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NOTE: To best enjoy this scenario, please do not read the notes, events or clue table prior to play as that will ruin some of the surprises in the scenario. The terrain required is relatively simple and based on scenarios in the Rangers of Shadowdeep (RoS) rulebook. The figures required are Robin, Little John, Nasir, two archers and one peasant as well as Guy of Gisbourne, one Serjeant, four swordsmen, four crossbowmen and eight spearmen for the Normans. RULES This scenario is for Rangers of Shadowdeep, but could theoretically be played with any of the Joe McCullough ‘grave family of games (Frostgrave, Ghost Archipelago, etc). With a bit of adaption there’s no reason it couldn’t be used with any man to man skirmish set of rules. I have included stats for some characters…

A CROOKED THING ◗ crooked-dice.co.uk ◗ £5 - £20 Crooked Dice continue to produce some very fine, white metal (mostly) models that are very often adjacent to some quite popular themes in gaming, popular literature and cinematography. At Warfare I picked up some of the latest for review. If you wanted to play a game centred around arctic (or antarctic) exploration you’ll need some quite specialist miniatures. For travel across the icy wastes a Husky Sled with four dogs, sled and separate driver might be in order and – for £20 – it comes with two MDF bases. Mush! To go with them, there’s also an Antarctic Explorers set: four chaps with photo cameras and pickaxes and so forth all done up in (slightly dated) winter togs (£18) but they’ll…

DIGITAL ATLANTIC Some upcoming 3d prints you can download Wargames Atlantic are increasingly offering digital releases to supplement their had plastic models and – as they’ve demonstrated – if they are popular enough they often transition them to boxed sets of styrene. Three new ranges upcoming or just released are Great War Alpini, (in the Great War range), Carolingian Infantry in scale armour (in their Blood Oath’s range) and Assyrian Armoured Cavalry (in their First Empires range). The Carolingians come with axe, sword, and spear poses, as well as three separate types of helmets, whereas the Assyrians are armoured and armed with bows and spears and suitable opponents for the Medes and other peoples in the bronze age in the first millennia BC. Obviously the shots here are only digital…

INTRODUCTION Jeanne (or Joanna) was married to John of Montfort in March 1329. When John III, Duke of Brittany died in 1341, he failed to leave an heir. He had declared that his niece would succeed him, but on his deathbed favoured John of Montfort. Out of this confused situation there were two claimants to the throne of Brittany. John and Joanna led the cause for the House of Montford. They were opposed by Charles of Blois and his wife, also a Joanna. The arbiter should have been King Phillip VI of France. The problem was that he was Charles’ uncle… The king threw John into prison and declared his nephew the true heir to the Duchy. However, Joanna was not beaten; she proclaimed her infant son the leader of…

Each Command Decision usually aims to offer a series of playable options in timeless military scenarios. Command Decision is designed so you can read the situation and figure out your own command decisions if you were leading the troops on the ground. You can either work through the various options or use the mechanics to create the precise circumstances of the table top engagement. The scenarios may have particular historical themes and settings, but you can easily adapt the mechanics to suit your own preferences and collections. INTRODUCTION Marsala (as Lilybaeum is now known) could be described as one of those unlucky places. It lies on the western tip of Sicily to the southwest of Palermo. It has seen two sieges in the ancient period and a devastating bombardment in…

INTRODUCTION If you visit the city of Caen today you can be forgiven for not realising that most of buildings are replicas of what had stood there for centuries. By the end of the titanic struggle for Caen the population had dropped by over 40,000 to 17,000. Some 30,000 Anglo-Canadian soldiers were killed in the fighting to liberate the city along with 3,000 inhabitants and 80% of Caen’s buildings. German casualties were catastrophic and certainly contributed a huge percentage of the 30,000 killed, 80,000 wounded and 210,000 taken prisoner during the Normandy campaign. Many of us have played scenarios involving the operations around Caen from the beginning of June to the fall of the city around a month later. The task of taking Caen fell to the Anglo-Canadian forces under…

After last months Halflings Paul paints some challenging camo on some Warlord plastics. Ed. INTRODUCTION This type of camouflage was used by SS soldiers from 1942 until the end of the war. Jackets, smocks, tunics, trousers, zeltbahns (a sort of poncho-tent) and helmet covers were all made from this cloth pattern. These were all made out of a reversible material for spring and autumn camouflage. I have actually used the Warlord Games German Army Panzer Grenadiers for this tutorial. This is a versatile box as – although Warlord make a plastic boxed set specifically for SS troops – this earlier set is suitable for both Heer and SS. The models are dressed wearing M43 and 44 tunics and zeltbahn ponchos. The helmets I picked for the models are of a type made out…

Mr Wheatley is pondering the same “how important is scale really” conundrum that I wreote about in issue 499. Ed. INTRODUCTION As happens with many wargamers, the inspiration for the DAK ATTACK rules came from watching a film. The film in question was Sea of Sand which is about a daring mission in North Africa during WWII undertaken by a small mobile force called The Long Range Desert Group [LRDG]. This is an old film, starring Richard Attenborough, and I highly recommend it. After collecting a few models together doing a bit of reading and “mucking about with the models on a table” I started to formulate some ideas about a set of rules. More research about this fascinating unit and their daring exploits raiding behind enemy lines followed. I found…