“War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueller it is, the sooner it will be over.” – William Tecumseh Sherman In this issue of Wargames, Soldiers & Strate ...

Plastic British and Canadian infantry Company: Warlord Games Size: 28 mm ‘foot to eye’ or 31 mm tall Era: World War II Price: £29.50 for 30 infantry www.warlordgames.com Warlo ...

Irecall the three of us sat down on the steps as we waited in the lunch queue, talking excitedly about rules and games. I was invited round to take part in a battle at the post off ...

The armies of the Antigonids and the opposing Alliance met near the town of Ipsus on the plains of central Phrygia. On one side were arrayed the unified armies of King Antigonus � ...

Initially, the French had a much larger and more professional force, and were fighting a smaller force of largely irregular troops – quite different to the usual HYW scenario. Wa ...

The Japanese Navy launched another of its typically complicated operations, ‘Sho-1’, to oppose the landings by sending three forces to the battle. The Centre and Southern Force ...

I am not a fan of points-based games. I have difficulty with the concept of fairness having anything to do with the recreation of warfare. I have played competition games based on ...

The war and the scale of the battles shocked many – each battle seemed to be bigger and costlier in men and materiel. For example, Shiloh in 1862 had more casualties than the tot ...

At the start of 1862, the Civil War had not been going well for the Federals in the East; success was needed elsewhere. In the department of Trans-Mississippi, the key to defeating ...

Richmond, Virginia the Confederate capital had been the target of several campaigns throughout the Civil War from its earliest days. The Union armies were forced to withdraw every ...