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MINIATURES…
British 8th Army Infantry: 28mm Figures
Contains 12mm plastic figures, supplied unpainted and unassembled. This 164-figure set contains all you need for a British and Commonwealth infantry company and heavy weapons platoon. You can use these for the North African campaign 1940 to 1943 to the invasion of Sicily and southern Italy fighting the Italians and Germans and also fighting the Japanese in Southeast Asia. Contents: 80 x Riflemen; 8 x Thompson submachineguns; 12 x Bren gunners; 4 x Antitank rifles; 4 x Mine detectors; 8 x Officers; 4 x 2 inch Mortar teams; 4 x 3 inch Mortar crews; 4 x Radio operators; 4 x 2pdr Antitank guns. $42.00 USD
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RULES…
Tank Aces of WWII: Lafayette Pool
Series focuses on the careers and events of famous tank commanders in stand-alone scenarios. Contains 28 scenarios focused on U.S. Army tank ace, Lafayette G. Pool. Each scenario provides the historical setting, troops used, victory conditions, and the historical aftermath. There are also color maps and notes by the designer. Concludes with an epilogue about Pool's life after the war. $48.00 USD
Tank Aces of WWII: Otto Carius
Series focuses on the careers and events of famous tank commanders in stand-alone scenarios. Contains 30 scenarios focused on German tank commander, Otto Carius. Each scenario provides the historical setting, troops used, victory conditions, and the historical aftermath. There are also color maps and notes by the designer. Concludes with an epilogue about Carius' life after the war. $48.00 USD
Pike & Shotte: Wars of the Samurai
Supplement for Pike & Shotte ruleset in the Sengoku jidai (warring states) period of Japanese history, recreating 15th and 16th century Japanese warfare. Packed with a wealth of historical background, army lists, new unit rules, and scenarios, alongside gorgeous miniatures and artwork to inspire your painting. Those who pre-order will receive a free Yasuke the Black Samurai miniature, supplied unassembled and unpainted. $40.00 USD
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The Barons War: Warhost
Fantasy expansion to The Barons' War ruleset. While a majority of the core rules remain the same, there are new factions and new rules – most notably, magic – and with that comes spells and new items. With Elves, Dwarves, Orcs and the Dead to choose from alongside Humans, new warrior lists have been created for each, along with new traits and abilities to provide each race with individuality. There are three scenarios that combine to create the first campaign in this setting, the Battle for the Bylands. $30.00 USD
Renatio et Gloriam: Warring Dragons – Army Lists for Japan, China, Southeast Asia, and India
Supplement to Renatio et Gloriam ruleset. This supplement covers armies and warfare in Japan – Sengoku Jidai; China – Ming and Qing Dynasties (including the Imjin War); Southeast Asia – Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia & Laos; India – Muslim kingdoms in the Indian subcontinent and Marathas and Sikh Empires and Kingdoms. Contains 25 black-and-white and color illustrations, maps, and numerous tables. $40.00 USD
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UNIFORM PLATES…
427: KINGDOM OF PRUSSIA: Infantry Regiment No. 19 Prince of Orange 1806
Another in the terrific series. Uniform plate with 20+ color figures, flags or standards, facings, etc. Descriptions on reverse side. $14.00 USD
WARGAMES…
Golden Age of Piracy 1718: Wargame
Solitaire, tactical-level, open-ended sandbox game, being part wargame, part adventure game, and part RPG. As the captain of a pirate ship in the Caribbean during the year 1718, you will attempt to accumulate enough booty through illicit means in order to buy a King's pardon and retire from a life of piracy before time runs out. Mechanics include ship-to-ship combat, boarding parties, and the search for buried treasure.
