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SS V2 Archer
Ghaznavid Turks 10th C V3 Heavy Infantryman with Spear
1 Barbarian on Fool
2 White Magician GH1 Officer V4 Heavy infantryman with Sword
3 ShimGuard GH2 Standard Bearer V5 Spearman
4 Northman with Mace GH3 Daylami Light Javelinman V6 Berserker
5 Troll GH4 Crossbowman V7 Light Javelinman
6 Frost Giant 30p GH5 Arab Archer Kneeling V8 Standard Bearer 24p
7 Northman Archer GH6 Arab Archer Standing V9 Heavy Infantryman with Fur Cloak
8 Northman with Spear GH7 Arab Slinger and Hood
9 Northman with Axes GH8 Arab Infantry V10 Heavy Infantryman with Fur Waistcoat
10 Northman Standard Bearer GH9 Heavy Infantryman VII** Viking Slinger
11 SnowApeSOp VC1** Mounted Viking (Mounted version
12 Demon ofV9) 30p
13 Winged Demon 40p
14 Vanha Spearman NEWVIKING FANTASY RANGE
15 Hawkman40p 18p EACH
16 Two-HeadedTrollGiant 30p
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21 Aqoiland Infantryman M4 Officer
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32M Nimidian Guard with Spear** Table 20p
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35M Hyrkan Horse Archer** FC1 Lord of Chaos Mounted on
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38 Shemite Archer C2 Standard Bearer Unicorn FM16) 15p
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39 Stygian Infantry with Pike
40 Stygian Archer C4 Armoured Spearman attacking (to fide FM27} 30p
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42 Tarun Immortal tC6 Light Archer
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50 Vanha Archer (with Pack Camel)£1.20
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54 Wizard of the Dark Ring ICS4 Pack Came!35p
55 Druid Punic Wars £1.80 Trollcrusher (D & D) 60p
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56 Priest of the Matri Armies & Enemies of Imperial Rome . . £2.85 New Publication from W.R.G.
57 Followerof Set Afir.: 's rif the Dark Ages £3.50 Armies of the Crusades £4.(X)
58M Barbarian Hero**
59 Queen with Tiger 30p Armies of FeuUal EiiroDe 1066-1300. . . £4.00 Renaissance (1490-1660) Rules £1.30
60M Mounted King** Startroopers Wargames Campaigns £1.85 Renaissance Army Lists (W.R.G.) 90p
61 Enchantress Reaper Fantasy Rules £2.25
Trooper in Powered Battle Avalon Hill General £1.25
62 Royal Attendant with Fan
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63 Royal Attendant with Vase
64 Nude Female Temple Dancer Trooper in Personal Armour
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65 Griffon40p
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66 Centaur30p
67M Hykan Cavalry with Glaive** Star Raider (Alien)
Humanoid Alien Warrior
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69M Queen mounted on Tiger** Arachoid Warrior 30p
70 Tree Spirit — Ent 40p
71 OrcChiefwithStandard
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Robot Fighting MachineSOp
Black Starlord
B.^11 Fantasy Figures
72 ArmouredOrc with Glaive
White Starknight Elf Princess 20p
73 Armoured Ore with Mace I Super Hero, with axe, on Super
74 Armoured Frost GiantSOp Young Hero
Heavy Horse SOp 1 Shield Maiden 20p
Humanoid Robot
76 Female Centaur with BowSOp 1 Deric with staff 20p 1 Foregum, bare chested Super Hero 20p
Robot
77 ManOrc,ArmouredBearmgAxe i Winged Gremlin SOp Dwarf Lord 20p
78 Man Ore, Armoured, Bearing
Space Pirate Captain i Patriarch 20p 1 Centaur Archer SOp
Glaive
Space Pirate with Missile Launcher I Zaftig Maiden 20p 1 Satyr (Pan) witfi Spear 20p
79 Wood Elf with Bow Space Pirate with Pulse Rifle I Barbarian Hero 20p i Land Dragon with mounted Captain 70p
80 High Elf with Spear Armoured Trooper Advancing I Large Hill Troll SOp i Land Dragon with mounted Lancer. TOp
Captain of Troopers Vallor, Warrior of the Gods SOp
81 Dwarf with Axe i Witch 20p
82 Dwarf Chief With Spear I Space Pirate : Vallor Captain SOp ' Monk .-ZOp
83 Four Armed GiantBQp in Powered Armour.SOp i Assasin 20p Wind Lord 20p
84 Horned Lizard 9" long 30p I Laser Cannon on mobile ' Count Dracula 20p 1 Armoured Knight TOp
85 Two-headed Serpent Xp mount with Crew" C1 -35 i Super Hero with Axe 20p i Earth Demon hurling rock TOp
89 Zangiran Archer Humanoid Robot with Jet Pack" i Beowulf 20p ' Armoured Centaur 40p
90 ZangiranHeavyinfantry 65p I Angel of Death 60p I Demon of Evil Law 20p
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FIGURES
HEROICS and ROS FIGURES rules by M. Greenan. £1.05 post free.
Specialists in 1/300th scale. Heroics Et Ros Figures ace manufactured in high Fantastic value includes fast moving,
quality tin-lea'd alloy. They are not the same as any other maker's tanks. Try accurate combat for Armour, Infantry
some and see the difference!Send s.a.e. for new fulllist ofitems available. and Ground Attack in 1:300 scale WW2.
WORLD WAR II MICRO-AFVs at 12p each. — —
Ostwind AA separately (10p) SU85 La-5l15p) Sherman DO Horsa I50p) American artillery crew
Wirbelwind AA Rommel personality set SU 100 MiG-3(15p) Marmon Harrington Hamilcar(50p) standing separately (lOpj
Opel Blitz with Rommel, staff T28 Russian Armoured Number Armoured car Wellington (30p} P51D Mustang (15p)
Opel Blitz with office body officer, despatch riders T35<15p) locomotive I50p) Daimler Scout Car Card cut-out P47D Thunderbolt (15p)
Opel Maultier softskin and half-track f25p| JSII A rmoured wagon with Daimler Armoured Ca landing craft P40EKittyhawkl15p)
Kubeiwagen(6p) Me 109G(15p) JSIII T34 turret (30p) Universal
Universal Carrier
Carrier (5for60p)
(5for60p) M21 81mm mortar
Schwimmwagen {6p) Fw 190D(15p) •ISU 122 Flat car S exton
Sexton Ml ICSmm howitzer
BMW ^ sidecar(6p) Ju87B(15p) ISU 152 Straight track Wasp flame-thrower
Wasp flame-thrower C-47 Dakota {50p)
Bussing Nag truck Hs 129(15p) T.26B Curved track ACV Dorchester
Raupenschlepper Ost MeBf 110(15p) BA-10 T40 ACVAEC USA
SdKfz222 Me410(15p) 8A-32 T60 AA Mk 1
Crusader AAMk M3 Stuart
SdKfz23t Fw 189(15p) BA-64 Crusader AA Mk 2 MS Stuart ITALIAN
SdKfz 234/1 DFS 230glider(15p) T-70 2 pdr. portee on Chevrolet M24 Chaffee M13/40
SdKfz 234/2 Puma Gotha glider (30pi GAZ-AAA 6 pdr. + crew M18 Hellcat Sernovente 75
Protz tractor Me 163 Kernel GAZ-60 UNITED KINGDOM 22 pdr.
pdr ++ crew
crew M4A3 Sherman CV L6/40
Kettenkrad(6p) BR57 Armoured JAG-12 Tetrarch 17 pdr
17 pdr ++ crew
crew M4A3E2 Semovente 47/32
SdKfz 10 Locomotive (50p) GAZ-67(6p) Honey 25 pdr.
25 pdr. limber
limber &
I crew M4A3E8 47/32 AT gun & crew
SdKfz 11 Armoured wagon with Katyusha on Studebaker Grant 5.5 in
5-5 in howitzer
howitzer + crew M4A1 dozer Fiat G50 Bis (15p)
SdKfz 7 10 5cm in turret and Katyusha on GAZ Sherman M4A1 7.2 in
7.2 in howitzer
howitzer + crew M10 Semovente 105
3.7 Flak on SdKfz 7 3.7 Flak (30p) M42 45mm "AT + crew Sherman Firefly t gun
Bofors 40mm AA M36 Fiat 626
Flakvierltng on Sd 7 Panzer 38{t) on flat car M41 57mm AT -i crew Matilda Morris 6x4
6 x 4 Bofors
Bo tractor M26 Pershing
Pak 35/36 + crew (30pL M44 100mm AT + crew Valentine I! Quad Tractor M7B1 priest
Pak 38 + crew Flat car for mine defence M39 76.2 mm field gun Valentine IX Scammel tractor
Scammel tracti M12 155mmSP
155mm SP
Pak 38 * crew Panzerdraisine rail patrol + crew Archer Bedford QL
Bedford OL M3
M3 half-track
half-track Hungary
Pak 40 crew trolley M31 /37 1 22mm field gun Bishop 1
Ford (Canada) 15cwt 105mmGMC
T19 105mmGMC I"""®"!
Pak 43/41 + crew Straight track + crew Churchill HI truck M3 75mmGMC
Pak 43 on cruciform trail Curved track M38 1 52mm howitzer + Churchill SBG bridge- c\
Chevrolet 15 cwt. Jeep(6p)
Jeep {6p) RabaBotond
+ crew Do217E{25p) crew layer Chevrolet 3
Chevrolet 3 ton
ton LVT Buffalo
7 62 Pak 36(r) ♦ crew Ju 52 (5Dp) M31 203mm tracked Churchill AVRE Bedford QL with
wit office Greyhound MB
10.5 cm howitzer ♦ crew Me262{15p) howitzer + crew Churchill Crocodile body
body Studebaker 2V2 to
ton truck
1 5cm howitzer ♦ crew SdKfz 251/22 +Pak 40 Russian standing artillery Churchill ARK Bedford OY 3 ton
tc GS Sherman Calliope
1 7cm howitzer ♦ crew SdKfz 250/7+ mortar crew separately (lOpI Ram Kangaroo Chevrolet Petrol
Chevrolet Petrc Tanker Weasel
8.8 Flak 37 + crew HelllH {30p) Russian kneeling artillery
crew separately nop)
Churchill Carpet Layer
Deacon
Scammel Tank
Transporter (20p)
l5(rHthSpe.dT.ac.o.
Dodge Weapons Carrier
7 5cm G36 mountain Ju88A (30pl Dodge Weapons Carrier
gun ♦ crew 57 mm AT on Komsomlets Scorpion Flail British kneeling
kneeling DUKW
DUKW
7 5cm infantry gun SU76 A9 artillerymen separately Studebaker Gasoline
1 5cm inf. gun crew SU-37-1AA AID dOp) Truck
Nebelwerfer ♦ crew Komsomlets A13 British standing
standini White Scout Car
Karl tracked mortar fi 5p) Staiinets Crusader II artillerymen separately 3 in AT gun + crew
German standing gun GAZ-AAA + quad AA Crusader III (lOp) 75mm Pack howit2er +
crew separately (lOp) Poiikarpov 1 -16 (15p) Cromwell Spitfire IX (15p)
(15pl crew
German kneeling gun 11-2 Sturmovik (15p) Comet Hurricane It (15p) 105mm howitzer + crew
crew separately (10p> Pe-2 (15p) Challenger Mosquito FB VI (15p) 155mm Long Tom + crew
Mountain crew Yak-9(15p) ShermanCrab Typhoon IB(15p) M16SPAA
Ros Micro-AFV's and modern period micro-tanks are NEW: Buildings: Thatched cottage and barn (2 items 50p), Wooden farmhouse
and barn (2 items 50p), Fir tree (12p).
all12p except where marked. AFV's: \AAA/2 UK: Centurion Mk 1 (1945), Churchill VII, M10 Achilles; USA:
Heroics Figures in 1/300th scale are 70 pence per M4A3 76mm, M20 Recce vehicle; Germany: Stuka + 3.7 AT guns (15p).
Modern USA: XM-1, A10 (SOp); USSR: 152mm SP, SU-19 (30p); UK: FV432 +
pack of 50 infantry, 20 cavalry or 6 guns. GPMG turret.

MODERN PERIOD MICRO-TANKS 1/300th SCALE FIGU RES 70 pence packs.

NAPOLEONIC PERIOD RUSSIAN NAPOLEONIC UNITS MAR 10 Late Period Legionaires
SOVIET Su-9(30p) Bell iroquois (30p) Harrier(1 5p) MRN1 Grenadiers MAR 11 Late Period Heavy Cavalry
MFN17 Napoleonic Marshals
T-72Tank Su-15(30p) Skyhawk (1 5p) Buccaneer(30p) FRENCH NAPOLEONIC GUARD MRN5 Pavlov Guard MAR12 Roman Generals Tribunes
T-62Tank Yak-28(30p) F104Starfighter{25p) Land Rover V* UNITS MRN2 Jagers skirmishing MAR13Late Period
T-55Tank Mi-8Hip{30p) F4 Phan'nm (25p) FV180 CET MFN5 Grenadiers of the Old Guard MRN3 Cuirassiers Legionaries attacking
MfN20 Chasseurs a Pied of the Guard MRN6 Cossacks BYZANTINES
T-55 dozer Mi-24H,nd(30p) F111E (30p) MRN4 Artillery
T-55 mine clearer F14A Tomcat I30p) MFN7 HorseGrenadiers MAB1 Byzantine Heavy Infantry
BMD Para APC MFN 11 Chasseurs a Chdval of the Guard BAVARIAN UNITS MAB2 Byzantine Armoured Cavalry
T-10Mtank F15Eagle(25p) GERMAN
MFN2 Polish Lancers of the Guard MGN1 Bavarian Infantry MAB3 Byzantine Heavy Cavalry
PT-76 light lank LVTP-7 Leopard A1 POLISH UNITS
MFN8 Fool Artillery of the Guard MA64 Byzantine Light Cavalry
BMP-76(BMP-1) Leopard A2 MFN9 Horse Artillery of the Guard MWN1 Polish Infantry MABS Byzantine Horse Archers
USA
BTR-40P with Swatter ISRAEL Leopard A4 FRENCH NAPOLEONIC LINE UNITS MFN2 Lancers MAB6 Byzantine Foot Archers
M60A1 tank SPANISH NAPOLEONIC UNITS
BTR-60PB APC Super Sherman MarderMICV MFN I Line Grenadiers BARBARIANS
M60A2 tank Gepard SP AA MFN14 Fr Line Fusiliers MSN1 Spanish Musketeers MA11 Dacianlnfantry (includes
BRDM-2 APC L 33 155mm SP
M48A2 tank MFN4 Volliguers skirmishing MSN2 Spanish Grenadiers spearmen, rnomphiae.
BRDM-2 with Sagger Jagdpanzer Rakete
MS51 Sheridan light MFNl6 Fr Carabiniers MSN3 Spanish Musketeers skirmishing archers, etc)
ASU-85SPgun SWEDEN missile carrier
MFN10 Cuirassiers MSN4 Spanish Dragoons MAI 2 Visigolhic Infantry
tank Jagdpanzer Kanone SP
UA2-469jeep M60A1 dozer S-tank MFN 19 Line Dragoons SECOND WORLD WAR MAI 3 Hun Cavalry
BM-21 Rocket tkv-91 light tank AT gun MFN6 Chasseurs a Cheval of the Line GR1 German Infantry MA14 Gothic Cavalry
M113APC GR2 German Infantry Support
Launcher Spz-11-2 APC MFN12 Hussars MA15 Sarmatiari Cataphracts
M113 + recoilless rifle Pbv 302 APC MFN13 Lancersof the Line Weapons MA16 Ancient British Chariot
ZSU-23-4SPAA Spz-12-3APC
M113 + T0WAT VK 155mm SPG MFN3 Foot Artillery GR3 German Paratroops MAI 7 Ancient British Infantry
ZSU-57-2SPAA Milan light AT missile
missile MFN15 Fr Gun Teams GR4 German World War II cavalry MA18 Ancient British Cavalry
D-30 1 22mm howitzer set of three
M163 Vulcan SPAA MFN18 Fr. Wagons and Teams GR5 Afrika Korps MA19 Arab Camelry
UNITED KINGDOM Unimog truck BR1 British Infantry
+ crew
M730 Chaparral SPAA BRITISH NAPOLEONIC UNITS (Seleucid-Palmyran)
Chieftain Leopard ARV M8N16 Wellington & Generals 8R2 British Infantry Support
M55 152 mm howitzer missile system MAF1 Gaulish Infantry
Centurion MBN1 British Infantry Weapons MAF2 Gaulish Cavalry
+ crew M106 mortar carrier Centurion AVRE M6N7 British Line Infantry Light Co. BR3 British Paratroops GREECE
M55 100mm AT gun + Ml 14 recce vehicle FV432APC FRENCH MBN14 British Light Infantry 8R4 8th Army MAG 1 Greek City Hoplites
crew M72B Combat FV438 Swingfire AMX-30 tank MBNI5 British Light Infantry skirmishing SRI Russian Infantry MA62 Successor Phalanx
BTR-50APC Engineer Vehicle launcher AMX-1 3 light tank MBN5 Highlanders SR2 Russian Infantry Support MAG7 Phodian Slingers
BMD Paratroop APC Ml 10 SP howitzer MBNB Highlandersskirmishing Weapons MAG6 Cretan Archers
FV432 + mortar AMX-13 ♦•SS11 AT SR4 RussianWorldWarllcavalry
BM -14 towed rocket M107 SP howitzer MBN4 Riflemen MAGS Greek Cevafry
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Editor: Donald Featherstone

