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Most of the following items will be coming into the shoppe in late June.
Rules…
Great Western Battles: 2nd Edition for Brigade Fire & Fury contains 16 battle scenarios redesigned for use with your 2nd edition, Brigade Fire and Fury. Each scenario comes with a detailed battlefield map, a complete order of battle with unit labels, and special rules you need to set up and fight each battle. Battles include: Shiloh, April 6, 1862; Corinth, October 3-4, 1862; Perryville, October 8, 1862; Murfreesboro, December 31, 1862; Champion Hill, May 16, 1863; Chickamauga, September 19-20, 1863; Pleasant Hill, April 9, 1864; Atlanta, July 22, 1864; Spring Hill, November 29, 1864; Franklin, November 30, 1864 $30.00 USD.
Mesopotamia Heart-Breaking Affair: Great War Spearhead Scenario Book Re-fight the campaign in Mesopotamia 1914 to 1916 leading to the siege of Kut. Put yourself in command of the Anglo-Indian D Column, 6th Poona Infantry Division, or take charge of the ever-growing Ottoman forces. A challenging prospect for either commander. Twelve scenarios. $28.00 USD
Wargames…
VAE Victus Board Game #23: The Wars of the Sun King Wargame covers War of Devolution (1667-1668), Franco-Dutch War (1672-1678), War of the Reunions (1683-1684), War of the League of Augsburg (1688-1697), and Spanish War of Succession (1701-1713). Includes: One 59 x 41-cm map, 270 double-sided, pre-cut counters and markers, a book of rules and scenarios, and two color player aids. $38.00 USD
Magazines With Wargames…
VAE Victis # 146: Hondschoote 1793 Wargame: Hondschoote 1793; Boardgame Reviews: U-Boot, ASL Red Factories, Austerlitz Moravian Sun, Narva, Hitler's Reich, Picketts Charge, Auztralia, Counter-Attack Arras, Rifles in the Ardennes, Battle Raven; Scenarios: Advanced Squad Leader, Memoir '44, What a Tanker; Miniatures: Legion d'Honneur, Naval Command, Sword 1944 pour BA, DonnyBrook, Torpilles en mer noire 2e partie, Blitzkrieg Commander V4, Samourais; Hobby: Tu quoque mi fili (easy rules for Au fil de l'epee), new books and mags about miniatures painting, Little Big Horn; Art of War: Hondschoote 1793, Les Guerres de Louis XIV. $26.00 USD
Strategy & Tactics #318: Constantinople Solitaire wargame system covering the Byzantine (or Later Roman) Empire in the late 7th and early 8th centuries, the era of the two barbarian sieges of the great city of Constantinople (AD 672, 717). The player controls Byzantine and allied forces. The game system controls various barbarian forces – Caliphates of Egypt, Syria and Mosul, Khazar Khanate, Bulgar Kingdom, Slavic Tribes and Lombard Kingdom. The objective of the player is to defeat barbarians while expanding Byzantine power. Each turn represents a campaign season, from three months to a year. Ground units represent 10-30,000 soldiers or warriors. Each hex is about 55 miles across. Fortresses represent single great fortresses. Towns represent larger settled areas. Components: One 22 x 34-inch map, 176 counters, and magazine. $40.00 USD
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World at War #67: Second Battle of Changsha Second Battle of Changsha is a two-player, operational-level game of the September to October 1941 battle for Changsha, China, capital of the Hunan Province. The first Battle of Changsha had been fought in 1939 as part of the Second Sino-Japanese War and resulted in Changsha being the first Chinese city to successfully repel the Japanese advance. The second battle in 1941 resulted in the city being captured (after most of it was destroyed in a fire) by the Japanese, and then being recaptured by the Chinese 9th Army Group commanded by Gen. Xue Yue. The third battle was originally intended by the Japanese to gain control of the city and prevent Chinese forces from reinforcing the British forces engaged in the defense of Hong Kong. When Hong Kong fell on 25 December, the Japanese decided to continue the offensive to gain control of Changsha thereby dealing a major blow to the Chinese war effort. Components: 22 x 34-inch map, 280 die-cut counters. Most ground units represent battalions and regiments. Each hex is 3km across, and each game turn represents one to two days. $40.00 USD
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Modern War #43: Operation Serval Two-player game covering the campaign in Mali in West Africa during 2012 and 2013, which saw Islamist forces seize control of the northern part of the country and then threaten the capital at Bamako. A French expeditionary force intervened, counterattacked, and along with various African allies, routed the Islamists in a short and sharp campaign. One player commands the French Coalition and the other player the Islamists. Each side's forces include several contingents of allied forces. The game has two scenarios – one deals with the entire campaign, the other with the French intervention. Each hex is about 50 kilometers across. Each turn represents anywhere from one week of intense combat to a month or two of refitting and regrouping. Ground units represent companies, battalions and groups of irregulars (anywhere from 100 to 500 fighters). Components: One 22 x 34-inch one-sheet map and 176 counters. $40.00 USD
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Books…
The Reign of Emperor Gallienus: The Apogee of Roman Cavalry fully illustrated military life of the Emperor Publius Licinius Egnatius Gallienus (253-268). Considered the most blatantly military man of all of the soldier emperors of the 3rd Century. Includes 120-plus color and black-and-white illustrations, and 35 black-and-white maps. $43.00 USD
