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WELCOME
I’M MAD ABOUT YOU
IN THIS ISSUE
04 FORWARD OBSERVER
With the latest news items.
W
ell we have another packed issue for you: Mr
Kinch sings “Roooobin:
The hooded man!”
(a
lot);
in
Command Decision
we finish
up at Talavera; steering away from last month’s
dino-outing, Arthur Harman has a visit to the
Revolutionary War; we have a piece on small foot print
gaming and another on Hex Based WWII. Finally we
go all Cornish and nautical with the Gallants of Fowey
game from
Salute.
Plus I go to both Crawley for D-Day
and
take a
Broadside
while Mr Harwood gets
the hump! We also round that off with all of
the usual news and reviews, so – as
Gordon
Sumner
eulogised:
“They say a city in the
desert lies, the vanity of an ancient king, but
the city lies in broken pieces, where the wind
howls and the vultures sing”.
Stinging
words, I feel.
07 SEND THREE AND
FOURPENCE
Lots of Merry Men activity as Mr Kinch tries out
Rangers of Shadowdeep for a (mostly) historical
setting.
13 OPEN ALL GUNPORTS!
17 THE GALLANTS OF
FOWEY
The Editor visits Broadside with a game and a
camera.
A naval gazer with this middle ages extravaganza
from the west country.
22 EIGHT DECADES AGO...
24 DEFENCE IN DEPTH
26 TALAVERA 2
A marking of D-Day by the gamers at the Crawley
club.
With the latest figure and rules reviews.
John Treadaway
Editor
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In Command Decision Jon Sutherland completes
his Peninsular War outing with some scenarios for
the 1809 Campaign.
COVER
32 WHERE IS NOW
FEATURE
THE BOASTING
A short game of Mounted Combat in the
American Revolutionary war for six players.
TARLETON?
MINIATURE WARGAMES
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Go small
and
go home: try some miniature
wargames that are really miniature.
38 SMALL FOOTPRINT
44 HEXES RULE
51 CLUB SPOT
52 RECCE
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One man’s journey into hexagonal WWII
wargaming.
Detailing those west-country Buccaneers The
Cornwall Wargames Association.
Another spread of reading material to fill a
wargamer’s heaving shelves
57 SCRATCH BUILD
How to widen a bridge.
62 LAST WORD
Martin Gane and his thoughts on trying to find the
perfect rule set.
August 2024
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FORWARD OBSERVER
News, previews and community submissions from the wargaming world
HALF PINT HITMEN
SF Shortstuff from Wargames
Atlantic
The
SneakFeet
are the latest releases
from
Wargames Atlantic:
Sci-Fi
Halflings are the latest ‘free agents’
team for their
Death fields
range.
Stealthy, cunning and barefoot,
each box of 24 figures comes with a
selection of four bodies, nine heads
(with various soft-hat options and
one smoking a pipe), lots of guns
– including a large selection of big
sniper rifles – and some extra items of
varied utility (including a very large
pack and a frying pan full of eggs...).
Halflings are – by tradition in fantasy
literature – very good at ‘disappearing’
into the woods (even without magic
rings...) and are effective with missiles:
stone-throwing especially. This has
been translated by
Wargames Atlantic
into the science fiction world with
this release. They are, of course, of
diminutive stature but – with their ‘no
shoes policy’ – that just makes them
all the better at camouflaged special
opps. They are priced at £24 a box but
remember you’ll need bases (and
WA
sell textured ones that’d work great
with these). Go to
wargamesatlantic.com.
DEAD OR ALIVE
Stargrave: Solo or Coop in Space
The latest release in this now copious
range is called
Dead or Alive
and it
gives
Stargrave
players all the tools
they need to generate solo bounty-
hunting scenarios, including a variety
of different settings and locations, a
host of complications to be faced, and
much more. There’s random scenario
generators and it can all be done Solo or
with Cooperative Play. The latter idea is
a welcome twist: two players can either
create one crew together (one player
should take on the role of the captain
and the other the role of the first mate)
or they can each create a half-sized crew.