N® 201 DECEMBER 1978

of their life, making it so different from the humdrum and relentless daily pursuit to keep ones head
ahove water and earn a reasonable living. 1 write all this sitting here in a sort of glow as I recall
the activities of a week i:-. mid-August when in company with my camping comrades of many years standing,
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War (plus a few assorted castles and the home of Claude Monet at Giverny). It is not unknown to war-
gamers that a book, film, T.V. programme or visit to a battlefield generally manages to stimulate in
terest and the desire (if only momentary) to reconstruct on the wargames table the battle or campaign
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they are good fellows, decided to humour Don by trudging round the battlefields made glorious by his
beloved bowmen of England, then before we had even done the first of them, Crecy, they were as firmly
sold on the Hundred Years War as I was. Of course, just as our last two visits to the battlefields of
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late Colonel Alfred Higgins Burne, once in charge of the Military History Department at Sandhurst, and
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small by reason of the number of men involved and the extremely short range of the missile weapons, we
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and tattered army and then to pace forward exactly the number of yards that they moved forward before
taking up the position where each man killed roughly two Frenchmen. Walking to the other side of the
battlefield we were able to stand exactly on the French position and to follow the course of their
attacks, to pace the width of the field and to agree with Colonel Burne's estimation (as at every
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of space occupied by each man. We had all done enough of this battlefield touring to be able to
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Bohemia was killed where his monument stands then the English archers and men-at-arms must have chased
him for about a mile to do the dirty deed! Anyway, 1 have said a lot without even getting round to
the point about which I meant to write! Having sold my comrades on this style of warfare, we are now
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later and to be overnight in the woods of Piseaux, lying on the same ground from wherethe Regent
Bedford's advance guard spent the night of l6th August 1424 watching for the French and Scots to come
out of the nearby town.

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 A MEDAEVAL SKIRMISH

David Barnes

Sitting on a cupBoard in my wargames room mm

was a castle, slightly dusty, which had been made
by my son Chris and a drawing of which has appear
ed in Newsletter - the gatehouse anyway.

Chris was at home and seeing my Seven Years

wargame filling my table and my few medaeval
figures standing on the wall shelf above also
looking dusty - he said "Why not have a Medieval
skirmish on the living room floor?" He then went
off and painted a long backdrop for the affair
which showed a Medieval landscape with a couple n .1 ^
of Medieval mountains in the background and a dis
tant prospect of the sea. This was stuck up
across the hearth backed by a large drawing board,
to cover the fireplace!

The castle was put in front of the hearth

with a few trees made from dried heather with
"Das" vases and kitchen herbs for leaves. Here
and there were an odd clump of bushes to signify
"the waste" or commonland. These were made with
green plastic pot-scourer stuck onto card bases.
The area of floor we restricted ourselves to was
about 6 feet by k feet.

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In the castle bailey stood a wain - also of balsawood also using Spencer Smith wheels.

Each body of troops was to approach from opposite sides of the 'board' - the shorter ends. In
the centre of the terrain stood the castle, quite empty. It took us a long time to decide quite why
such a tremendous edifice should be empty! We finally decided it was a cold harbour deserted because
of plague long years before which also accounted for the lack of cottars houses nearby or any sign of
cultivation - other tnan the scrub of once-cleared land.

The idea uppermost in the mind of each commander was to reach the castle first and hold it if
attacked.

De Molineaux drew up his forces in four battles. On his right were four longbows backed by glaive
armed men-at-arms under a senior man who carried a battle hammer and shield. In the centre were three
hand-gunners supported by two crossbows and two spearmen. On the left four more archers backed by
four spearmen under a man with sword and shield. Behind this battle stood de Molineauxs- "Kill group".
Five poleaxes, three halberds and two hand-axes - these were also led by a man-at-arms with sword and
shield. De Molineaux and his companion Claverly sat their horses behind the centie battle - De
Molineaux with an axe and Claverly a sword.

De Barentz had his men drawn up with his five companion knights on the right. He expected they
would form an almost independent body, being fiercely proud and anxious to strike the first blow for
the sake of their knightly honour. De Barentz concentrated on his minions knowing once the action
had begun his knights would be more or less uncontrollable. He drew up in two large battles with his
treasure cart in the rear centre near him.

The advance on both sides began.

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Molineaux made straight at the castle en
trance, the main gateway being open - in
fact gateless. Molineaux and Claverly sat
their horses in the bailey directing and
organising. The handgunners battle dragged
the wain that stood in the bailey into the
gateway and heaved it over to form a barri
cade. They then stood ready to defend that
entrance.

The poleaxe and halberd battle stood in

the centre of the bailey under Molineaux's
direct control ready to rush to any part of
the walls tbey would be most needed at.

The two archer battles went to the west

walls and began to rain arrows upon de
Barentz's approaching battles. De Barentz
detached his battle of crossbowmen to cover
his sword and two-handed axemen who laboured
up the steep motte side to the postern gate.
Once there they were sheltered from
Molineaux's bowmen. The postern finally
gave way ^)eneath the thunderous blows rained upon It by the
heavy eixes. De Barentz's axes and spears then burst through
and gained a fpothold just inside the west side of the bailey.
His crossbowmeA had been accurate at the expense of the long
bows on the walls and many of these had fallen to the quarrels.

The poleaxe and halberd men were flung at the axemen and
Claverly himself rode forward to give added weight to the defence
in that quarter. The glaive men were called from the south wall
and now became the reserve. The hand-gunners and longspears at
the gateway shifted uneasily trying to keep watch to their front
while the kettle-mending noises interspersed with war cries,
screams and groans behind them told them that the enemy had
iorced an entry.

De Barentz's noble cavalry had trotted round the south side

of the castle and become somewhat caught up amongst the bushes
and scrub and a derelict pig sty that encumbered the ground on
the east side of the castle, near the gateway. Having passaged
about for a while on that side of the castle the knights trotted
back to the trees below the south walls, dismounted and began to
walk towards the castle mound.

In the meantime their crossbowmen had ceased peppering the

walls on the west as their friends were now out of bowshot from
the walls, being either in the gatehouse or in the dead ground
behind it. The crossbows set out to Join the knights on the The
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south side, losing a few men to the longbows on the west walls
by the way. tkt slruskfw

Inside the castle a melee was developing strongly, double- m!

handed axe, spear, mace and sword against glaive, poleaxe, war hammer and halberd.
Eventually the hand-gunners (about Move 15) turned from the gate and with the tattered remnants
of the longbows set about the new wave of invaders lapping over the south battlements. If it had been
a film the music - of dire beat and loudness would have swelled to a cresendo! It was obvious neither
Barentz nor Molineaux would give in - a fight a I'outrance - no quarter!
The scene at the South wall was indescribable. Two hand-gunners went down unfired, the last
blew a couple of foe men off the wall and backed by the last two crossbows did great slaughter until
they fell to the axes and maces of Barentz's knights. Barentz attack on the West wall finally
crumbled as his last man there went down under a shearing glaive. The victors had no time to recover
but only to turn and face the fresh onslaught from the South, their companions having guarded their
backs until hacked down. Molineaux and Claverly, still ahorse, surged into the fight - the final
melee.

When it was over Molineaux and Claverly sat their horses amid a pile of bodies whilst below the
South walls Barentz trailed forlornly away followed only by his banner and the riderless horses of
his knights.

Molineaux pushed up his visor and would have spoken to Claverly, but looking past him, saw a
monk who had stood beside the well throughout the battle, cross in hand. Silence.

An enjoyable battle from the wargame point of view, Chris (Barentz) said at one point "This is
mad! You have the castle, I would probably just ride past and leave you to it, not fight hopelessly
like this." However knights did stupid things through pride in those days, just as we do now-adays
and their followers - just followed.

The rules used were "Ancient Warfare" found on page 6l of "War Games" by D.F.Featherstone (bought
for 18 shillings in I962), We found these fast and gory - we did not use the morale section however.

MILITARY QUIZ OF THE MONTH:

1. Name the famous military engineer/scientist who conceived many brilliant defensive engines
at the siege of Syracuse 213-211 BC.

2. Name the Byzantine general who is acknowledged to be one of the Great Captains of History.

3. Name the pear-shaped rocky Pacific Island in the Bonin Group, whose occupation was essential
to America's advance towards Japan - it was invaded and captured 18 February-2A March 19A5.

k. What French commander was relieved in disgrace after losing the battle of Fuentes de Onoro,
3 May 1811?

5. Dates of Battles of - a) Maiwand: b) Tannenberg: c) Fulford: d) Nieuport Dunes and

e) Actium.

It seems that the Exhibition scheduled to be held at Seymour Hall, London, over the same period
as the MODEL ENGINEERS EXHIBITION at Wembley, sponsored and financed by a consortium of model soldier
manufacturers, will now NOT take place. No details are available for the reasons for this decision.
 1/3000
iiav\\ar M5RLD WAR ONE.TWO VESSELS scale navwar
abgentina
CHIEE
8501 Rlvdavla 2 1;3000th Scale Harbour AcoesBories
8502 Libertad x 2 2
8601 ATmi rants Latorre 1+(l3
1+ 1920 JOp
8652 1+(1) 1920
Almirante Riverosx2 1+ 30p
8533 Pueyredon 1 1920 30p 50p per pack except where marked.
8653 Almirante Williamsx2 2
MERCHAM SHIPS
yOOl Liberty Ship Quay Section (40mm x HOmrn) x 2
9002 Toa Maru 5 Japanese Tanker of 10,100 tons Breakwater Strai^t i 2
9003 Amarapoora 4 Cargo Liner Breakwater End Piece x 2
9004 Max Aibreoht 1 German Tanker Oil Jetty I 2
9005 A/B Standard Ship 200 5000 ton cargo vessels Warehouse x 3
9006 P Type Standard Ship 12 6400 ton Cargo Tessel Mole Straight x 3
9007 H Type Coaster x 2 32 Standard Coaster Design Mole End Piece x 3
9008 German W.¥.l. Collier x 2 Lock Gates - 2 pairs
1717 Macedonia 4 Passenger Liner used as A.M.C. & Hospital Ship Tug X 2 lOp
9009 Hafaela x 2 10 Dutch Tanker 150 ton Floating Crane 25p
9010 Agatha x 2 4 Dutch Tanker Salvage Tug 25p
9011 Yeskai Maru x 2 2 Japanese Coaster Flak Tower x 2

