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Friday, August 24, 2012

Interesting article on Harpoon and the novel Red Storm Rising

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This is worth checking out.
Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Up Front reprint?

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Valley Games says so . If so, this very interesting and exciting news and a good example of never say never
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Monday, August 20, 2012

Old Ironsides after 200 years

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USS Constitution in action against HMS Guerriere One perk of a Massachusetts childhood is that it's a fertile ground for growing ...
Saturday, August 11, 2012

New session report for War at Sea

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B-25s attack two Japanese cruisers while P-40s engage Zeros Another nice session report at Andy's blog.
Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Axis & Allies 1941 -- what's up with that?

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The Axis & Allies universe is getting pretty complicated. While the era of A&A  branded battle games and tactical miniatures gam...
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Friday, August 3, 2012

Second A&A air Starter

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This image is floating around the A&A boards. Looks legit. it's supposedly off an Amazon preorder site. Looks like this set will ...
Thursday, August 2, 2012

Comment purgatory and an apology

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When Blogger changed formats about a month ago I lost track of the comments and a whole bunch got held up in the "awaiting moderation...

John Keegan has died

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The Telegraph is reporting that historian John Keegan has died. Keegan is known for a number of seminal works, although perhaps the most f...
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Thursday, July 19, 2012

Desperate measures

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The War of 1812 was pretty much a wash for the United States, two years of fighting settling nothing really, but it was a successful and ...
Friday, July 13, 2012

Back to the Future -- Iraq 2002

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It's an anniversary season surprisingly little remarked upon in the mass media, but this summer 10 years ago the Pentagon was drawing up...
Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Falklands end of the road, 30 years ago

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ARA 25 de Mayo This week the Falklands War came to an official end as the British announced they had achieved their aims. Within days t...
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Monday, July 9, 2012

Things wargames miss

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HMS Argyll. Note the low-to-the-water midships gun and the lower gun on the aft quarter. One of the limitations of wargames is the anno...
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Sunday, July 8, 2012

If the South had won ...

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Professional fool Ted Nugent is in the news this week for remarking that things would have been better if the South had won the American Civ...
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Friday, July 6, 2012

Fortress America session report

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Game end Back in the day (old guy speak for a loooong time ago) I played SPI's Invasion America, the precursor and inspiration for ...
Monday, July 2, 2012

Death at Sea - Part II, Battle of the Falklands

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1:1250 scale SMS Scharnhorst by Navis In Eric Dorn Brose's "novelistic history" Death at Sea, he engages in an extensive...
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Just a little housekeeping

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I need to publish this code QUKS58Q99AXJ to activate a SMM device.
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Sunday, July 1, 2012

Death at Sea -- book review

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Death at Sea is  a privately published "novelistic history" of the saga of the German East Asiatic Naval Squadron of World War ...
Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Mongoose goes 1:1800 scale

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HMS Achilles from Mongoose Publishing Mongoose Publishing, which publishes Victory at Sea, says it will be releasing the first set of...
Sunday, June 24, 2012

Whither Axis & Allies miniatures?

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Well, based on this thread , it appears that WOTC has unofficially cancelled Axis n& Allies War at Sea and we won't be seeing a Set ...
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Saturday, June 23, 2012

Solitairing In Magnificent Style

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Rebel brigades make a final rush for the Copse of Trees Reviewing a solitaire wargame has special pitfalls. Oh, it's easier ...
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I've been a gamer since 1969, a military officer since 1979 and a journalist since 1988.
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