Complexity: Medium; Playing time: 4+ hours for a campaign; Solitaire Suitability: High; Players: One (solitaire game design); Map Scale: Abstract (point to point); Time Scale: Abstract; Unit Scale: Individual Ships and Pirates; $69.00 USD
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Pontiac's War: Frontier Rebellion, 1763-66 – Wargame
Building on the point-to-point system and loose Indian alliances used in King Philip's War and Blood on the Ohio, expands frontier conflict using Battle Cards to introduce combat chaos, British expenditure on troops, Uncertain Indian arms supply, siege rules, the capture of prisoners, French interference, and trader influence. Offers five short introductory scenarios (15 to 30 minutes), three one-year campaign scenarios (2 hours), and one three-year grand campaign (5 to 6 hours). Although not a solitaire design, it is solitaire-friendly.
Complexity: 4 out of 10; Solitaire Suitability: 5 out of 10; Time Scale: Seasonal turns (approximate 3 months per turn); Map Scale: Point-to-Point map (approximate 60-75 miles between points); Unit Scale: 30-50 men, 4-6 artillery guns, individual officers and sea vessels; Players: 1 or 2 (best with 2); Playing Time: from 15 minutes (intro scenarios) to 6 hours (grand campaign).
Contents: One 22 x 34 inch mounted game map; Four Counter Sheets of deluxe, 5/8 inch punch-out counters; 106 Game Cards;16 Wooden Cubes 11 Player Aid Cards; Rules Booklet; Eight 6-sided dice; Box and Lid; $89.00 USD
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BOOKS…
A Face Like a Chicken's Backside: An Unconventional Soldier in South East Asia, 1948-71
Details British officer John Cross's almost 40 years in Asia without a home posting. He spent eight years as a company commander with the Gurkhas in Malaya fighting jungle operations against the Communists. After that, he took part in the attempt to end 20 years of guerrilla domination over the aborigines in north Malaya, and secured the territory between Thailand and the aboriginal population that had been occupied and used by the guerrillas. Commanded the Gurkha Independent Parachute Company, which had to operate like paras, SAS men, and conventional soldiers, during the latter part of the Indonesian Confrontation with Malaya. Finally, Cross was the last commander of the British Army's Jungle Warfare School, which trained officers and men from five continents. After, he was asked to work in both the Royal Thai Army and the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. Instead, he became Defense Attache in Laos. Contains 16 pages of black-and-white plates. $50.00 USD
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Yorkshire VCs
Describes in graphic detail the exploits and the lives of this elite group of Yorkshire heroes who were awarded the Victoria Cross – the supreme British award for bravery. During its 160-year history, since the first of these medals were given for gallantry during the Crimean War in the 1850s, 1,357 have been earned, and no less than 69 of them have gone to Yorkshiremen. Contains 40 illustrations $30.00 USD
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A Military Life of Constantine the Great
Analysis of the strengths, organization, weapons, tactics and military reforms of Constantine. Assesses whether Constantine would have deserved the title 'the Great' for his military achievements alone, or whether the epithet depends upon the gratitude of Christian historians. Covers all of his campaigns. Much of Constantine I's claim to lasting fame rests upon his sponsorship of Christianity. Many works have been published assessing whether his apparent conversion was a real religious experience or a cynical political maneuver. However, his path to sole rule of the Roman Empire depended more upon the ruthless application of military might than upon his espousal of Christianity. He fought numerous campaigns, many of them against Roman rivals for Imperial power, most famously defeating Maxentius at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge. Contains 20 black-and-white illustrations. $30.00 USD
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The Roman Army of the Middle Empire, AD 180-284: Weapons, Organization and Equipment
Explores the evolution of the Roman army during the 3rd Century crisis, detailing reforms, tactics and key military campaigns. Follows the evolution of Roman forces from the death of Marcus Aurelius to the rise of Diocletian, reconstructing the major military campaigns and explaining how the Roman military forces were transformed. All the major troop types are covered, with details on the organization and equipment of each contingent. Illustrated throughout with excellent color photos of reconstructed costume and equipment in use. Contains 130 color illustrations. $43.00 USD
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True for the Cause of Liberty: The Second Spartan Regiment in the American Revolution
Uses battlefield terrain analysis and the words of the officers and common soldiers, from pension records and little-known interviews, to bring to life the crucial role of one militia regiment – the Second Spartans of South Carolina – that fought in virtually every action of the vicious back-country war that decided the fate of America. Details how the Loyalist militia was virtually destroyed at King's Mountain, the battle that Lord Clinton, the British commander in chief, said was 'the first link in a chain of events that followed each other in regular succession until they at last ended in the total loss of America.' Other defeats at Blackstock's Farm and Cowpens, and a Pyrrhic victory at Guilford Courthouse, gutted the British Southern Army and drove Cornwallis north to encirclement and surrender at Yorktown. Discusses brutal warfare between Patriots and Loyalists. Contains 16 pages of photos. $25.00 USD