1:3000th Scale Modem Warshii22 D645 Albany CG 3 1964 40p NHIa Quay Section with wagons X 2
Great Britain D648 Des Moines CA 3 1946 40p NH2a Breakwater 30° Angle x 2
DII3 Resolution x 3 SSBN 4 1970 40p D659 Spruance DG 30 1977 30p NH4 Oil Tanke x 2
DII5 Dreadnought x 3 SSN 6 1964 30p D561 Belkna.p DG 9 1968 30p NH6 Oil Jetty Extension x 2
D116 Oberon x 3 SS 6 I960 30p D665 Charles F Adams DD 23 1960 25p NH8 Sheds X 3
DI23 Invincible CAH 3 1978 30p D665 0 H Perry FG 56 1977 25p NfllO Mole Curved x 3
DI24 Ark Royal CVA 1 1970 50p D686 Knox FF 46 1970 25p NH12 Coaling Quay x 2
D148 Blake cm k 1970 30p D.S.S ■R. DH30 Dock Cranes x 4
D165 Sheffield DG 10 1973 25p D707 Victoi: X 3 SSN 18 1974 30p DH32 Lighters x 2 lOp
D166 Bristol DG 1 1970 30p D7OB Yankee x 3 SSBN 34 1970 40p DH34 600' Floating Dock 50p
DI67 Hampshire DG 8 1965 30p D709 Charlie x 3 SSN 11 1970 30p DH60 Coastal Battery 4OE
DI79 Broadsword FF 4+ 1978 25p D712 Hotel X 3 SSBN 9 1961 30p NH50 Li^thouse on rook 20p
D180 Amazon FF 8 1974 25P 0713 Juliet X 3 SSG 16 1961 30p PASSENGER LINERS— Due December 1Q7fl
D181 Leander PF 26 1967 25p D7I5 November x 3 SSN 13 1961 40p
Dibia Aurora FG 8 1977 25p D728 Kiev cv 3 1976 50p S.S. Hanohi 40p
1935
D181b Cleopatra FG 3 1976 25f D729 Moskva CAH 2 1967 40p S.S.Bremen 1928 35p
D182 Ashanti FP 7 1965 25p D742 Kara CG 7 1972 35P S.S.Orontes 1929 50p
D183 Rothesay FF 9 1962 25p 11743 Kresta 2 CG 13 1970 30p S.S.Duchess of Bedford 1928 45p
U.S.A. D748 Sverdlov CA 14 40p M.S.Winchester Castle 1930 50p
1955
D610 Los Angeles x 3 SSN 26 1978 40p D761 Krivak DG 15 1976 25p M.S.Vulcanla 1928 50p
D611 Lafayette x 3 SSBN 31 1970 40p D762 Kaehin DG 20 1970 25p M.S.Rangitiki 1928 40p
D6I4 Sturgeon x 3 SS 37 1966 30p D769 Kotlin DD 28 i960 25p S.S.Oroades 1934 50p
D621 Tarawa LHA 5 1976 50p D769b Kotlin SAM DG 8 1962 25p S.S .Empress of Britain 1929 75p
D625 Kitty Hawk CVA 4 I960 95P D785 Petya x 2 FF 46 1970 30p S.S.Queen Mary- 1936 95p
0643 California CGN 2 1976 30p D799 Osa X 3 PP 160 i960 30p
NA7AL WARGAMES HDIES TtTnArrop games
Oraracpio Warfare £1 Dungeons & Dragons Sulebdok
Battlestations (forW.W.2.) C4.93 M.T.B. £1 Greyhawk(D k D Supplement 1)
General Quarters Pt 1 (W .W. 2 )-'Navwar C1.30 D-Boat £1 BlaokBoor(D i D Supplement 2)
World War 2 Coastal (Navwar) 75p
Ballistic Missile £1 Eldritch Wizardry( —do— 3)
Naval Warfare '39-'45(Leiceater) gop
Micro-Napoleonic £1 Gods, Demi-Gods le Heroea( -do- 4)
General Quarter's Pt 2 (W.W.l.)-Navwar £1,60 Additional Armies for above 1- Swords A Spells (T.S.R.)
Last Sea Battles (W.W.l.) (Leicester) 75p
Russian, Prussian, Austrian, Polish, Chainmail (T.B.E.)
World War 1 (Skytrex) 75p Archworld
Spanish each
Micro-Fleet (W.W.l,^ (Tabletop) £1.30 Emerald Tablet
Micro-Ancients £1.30
Cordite & Steel (Pre-Dreadnought)TSR £4.75
Additional Armies for aboveI- Tunnels A Troils
Ironclad & l.C.W. (Navwar) 75p Buffalo Castle (let TAT Supp)
Persian, Macedonian, Indian, Gallic,
Napoleonic Naval (Navwar) 90p
Ancient Briton, Byzantine, Saesanid, Death Trap Eaualiser
Action under Bail (Tabletop) £1.10
(2nd TAT Supp) Ci.95
Goth, Hun, Late Roman each 37p
Greek Naval (L.W.S.) Labyrinth (3rd T A T Supp)
Egyptian, Assyrian, Selucid, Chinese, £1.-5
IOOOB.C.-5OOA.D. (W.R.G.) Middle Earth (Deoalse'c j £1.05
Renaissance Naval (WRG) Viking, Norman, Saxon each 39p
Micro-Colonial £1.30
First Qiiest of Thane ToBtig(Hawar''] 65p
LAND WARGAMES RULES
Additional Armies for above 1-
Wizards A Warfare (Leicester) 85p
British/Egyptian, Dervish each 37p Bifrost Fantasy Vol 1 - Caapaigns £2.95
Arab-Israeli Wars (No 1 W.G.C.) £1. Bifrost Fantasy To! 2 - Combat £2.25
Also Rorkes Drift Set 45p Bifrost Fantasy Vol 3 - Magic
1950-75 Armour A Irifantiy (WRG) £1. Micro-Modem W.W.2 £1.30 £2-95
Armour A Infantry Action 1925~50(WEG) £1. MAGAZINES
Additional Armies for abovej-
World War Two (No 1 W.G.C.) £1. White Dwarf 60p
German Inf, German S.S., German Pz Gren,
Battles with Micro TankB(W.W.2)(R0B) The Dragon £1.25
Micro-Tank (Leicester) Russian Armoured, Russian Meoh Inf.each37p
The General £1.20
Second World War (Bayonet) British Inf, British Arm, German Inf,
German Arm, D.S. Arm., Italian Mot Inf
Cambrai to Sinai (Leicester) £1. BOARDGAMES
each 39p
World War One (No 1 W.G.C.) £1. Seastrike
Micro-Fleet W.W.l. £1.30
W.W.l. Trench Warfare (Tabletop) Decline A Pall
American Civil War (Newbury/Leicester) £1, British Jutland Fleet
German Jutland Fleet
£1.12
SOp Bonnie Prince Charlie
American Civil War (L.W.S.) Battle of Roarkes Drift
1685-1845 (W.R.G.) Micro-Soi Fi £1.50
Napoleonic (L.W.S.) Additional Forces for use with aboves- DICE
Napoleonic (Bayonet) Xylon, Kripton, Star Pods each 40p Polyhedral Dice (Set of 4) £1.35
Napoleonic (Newbury/Leicester) W.R.G. FDBLICATIONS Percentage Dice (pair) 40p
Napoleonic (Tabletop) Amies A Enemies of Ancient Egypt A Average Dice (pair) 25P
Musketeer (Skytrex) ) Assyria £2.70 Normal Dice (pair) 25p
English Civil War (Bayonet) Armies A Enemies of Ancient China £3>50
Tercio(l6th Century)(Tabletop) Armies of the Greek A Persian Wars £2.70
Tercio Amy Lists (Table Top) Armies of the Macedonian A Punic Wax Reprint
Renaissance (W.H.G.) £1. Amies of the Dark Ages £3.50 Goods aie uHe'ed subiect to availability Please give si
Renaiasanoe Array Lists (WRG) £1. Armies of Feudal Europe 1066-1300 £3«85
0HO11 will be made loluMil li'Si choices

Samurai (L.W.S.) Armies A Enemies of the Crusades £3.85

Lance I3OO-I5OO (Tabletop)
3OOOB.C.-125O A.D.(5th jSdition)(WHG) £1. POSTAGE A PACKINGt
Ancient Amy Lists (w.E.G.) D.K. Orders up to £10 - Add 10%(Minlmum ZOp^Maxlmum £1)
Rudis (Gladiatorial Combat)(Tabletop) Over £10 Post Free
Pre-Historio Animal Combat (Tabletop)
Pre-Hietorio Overseas > AIRMAIL - Add 609i, SEAHAIL - Add 55%(Minlmum 50p)
Once upon a Time in the West (TT)
Western Gunfig^t Rules (Skytrex)
 TALKING WARGAMING
It was of the Desert battles in the Sudan
that Sir Henry Newholt wrote in "Vitai Lampada":-
"The sand of the desert is sodden red,
Red with the wreck of a square that broke;
The Gatling's jammed and the Colonel dead,
And the regiment blind with dust and smoke."
Undoubtedly the jamming of the Gatling guns
was due to the use of the Boxer type of ordinary
service rifle cartridges which were liable to
have their base torn from the body of the case by
the Gatling's extractor, leaving the metal case
stuck in the chamber, so jamming it. With solid
drawn cartridge cases of t!ie American type,
specially made for Gatling guns, no such diffi
culty was encountered.

ooOoo

RULES OF THE MONTH:

To simulate on a wargames table the jamming

of a Gatling - throw a dice each time it is to
fire; it jams if 1 comes up, next game-move jamm
ing occurs on 1 or 2; 3rd game-move on 1, 2, 3,
and so on.

ooOoo

SUN TZU - THE ART OF WAR;

If we do not wish to fight we can prevent the enemy from engaging us even though the lines of our
encampment are merely traced out in the ground. All we need do is throw something odd and unaccount
able in his way.

(Such as a dead cat, or your immediate opponent, who has always seemed odd and unaccountable 1)
ooOoo
HINT OF THE MONTH:

By far the best adhesive 1 have come across for sticking Airfix (or other plastic) figures to
card bases is EVOSTIK NON-FLAM contact adhesive.

ooOoo

During the Turkish siege of Malta in 1565, the besiegers were deterred from attacking Medina, the
capital of the Island, by the sight of masses of uniformed soldiers lining the ramparts. In fact, the
garrison was so small that the Governor had dressed up peasant men and women in uniforms.
ooGoo

From the end of the 13th century horses wore defensive armour. A chanfron protected its head
whilst the neck was covered with a crinet with mail attachment and the front of the horse's body was
protected by the peytral, its sides by the flanchards and its rear by the crupper. A strong horse had
no difficulty in carrying this defensive covering which in the later stages of its development only
weighed just over seventy pounds, including saddle and mail.
ooOoo

PROBLEM OF THE MONTH:

Are the "Problem of the Month" queries really so unsolvable? Are readers so genuinely baffled
that they can think of no answer to send in? Or aren't they bothered?
ooOoo

In the early days of the 19th century the effective use at Copenhagen and Boulogne of rockets
developed by Sir William Congreve led to the raising of a Rocket Brigade of the Royal Horse Artillery
which saw action at Leipzig 1813 and Waterloo 1815.
ooOoo

MINDEN BOOKS

To all those readers who have written to me complaining about either not receiving books ordered
from this firm or having paid for subscription to their wargaming magazine and only received the first
copy may 1 suggest that you write direct to Mr.Sean O'Hogan, 31 Temple End, Great Wilbraham,
Cambridge CBl 5JF. This should be read in conjunction with a mention of this gentleman and his firm
in last month's Newsletter.
 MUST LIST
I suppose liecause it is Christmas (at least
this is the December number that I am dictating in
October!) we should have a whole lot of details of §^^BBHB||EBB||HlB^MjB^^|fippK|^^
new products calculated to tempt the wargamer into
parting with some of his hard earned cash. I do not
think the reader will be disappointed, there is
quite enough material this month for our pages
giving a wide choice of presents for his wargaming
comrades - or himself. aHl

Before I go into those details, may I Just

comment upon the photographs displayed on this page. ilP'^
They were sent in by genial George Erik of MINIATURE '7B|||j|p
WARFARE LIMITED who sent them as an indication of
yet another of the many services available from his ^M|HB|||^B|p"3teB88yBpra^ !
firm. I thought they looked pretty enough to V"MH|p^||liW^BwW Ir
decorate our pages. kj-irti.' iy -' iropa
It is very heartening to note that NAVWAR have ••
taken FOUR whole pages in this magazine to advertise ''j"'', HHf ' jBt" jW
their products and it is to be hoped their enterprise fe:*"'. ||HK '' ffiP'
will be rewarded by support from wargamers involved f' ' MfjSsSlmg^^m^y
in table-top Naval warfare. Just as naval matters
always seem to me, very much a land-lubber, to be t
very highly organised in real-life (have a look at a

me^ so do the suppliers of materials for Naval war-

gaming seem to have the thing well sewn-up. It would ^
seem that one could give allegiance to just a single Stadden Models - Assembled and painted by
firm, such as Navwar, and throughout an entire war- Miniature V/arfare Limited.
gaming career, be entirely satisfied with what could
be obtained. Perhaps Naval warfare falls in|to neat chronological categories as it certainly appears
that the various assorted aspects ; of NaVal warfare are very clearly defined.

Having started with Nava] wargaming it might not be a bad idea to stay in it for a moment by re
ferring to Retail Price List No.16 of 1:1200 Ship Model Kits recently received from FLEETLINE MODEL
COMPAlvY. This came accompanied by a letter from Dave Higgs (brother to Dick Higgs Director and Pigti^S?"'
Designer of Miniature Figurines). Dave says among other things "We have managed to increase the 1:1200
scale ship range and listed below are the latest to come from the Fleetline melting pots - 3 AmeBican
lorpedo boats — the 77 and 80 ft. Elco and the 78ft Higgins plus HMS Agamemnon, a Napoleonic 64 gun
Frigate and also HMS Bellerophon, a 74 gun Frigate in the same period." Dave claims that there is
nothirg comparable with their Napoleonic ships for sneer adventurous design and moulding and it would
take nours for a modeller to build a 1:1200 scale HMS Victory with 104 guns "ports open" and ready to

be for you. I notice that Fleetline's list also includes items other than ships such as tanks, aircraft,
"soft" vehicles; shore establishments including dockside cranes and oil storage tanks, etc, lighthouses
plus a complete line of 1:200 scale American Civil War vessels including the Monitor. Finally there
is their small but very attractive range of 34mm
Collectors Figures of the Napoleonic period naval
celebraties such as Lord Nelson, 1st Lieutenant,
Midshipman and a Seaman (all selling at ei.25p). By
the way, HMS Victory costs £loOOp.

I have had nothing in to review from the "Big

Lawrence of Arabia - Designed and modelled by
G.Erik of Miniature Warfare Limited.
Two" - HINCHLIFFE MODEL FIGURES and MINIATURE
FIGURINES but note from the adverts of both that
they are alive and kicking, slaving madly over hot
melting pots and moulding machines. Actually, I
expect both of them (particularly Hinchliffe who
organise the affair) are getting themselves geared
up for Northern Militaire which will probably run
its usual successful course by the time you read
this. I note the warning from Hinchliffe Model Ltd
that price rises are underway for all their ranges
- so get in quickly! Miniature Figurines, I know
well from personal contact with Neville Dickinson,
are working so busily that he hardly has time to
eat but one gets the impression from the recent
trend of their advertising that whilst there is no
thing new at the moment to mention, a tidal wave of
new figures and ranges is about to burst upon usJ
Have you noticed the SKYTREX advert this month?
I think that their idea of these "Starter" packs and
other packs of items to make up specific groups is
an excellent one and could well spread to model
figures.
 HIMBROL who make the paints which most of us use, have heen issuing a series of information and
painting instruction cards under the title of AUTHENTICARD and in^front of me I have a card from
Series 1, No.20 which covers the German World War Two Panzer IV Tank. The card gives the history of
the tank, discusses its various models and then gives performance figures before going into detailed
notes of all the precise colours they produce and are suitable for this model. Obviously there are
other cards in this range and they are certainly well worth study by the wargamer who wishes to accur
ately paint his vehicles. 1 have an idea that they have also done cards for model soldiers which could
be equally valuable.

Recently we had an advert from a completely hew company (at least to me) in FREl KORPS 15 of 30
Cromwell Road, Belfast 7, Northern Ireland. Dealing in mail orders only, this company has burst upon us
with a very large Seven Years War range with infantry packs of ten figures for ^iSp; cavalry packs of
five figures at 45p and artillery packs of one gun and four crew for h3p- In addition to those figures
specified in their recent advert they now have turned out part 2 of the range which includes some quite
fascinating figures such as Russian Pandours; Serbian Freikorps in Austrian service and Cantabrian
infantry, etc., etc. 15mm range is thought by many to be the wargaraing scale of the future and now,
Frei Korps 15 have turned their attention to Ancients, offering they claim "For the first time
from any manufacturer" Arthurian (sub—Roman) British in a small range that indues Heavy cavalry;
Light (tribal) cavalry with javelins; Heavy/Medium infantry; Light infantry slinger; Light infantry
javelinman and a Command pack of foot and mounted officers and standards. These sell at the price
already mentioned. Next month they promise the Seven Years War Part 3; Colonial and three new Ancient
armies. It would seem they must have a very sizeable design and production force beavering away in
Belfast - well I suppose you have got to do something if it isn't safe to go to pictures or the pub!
In recent issues I have mentioned some new figures by CASTILE MINIATURES, a Glasgow—based firm
and, at the time of writing, 1 had not seen semi^les of their work. Now some have come to hand and I
am told that the range covers Medieval and Dark-Ages figures and will soon be expanding into other
periods, their next release being Carolingians. They retail at 13p per foot figure or rider and 18p
for horses. The samples I have before me are as follows - Mam-at-arms, pike, plate armour; Longbow,
helmet, mail, jack; Spearman, gambeson, helmet, shield; Pikeman, sallet, breast-plate; English Bill,
mail coat, helmet; Crossbow (Windlass) mail coat; Spearman, kettle helm, hauberk, round shield; Man-
at-arms, plate armour, pole axe or plommer; Lowland spearman (Flemish); and Spearman, no body armour,
nasal helm.

These figures impressed me very much, getting away to a head start because of the great love I
have for wargaming the Medieval period and also because 1 have just done a book on that very subject.
Coming with separate weapons, these figures are really first-class, with fine detail and would seem
to be extremely accurate in their details of armour and weapons. They will paint up beautifully and
I can envisage a most colourful and attractive wargames army made from these figures which of course
can ideally suit all the various countries and groups involved in the Hundred Years War period, for
example. 1 advise wargamers interested in this period^^5ho are seeking a smaller "second" army to
write at once to CASTILE MINIATURES, 20 Rankin Street, Carluke, Lanarkshire.

Still on the subject of w/g figures, yet another firm new to me has loomed up on the horizon
turning out "The Allies of Napoleon" in this scale. Designed and built by Bill Skinner and Tom Park
and marketed under the name of JACOBITE MINIATURES, 5''i3 Gorgie Road, Edinburgh EHll 3AR, their present
range includes selections of foot and cavalry for the Confederation of the Rhine - Wurttemberg, Baden,
Sweden, Denmark and Poland. They come in infantry packs containing 12 figures at 65p; cavalry packs
containing 8 horses and 8 figures for the same price or 6 infantry pack figures at 32p. Command packs
contain officers, standards, drummers, etc., with a cavalry command pack containing 4 figures at 32p
and an artillery pack contains three crews of k figures each for 65p. Add 10^ of all the value for
postage (25^ overseas).
When I began wargaming some twenty years ago about the only available figures were S.A.E. which
means Swedish African Engineers who marketed boxed sets of painted 30mm figures - at first made in
Madeira and then South Africa. Either designed by, or perhapp pirated from Holger Erikson of Sweden,
they were a fascinating and vast range of figures which still grace my shelves and regularly fight on
my wargames table. It is years since I have heard anything of this type of figure but suddenly news
has come through that Holger Erikson is still in business producing high quality castings. He produces
a catalogue which can be obtained for five International Reply Coupons sent to Holger Erikson,
Sommarrovagen, 8, S-652, 30 Karlstad, Sweden. If you are interested in unusual 30mm figures or, like
me, have strong nostalgic leanings, then 1 suggest you write for these.