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The History Behind Game of Thrones: The North Remembers This isn't Westeros – it's Scotland. Draws on a vast array of characters, events, places, and themes from Scottish history that echo Game of Thrones at every dramatic turn. Visit the castle where the real Red Wedding transpired, encounter the fearsome historical tribes beyond Rome's great wall, learn how a blood-red heart became the most feared sigil in Scotland, and much more. $35.00 USD
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The Battle of Fontenoy 1745: Saxe Against Cumberland in the War of the Austrian Succession Great Britain with her Austrian and Dutch allies fought to ensure that Maria Theresa of Austria should be able to take the throne of the Holy Roman Empire. Ranged against her interests was the might of Louis XV's France, which strove to weaken Austria by promoting a Bavarian aspirant to the Imperial throne. The two sides met on 11 May 1745, in a ferocious day-long struggle at Fontenoy in the Austrian Netherlands that changed course of the war. $35.00 USD
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The Fall of Rorke's Drift: An Alternate History of the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 After that brutal defeat on 22 January 1879 at Isandlwana, the British Army is at Rorke's Drift on the Buffalo River in Natal Province, South Africa. A few hundred British and colonial troops led by Lieutenants John Chard of the Royal Engineers and Gonville Bromhead face the might of the Zulu army of thousands led by Prince Dabulamanzi kaMpande (CORR). Against the odds, the British are victorious and this defeat marks the end of the Zulu nation's dominance of the region. But what if the Zulus had defeated the British at Rorke's Drift and invaded Natal? In this alternate history of the Anglo-Zulu War, historian John Laband offers a tantalizing glimpse of a very different outcome, weaving a compelling and never-before-told story of what could have been. $35.00 USD
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Swiss Regiments in the Service of France 1798-1815: Uniforms, Organization, Campaigns Estimates of the number of Swiss who served in the French Army from 1798-1815 vary from 50,000 to 90,000. Detailed study of the uniforms, organization, personnel and campaigns of the numerous Swiss units that served in the armies of Revolutionary, Directorate, and Imperial France from the campaigns of 1798 in Switzerland until the Hundred Days of 1815. Includes eight color plates and 60 black-and-white prints, drawings and photos. $40.00 USD
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Operation Totalize By early August 1944, the Germans fighting in Normandy had been worn down by the battles around Caen, while to the west, the American breakout was finally gaining momentum. Now was the time to launch II Canadian Corps south towards Falaise. With much of the German armor having been stripped away for the Mortain Counter-Attack, hopes ran high that the Corps, reinforced with British tanks, the 51st Highland and the Polish Armored Divisions, would repeat the success of their predecessors in the Battle of Amiens. An innovative change of tactics to a night armored assault and the conversion of 72 self-propelled guns to armored personnel carriers for the accompanying infantry was very successful, but up against their implacable foes, 12th Hitlerjugend SS Panzer Division, the pause for bombing allowed Kurt 'Panzer' Meyer to deploy his division. Consequently, when the 4th Canadian and Polish Armored Divisions were launched into their first battle, they made frustratingly little progress. As the Canadians advanced over the following days, the battle degenerated into a costly fight for ground as the Hitlerjugend struggled to contain the inexperienced Poles and Canadians. $23.00 USD
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Red Wind Over the Balkans: The Soviet Offensive South of the Danube, September-October 1944 Describes two Soviet offensive operations carried out during September and October 1944. The first was the operation for the occupation of Bulgaria – known as the Bulgarian Operation; the second was the Belgrade offensive operation, which was carried out immediately after the Bulgarian Operation. Although separate, the two operations were closely linked to each other – the first was conducted in an almost peaceful manner, which saved resources. This necessitated that the Soviet Command carried out the second operation promptly, which seriously endangered the encirclement of German Army Group position in the Southern Balkans. Pressed by the advancing Red Army, the German troops withdrew from the territories of Greece and Albania. They also relocated fresh forces from the Western Balkans to the Bulgarian-Yugoslav border in order to build up a defense line. Includes 403 black-and-white photos, 197 tables, 16 pages of color profiles and illustrations, and 24 color maps. $90.00 USD
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More on the Website…
Visit onmilitarymatters.com for all our stock in the shoppe. If you need additional information, don't hesitate to email militarymatters@att.net or phone 609-466-2329. We are also offering used books and wargames (usually one copy each) on our website. Note that if you subscribed to our e-Flyer, you would have had first crack at them. Just drop an email to us to be put on our email list.