This has the advantage of not fiddling
with the crew creation rules in the
main rulebook. Either way round, this
latest from
Osprey
and the pen of Joe
McCullough means your crew can have
even more fun travelling the galaxy,
hunting for outlaws and criminals with
a price on their heads and do it all when
no gaming friends are available! And
along with all of that there’s a Bestiary
full of new creatures (like a Giant Worm:
spicy!)
and all for twenty quid from
ospreypublishing.com
casting featurinmg typical winged bulls,
this is listed at a
Assyrian Winged Bull
Gate Set
and is available in two scales.
In 28mm it’s an impressive 70mm in
height and 65mm length (each of the
four pieces, I assume) and has some
nifty sculpting of the Lamassu as can
still be seen on many (surviving) relics.
In this scale the set is $39.95. If you want
to go smaller, in 15mm the model’s
components are 40mm high and 34mm
in length and that’ll be $12.95. Go to
achesoncreations.com
where you’ll find
some Egyptian stuff as well!
ALL BULL!
Walk like an Assyrian
Acheson
in the US have just released
a new model of biblical proportions.
As what seems to be a four piece resin
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WEREWOLF?
There-wolf from Wargames Atlantic
This represents the second
Wargames Atlantic
review in this months issue but these are too
good
not
to mention... And we hope to have
some to
give away
soon in the magazine! Four
different bodies (with legs) and six heads per
sprue make up to twenty bipedal, hairy half-
hound werewolves. They are classic, naked,
muscular types (think
An American Werewolf
in London
in it’s ‘half-way’ state) and they
will be great for many sorts of fantasy games
all the way from gothic horror to First-age
Tolkien. £25 a box from
wargamesatlantic.com.
SHOW & TELL
FUTURE WARGAMING EVENTS
JOY OF SIX
Sunday 14th July
Sheffield Hallam University,
Howard Street, Sheffield, S1 1WB
joysofsix.co.uk
CLAYMORE
Saturday 3rd August
Edinburgh College, Granton Campus.
Edinburgh, EH5 1QE
seswc.co.uk
WARPAINT
Volume Two
In issue 490 we reviewed the copy of
Warpaint: A painting guide for Plains Indians,
specifically for the shield and horse decoration
aimed at ‘The Old West’.
Caliver Books
have just released a follow-up book – also
written and illustrated by Mike Blake – as a
companion volume:
Plains Indian War Shirts
and Warrior Society Regalia.
This is 120 pages
in length and is in hardback (though we are
looking at the preview PDF) and has 70 full
colour plates with lots of background material.
As for the contents, the Author says that
“War shirts were intended to attest to a warrior’s
achievements and were usually individual to that
man. A warrior would have more than one such
shirt in his
lifetime. As a
young warrior
gained in status
and his abilities
and achievements
increased, so too
did the honours
he could display.
The shirts worn
would represent
these stages of
power. However,
sometimes shirts
were copied,
and traded,
across the plains and beyond.”
The different
shirts – and other details – are given for
Jicarrila, Apache, Ute, Arapaho, Arikara,
Assiniboine, Blackfeet, Cheyenne, Crow,
Cree, Sioux and many more.
The shirts were usually made from elk or
deer skin and the book also includes guides
COLOURS
Saturday 14th September
Newbury & Reading Racecourse
RG14 7PN
nrwc.org.uk
THIS MONTH
IN HISTORY
BATTLE OF
BLENHEIM
13 AUGUST 1704
The Battle was a major battle of
the War of the Spanish Succession.
The overwhelming Allied victory
ensured the safety of Vienna from
the Franco-Bavarian army, thus
preventing the collapse of the
reconstituted Grand Alliance. The
battlefield stretched for nearly 6
km and the French right rested
on the village of Blenheim and
the terrain was difficult for the
attackers. The French lost the
battle for a number of reasons
(including hubris, indiscipline
and poor dispositions) with over
27,000 casualties. Although the
war continued for years, Blenheim
was the most decisive victory for
Marlborough (British) and Prince
Eugene of the Habsburg Empire
and thereby preserved the Grand
Alliance from collapse and led
to the Treaty of Ilbersheim with
Bavaria placed under Austrian
control.
to painting war
lances plus
some face paint
examples but
there’s also an
extensive section
on Warrior
Societies and
Regalia.
The book is
a boon for Old
West period
wargamers who
want some real
accuracy for their figures and is priced at £29.50
(as is Volume 1). They are both available from
caliverbooks.com.
August 2024
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