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Bullet Strikes From the First Day of the American Revolution
Using forensic techniques straight out of CSI, the authors have located the surviving bullet holes and bullet-struck artifacts from the battle that started the American Revolution and explores what happened that day. The whole route back to Boston, as the British fled their defeat at North Bridge, was riddled with musket fire. Dramatic scenes unfolded in places like Concord, Lincoln, Lexington and Arlington that can still be visited today. The fighting turns out to have been much more fierce than had previously been thought. Contains 180 color photos and illustrations. $36.00 USD
Baden Powell's Fighting Police – The SAC: The Boer War Unit That Inspired the Scouts
Rejecting Army models of command, Baden-Powell creates the South African Constabulary (SAC) in August 1900 with a small number of officers, dividing it into Troops of 100 men, then sub-dividing again into sections and the key working unit – the squad of six men under a corporal. To get the caliber of recruit he wants, the SAC will be better paid than the Army, and he expects the men to be motivated by a code of honor, to be self-reliant and 'handy men' able to tackle any kind of work. Most recruits come from the U.K., but in Canada, however, the Governor General intervenes and botches selection. Analyzes creation, development and effectiveness of the SAC, and also highlights what Baden-Powell brought from the SAC and gave anew to the Scouts. $33.00 USD
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Vergeltungswaffen: The Third Reich's V-Missiles – Then and Now
Examines Germany's innovative V-weapons. Looks at the V1, which was a cruise missile, and the effect it had on Churchill and England; then the V2, which was a large liquid-fueled rocket, fired against Paris and London. The last months of World War II, when Germany was on the defensive on all fronts and desperately looking for 'wonder weapons,' saw a number of ineffective, albeit innovative, technical developments. Among them were the HDP and the Rheinbote, the third and fourth V-Weapons, which were launched into battle in small numbers. Contains 20 color illustrations and 280 mono illustrations. $40.00 USD
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Royal Marines in the First World War
Examines the participation of the Corps in actions such as the defense of Antwerp, the Gallipoli landings, the Battle of the Somme, the Zeebrugge raid, and the Allied intervention in North Russia. Covers the Marines in action aboard ship at the Dardanelles and Jutland, and throws a spotlight on the little-known Royal Marines presence in the West Indies. Flying Marines operated with the Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Flying Corps, often with noted bravery. Wherever possible, the words used are those of the men who were there. Contains 50 mono illustrations. $45.00 USD
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The Douglas Boston in RAAF Service: No 22 Squadron 1942-1944
Details the Douglas Boston in RAAF service, including combat history, losses, and Japanese adversaries. Presents the most detailed history and accurate profiles to date of the Douglas Boston light bomber (DB-7B and A-20 models) in RAAF Pacific service. From late 1942 until mid-1943, it flew daring low-level attack missions in New Guinea, before advancing to the Netherlands East Indies in 1944. Illustrates and explains the development of the type in RAAF service, and closely aligns its Japanese belligerents, in the air and on the ground and sea. Includes a wide range of primary source material, including official records, diaries, rare photos, captured documents, and operational logs of relevant Japanese units. $43.00 USD
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Behind the Wire: The Road to Oflag VIIB Eichstatt – The PoW Diaries of Captain John Blomfield Dixon, 1940-45
Autobiography of a World War II English prisoner of war, compiled from a series of scrapbooks, folders, maps, photographs, documents and a small pile of booklets, revealing his voracious appetite in describing his training, life and death during the retreat to Dunkirk, his humiliating capture by the enemy at the culmination of the Battle of Cassel, and the long, arduous journey through a series of Offizierslagers, which would, ultimately, lead him to Oflag VIIB, which was located in the Bavarian town of Eichstatt. Provides insight into the long, tedious days, miserable food shortages, his thoughts for home, the woman he loved, his hatred for both captors and captives, the killing of his comrades both on and off the battlefield, the tireless efforts and disasters of escape, and his passion for the theatrical life, which was borne out on dusty prison camp stages, all of which provide a picture of his experiences and emotions. His views and opinions on the wild and inaccurate rumors, as well as propaganda relayed through both the German and Allied press, paint an oft-distorted picture of the war's progression at that time.