From a designer of way-back to a designer of today - and a very competent designer at thatl 1
am referring to MINOT's MINIATURE ARMOURY, P.O.Box 25 Watling Street, Boreham Wood, Herts, who, not
so long ago, was famed for his wonderfully expressive 30mm Napoleonic figures. Now he has gone into
25mm diorama wargames pieces under the title of "New Genesis Colonial Figures". The range includes
British infantry of the type serving in the Sudan, Boer Wars and India; Highland infantry; Sudanese
infantry; Fuzzy-Wuzzies - Hadendowah tribesmen, Beja Ben Amir tribesmen, Jihadia rifelemen, and Dongola
Emir tribesmen; then he has the North-West Frontier of India, Afridi tribesmen, Boer infantry and 3
Dervishes on camels. Although these have been advertised in the Newsletter I have yet to see the
figures and look forward to doing so. Unfortunately my very extensive Colonial wargames armies are
all in 30mm range which means that few of these intriguing sounding figures will fit - however 1 may ,
well be able to make use of such as an Afridi lying firing or kneeling or Boers in the same position
as one can craftily blend those positions in with larger scales! Still on the subject of wargames
figures - yet another new manufacturer has come to notice. This time it is MIKES MODELS, 38 Queens
Road, Brighton BN^ 4RQ, who are producing 15mm Ancient wargames figures designed for use with the WRG
rules and army lists for period 300OBC to 125OAD. The first twelve armies are going to be early
Gothic, Italian Ostrogothic, Hun, early Frankish, Samurai, Dacian, Sarmatian, Viking, Norman, Ghazna-
vid, Arab Conquest and Indian. They claim that they are going to produce all the figures needed to
make up armies to WRG army lists. At present they can offer an Arab Conquest Army of cavalry and
infantry, their future releases, will include figures for Palmyran, Pictish, Successor, Teutonic, late
Byzantine, Selijuk Turk, Han Chinese and many, many more. Their prices including VAT are 5p per figure
or horse; camels 7p and elephants 30p. Send S.A.E. for current list and free sample figure.
 Some months ago we mentioned CANNON MINIATURES of 8 Merlewood Avenue, Southport PR9 7NS. Then
seemingly they became overwhelmed with orders and withdrew into the shelter of the woods or something.
However, they are now back in business with 1:300 scale buildings, tanks, etc., and their latest
offerings are Nissen huts, pontoon bridges, tank landing craft and boats. Send a S.A.E. for their
latest price list. On the subject of small-scale buildings, etc., have you noticed in the latest
HEROICS AND ROS FIGURES advert that they have a new range of buildings - thatched cottage and barn (2
items) 50p; wooden farmhouse and barn (2 items) 50p and a fir tree and also that they have added to
their range of armoured fighting vehicles. Their list of 1:300 scale figures in 70p packs is always
very appetising and, if you can paint them that small, I imagine your wargaming will be really some
thing because you can get a lot of this scale on an average wargames table. Still on buildings, Q.T.
MODELS of 10 Queens Street, Bridlington, North Humberside Y015 2SF, have an interesting range of 1:300
scale buildings cast in terracotta-coloured strong plaster in a range that consists of wrecked build
ings at lOp, wrecked or undamaged bridges at 15p and various cottages, farms and houses at 20p. Said
to be a very useful and well made range they should be better known.

Those among us who are interested in Skirmish wargaming with 5^mm figures will find some new
offerings this month of great interest. First from AIRFIX come British infantry in Europe 1939-
19^5 in their 1:32 scale MULTIPOSE sets. Selling at 80p, this set provides a series of figures,
giving head, torso, legs and arms that are interchangeable and with various items of equipment pro-,
vided to give an infinite variety of choice. There are six basic figure suggestions on the box - and
how can you go wrong at that price: From the French company HELLER (distributed in the UK by Hestair
Models, Foremost House, Thomas Road, London E14 7BL) can be obtained an interesting set of 1:35 scale
figures of French Colonial Senegalese infantry 1939-19^5 period. Moulded in white plastic the kit
contains parts for three figures in casual attitudes, two for Senegalese skirmishers wearing their
distinctive bright red Chechia headgear and a French officer with a kepi and pistol. Although these
figures would seem to be in reasonably fixed poses, I am sure it is not beyond the ingenuity of the
average skirmish wargamer to muck them about until they become what he wants them to be. Finally
there is a set of ESCI Sturmtruppen sappers in dark green plastic that makes six figures in various
poses with equipment including machineguns, rifles, wire cutters, grenades and cluster grenades. They
are in camouflage smocks and there are two types of helmets supplied together with four soft caps.
This sapper unit costs only 75p from G.W.Jones Bros., 56 & 62 Turnham Green Terrace, Chiswick, London
W4. '

The latest list from SIMULATIONS PUBLICATIONS UK, Crown Passages, Hale, Altrincham, Cheshire,
reveals a mind-boggling selection of board wargames in the following styles - Power Politics; Fantasy
and Science Fiction; Contemporary Era; World War Two; Early 20th Century; 19th Century; pre 19th
Century and including not only their own games but those of oth'er manufacturers. If this is your
scene then write for this list - you will probably go crazy trying to work out which you want'first:

GAMES CENTRE, 16 Hanway Street, London WIA 2LS, support this magazine with advertising and issue
a catalogue that seems to be even more comprehensive than the one just mentioned: It is over 80 pages
long and not only includes details of all types of family and adult board games but also wargames,
wargaming rule books and accessories. Fantasy and Science Fiction games and rule books plus every type
of traditional game, puzzle, magazine, etc., etc. With Christmas coming up there is bound to be some
thing in here that will keep somebody quiet while you read that book you have been longing to open:
Talking of presents, the Sales List from the National Army
Museum is full of smallish items that can be given as presents on
the basis that it is not so much what you buy but the fact that you
remembered somebody: It includes a wonderful collection of post
cards, many reproductions of well known and much loved military
prints and subjects. There are dozens of publications of a •GeneralUse i
military nature - again many of them well known to us, some being Clear Adhesiv 1
reprints which answers many of our problems. There are inexpensive
paperbacks, bibliographies, etc.. Regimental histories and the like
plus some really good military band records and some good sets of
colour transparencies. Why not give yourself a treat and go down
to the Museum, spend as many hours as you can pottering around and
then empty your pockets at the bookstall - they will be delighted
and the money al 1 goe.s to a
good cause. ■•jii.. .■-iaMMilili
For some reason, recently
I have been inundated with
literature from LIBERTA-IMEX
LIMITED of Rugby, who also in
vited me to a press showing
of their latest products.
This may be because they are
putting out a new type of ad
hesive - they are probably
already well known to you
without realising their name as they put out
UHU and also Evo-stik. This latest product
is called GU meaning General Use adhesives
and the range includes a General Use clear
adhesive and a Handicraft and General Use ad-
hesive both of which would

t* f^
seem to be of
great value to the military modeller and war-
gamer. Partly because I think you might
be interested and parxly because I have
never shown any pictures of glue in this
magazine before, I am repro
of them herewith.
4
^ iI ducing a couple
 NUMBER 200 - AND I MISSED ITl

Last month's Wargamer's Newsletter was the 200th consecutive monthly issue - and I completely
failed to mention the fact in any part of that particular issue! Dick Watson, the artist who lays-
out the typed pages, illustrations and advertisements ready for photographing hy the printer, returned
the completed artwork to me with a brief note - "This is number 200 and you haven't said a word about
it!" Well, I hasten to repair that omission and indulge in a bit of self-praise for what might, in
charitable wargaming circles, be considered something of a personal achievement. WARGAMER'S NEWSLETTER
has come out regularly each month, on one or two occasions a few days late, but always in the hands of
the subscribers during the month it covered - and that is more than one can say for the majority of
military and wargaming magazines! I will not say that it has always been easy, nor will I hide the
fact that on occasions it is an onorous chore and that many times I have cursed and sworn that I will
give it up. But that has never happened perhaps because to me Wargamer's Newsletter is something
rather special, it is my "baby", never edited by anyone but myself, who has done the bulk of the work.
I hasten to add that it could never have carried on without the articles and literary contributions
sent in bj' its readers - one of the great simple joys of this home-spun journal lies in the manner
which readers, without any thought of payment, joyfully write articles about their battles, their
military theories and begin or take part in the various controversies which have raged over the last
sixteen and a half years - for that is how long Wargamer's Newsletter has been in existence.

In fact, the whole magazine began with a massive argument arising from disagreement with veteran
American wargarner Jack Sci'ub\ uiieii I was editing the British version of his original wargames magazine
WARGAMES DIGEST. The causes o1 I lie disagreement are almost lost in the mists of antiquity, suffice to
say that I was then (as T am soinet inies now) a trifle short about what 1 called the "Staff and Command
boys" which, in those da\-s, i epresentcd to me the intense wargamers who thought they were recreating
war on the table-top rather than plnyiuir a game and Jack, resenting my views, withdrew my editorship
from his magazine. So I started ni\' own!

For the next six years (utitil March lOb'^) it was typed by myself, run-off on a hand duplicator
either by me or my secretarx' or a combination of both of us. The first issue was foolscap and con
sisted of five double-sided slieets, beginning witJi my usual down-to-earth editorial, then an article
on Retasol a solo wargames scheme by a wel l known wargamer of the day Carl Reavley (all the writers
in this magazine were well known wargaraers in their day because they were a bit thin on the ground -
some of them still follow the hobbx" and their names may be familiar). Then there was an idea for
finding out who was the Champion Wargamer by means of a league table of games played; an article on
the current wargaming scene Ity Mewell Chamberlin III of St.Louis; Tony Bath wrote "An Accessory to
Map Campaigns" and Bill Mell of Uuddersfield told us about "The American Civil War in Huddersfield"
Features included the first of a series "Battles to Remember" in which I talked of an epic table-top
engagement with Tony Bath; kllAT'S NEW feature of the latest items; and an interesting feature which
indicated the compact nature of the wargaming world in those days "BEEN VISITING LATELY?" in which
wargamers told of visits they had made to other wargaraers and games they had fought (that was one of
the only ways you could get a game in those days because there were few of us lucky enough to have an
opponent close enough to fight evening battles). Then in a page headed "THIS IS THE WAY OTHERS DO IT",
well known wargamers of tlie day including Charles Grant, Bill Mell, Bill Gunson of New Zealand, des
cribed their ideas of rules, modelling hints, etc., - another feature of that time was we all helped
each other and were far more tightly knit than today. Finally we had a Correspondence Column which
was much the same as it is today. Another interesting item was an announcement of WARGAMER'S CONVEN
TION 1962 whicii was to be held in the Lambert Hotel, Northlands Road, Southampton, and which can
justifiably claim to be the very first public wargamers convention ever held. It took place on Satur
day and Sunday, 12th and 13th May 1962 and the cost was 35 shillings - £2 for lunch and dinner on
Saturday, bed and breakfast on the Sunday - there was no charge for attending the Convention. I
remember it well because among the guests were people who are still old friends of mine such as Ted
Suren (of Willie Figures), Brigadier Peter Young, David Chandler from Sandhurst, Tony Bath, Charles
Grant and his son and a dozen or so others.

Wargamer's Newsletter continued in this foolscap style for two years before, in April I96A going
into quarto size. I remember being very proud of this issue because it was the first that had any
illustrations - among them is one of Peter Gilder (of Hinchliffe Figures) and myself fighting a war-
game up at Sleaford where he then lived. The illustrations came about because I discovered that one
could have black-and-white line drawings reproduced on what was called an electronic stencil which
could then be placed on a duplicating machine and would print out the pictures (in various standards
of clarity). The quarto size magazine had more pages - 12 double sides to be exact and the feature
article is one called "GILDER'S GAMES" which tells how Peter Gilder, now one of the leading lights
in the hobby in both a professional and a wargaming sense, got started. There is also a note on
another wargamers convention - this time being held at Caxton Hall, London, with the financial support
of Hinton Hunt Figures Ltd. 1 also note in the names of new subscribers to Wargamer's Newsletter is
Mr.Neville Dickinson of Southampton!

For some reason, issue No.25 April 1964 was the only one in quarto size for a long time because
the magazine drastically went down to a half foolscap size (8" x 6J") which gave us even more pages -
18 double sides now! It remained this size until February 1965 and then went back to being quarto,
still hand typed and duplicated and remained in that style until NOe72 March I968 when it was turned
out in photo-litho, the method by which it has been reproduced ever since. The Editorial says "It
has always been my aim to eventually turn out a professional looking printed magazine that will add
to the ever growing status of our hobby and encourage even more people to take part. At last, although
finances frankly do not justify such a venture, I have decided to go ahead in this form only you are
now reading the result of my decision. Of course it works out very much more costly than the old
duplicating style and for that reason I have been forced reluctantly to raise the subscription prices."
In those days a year's subscription for twelve copies was £l.l6s. including postage and it was cer
tainly pre-inflation because I note my remark that its price had not gone up since 1962 - there can't
be much that has held its price for six years since then! In December 1968 the size of the magazine
again altered, becoming 9" x 6^" with 24 pages and a great deal more content because I had discovered
a printer who could photographically reduce in size our typed pages so that they started off foolscap
and were brought down to size mentioned earlier. It is interesting to note that this issue contains
what I have always considered to be one of the star articles/series to appear in Wargamer's Newsletter
- THE WAR OP THE BOMBAR SUCCESSION BY Neil Cogswell.
In fact, nostalgically going through these magazines leads me to helieve there is a great deal
both of value and interest contained in their pages and it is my intention to print each month one
of those articles under the general heading of THE BEST OF WAROAMER'S NEWSLETTER I962 of whatever
year it is. You will find the firs't of them elsewhere in this issue.

Thie March 197A No.lAA WARGAMER'S NEWSLETTER was the first to be published by the famous London
militaria shop TRADITION, through the confidence and friendship of Roy Belmont-Maitland who has
faithfully hacked me ever since - often at considerahle cost, both financial and temperamental. It
IS possible that Wargamer's Newsletter would have ceased to exist some three or four years ago had
this not occurred because the effort of getting it printed, addressing labels and envelopes, labor
iously getting the whole lot to the post office in great big sacks was proving a little too much. To
day our thanks go out to Mrs.Heathfield of Tradition who does this in a most efficient and uncomplain
ing manner. Quite frankly, 1 could not imagine how anybody else except my secretary, clinic recep
tionist and myself could ever be bothered to undertake such a boring, back-breaking business!
1 suppose it could be claimed that the pages of these 200 copies of WARGAMER'S NEWSLETTER are
about the only recorded history of wargaming in existence, reflecting as they do all its ups and
downs, its new ideas, its phases, its controversies, its new products, the rise and fall of numerous
firms, clubs and organisations (some of them are still with us today fortunately) and all the thousand
and one other facets that go to make up this wonderfully colourful hobby of ours. As 1 get older it
® comforting thought (and 1 do not mean this financially!) that to some extent my magazine and
the books that 1 have written on the hobby have materially aided in the massive steps forward which
have brought it to public recognition as a world wide major hobby.
Hereb to the next 200 issues — but 1 doubt if 1 will be editing them all!

