorn. Anti-aircraft firepower was vital to give protection to troops from increasingly potent Allied ground-attack. Contains 200 mono illustrations. $25.00 USD
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TANKS AND ARMOUR IN UKRAINE 1941-1944: Images of War Series
A detailed, illustrated account of German tanks and armored operations in Ukraine between 1941 and 1944, and how they fought and supported the infantry on the battlefield. Depicts how these weapons were adapted and up-gunned to face the ever-increasing enemy threat. With rare and often unpublished photographs, provides a unique insight into German armor in the Ukraine from its early triumphant days in 1941 and 1942 to its slow and painful retreat in 1944. Contains 150 mono illustrations. $25.00 USD
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A TRENCHARD BRAT AT WAR: Stirling, Lancaster and Stalag IVB
Details the story of Thomas Lancashire, who joined the RAF in 1936 and became one of the famous Trenchard Brats at RAF Halton to be educated and learn the trade of fitter. Details his career and advancement, including how he completed a full tour that included the famous Lubeck raid, the Thousand Bomber assault on Cologne, and the follow up on Essen during which he was almost shot down over Antwerp. Discusses how he was captured and escaped the Germans several times until the Russian Army liberated the camp he was held at. His post-war career took him to Canada where he was employed on the Avro Arrow project until it was abandoned and he was forced to seek work in the U.S.A. Contains 30 mono illustrations. $35.00 USD
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FIRE FOR EFFECT: U.S.S. Stoddard and the U.S. Navy's First Shots of the Vietnam War
Memoir that offers a firsthand account of U.S.S. Stoddard's pivotal role in early Vietnam War naval operations. Recounts the journey from radar training to deployment aboard the Stoddard, through the challenges of naval warfare and the decision to volunteer for a second tour as the conflict escalated. Reflects on the rigorous training that prepared him for combat, the pride of attending Naval Gunfire Support Training School, and the honor of working with Marine spotters in Da Nang. Offers a rare, firsthand perspective on the early naval operations of the Vietnam War. Contains 20 maps, charts, personal photos, and documents. $38.00 USD
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OUT OF COUNTRY WAR, VOLUME 1: The Secret War Begins, Laos 1954-1960
Details how Laos' and Cambodia's conflicts shaped America's defeat in South Vietnam. Shows how Hanoi's determination to make Laos a Communist state wrecked the 1954 Geneva Agreement; how its Pathet Lao puppet regime helped to polarize the nation and Hanoi then ignored a second Geneva Agreement in 1962. Looks not only at the military aspects of this confrontation with far-reaching consequences but also the growing deployment of airpower as well as the political decisions and developments that influenced them, including surprising French influence. Contains 129 black-and-white photos, 21 color profiles, and 3 color maps. $30.00 USD
OMM Discount 15%: Now $25.50 USD
UKRAINIAN WAR STORIES
A collection of stories from refugees telling how they and their families had reacted to the shock of the invasion, translated into English. The emphasis is on individuals – refugee families, prisoners of war and civilians in Russian captivity, and people living in the Russian occupied areas. Not just their sufferings and the cruelty of their Russian jailers, but also the Ukrainians' steadfast belief in their country, their patriotism, and their determination that Ukraine can and will overcome in this horrific war against a cunning, evil, and unprincipled enemy. Contains 2 black-and-white maps. $30.00 USD
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SHAMROCKS AMONG THE POPPIES: Musa Qal'eh 2006 – A Bloody Siege And The Failures Behind It
An account of the Siege of Musa Qal'eh, Afghanistan, in 2006, told in the words of the men who fought there. Recounts how a small band of Royal Irish Regiment and other soldiers fought to hold a run-down, mud-brick compound against determined and well-armed Taliban insurgents who were intent on their destruction. Sets out the controversial background and the consequences of the U.K.'s decision to shift its focus to Afghanistan while still heavily engaged in the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. Highlights the failures of intelligence and high-level political and military decision-making that resulted in the dispatch of a force that was too small and under-resourced for the tasks it faced. Contains 21 color photos and 4 black-and-white maps. $40.00 USD
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