Another Look At Dropzone Commander Buildings by Plast Craft Games

Another look at Dropzone Commander building by Plast Craft Games

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12 Day Of Christmas 6 by Hawk Wargames

For the Sixth Day of our 12 days of preview. Our third Dropzone Commander preview - A PHR Famous Commander Aurelia Felix

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12 Day Of Christmas 5 by Hawk Wargames

For the Fifth Day of our 12 days of preview. Our third Dropfleet Commander preview - the Shaltari Corvette.

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Doomed Before The Start Volume 1: The Allied Intervention in Norway 1940 - The Road To Invasion and Early Moves

Books on the events of the early months of 1940 are dominated by the desperate fighting undertaken by the British Expeditionary Force in Northern France and Belgium following the German invasion of May 10th and it is often overlooked that prior to this another British expeditionary force was involved in fierce fighting in Norway. Indeed, the invasion on April 9th saw the first use of airborne troops in the war and was also one of the very few amphibious operations undertaken by the Germans during the Second World War. It is hoped that Niall Cherry's new two-volume work covering the Allied intervention in Norway 1940 will fill this significant gap.

The author provides a detailed account of the German invasion and the Allied reaction, including the land, sea and air battles. This includes such actions as the sinking of HMS Glowworm and HMS Glorious, the Gladiators on the frozen lakes and Maurice Force, the sacrifice of the Territorial Battalions at Tretten and the Independent Companies, to name but a few. Volume 1 focuses on the prelude to and early phases of the German invasion and Allied response.

As in Niall's previous books, detailed research has been carried out using official reports, war diaries and veterans' accounts, supported by photographs and colour maps.

12 Day Of Christmas 4 by Hawk Wargames

For the Fourth Day of our 12 days of preview. Our second Dropzone Commander preview  Some Fauna, as mentioned in Reconquest: Phase 2.

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Fighters Over the Fleet: Naval Air Defence from Biplanes to the Cold War

Fighters Over the Fleet is an account of the parallel evolution of naval fighters for fleet air defense and the ships they sought to defend.

This volume concentrates on the three main advocates of carrier warfare: the Royal Navy, the U.S. Navy, and the Imperial Japanese Navy.

Because radar was not invented until the mid-1930s, fleet air defense was a primitive effort for flyers during the 1920s. Once the innovative system was developed and utilized, organized air defense became viable. Thus major naval-air battles of the Second World War like Midway, the Pedestal convoy, the Philippine Sea and Okinawa are portrayed as tests of the new technology. However, even radar was ultimately found wanting by the Kamikaze campaigns, which led to postwar moves toward computer control and new kinds of fighters.

After 1945, the novel threats of nuclear weapons and stand-off missiles compounded the difficulties of naval air defense. The second half of the book covers the U.S. and Royal Navies attempts to resolve these problems by examining the U.S. experience in Vietnam and British operations during the Falklands War. The book then turns to the ultimate U.S. development of techniques and technology to fight the Outer Air Battle in the 1980s before concluding with the current state of technology supported carrier fighters.

Miniature Wargames 405, January 2017

Issue number 405 on Miniature Wargames is imminent – it should be with you before the festivities. What's in this issue?

Contents for Issue 405

THE COVER

Featuring a shot of a very nice German Flak gun from the Huntingdon & District Wargames club game at the Warfare at Reading show plus some Weird WW2 stuff from Achtung! Cthulhu.

FORWARD OBSERVER

What's up and coming in (mostly) historical wargaming. This month we cover new rules (Swordpoint and The Pikeman's Lament), wargaming holidays and terrain mats along with other items including a list of up and coming shows.

SEND THREE AND FOURPENCE

Beating the Mechanical Turk. Solo wargaming using The Men Who Would be Kings. Conrad Kinch gives us a scenario for this new rule set to enable solo play in Afghanistan, based on the mechanics already in the rules with a few twists of his own.

WARGAMING MY WAY

Andy Copestake, away from the Glory. Andy – main man at Old Glory UK – talks about his appreciation of the hobby and walks us through both his thoughts and his collection.

PUISSANT PIKE

Easy rules for small English Civil War battles. Arthur Harman gives us a simple – yet complete – set of Pike and Shot rules for the tabletop in any scale which he has used with his Year VI pupils who were studying the English Civil War.

GRID BASED WARGAMING

The second of a two-part article exploring the advantages of grids and hexes in gaming: four rule sets are meshed up! David Burden completes the piece he started last month with part two of gaming without a ruler – how to get on grid and on message without expanding metal tape measures!

DARKER HORIZONS

This month (and with a change of name) we have several sections in the non-historical portion:

Fantasy Facts with the monthly round up of what's new in non-historical gaming with reviews on Mierce Miniatures, GZG, Gringo 40, Brigade, Antediluvian Miniatures and others;

An interview with Chris Birch of Modiphius about where the company is going next plus an exclusive Achtung! Cthulhu scenario just for readers of the magazine!;

Another exclusive in the shape of a Frostgrave scenario by author Joe McCullough where he introduces a new Barbarian type: the Tanted;

A visit to Dragonmeet, the London show of all things in non-historical gaming. For the most part (I mean they did have the Airfix Battle set there in 1/32nd but…).

BIG SAGA SMALL FIGURES

Scaling up the SAGA rules for bigger battles but dropping the figure size. Daniel Johnson takes us through the rationale of using the 28mm SAGA rules for bigger actions in 10mm with an explanation of why it works well for him and his group: bigger battles, lots of figures and multi-player games!

RECCE

What to read and why for wargamers: lot's of book reviews from across the wargaming spectrum by the Miniature Wargames team of crack reporters.

WARFARE 2016

A trip around the show. Warfare has been a major feature of the southern UK wargaming circuit for many years and is one of few remaining, two-day shows. The article has lots of shots of some of the great games that were present over the weekend.

WARGAMES WIDOW

Going retro with old school fabrication. Modern scenery in games is all very well but this month Diane Sutherland goes old school with brick paper and foam core.

CLUB SPOTLIGHT

The Crawley Wargames Club shows us how it's done. An inspiring clarion call from Duncan Gosling at the Crawley club accompanied by lots of great shots of club games makes a good argument for moving to West Sussex and joining immediately!

CLUB DIRECTORY

Find a club in your vicinity and add your club for free!

John Treadaway
Editor of Miniature Wargames

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