THE BEST OF THE NEWSLETTER - ISSUE No. 1 April 1962

BATTLES TO REMEMBER! by Don Featherstone

Every wargamer must have the memory of one particular battle, one game in which his plans worked
superb and his opponent fell into every trap laid for him! It may be
that the troops used were some that had been very laboriously made, painted with loving care and go
ing into action for the very first time, they fought like tigers. Could it be that the terrain was
really something out of the ordinary, the hills even more climbable than usual, the rivers and their
bridges realistic and very crossable? Or was it the last battle of a long and arduous campaign which
just had to he won in order to emerge triumphant from the shole shindig?
My best remembered battle, after some thought, was not even fought with my own troops - in fact
TT Om£iV*fTQC' cio __J. o -1 -1 -■ i j - _ *

-7/.30 atI night

' :r ^ 1 had to ^ capitulate but the anu
when i^avxQ i\asn
interest' - ix rageu
was sustained irom ii in
throughout andthewe morning until
never stopped
rowing about the rules, did we Peter? Then there was an affair with Warwick Hales Napoleonic flats
that took place at Chatham - in which 1 manipulated their rules so that 1 formed up in a stronger
lormation than the famed British square and then demanded an increase in the liberty that their rules
gave to squares - but it was a good battle and we all enjoyed it - Warwick, Peter Pringle and 1.
battle 1 have in mind took place at Tony Bath's place a few weeks ago, using his Ancient
^both formed
Thereup were
our tWb parallel
heavy ranges
infantry of unclimbable
in strong three-deephills runningwith
formation across
each the width
flank of the ontable
anchored those we
hills. On our flanks we laid our cavalry, light troops, chariots and elephants. Tony moved first
and his move indicated that he intended to hold in the centre and attack on one or other of his flanks.
then moved and gave the impression that 1 intended advancing on my left flank, whilst my centre held'
and my right flank advanced and then held. Tony moved again, and his flank troops moved further awav
Irom his centre, 1 then reared my right flank troops back to a holding position, then pivoted my
heavy infantry on their right end so as to leave a gap through which 1 flung my elephants, chariots
and heavy cavalry against Tony's line of heavy infantry. 1 was able to do this because my left flank
lorces 01 elephants, chariots and cavalry had only made token moves towards their flank and had
actually, only arrived in a suitable position to be flung through the gap. '
One doesn't often pull off a tactical surprise against Bath and so 1 was highly delighted after
wards when he admitted that my move had completely surprised him. It did not make quite as much head-
had hoped because 1 had been forced to fling in my attack rather early (l would rather have
It another move so that his flanking forces were even further away from their centre) and Tony
^+^1. ■
It having most under
given way of them
the back eventually
weight to help his hardpressed centre,» many of the units formlnes
of the attack.
An interesting sidelight on this attack lay in the fact that its composition of elephants
Chariots and cavalry with heavy infantry in support formed a composite group of such a type that the
rules could not cover their activities in the meleel

us HAS A WARGAME THAT STANDS OUT IN HIS MEMORY, SHARE THAT HAPPY EVENT WITH THE REST
RELATE JUST WHAT HAPPENED, THE CIRCUMSTANCES, THE TROOPS INVOLED AND WHETHER OR NOT YOUR
OPPONENT ACTUALLY DID USE THAT OPEN-RAZOR OR BOTTLE OF POISON!
1 could not forbear to also include the little space filler that was on the bottom of this page
in the original issue number 1 - their are not many of us lucky enough to discover an unknown wargames
room in our house, are there? ^

One big Item 1 have discovered in our rented house is a real genuine wargames room! Some wall
panelling on the upstairs landing turned out to be a door and it led to an attic with proper flooring
linoleum covered, small windows and electric light. It was quite a find - 1 have my 6' x 6' table up'
there and 1 am ready for anyone!;; ^
Bill Gunson.
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FS5 HJrt.S. Sceptre — Submarine ... 40p FS73A U.S.S. Cravaile Submarine ... ... 40p
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FS5A HMA. Sea Lion - Submarine ... 40p
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M6 Geiman Type IX SS FA7 Grumman Wildcat - Aircraft (pack of 8) 3 5p FD76 HM.S. Caesar - Destroyer ... £1.00
K7 Geiman Type IXo SS FS8 HA1.S. Reaolution - Submarine ... 35p FT77 HM.S.Stormking-Tug 55p
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FCIO HAIA. Ajaa - Cruiaerfseecat.no. FA80) £2.92 FA80 Walrus Airt^c and Catapult ... 39p
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FSll HAIA. Dreadnought - Submarine ... 40p
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FS12 HA1.S. Andrew - Submarine ... 40p
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M12 British Bustler Class Fleet Tug FBD13 H>i3. Barfoil - Boom Defence ... S5p FZ84 C.I.V. Thames Barge ... ... 35p
F015 R.F A. Gold Ranger- Tanker ... £1.15 FH85 Vo^er VT2 Hovercraft (per 2) ... 59p
Ml 3 Geiman F Class ESC FH85A Vosper VT2 Hovercraft-Missile Version (per 2) 55p
FSUi7 Robert Mlddleton - Coastal Supply Ship 70p
Ml 4 British Flush Beck Tospei MTB FS18 HA1.S. Thames-Submarine ... 45p FLC86 L.C.T.5-Tank Landing Craft (per 2) 59p
Ml 5 British Motor a/S Boat FE19 German 114' 'E' Boat (Packet of 2)
FSC87 Giuseppe Miraglia (Seaplane Ca^r)
M16 German 1915 Type AM Italy (1943) £1.65
FLC20 British 190' Landing Craft ... ... 45p
C7EE FLC20A British 190' Landing Craft ... ... 45p FA88 Reggiane RE. 2000/3A Aircraft
Ml7 H.M.S. Avenger C7E i 2.40 (For Kit FSC 87) (per 8) ... 35p
Ml 8 German S-30 Class Boat 12p
E Bo FLCIOB British 190' Landing Craft ... ... 45p
FTK21 Sherman Tank (packet of 8) ... 33p FA89 Hotspur WWII Glider (per 6) ... 3Sp
Ml 9 British Black Svfan Class ESC 35p
FS22 Russian 'N' Class Submarine ... 45p FTR91 Stram Class Trawler (per 2) ... ... 7(^
M20 German Yacht Nlxle ESC 12p FS92 Russian 'H' Class Submarine ... 45p
FS23 Russian'J'Class Submarine ... 45p FSlOO Russian'C Class Submarine ... 40p
M21 Geiman S-10 Class E Bo
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FS24A Russian'F'Class Submarine (Arctic) 45p
FTB103 75'ThomeycfoftMTB(pcr2) ... 45p
M22 British S-Z Class BB 55p FA104 U.S. Conair Aircraft (1943) (per 7) ... 35p
M23 British Tribal Class BB 55p FGB23 70'Motor Gun Boat (picket of 3) FA105 Sea King Helicopter (pcr3) ... ... 45p
FD26 HM.S.Wiven - Destroyer ... ... £1.00 FA106 Cataiina PBY-S Flying Boat ... ... 39p
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M25 Geimaii Maass Class BB 55p FZ107 Lloycisman Tug (British) ... ... £1.30
FD26B HAl.S. Viscount - Destroyer ... £1.00 FS 102 U.S A. Sturgeon Class (Submarine) ... 45p
M26 Japanese 1-40 Class SS 25r FD26C HM.S. Vanity - Destroyer ... £1.00 FS108 Russian'Z'Class Submarine ... 45p
M27 British Falrmlle A Clas.i M3B
3B 12p FS27 Russian'G'Class Submarine ... 55p FD109 German Narvick Class Destroyer ... £1.00
FMB28 117'M.T.B. (per2) 45p
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M29 British Flower Class ESC FGBlll Aegir Icelandic Gunboat ... ... 70p
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30 U.S. landing Craft Medium LSM 30p FTB31 Fairmile'D'M.T.B. (per 2) ...
FD32 Asashio - Japanese Destroyer ... £1.00 FDL113 Adnlralty Harbour Defence
31 U.S. Higglns Type MTB 12p Launch x 2
32 Ulster Monarch L.S.I.£1-50
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33 Italian Navigatorl Class BB 55p FCA35B Liberty Ship (Type C2)-Tank Transport £1.62 FrB115 Yoeper 72»6"M.T,B. i 2 45p
34 Italian Orsa Class BBE 35p FM036 HM.S. Roberts (Monitor) ... ... £1.62
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35 British Bido Class CLAA £1-80 FS117 SwiftBure Class SubBM^ine 40p
36 British Belfast Class CL £2-50 FS38 1-40 Japanese Submarine ... ... 40p
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37 H.M.S. Ark Eoyal CV N|A FLC40 Japanese 46' Landina Craft (per 6) 35p FTB119 80» ELCO M.T.b. i 2 45p
36 H.M.S. Exeter CA £1-75 FD41 H.M.S. Sheffield — Type 42 Destroyer £1.15
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39 Japanese Pubukl Class BB 55p
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40 Japanese No 1 Class ESC 12p DE2 Internal 90° Comer (5 in packet) ... 40ip
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41 Japanese Natsushima Class CM 25p FVJ45 Diamond Breakdown Truck (per 10) 35p DE3 Straight.77mm long (5 in packet) ... 6(^
42 Japanese Matsu Class BBE 55p FVP46 GM.C. D.U.K.W. (pcrlO) ... ... 35p D4 300 - ft. Floating Dock ... ... £1.80
43 Japanese Shlmakaze Class BB 65p FVP47 A.E.C. Articulated Tractor (per 10) ... 35p D5 Dockside Crane (3 in packet) ... 35p
FVG48 Bedford Petrol Tanker (per 10) ... 35p D6 Oil Storage Tanks, small (per 6) ... 45p
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47 U.3.S. Holllster (Gearing) BB 65p FV52 Bren Gun Carrier (per 10) ... ... 35p DIO Lighthouse (per 2) ... ... ... 35p
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FV64 Scammell 30-ton Tank Transporter (per 4) 35p F510 U.S.S. Roanoke ... ... ... 45p
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San Josef 112 guns
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RE14 British M.V. Ulster Monarch Passenger Cargo ship £1-40 Independence 74 guns
REIh British S.S. Temple Mead Cargo Vessel £1-50
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RE20 British S.S. London Queen Coastai Trade ft Passenger 50l PLEBTUNE NAPOLEONTn HBTPR
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 SETTING UP A BATTLE 'by R.D.Prosser

This rule is to he used when two (or more) players wish to fight a "one-off" hattle. The aim is
to get away from the stale "equal-forces" concept, 1. Lay out a table with obvious defensive capa
bilities (a village, for example). Assume that a force of 200 points (say) is established in the de
fensive position. 2. Now each side is to estimate the size of force required to enable a successful
attack to be made, bearing in mind that the role (Defender or Attacker) of each side has yet to be
decided. 3. Now toss a coin to decide who is to be the Attacker and who the Defender. Then let
battle commence!

If the players involved are not frivolous gamblers, then an interesting but balanced game should
result.

ORDERS: This rule is meant to eliminate any paper-work involved in giving orders each move (in an
"alternate-move" system), yet prevent a player from reacting immediately to his opponent.

"Standing Orders"

a. A unit which is moving will normally do so in a straight line.

b. For a unit approaching an obstacle, it must be decided whether the unit is to travers or avoid the
obstacle. A unit which goes by the circuitous route will return to its original direction of advance
as soon as possible.
c. A unit coming upon a road may follow the same if so desired, in the direction nearest to that of
the unit's current line of advance. A unit requires an order to leave a road, however.
dv A unit may be ordered to halt any time.
e. A unit which is attacked at close quarters may automatically counter-attack.
f. Units in wooded or built-up areas may leave by any suitable exit and will be facing away from such
an exit.
g. Unless otherwise ordered, a unit may continue to obey an order as executed last move. This is to
allow units to carry out orders which may take more than one move to complete.

When it is wished to give new orders to a unit, throw 1 or 2 dice. (l die for units engaged in
combat or in extended order, 2 dice otherwise. If 2 dice are thrown, choose the better score).

SCORE ORDERS ALLOWED

May commenace attack or begin moving. Each unit may be diced

May change face or direction of movement for only once per
May change formation. move.

Units are normally given individual orders but a Staff Officer may give the same orders to more
than one unit at a time, for the sake of co-ordination.

BOOK REVIEWS - Continued from Page IS

slve role against Allied bombers. The appendices list Orders of Battle and there are captions des
cribing aircraft, camouflage, weaponry and so on. Each of these books is most interesting in that
the photographs are mostly new and, besides being very clear, are extremely illustrative of the
subject in question. It is a good idea with a fine pictorial record, that backs up the saying "one
picture is worth a dozen words."

Again from Patrick Stephens are paperback editions of two fine books which have already been re
viewed in these pages. The first is by our old friend George Gush - THE RENAISSANCE ARMIES 1480-1630
(128 pages; 9i" x 7i"; 110 photographs and 'iSl drawings - £2.95p). Dirt cheap at this price, it is a
book which could go a long way to further popularising this most suitable period for wargaming. The
second one is MODELLING MINIATURE FIGURES edited by Bruce Quarrie (l52 pages; 9" x 6"; 88 photographs
and 119 drawings - £2.95p). TTiis practical guide to modelling, converting and animating model
soldiers is packed with illustrations and has been written by many renowned military modellers includ
ing Roy Dilley. Individual chapters explain the different techniques and conversion possibilities
from many model figures ranging from tiny wargames figures to large scale collector's pieces. Again,
already favourably reviewed in these pages when first published - its appearance in a cheaper edition
should go a long way towards popularising the modelling of model soldiers.

Two catalogues have come to hand - that of Blandford Press which contains details of all their
latest books, some of which are of the greatest interest to militarists, military collectors and war-
gamers. All feature large numbers of illustrations, many in colour and are obtainable in almost every
bookshop one encounters. The second catalogue is from Macdonald and Jane's, mostly renowned for their
famous series of Jane's Fighting Ships but now, under the admirable guidance of my friend Michael
Stevens, branching out with some quite exceptional military books. One of their best must surely be
COMMANDOS AND RANGERS OF "WORLD WAR II by James Ladd which will be reviewed next month and, from a
lengthy list, one can also pick out the exceptional ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF MILITARY HISTORY by R.E. and T.N.
Dupuy. There is something for everyone in this catalogue and the wargamer can only benefit from ob
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 AN UPPER CRUST - OR SIMPLY "ETHICAL WARGAMERS AGAINST POLLUTION"?

Paddy Griff1th (R.M.A.Sandhurst)

The Octoher Newsletter seemed to he even meatier than ever, with a wide range of articles getting
to grips with the "state of the art". It has prompted me to ask a few questions which may perhaps
find an echo In other wargamers' minds.

First of all: are wargames running the risk of drifting Into politics? I would like to think not;
hut many other unlikely hohhles have suffered this fate In the past - and hy their very nature war-
games are, perhaps, particularly at risk. It Is not many weeks, after all, since the South African
police Impounded a published wargame for purely political reasons; while questions have also recently
heen raised In the House of Commons ahout the financing of a certain wargame cluh. The -hlgger the
hohhy grows, the more It Is hound to attract the attention of outsiders; and the more It will become
a part of society to he debated and dissected just like any other.

Quite apart from this, we must take care over the Internal structure of our hohhy. There Is a
world of difference between a hohhy which just happens to he composed of a wide range of different
people - Tinkers, Tailors. Candlestick Makers, etc., (or, from a political point of view; left wing,
right wing, centre, etc.,); and a hohhy which Is polarised or SPLIT UP Into a "Wargamlng League of
Tinkers", a "Tailors' Wargamlng Front", and a "Candlestick Makers' Alliance for a Waxier Wargame",
etc., etc. 1 feel that If the second alternative were to come ahout, It would he a disaster of un
mitigated proportions for the hohhy. We really must not allow our different political points of view
to obtrude Into wargames. One has only to look at the state of International Chess to see where that
may lead.

