Innehållsförteckning för January 2023 från Miniature Wargames

What sort of an issue do we have for this month? Well, a seasonal one for a start! There’s the War for Yule with a scenario for the Ozz rules by rules-author Buck Surdo: yes its time to get your Munckins, Teddy Bears and Winkies all ready for combat which should get you in a festive mood and – to top that off – Tony Harwood shows us how to put on our baking hats to build some suitably seasonal scenery (and that’s hard to say out loud!). But that’s not ignoring the usual choice: more ACW scenarios from Command Decision; ECW for Pike and Shotte; Napoleonics from Conrad Kinch; Ancient Chariots; and WWII we have something for everyone. So: happy gaming over what might well be a break for…

Occasionally as Editor, one gets the chance to showcase a really impressive game and this was just such an occasion. Mr Stolarski presents the events of Sword Beach on June 6th, 78 years after the actual events. Ed. INTRODUCTION Rob Wingrave is not a man to do things by halves. After five years of research, painting and preparation, Heston and Ealing Wargamers’ club secretary put on a Sword Beach refight at his bespoke garden War Room over three days (3-5 June 2022). The much-anticipated game involved ten Allied and three German players, using a tweaked version of Spearhead for 20mm figures, with a busy Rob umpiring. TERRAIN & PARAMETERS Sword Beach, stretching for five miles, was one of five landing grounds during the assault on Normandy on D-Day (6 June 1944)…

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Here’s a festive interpretation of the Wars of Ozz system for up to three players to mull over while you digest your turkey dinner and pull your crackers… Ed. INTRODUCTION “Tell me again Grandaddy, tell me what you did in the war?”, Becky sat on her Grandfather’s knee and looked at Jerimaha Lightfoot expectantly. “The Great War, you mean? Or more properly, The War to Save Yule. That was a long, long time ago, we were so young, so eager and the cause was so just. Some say that it was a war fought over a bauble: a Yule Tree decoration, and in a way it was, but you have to remember that that particular bauble is one of the most potent magical artefacts in the whole of Ozz. As children we…

Like last month, this is another slightly different Command Decision. It looks at wargaming small encounters with troops that have never experienced battle before and we are back in the American Civil War. In the US, the term “seeing the elephant” had been used since the Mexican-American War to describe the first experience of battle. On May 5, 1863, Confederate private Andrew J. White wrote to his wife, Margaret, in Georgia of his to desire to see “you and all the childering be fore I went because we are Shore to see the Elephant this time I thi[n]k.” SITUATION REPORT The Confederates have suffered a string of defeats in the Western Theatre and the Union, under Rosecrans have surged forward assuming the Bragg’s demoralised men will retreat further into Georgia. Instead,…

“The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold” So starts The destruction of Sennacherib: the epic poem of Lord Byron. It also leads nicely into the recent gaming experiences of our group. We have recently been playing a few games using my vintage Hinchliffe and Lamming 25mm Ancient Egyptians and Assyrians. One thing that made us ponder awhile was the role of chariots in our games. The usual way I have seen these represented on the tabletop was as a kind of Cavalry with wheels. They simply move up to an enemy force – infantry or cavalry or other chariots – and proceed to melee them. It doesn’t take much thought to realise this is patent nonsense… Charioteers and…

There’s a scene in David Russell’s film Three Kings where – in the aftermath of the First Gulf War – an American soldier played by Mark Wahlberg sees an Iraqi soldier. The man is waving a white handkerchief, but also holding a weapon. Wahlberg is confused: he’s not sure if the war is over… he can’t tell if the man is surrendering or trying to lure him into a trap. One of his officers is trying to get sand out of his eye, while the other is confused about a map. Wahlberg calls back “Are we shooting? Are we shooting people?” His officers ignore him and Wahlberg is required to make his own decision. I think about that incident a lot. HURRY UP AND WAIT Military operations are complex events…

ABSTRACT Edgehill, Marston Moor, Naseby. These are the battles that most immediately think of when it comes to the First British Civil War (1642-46). Yet these large engagements were not typical, nor were they the only important battles that took place in these years of war. Dozens of smaller battles took place, whose outcome often had far-reaching ramifications. INTRODUCTION The county of Staffordshire was considered strategically important by both the Royalist and Parliamentarian war councils. As well as being a source of much-needed revenue, through it ran the key Royalist supply-route from Continental Europe for importing arms, ammunition, and coin via the ports they still controlled in the North to their wartime capital at Oxford. Should this supply line be interrupted for any great time then the Royalist war effort…

Podcasting has been around for a few years. In fact, it’s now old enough to legally buy a pint in the pub. I’ve been doing it for over a decade and used to have to explain it to people a lot. At one point, I could’ve had “It’s like talk radio on the internet” tattooed on my forehead. But podcasting is now firmly in the mainstream. And, despite being a digital medium, podcasting has grown into a great accompaniment for our analogue hobby, too. I’m one of those folks who had a long period away from the hobby. I put down my paintbrush as a teenager (the picture is me Christmas Day 1992, popping the miniatures from a Battlemasters sprue) and didn’t pick it up again for about twenty years.…