Combined with a narrative lifted from both official records of the period, and the recollections of men who served or were imprisoned with him, the carefully selected entries not only provide one of the most detailed pictures of life at Oflag VIIB, but also serve to memorialize the service of John Blomfield Dixon and those with whom he shared his incarceration. Contains integrated images and an eight-page color section. $50.00 USD
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Spitfire Groundcrew Under Fire: An RAF 'Erk's' War from the Battle of Britain to D-Day and Operation Bodenplatte
Examines how RAF groundcrew kept Spitfires flying under fire, ensuring pilots could battle the enemy. The bond between pilots and their groundcrew was often an immensely powerful one. Each day they took to the sky, the pilots put their lives in the hands of the fitters to keep their engines at maximum efficiency, the riggers who maintained the airframe and refueled the aircraft, or the armourers who serviced the guns and loaded the bombs. The ground crew, the 'Erks', were only too aware of the responsibility they bore. Everything had to be done correctly, often under enormous time pressures and far from ideal conditions. Specifically looks at one groundcrew's perspective during D-Day. Contains 120 illustrations. $40.00 USD
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The Falklands Fallen: A Dedication to Those Still on Patrol
Shares the stories of those who died in the Falklands War. Contains the personal stories of the men behind the uniforms, as well as the untold details of the three civilians who died toward the end of the war. Researching the backgrounds of the fallen links to other military campaigns come to life through the personal stories of these brave men and their forebears. These stories are often unknown even to family members but ensure their immortality. $43.00 USD
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AND DON'T FORGET THE MAGAZINES…
Vae Victis #179: Operation Gemse Eastern Front 1945
Issue includes: News. Hexagons: Berestchko 1651; OP Isabella; Holland 44 2e edition; Virtu; Caporetto 1917. Boardgames: 1943-1945; 1812; OP Bollebanck; Tarawa; I, Napoleon; Old School Tactical; Robin Hood; 7 Empires; Wolfpack; In a Dark Wood; Red Dust Rebellion. Hobby: Debuter a l'OCS; Des etudiants s'invitent au combat: La representation de la 3e dimension dans les wargames aeriens; Construire une ferme grecque – technique. Figurines: Bolt Action v3: Sword Beach; Les batailles du Temeraire 2e partie; Clash of Steel: Comment y jouer; Midgard; Silver Bayonet Italy; Once and Future King; The Road to Carentan; Monty v Rommel; Nam 68; Napoleon BBB. Scenarios: ASL; M44. Art of War: The Battle of Lauban 1945 – Wargame with die-cut counters: Battle of Lauban. The 1945 Vistula-Oder offensive turned into an overwhelming victory in a few days. After a 600 km ride, the first Soviet armored points reached the Oder, the last major natural obstacle before Berlin. From February 25, the German high command considered counterattacking. The objective is twofold. First, on the military level, re-establish the defense of the Oder by striking the enemy's flanks and on the political level, the sector seemed conducive to a welcome success in the catastrophic context of February 1945. Operation Gemse – a classic pincer movement around Lauban – engaged two Panzerkorps and began on March 1. Operation Gemse 1945 simulates the Soviet attack on Lauban and the subsequent German counterattack. Attributes: Game turn: 2 days; Units: battalion, regiments and brigades; One hexagon = 2 km; Complexity: 5/10; Solitaire: 7/10; Length of a game: approximately 3-4 hours. [French Text: Rules in English] $28.00 USD
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