All this raises a new question: Should the hobby he divided at all? To this, my answer Is very
definitely "YES". The more we try to bring everyone together, the more we lose sight of what we are
really ahout. If we standardise the rules, we are actually bringing everyone down to the lowest
common denominator, and even encouraging gamesmanship. If we try to say that "Fantasy games (or hoard
games) are just like any other wargames", then we are being very short-sighted, and using a lot of
special pleading. Of course every group will have Its own sets of rules, and every branch of the
hohhy will have Its own separate specialists. Long may It continue like this.

1 fear that Prof. M.A.R.Barker's attack on military historians In wargamlng rather misses the
point. When we say (and as a professional military historian 1 count myself among his targets) that
we would like more realism In our games, we are not trying to spoil anyone's fun, or make the hohhy
serious or "Important". We are simply saying that 1^ one wants a game where one knows all the rules,
then hy all means go out and play Chess, Monopoly, or Fantasy games. All these games assume that one
can know all there Is to know ahout the subject of the game. (Prof. Barker himself even offers to
turn out as much hard data as are required!) With military history, however. It Is different. We can
know only a very tiny percentage of what went on In history, so our games cannot he as mathematically
abstract or standardised as these other types. We cannot regard our playing pieces merely ^ pieces.
They represent real men In a true past which we can only glimpse. The process of making the rules
must therefore he an endless dialogue between the game and our understanding of the past. If must he
open ended; not an exercise In computer programming.

Actually Prof. Barker does seem to hint at this view towards the end of his article, when he says
"To me, the background Is Important .... 1 feel that a 'good' set of rules should compel players to .
think and act as much like their actual counterparts as possible ...." etc. But how the genial
professor hopes to reconcile that with his earlier statemen't that "We are not acting as military
historians when we play, and the results of our battles are quite Irrelevant to what did occur - or
could occur - In a real battle" escapes me completely. Either we are basing our game on something
real - In which case we are acting like military historians - or we are not acting like military
historians, and It does not matter what background we use. One cannot have It both ways.

As for the self-importance of military historians. It seems to he considerably less developed than
that of people who go to the extent of writing out whole hooks to elaborate their own particular
fantasy world. In my experience It Is the wargame with the least petty detail ahout It which Is the
most amusing to play; and the game with the most cumbersome documentation which Is the most boring and
self-important.

This leads me to my next question: Does the hobby need an "Upper Crust"? If this Is to he a body
which churns out lots of boring documentation and standardised rules, then the answer must he an
emphatic "ITO". If It Is to he a meeting place for deeply thinking wargamers (who have no particularly
formalised duties), then It may have something to he said for It. The difficulty would he keeping
meetings on the right level: who defines what you need to he an "upper-cruster?" Who says whether a
particular Individual Is thinking "deeply" ahout his wargames, or only "medium-deep"? As I see It,
such a group would he of value only as a means of spreading really new Ideas. And, hy definition, the
upper crusters might well turn out to he opposed to Innovation, simply because they have reached the
top already.

The frontiers of wargamlng have not yet heen hinted at, let alone reached. Several leading war
gamers, however, appear to believe that we have passed them long ago, and are now In the badlands
beyond. Others, again, believe that they have heen reached, and must he patrolled rather like Hadrian's
Wall: nobody must cross either one way or the other. Personally, 1 believe that we are still blunder
ing ahout very much In the Interior; sometimes we take very wrong turnings, and sometimes we get a boost
forward. The arrival of Skirmish games, for example, helped us on our way; hut the corruption of this
Idea Into freakish post - holocaust encounters headed us down a blind alley. Again, the "D & D" format
brings many useful Innovations In the relationship between umpire and player, hut stops short of a total
breakthrough because there Is only one playing team. 1 am sure wargamers will he able to make up their
own lists of "leaps forward" and "blind alleys".
CONTINUED ON PAGE ^
 WARGAMING AND POLITICS

UnalJle to accept that I have written anything of a political nature in these pages, the letters
hy Mark Prin and others surprise me as I genuinely and sincerely believe that my slightly tongue-in-
cheek remarks are the only possible convictions for thinking intelligent mature people. It is inter
esting to note that only those who disagree with me term my words 'political', and that I share my
views with those whom, like myself and George Erik, are of an age to have worn uniform and fought in
a war.

For some reason which defies commonsense it is fashionable to imply that there is something
cynical and unworthy in defending patriotism and the need for law-and-order, that it is 'political'
and should be eschewed from our daily conversation and the pages of our journals.

I find it hard to accept this either in life or in our hobby as 1 do not believe that any war-
gamer can be really neutral in this matter. Totally immersing themselves in the study of military
history, thinking wargamers will soon become well aware that what is to happen in the future is
usually foreshadowed by what occurred in the past. It should be realised that the day has passed
when one can dismiss responsibilities as H.G.Weils did in his book LITTLE WARS -

"....let us put this pi-anclng monarch and that silly scare-monger, and these excitable "patriots"
and those adventurers, and all the jiractltioners of Welt Politik, into one vast Temple of War, with
cork carpets everywhere, plentv' of little trees and little houses to knock down, and citizen fort
resses, unlimited soldieis - guns, cellars-full - and let them lead their own lives there away from
us. My game is just as good as their game, and saner by reason of its size. Here is War, done down
to rational proportions, and \'et out of the way of mankind ...."

defending their country, openly declare that they would not do so. Nothing in Life is free and it
does not seem to be realised that the ticket of admission to live in a free democratic world is for
young men to occasionally don a uniform and risk their lives defending it.

I can only accept that my words had any political Implications if it is equally accepted that in
a democracy it Is an essential of politics to ensure public security - for a society that lives with
no law, acknowledging no order, cannot enjoy the free exercise of politics.

As is the custom of Wargamer's Newsletter, I am printing, unabridged, those letters received on

this subject - Roy Black seems to understand what makes me tickl

"1 think Mark Erin ml sjudges Don l-eatherstone. From his writings over the years Don quite clear-
ly emerges as a patriot of the 'old school' who believes in 'My country right or wrong'. 1 believe
that the underlying purpos e of his editorial remarks was to gently alert that section of the community
he best knows against the loss of long cherished liberties. Perhaps Don is right - whether It be
political or not - as seld cm is freedom lost suddenly and dramatically, totalitarian regimes come to
power usually by constltut lonal means - Hitler, for ("example - but Democracy can seldom he restored by
those means. What we all have to guard against is the gradual loss of freedom, with each step incon-
snicuous and not even arou sing suspicion. It is in such erosion that dangers exists.

Don did express political views IF It is acknowledged that Politics are the means whereby our
lives are secured and our affairs are managed - or stagemanaged, the two are sometimes confused. What
can possibly matter more to the average citizen than his ability to walk from his home at any hour of
the day without a protective weapon, reasonablv' certain that he will return home unharmed and un
molested to find his family safe and his home inviolate?

Albert Einstein wrote: "Our defence and our way of life is not in armaments, nor in science, nor
in going underground. Our defence is in law and order."

Few can deny that all is far from right with our world - perhaps Don Featherstone feels justified
in using the platform he has at his disposal to occasionally drag us from our world of militarv make-
believe."

Roy Black of Hertfordshire.

"1 really must protest both about the August and October Editorials, and also about your reply
to Mark Frin's letter in the October issue.

Firstly, let me state my position. I am a wargamer, and not a politician or a journalist. If I

wish to denounce the latest iniquity of the Government or of the Conservative Party, or for that
matter of anything else, then 1 usually use the admirable facilities provided by the "Three Horseshoes"
down the road. I strongly suggest that should you wish to do the same, you also go to your local, and
do not use the position afforded by your editorial column.

I am not going to make any political comments. 1 have my own political beliefs which may or may
not coincide with your own; however I would not dream of using "Wargamer's Newsletter" to put them
across. I am given to understand that the letters page of the "Times" is usually considered to be a
more suitable place.

The suggestion that your own views necessarily coincide with those of most "thinking, responsible
people" is extremely arrogant and I cannot do less than condemn this comment on Mark Frin's letter. I
have no doubt that you have strong and sincere views about many things. Nevertheless I would prefer
only to read about your opinions on wargaming and not on the current social or political as you see
them.

Keep up the good wargaming work."

Patrick Cawie of Lincoln College, Oxford.
 "I must say how much I regret the Intrusion of rather acrimonious political argument into a
hobby magazine. Possibly your critics over-reacted but I do feel that it was a sad day for the News
letter when you first used its pages as a vehicle for the expression of your own particular political
views. The editorial page Donald, in my view®99^i'trict its comments to matters directly relating to
the hobby and not serve as a platform for political soap-box oratory. Politics notoriously brings out
the worst in men - 1 feel strongly that we have enough "domestic" burning issues to keep us occupied
without digressing into an outside field."

Andy Callan of Manchester.

"Congratulations on your August/October editorials on being neither "pro" nor "anti" establish
ment, but a reaffirmafion of basic principles and facts of which unfortunately today a constant re
minder is urgently needed. The function of any specialised journal is to provide a platform for all
points of view, including Editorial, and to cancel a subscription on a point of disagreement is merely
pathetic.

As a keenly interested but non-participating wargames supporter, I accept Prof. Barkers' erudite
championship of "fantasy" wargaming, but like many others he appears to overstress what is termed the
"superficiality" of historical wargaming. In some senses true, but if taken at face value then the
military academies and kindred bodies of the world are wasting a hell of a lot of time and public
money to no purpose I I would opine that if the Newsletter were ever reduced to a composite diatribe
of discussion and interpretation of rules and more rules, it would soon cease to exist.
Your irrational correspondent Mark Frin, appears to be a typical example of today's "education"
in so-called political and social history which ignores the basic fact that social law can only be up
held by deterrents - whether they be social/moral offences or violence. And if he seeks scapegoats
for his indignation let him castigate the sponsors and architects of the class-war concept.
As for patriotism, 1 doubt if he is qualified to express an opinion. Otherwise he would know
that it is politicians that start wars - soldiers are stuck with the job of finishing them. With or
against whom and when they have no choice, only their patriotic and professional duty. Of course,
patriotism should be primarily directed towards the peaceful improvement of ones country, and if
politicians and people could be united to that end instead of always being politically divided in
peacetime, it could work.

Let me tell him what patriotism is about. Before the war I lived and worked in Germany, where
1 acquired agreat admiration for the country and its people. When Chamberlain flew to Munich 1 was
at a German airport with five close German friends, all in uniform, to say goodbye. We shook hands,
saluted, and wished each other the luck of survival. We accepted our patriotic duty as real men will
always do. Since the war 1 have again many good German friends and our relationship is based on
mutual respect with a joint desire to promote peace and understanding. But we know that if need arose
we would be ready to do the same again - but preferably side by side.

Finally, permit me to endorse in full your commendation of "The Third World War 1985" by General
Sir John Hackett and others, which underlines the above. In my view, essential reading for dedicated
wargamers - and for all our educational establishments! In addition, 1 would like to see every
politician and civil service chief locked up with a copy, and only released when he could repeat it
word for word by heart - which might at least postpone the almost inevitable disaster!"

Gaorge Erik of Tunbridge Wells.

"As a long standing subscriber (since 1965) 1 wish to echo the sentiments of tark Frin's letter
in the October Newsletter. Whilst I doubt that my own political opinions coincide/with his, any more
than they do with yours, 1 am unhappy that you are using the Newsletter editorial as a right wing
political platform. 1 realise that some at least of your October editorial was written tongue in
cheek, but 1 would like to register my personal objection to many of the political sentiments you have
expressed in the Newsletter of late.

The particular act that made me write this letter was your retort that "most thinking responsible
people" share your views. As a thinking and responsible person I certainly do not share your political
views. 1 would imagine that amongst your own circle of friends and even, perhaps, amongst the readers
of the Newsletter your opinions would find a fair degree of support; but 1 do not accept that either
of these categories necessarily constitutes "most thinking responsible people."
I hope you realise that the above is not a criticism of the magazine (which 1 think you do an
excellent job on) but a reply - im so far as it can be without dealing with the specifics - to your
provocative editorials."

P. J. Holmes of London S.E.12.

AN UPPER CRUST - CONTINUED FROM PAGE IJ.

One reason why I do not think we have yet got anywhere near the end of the trail is precisely be
cause there still sfeems to be so much disagreement over all this. My own insistence on military history
games, for example, has been called a blind alley in these very pages. It may be one, for all 1 know;
but it is hardly recognised as such universally. As a hobby, we are still unsure of exactly which di
rections we are heading. When we ^ find the final frontier, 1 think we will recognise it more clearly
than anyone has yet.
There are still many new ideas coming forward in the hobby, which need to be properly digested and
incorporated into the rules before we can say what they will leave us with. Ian Greenwood's excellent
article on "Congentions of Battle Play", for example, raises very challenging points about social con
ventions in warfare, and the etiquettes of fighting. If we can truly wargame his Battle of Maldon (or
Andy Callan's Agincourt), we might even, one day, find an answer to the old "savage vs. soldier"
problem, or the whole "national characteristics" debate. Of course we need new ideas. The hobby may
even need an "Upper Crust" to generate them.
 BOOK REVIEWS
I make no apologies for this month's Book
feature l)eing at such length. This is partly
due to a not unnatural seasonal increase in
published works, hut more to those hooks reviewed
herewith heing a rather exceptional collection.
I love hooks, and the sight of these beautiful
new volumes lying before me generates consider
able excitemait with my breast. Furthermore,
some of them are written by friends of mine and,
without exception, every book reviewed here is
well written, beautifully produced and well
worthy of support by a public who should realise
that the seemingly high cost of books today is
only in parallel with other aspects of the moderh
world and is rarely higher than the actual trvie
worth of the book in question. The order in
which they are reviewed is not a question of
precedence nor should be taken as any indication
of their comparative worth.
^ < L' v. •rr

THE WARS OF THE CRUSADES 1096-1291 by

Terence Wise. r9i'"~ir7i^T~2Wpages, 8 pages of
full colour; 9 maps; 67 black-and-white illustra Ha
tions. Osprey Publishing Ltd - £7.50p).
I am always delighted when an old friend, as
is Terry Wise, produces a first—class book, significant both in its content and appearance. And make
no mistake, this book fills that role; For some odd reasonthere are certain colourful periods in
military history that, although being ideally suited for wargaming, are sadly neglected - the Crusades
is certainly one of them (others are Napoleon in Egypt 1799, the British-American War of 1812, the
American-Mexican War of ]8A6 for example). There is enough "meat" in the fully detailed pages of this
book to send any self-respecting wargamer rushing round the corner to buy up hordes of figures to be
painted as English and French Crusaders, Teutonic Knights, Spaniards and Moors, Turks and Saracens
who can be pitted against each other in every conceivable type of table-top battle, ranging from
sieges to ambushes. Their painting presents no problem because they are fully detailed in colour
herein. The book begins with a chronological description of the Crusades, then discusses the oppos
ing armies of Islam and Christendom, with a special chapter on the famous and colourful Military
Orders. Armour, costume and weapons is described down to the last detail in two very full chapters,
whilst tactics are given at such length as to leave no wargamer with an excuse for handling armies in
this period as though they were Napoleonics. Finally there is a chapter on fortification - and the
•sieges of this period as fully described in other works of fact and fiction, are exciting as almost
anything one can read in the field of military history. There is a fine bibliography and the pictures
and maps are quite first-class and Terry is to be congratulated on his perspicacity in seeking them
all out - or have Osprey got a super research staff these days? No doubt there are those pedants who
will knock the odd item in this book Just as they did with Terry's equally admirable MEDIEVAL WARFARE
(Osprey 1976) but for those of us who do not wish to read the small print in dry and uninteresting
tomes, it does not really matter.

