Wargames, Soldiers & Strategy

“Everything is very simple in war, but the simplest thing is difficult. These difficulties accumulate and produce a friction, which no man can imagine exactly who has not seen war.” — Carl Von Clausewitz In his book, Vom Kriege (on war), Carl V

Company: Warlord Games Size: 28mm ‘foot to eye’; ponies and riders are 39mm tall Era: World War II and Korean War Price: £21.00 for five cavalry www.warlordgames.com Interesting … one of the latest metal releases from Warlord Games is a set of fi

That said, I’ve never been a great advocate of what I only half-jokingly refer to as “Jehovah’s Wargaming”: that very strident attempt one sometimes sees to spread the word to the deprived masses of the general public who are, apparently, only failin

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For the wargamer, ad-hoc units have a certain appeal. We know they generally won’t be good, but they are somewhat exotic and might just fill that gap in the line. As they are cheap in most wargames rules, they will also be fairly numerous – which can

Has this happened to me? Well, outside of a Flames of War tournament I watched, no, but it could. Gamers love the flashiest and 'best' toys. If the game is in the latter part of the Cold War, the tank of choice is the M1A1 Abrams, although I am parti

Probably the ‘easiest’ path was through the army: by capturing enemy warriors for their subsequent sacrifice, one could climb up the ranks. In this article we will feature the new plastic Aztec models by Wargames Atlantic: we will see how to paint a

By Daniel Mersey (Ganesha Games, 2022) $8.00 for the PDF D6, Alternative turn In order to play this new version of Songs of Blades and Heroes you will need three D6 dice, a play area measuring a minimum of 60 cm x 60 cm, and three measuring sticks

By John Russell ISBN: 978-1914059391 (Helion & Company, 2020) - £19.99 Histories that focus on the last couple of weeks of the war in Europe in the West are hard to find, so Theirs the Strife is a welcome addition. In this book, John Russell examine

This winter many of us will be facing difficult financial decisions in this time of unprecedented economic turmoil. Naturally if we need to reduce our household expenditure, luxuries such as wargaming will be impacted first. Some may even feel that t