NAVAL GUN by Ian Hogg and John Batchelor. (12^" x 9i"; pages; 55 coloured plates, 112 black-
and white line drawings and photographs. Blandford Press - £8.95p).
I suppose it is possible for a person lacking any interest in botany to pick up a book on flowers
and be quite entranced by its glorious coloured reproductions. It is not quite this way with me so
far as this book is concerned, because I do have a fringe interest in Naval matters but - far more than
that - I have the greatest possible interest in beautifully produced books, impressive coloured plates
some covering two pages so that they are more than one foot square, reproductions of military and naval
paintings from many foreign sources all backed by impeccable technical details written in a fascinating
and highly readable manner. Blandford are noted for their coloured books - the manner in which they
produced my own WEAPONS AND EQUIPMENT OF THE VICTORIAN SOLDIER makes it by far the best of all books
I have had published - and I think it is quite possible that Ian Hogg and John Batchelor will similarly
regard this volume. It is in seven sections - 1. Bombards and Serpentines, 2. The Broadside Era, 3.
The Arrival of the Ironclad, A. The Great Debate, 5. Ironclad to Dreadnought, 6. Tested by Fire and 7.
Twilight of the Big Gun. If you have any pretentions towards being a Naval wargamer, or if you like
beautiful books then this is for you - and remember it is Christmas and somebody near and dear is
bound to ask you what special present you would like!

BRITISH AND AMERICAN ARTILLERY OF WORLD WAR 2 b> Ian V.Hog (9t" x; 7i"; 256 pages; 350 photo-
graphs'! (Arms and Armour Press - £11.95p).
The speed at which Ian Hogg turns out books and the amount of research necessary for each one of
them leads me, not entirely without experience in researching and writing books, to wonder when he
finds time to sleep! Of course, I know that ones books can be written with a year or so between them
and yet, by reason of the vagaries of publishing firms, see the light of day at about the same time.
However, Ian Hogg's bank account should be substantially strengthened about eighteen months from now
when the first royalties start pouring in! This beautifully produced book is a comprehensive encyclo
pedia providing, with copious illustrations and highly detailed accounts, details of all the guns used
by the Allied armies of the West in every theatre of operations during World War Two. It is doubtful
whether there is another author with as much knowledge, experience and understanding who could write
such a book and this could well be the definitive work for years to come. If your scene is relatively
modern wargamlng then I don't see how you can really do without this hook as you will see from its
contents. Beginning with Artillery Development hy the Western Allies, it goes on to describe various
artillery pieces of Great Britain and U.S.A., classified as Field and Medium Artillery; Anti-tank
Artillery; Anti-aircraft Artillery; Heavy and Super-Heavy Artillery; Railway Artillery; Coast Artillery;
Recoilless Artillery; Ammunition and Markings, with a useful glossary to finish. In a sense it is a hit
depressing that so much of Man's ingenuity should he poured into weapons to destroy his fellows hut
such is the nature of mankind that he will never change and may yet he the death of us all. However,
that is another story so push it on one side as you riffle through the pages of this beautiful hook.

AFRIKA KORPS AT WAR No.2 - The Long Road Back hy George Forty. (lli" x Sf"; 129 pages; 256
photos/maps. Ian Allen - £5.95pJ. This is the second hook in the series, the first THE ROAD TO
ALEXANDRIA being reviewed in the June 1978 issue of this magazine. When sitting next to George Forty
at the Annual Reunion Dinner of my Regiment in Leeds shortly I shall say to him - "Your writing and
selection of photographs in your hooks reveals a deep and sincere insight into what makes a soldier
tick in wargime, which you do as honestly and enthusiastically for the enemy as for your own side.
War in the Western Desert was something rather special, a cleanly fought conflict in an arena almost
classically suited to warfare, so presenting a great attraction to the military historian - obviously
it fascinates you and, taking a very minor part for some of my most formative months, it fascinates
me. Your words and photographs bring hack the smell, heat and the comradeship perhaps the
greatest redeeming feature of warfare. George, I loved the hook, gloried in the photographs, respected
the men who tried to kill us while we tried to kill them and congratulate you on a fine and sincere
work which gives credit where it is due and shows the respect that one first—class soldier has for
another. Yours sincerely, D.F."

GERMAN AIRCRAFT OF WORLD WAR 2 in colour hy Kenneth Munson. (9f" x 7^"; l60 pages; 151 coloured
illustrations; 116 black-and-white. Blandford Press - £5.95p).
This author's name is a household word among the writers of aircraft hooks and, notwithstanding
that fact, 1 am sure that he is proud of this one. Resplendant, in the usual Blandford manner, with
hosts of coloured and black-and-white illustrations, the hook deals with the Aircraft of the Luftwaffe
between 1939-19^5, doing so in the greatest depth with highly detailed performanceihAhlesM text which,
although of a technical nature is also highly readable. A fine hook for the aircraft huff.
UNIFORMS OF THE WARSAW PACT hy Friedrich Wiener. (ll" x 8^"; 64 pages, at least 3 black-and-
white photographs per page with l6 full pages in colour. Squadron/Signal Publication - pi.95)•
Obtainable in this country from Almark or Hersant Bookshops, this is another of the admirable
Squadron/Signal publications which so frequently and regularly come into this country. Beginning with
a table of the military strengths of the Warsaw Pact Countries, the hook covers the military dress of
every one of the Warsaw Pact countries, including vehicle and aircraft insignia. The photographs are
excellent and the whole thing is a spine-chilling catalogue of what we are up against.
TA-IK BATTLES IN MINIATURE - 5 A wargamers' guide to the Arab-Israeli Wars since 1948 hy Bruce
Quarried (8i" X
(Sf x 5i"; 136 pages; 16 photographs, 11 maps and diagrams. Patrick Stephens - £3.95p).
As the Arab-Israeli Wars are, with the India-Pakistan confrontations, perhaps the major armoured
wars in the thirty-odd years since the ad of World War Two, it is high time that a book was written
specifically dealing with the armour of those wars - particularly from a wargaming point of view. As
he has shown in his other books in this series, Bruce Quarrie is admirably suited to write such a book
which stands up well alongside his others in this series. It contains sections on Tanks, Anti-tank
guns. Missiles, conventional artillery. Minefields, Communications, Unit organisation. Vehicle camou
flage schemes and presents a critical analysis of the weapon systems and tactics employed by the
Israelis and their Egyptian, Syrian, Jordanian and Arab opponents. The war at sea and in the air
(the latter written by a specialist guest author) are considered in separate chapters and the book
also contains detailed-sets of playing rules for either large-scale tank encounters or smaller scale
skirmish-type wargames. As I have said, it is an admirable book in the sense that it contains all
that one wants to know and its style of presentation may be one considered to appeal to wargamers,
particularly younger ones. Personally, the manner in which the English language is used in this book
ma&esme, as a writer, cringe, as it gives the impression of being typed directly from the first dic
tated draft with all its colloquialisms and chatty verbosity. This may be purposefully done because
it is considered to be more likely to appeal to the wargamer, or perhaps it stems from the writers
and publisher's desire to quickly get the book out and on the market. In either event, I would prefer
a much more polished writing job and less inclusion of abbreviated words such as "hadn't"; "don't ;
use of the first person, and descriptions beginning "You should...." or "We will ....". I defer to
none in my admiration of Bruce Quarrie's detailed knowledge of tanks and armour warfare, and indeed of
the Napoleonic period - but 1 do not like his "journalese"I
Patrick Stephens have indeed been busy this month (and so has Bruce Quarrie who has written two
of the four WORLD WAR 2 PHOTO ALBUMS which have just been published.) These books are intended to be
pictorial records of the title subjects, using photographs from original negatives taken by both Allied
and German photographers at the time and. in many cases, drawn from the extensive resources of the
Bundesarchiv in Germany. Each book is 9-|" x 6i" in size, contains 96 pages and costs £3.95p casebound
and £2.50p softbound. Number 1 is PANZERS IN THE DESERT by Bruce Quarrie with 155 photographs and a
map, covering Rommel's tanks and armoured fighting vehicles in their desert battles against the 8th
Army; plus a detailed campaign map and appendices listing orders of battle for the Afrika Korps
armoured formations. Number 2 is GERMAN BOMBERS OVER ENGLAND by Bryan Philpott and includes 164
photographs and a map and depicts Goring's bomber offensive over the airfields and cities of wartime
England. Number 3 is WAFFEN-SS IN RUSSIA by Bruce Quarrie and traces the activities of this infamous
but tough fighting formation through l60 photographs, an introductory text, campaign map and appendices
listing Orders of Battle and the composition of an SS Panzer division. Number 4 - FIGHTERS DEFENDING
THE REICH by Bryan Philpott contains 153 photographs and a map and deals with the Luitwaiie's^efen-
C ONTINUED ON PAGE 80
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 LETTERS
"I was very tickled to see my name "in print" as it was when the Newsletter with my letter in it
finally showed up at the local hohhy shop. Rumours that 1 purchased the entire West Coast supply of
your publication are totally false, I merely xeroxed off innumerable copies of the page containing my
letter, to be handed out to friends, relations, and chance encounters on the street.
If I had known, though, that it was going to be printed I would have added a little disclaimer
to my statement that "any army can beat any other army". Something like "God willing", perhaps. 1
have, on the other hand, participated in one re-fight of a historical battle, using national charact
eristics, which ended with the French being pursued off the table by a surprised and very jubilant
force of 1809 Spanish.

The more I read of wargaming activities in England the more the feeling grows that we seem to do
things differently here in the Seattle area. We have never managed to get ourselves organised into a
club, certainly don't have a name (l keep suggesting "Architects of Defeat" as an apt title but no
one else agrees), and apparently have a somewhat "unique" - or weird - taste in campaigns.
Our current invention resulted from a chance encounter with a copy of the 1914 Janes. Paging
through it, we happened to notice the weird collections of Civil War ironclads, old pre-Dreadnaughts,
and captured Spanish gunboats that had been turned over to the various state's National Guards
(militia). At once an idea was born. It seems that Washington and Oregon were having a dispute over
the Columbia River salmon runs (nothing new there, our two States share the Columbia about as well as
you and the Icelanders share your fishing grounds). All appeals to sweet reason having failed the
perfidious Oregonians have resorted to arms, seized the Astoria ferry, and stormed ashore at Gwaco on
the Washington side. Outraged at this sneak attack, the good people of Washington order their State's
own private little navy to sea to meet the Oregonian threat. Now, as the sun rises over the entrance
to the Straits of Juan de Fuca, two of the worlds oddest collections of obsolescent naval craft wheeze
bravely towards each other. (And where is the regular army while all this nonsense is going on? Well
it seems that this Indian claiming to be the reincarnation of Geronimo has led the Apaches off the
reservation for one last raid, giving such U.S.Army as existed then more than enough to worry about).
Maybe the fact that we drink a lot of beer while we are coming up with scenarios for our battles has
something to do with the results?"

Greg Rose of Washington, U.S.A.

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"I have been taking the Wargamer's Newsletter for some years now, and regard it as my Oracle, but
surely you have dropped two bricks in this month's Quiz!

1. The calibre of the old Dervish-stopper Webley revolver was .45^ to be sure, 1/200 of an inch
is not much but you aren't allowed mistakes.

2. Surely in the later stages of the A.C.W. the Federal cavalry had the "Spencah seven-shootah".
Of course this was a carbine, but it was in use well before 1877.

Still one slip in seven years isn't much, and I do not propose to let my sub lapse. Wishing you
every success."

A.H.S.Cocks of West Wittering, Sussex.

(l don't think I have dropped any bricks! A glance at the October "Quiz" indicates that the
weapon concerned was not a Webley revolver but the Martini-Henry rifle. As to magazine rifles, my source
clearly stated the fact as I give it, and whilst freely acknowledging the use of Spencer's and Westley
Richards carbines in the American Civil War, we are talking of rifles. D.F.F.)
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"I notice in Newsletter No.198 Kenneth Pollock asking about German organisation in World War II.
Frankly I am amazed that he has not been able to find anything on this subject as it is only necessary
to go into any bookshop or library to see several books on the German Army. Try the "Tank Battles in
Miniature" books edited by Bruce Quarrie."

A. Grainger of Wimbledon, London.

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"You may be pleased to know that I have found renewed interest in wargaming. 1 am not sure why
this is - I suppose one may well as wonder why some people like to climb mountains. One of the main
reasons why I was discouraged in the past is the cost of metal figures. It is unfortunate that nobody
seems willing to produce good plastic figures; I have bought both "Springwood" and "Spencer-Smith"
figures before, only to be disappointed by the extreme lack of variation in positions available. The
"Atlantic" range seems to be large which is encouraging. 1 only hope that the figures themselves are
of a good standard and are posed in a reasonable manner.

A considerable amount of my time is spent thinking about rules. 1 find that the ones I produce
these days will probably fit onto the back of a postcard, something 1 would never have thought possible
a few years back! (l include a couple which you may like to print). It seems to me that there are
many accepted notions in this respect that need to be looked at in a critical light. My main aim is to
produce rules which are fairly realistic yet easy to use. A difficult task but not impossible!
 Returning to the matter of plastic figures, I have often wondered how one goes ahout making them.
In particular, I would love to know how moulds are manufactured (i.e. the metal ones for commercial
use). I also wonder if it is commereially viable for wargame figures to be made in ''kit" form, with
separate parts individually coloured (easily done with polystyrene). The idea is that wargamers would
glue the bits together as desired and have little left to paint! Perhaps you could persuade someone
to write an article on the subject."

R.D.Prosser of Burbage, Nr.Hinckley.

(Elsewhere in this issue are the quoted examples. Editor.)

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"Having one's own family out there on the Medieval field makes you a very cautious wargamer
believe me. It was my old mate Terry Wise who first put me on to the idea of "personalised" heraldry.
Waiving the usual research fee aside Terry dug up the Coats-of-Arms for my family, my mother's and my
wife's. In addition some friends/neighbours Terry also checked to furnish mercenary and household
knights.

At a recent dinner evening organised by our own Rayners Lane Wargames Group this very subject
came up. My chief opponent in Medieval games always looks for ray figure on the table and concentrates
his archers on it. To date he hasn't been successful in polishing me off but his crossbowmen did
topple my Dad from his horse a few weeks ago. This we all felt must be pretty realistic - surely the
opposing commanders all those years ago must have known the Coat-of-Arms of their chief opponents and
would have gone for them just as we do at wargames level? As yet we haven't yielded to the temptation
of having several figures dotted around the scene all purporting to be the top man or whatever (de
finitely un-British what!) but if the archers improve their aim we may have to!!"

Stuart Asquith of South Harrow, Middlesex.

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"Following the last article about the use of a computer for wargaming I am now sending you the
follow-up appraisal; I hope that it is of use for the Newsletter.

Since doing this last game I have gone back to Paddy Griffith's article last year and completely
re-written my rules based on Paddy's simplification of the Sandhurst Group rules and some of the
simpler game mechanics of the board games.

Most rules these days are only available at a price from the designer. What 1 suggest, and
offer, is that you can print these rules in the Newsletter. 1 was thinking of doing it in instal
ments with each part being the centre sheet which can then be pulled out by any one wanting to use
them. As the instalments develop we can treat them as we do in the accounting professional, as an
Exposure Draft. This, if people do not agree or have a better solution then they can react by writing-
in with their comments.

I think that it could give the Newsletter a new dimension, people always like something for no
thing, and the basis of discussion. I would be interested to hear your comments."

Dick Tennant of Holland.

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"Over the past few months I have not been able to miss noticing the controversy over "Fantasy and
Science Fiction" wargaming. Being an advocate of it and "regular" wargaming, I have finally decided
to write in its defence.

The controversy seems to be whether it is a wargame or just a game like Monopoly, etc. I think
I can settle this once and for all. To help in this I have used the Oxford Illustrated Dictionary,
edited by J.Coulson and C.T.Carr. In it they define "war" as being a "quarrel usually between nations,
conducted by force, state of open hostility and suspension of ordinary international law prevalent
during such quarrel, attack or series of attacks by army, or navy, or air force, or all three". Game
is defined as a "Contest played according to rules and idecided by skill, strength or luck".
Is not a battle or series of battles between, let us say Ores and Elves a quarrel between the two
conducted by force, and a state of open hostility? Furthermore is it not a contest played by rules and
determined by skill or luck? Yes! Then it is a wargame!

I also maintain that any battle fought with people, creatures, etc., and using some kind of weapon,
whether it be hands, claws, lasers, swords or a rifle, and played by rules is a wargame. I welcome any
comments from people wishing to dispute this point.

On a more pleasant note, I wish to congratulate your work in the Newsletter. Having been one of
those who have been "ripped off" by Wargamer's Monthly, I think it is a shame that something like that
mars the reputations of other dealers, especially for newer wargamers who have not had a chance to
deal with the likes of George Erik or other respectable dealers."

Doug Phillips of Ontario, Canada.

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ANSWERS TO MILITARY QUIZ ON PAGE
I. Archimedes. 2. Belisarius. 3. Iwo Jima. k. Massena.
5. a) 27 July 1880: b) 26-31 August 191k: c) 20 September 1066: d) 2 July 1600: e) 2 September
31BC.
 LOOKING AROUND
AIRFIX MAGAZINE - Octoljer 1978. Under its new publisher and editor, contains the beginning of a
new series by Roy Dilley "Model Soldier Course" or How to make better plastic soldiers; an illustrated
article with plans of making a 1:32 scale 3.7 inch AA gun plus much on ships and aircraft and features
of the latest kits and models. Not very really wargames orientated I am afraid.

JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR ARMY HISTORICAL RESEARCH - Autumn 1978. Beautifully produced as always
with coloured plates and interesting articles on the Suppression of the Rebellions in Lower Canada
1837-78; British Military Presence in Cyprus in the 19th Century plus numerous other documents and
notes of great interest to the military historian.

ARQUEBUSIER - Vol.6; No.5. This is the Journal of the Pike and Shot Society and contains details
of a Pike and Shot Wargaming Weekend to be held in the Kendal Youth hostel on Friday, 9th March to
Sunday, 11th March; a Rules Forum; Discussion of W.R.G. Army Lists IA9O-I66O; two wargame reports and
some illustrations of Trained Bands flags l6A3.

AVALON HILL GENERAL - July-August 1978. An in-depth study of Armoured Warfare in I9AO (of great
est value for the World War II wargamer); plus general articles on board wargames.

MILITARY MODELLING - November 1978. A very large issue to include some of the features that used
to be in the now defunct BATTLE Magazine, contains articles on Battles of the English Civil War for
Wargamers - Marston Moor; Tony Bath's Hyboria; The Northumbrian and Wessex Campaigns of IO66 - Hastings
plus Charles Grant on Chariots in Wargames, news of the latest wargames products, board-games, kits,
models, etc., etc.

RANK AND FILE - October 1978. The friendly Newsletter of the Tunbridge Wells Wargames Society,
contains a review of Atlantic figures and reports on various wargames the Club has conducted plus an
interesting article on "The Limitations of Wargaming".

SOLDIER MAGAZINE - November 1978. This includes Soldier News their new "tabloid" style newspaper
about the Modern British Army. The magazine itself contains well illustrated articles on the Glosters
in Northern Ireland; NATOs flanks; plus reviews of the latest military LPs, books, etc.

WAR MONTHLY - No.57. Contains six very well illustrated articles of a military nature - The
Rescue of Mussolini; The Battle of the Aisne 191A; Warsaw Pact Forces; The Sunda Strait 19A2; the
Naval battle at Riachuelo 1865 (never heard of it either?) and Desert Raid 19A2. Always interesting
with most articles written by well known experts - even 1 had one in there once!

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The GRIMSBY HORSE AND MUSKET SOCIETY are a wargaming club which covers all periods. In existence
for seven years, they have recently moved into their own premises in Sixhill Street, Grimsby, at the
rear of 36 Ladysmith Road, Grimsby, where meetings are held every Mondon evening. Adults over 18 years
of age are welcome. For further details contact either the Chairman Mike Barnatt, 74 Broadway, Grimsby,
tel 72098 or the Secretary Tony Waumsley, 377 Hainton Avenue, Grimsby.

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EXETER UNIVERSITY WARGAMES CONVENTION

Exeter University Wargames Societj will be holding their Annual Wargames Convention during the
weekend 27/28th January 1979, 11 a.m. - 11 p.m., each day, in Cornwall House, Exeter University, St.
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we expect Ancients to be in the majority. Sunday will feature a large "fun" Ancients game. There is
no admission charge but those intending to attend SHOULD write stating when they will be present,
whether accommodation is required, and any armies they will be bringing. Contact: D.W.Kay, 73
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No. 1. PANZERS IN THE DESERT. Bruce Ouarrie - No. 2,
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FIGHTERS DEFENDING THE REICH. Bryan Philpott.
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WARSHIPS OF THE ROYAL NAVY. Moore. Describes all
the ships of the Royal Navy from major fighting ships to
support ships and smaller craft used for coastal duties.
Detailed descriptions, displacements, dimensions, armaments
and engines used. 208 pages. £5.95
GROSSDEUTSCHLAND. GERMANY'S ELITE PANZER
FORCE. James Lucas. History of German army's most famous
unit, Hitler's 'fire brigade'. Destroyed time after time volunteers
were never lacking to serve in 'Grossdeutschland'. 192 pages
fully illustrated. £6.96
SMALL ARMS, ARTILLERY AND SPECIAL WEAPONS OF
THE THIRD REICH. Chamberlain/Gardner. Unique, compre
hensive survey of alt the arms used by German land forces
during WW2, Covers standard issue and experimental
weapons as well as guns of foreign manufacture and captured
equipment impressed in German service. Lavishly illustrated
with over 1,100 carefully selected photo's. 360 pages. £15.00
ANTI-AIRCRAFT. Ian V. Hogg. A history of air defence —
from the first observation balloons to the artillery of the First
and Second World Wars and the ICBMs of the present day
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illustrated. 7.95
CONFOUND AND DESTROY. 100 Group and the Bomber
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THUNDERBOLT: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY. Roger A.
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with accurate technical details covering the origins, develop
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illustrated inc. rare colour pics. 144pp. £6.95
TO WIN A WAR: 1918 THE YEAR OF VICTORY. S&J.
New study by noted authority John Terrains which shows
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inexperienced, it was the British, Australians and New
Zealands who won the war. 224pp illus. £7.95
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GERMAN PARATROOPS IN WORLD WAR II. Volmar Kuhn.
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Barker. 240 pages £7.50
AFRIKA KORPS AT WAR-2, THE LONG ROAD BACK.
Revealing story of the soldiers who, in defeat, earned the
respect of their victors. 144p. £5.95
B-26 MARAUDER AT WAR. Expertly covers the development,
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192pp. £6.25
F-86 SABRE. No. 4 in the Modern Combat Aircraft Series.
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inc. col. £4.50
MILITARY VEHICLES OF THE WORLD. Comprehensive data
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PATTON'S THIRD ARMY AT WAR. This pictorial record
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NAPOLEON'S GUARD CAVALRY. Emir Bukhari. - THE
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- THE UNITED STATES ARMY 1890-1920. Philip Katcher.
- WELLINGTON'S GENERALS. Michael Barthorp.
BATTLESHIP DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT 1906-1945.
Norman Friedman. Conway Maritime Press. First layman's
guide to the design process, the factors which governed the
development of capital ships, and the reasons why battleships
are built in a particular way: essential reading for anyone
seeking a deeper understanding of the most impressive
warships In history. 160 pages fully illustrated. £8.50
NAVAL GUN. Blandford. Traces the history and development
of the naval gun from invention of gunpowder to 18-inch
weapons of WW2. The ships which mounted these guns are
also illustrated. 144pp. 90-t- illus. £8.95
GERMAN AIRCRAFT OF WW2 IN COLOUR. Blandford.
Illustrates and describes all the principal aircraft used by the
Luftwaffe. Technical data allows easy comparison of types
and there are a great many illustrations in both colour and
black/white. Colour illustrations of camouflage and markings
will be of particular value to the aircraft modeller. 160 pages.
B-29 SUPERFORTRESS AT WAR. Ian Allen. As the aircraft
that dropped the first fatal atom bomb, the B-29 often suffered
from bia^ accounts of its operational career. That omission
has been repaired by this informative and well illustrated study.
160 pages. £6.95
THE CRUSADES. D&C. A beautifully illustrated introduction
f<w everyone interested in the history of this period and wishing
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212 pages with over 120 illustrations including many in colour.
£9.50
THE ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MODERN SMALL
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small arms to have been developed and used in the 20th
century. Information on over 70 pieces, fold-outs and colour
cutaway drawings. 224 pages. £6.96
Two new titles in the highly regarded Vanguard Series from
Osprey. Usual 48pp packed with information for the modeller.
THE US 101st DIVISION 1941-45. The famous 'Screaming
Eagles'; tracing their history from formation to final victory in
Germany. Includes a very detailed page on insignia, patches,
ranking and medal ribbons. Approx 50 illus. including colour
plates. £2.25
THE LEE/GRANT TANKS IN BRITISH SERVICE. In this issue
— for the first time — Authentic, detailed full colour
paintings of the interior of a fighting tank with every installed
system and every stowed 'extra'; breaks new ground in super-
detailing for the modeilerl £2.25
THE WARS OF THE CRUSADES. Also from Osprey comes
this new hardback which gives detailed coverage of campaigns,
weaponry, etc., and is a vivid record of one of the greatest
struggles ever waged. Approx. 60,000 words and 100 colour
illustrations. £7.50
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AIRCRAFT. Weidenfield. Lists over
200 aircraft including details of their technical achievements,
developments and individual exploits. Each entry is illustrated,
many of the photographs are rare and over half are in full
colour. Large format. £6.50
CLASSIC AIRCRAFT: FIGHTERS. Hamlyn. Through profiles
of some of the outstanding aircraft, this large format book
traces the evolution of the fighter through 60 years. Illustrated
with over 100 drawings and photo's, many in colour, plus
cutaways. 160 pages. £4.95
US NAVY IN WORLD WAR II. Same large format and also
from Hamlyn this book covers every aspect of the ships and
the actions in which they took part. Many of the 100's
of photographs in black/while and colour are new. 192
pages. £4.95
THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI. Orbis. This large format,
128 page book is an intriguing portrait of an alien world
capturing the varying moods of medieval Japan. The colour
photography and reproductions of paintings throughout this
book are quite superb. £6.50
MODEL SHIPWRIGHT No 25. Latest issue of this 72 page
quarterly journal packed with photographs, drawings, plans,
articles, technical data, etc, for the ship modeller. Subjects
covered include; Warship camouflage. Bomb Vessels, Work
shop equipment, etc. £2.00
THE ROCKET. A really massive 131^" x 10" book offering
complete and comprehensive coverage of the history and
development of Rocket and Missile technology. 276pp 350
illustrations including two 6-page colour fold outs and 34
pages of colour. £12.50
SUPER DESTROYERS. Conway Maritime. Covers the big
destroyer leaders built between the wars for the navies of
Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Japan and the USA. Second
of the 'Warship Special' Series. 72 pages 30 line illustrations
70 half-tones. £2.50
SCALE MODEL WARSHIPS. Conway Maritime. Discusses
particular aspects of the hobby, construction of the hull,
decks and superstructure, gun mountings, deck fittings, etc,
with chapters on radio control, miniatures and plastic models.
192pp 150 photo's 120 plans. £7.50
THE LAST TALL SHIPS. Conway Maritime. Chronicles the
last of the commercial deep-water sailing fleets which operated
out of the Finnish Aland islands in the 1920's and '30's.
Illustrated with over 200 unique photographs. 208 10" x 8"
pages. £8.50
WAR IN THE PACIFIC. Pearl Harbour to Tokyo Bay. Sidgwick.
With over 150 dramatic photographs the story in detail of the
naval war in the Pacific, together with descriptions of ships,
submarines and aircraft which took part, and of course
the men. 192 pages. £6.95
WARSHIP No. 7 is the latest in the quarterly journals of
warship history series from Conway Maritime Press. Accurate
articles fully supported by plans, tables, drawings and really
first class photographs chronicling the design and history of
combat ships. £2.00
THE U.S. WAR MACHINE. This book will be the most detailed
compiliation of technical data, colourful action photographs
and accurate drawings ever presented on the military might
of the United States. All the major weapons — from strategic
rockets through warships, combat aircraft and tanks to the
machine pistol — are technically evaluated; most with detailed
illustrations. This comprehensive book is likely to become a
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words, 520 illustrations(300 In colour). £8.95
AIRBORNE OPERATIONS. All the major offensives involving
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and their aircraft. 224pp, 270 illus. £6.95
INVASION NORTH AFRICA 1942. A vivid account of
'Operation Torch', the joint Anglo-American landings on the
North African coast in 1942. 112 pages fully illustrated.
£6.95
WORLD TANKS IN WW2. Latest in the excellent Japanese
Tanks of World War 2 Series. 166 pages with literally hundreds
of photographs and detailed drawings in black/white and
colour, many full page. English captions throughout, only
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INFANTERIE GESTERN UND HEUTE. Infantry Yesterday and
Today. New from German publishers Podzun Verlag is this
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covering the period 1920 to 1945 and its successor Jager-
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several hundred photo's, drawings and maps. Captions in
German throughout. £9.95
HANDGUNS 1870-1978. A Phoebus History of the World
Wars Special. Over 50 weapons are described and illustrated
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19th century and coming up to date with the latest technology.
AIR BATTLES IN MINIATURE. A Wargamers Guide to Aerial
Combat 1939-1945. Mike Spick. Shows how virtually any form
of aerial combat can be simulated on an ordinary wargames
table, from a Battle of Britain dogfight to a multi-bomber
raid. 160p ill. £4.95
THE ANGLO-BOER WAR 1899-1902. A superb large format
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392 illustrations, 192 pages. £5.95
Two new titles in the Jane's Pocket Book Series. Designed
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THE IRON FIST. Leo Kessler. An extraordinary and gripping
stoi^, the first complete account of Hitler's SS Panzer
Divisions, by the man who wrote the bestselling series of
novels about SS Assault Regiment Woltan. A paperback
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ROMMEL. Charles Douglas-Home. Also from Futura and
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Rommel. 143 page paperback, illustrated. 60p
ARMIES OF THE WORLD 1854-1914. David Woodward.
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half of the nineteenth century. Describes their main engage
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and the text is illustrated with 150 superb and memorable
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GERMAN RAIDERS OF WORLD WAR II. Muggenthaler. The
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captured or destroyed nearly 100,000 tons of Allied shipping.
Many maps, drawings and never-before-seen photographs.
£6.80
AIRFIX ANNUAL FOR AIRCRAFT MODELLERS. Bruce Quarrie.
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AIRFIX ANNUAL FOR MILITARY MODELLERS. Bruce Ouarrie.
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MODELLING MINIATURE FIGURES. A practical guide to the
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AIRCRAFT OF THE RAAF 1921-78. New enlarged edition
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Warboards TRADE MARK

A-Orm hex-grid sheet ref WH 2025 measuring

25" X 36" on clear, robust film. Zones

may be overlapped to cover any

desired area.

2 zones per sheet.

Warboards is a new, versatile system for creating

wargaming maps. The transparent hex-grid can be SrTjfx
placed over existing maps or over white backing
sheet. Cartographical and Forces symbols are
provided with colour sheets (for creating your own
symbols). These adhere time and time again to the 20110
gridsheet. _.
BASIC KIT £4.95 + 90p p. & p. includes: \ /
1 grid sheet (2 zones) ref WH 2025, 1 white backing sheet(WE
2). 7 adhesive colour sheets (339 x 210mm) 2 greens, 1 sheet \ /
adhesive symbols (400 x 300mm) ref: WS 1, Instructions.

Grid sheets avaiiable singly £1.90 per sheet + 50p p. & p. or in tens^
£16.50-t 90p p. & p. \ /
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