On December 7, 1939, the Soviet 163rd Rifle Division attacked and captured the town of Suomussalmi, Eastern Finland. The objective was to cut Finland in half in the middle, cutting off supply routes from Sweden and Norway and splitting the defence into several separate regions without mutual support. The Soviet battleplan called for the 9th Army to swiftly...
The battle of Narvik lasted from the 9th of April, to the 9th of June, 1940 in bitterly cold weather. The Allies (Norway, UK, France & Poland) fought for control of the strategically important iron ore port of Narvik against a German force composed of mountain troops (Gebirgsjägers) from Austria, paratroopers (Fallschirmjägers) and marooned sailors often...
The battle for Castle Itter was fought near the Austrian village of Itter on May 1945, in the last days of the Second World War. US soldiers joined forces with Wehrmacht riflemen, along with Polish and French prisoners and resistance fighters, to defend an Austrian castle against German SS attackers in one of the most unusual battles of the war. This...
Following the invasion at Normandy, the push into the French hinterland grew bloody and savage as the German forces dug into the obstructed bocage country, leaving the Allied progress stymied. Because of its strategic importance, the occupied city of Saint-Lô had been the target of repeated Allied bombing. The protracted resistance around the city was the...
Seize the bridges over the River Orne and Caen Canal at Bénouville and Ranville intact and hold them until relieved. - Order given to Major John Howard, D Company, Ox and Bucks for his D-Day mission, June 6th, 1944. At 0016 June 6th, 1944 the men of D Company, Ox and Bucks, landed in Horsa gliders within yards of two vital bridges spanning the River Orne...
April 1944 // Neutral Portuguese Cape Verde Islands "Urgent! Most Secret! To Reichsführer-SS Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - This is Agent Z, repeat Agent Z, I have the secret formulae, the Professor's notes provided the key, the Ultimate Weapon is here on this Cape Verde Island! They are closing in on me, send U-boat!" Warfighter: WWII Z Expansion #59 –...
The raid on the French Atlantic coastal town of Saint-Nazaire, Operation Chariot, is one of the most audacious operations in the history of warfare. The obsolete destroyer HMS Campbeltown was disguised to resemble a German vessel and rammed the Normandie dry dock gates, blowing it up and putting it out of service until after the war. At the same time, a...
Warfighter War takes the solitaire (also plays great in cooperative mode with one or more other players) Warfighter tactical design to the strategic level. In Warfighter tactical, a unit card is an individual soldier. In Warfighter War, a unit card is a brigade, regiment, battalion, or company. In tactical, each location is roughly 50 to 400 yards. In War...
The Wargamer's Handbook was intended as a set of introductory miniatures (20mm to 25mm) rules for those just starting wargaming. It employed a standardized system that could be used (with minor variations) across different periods of history. The latter included ancient warfare, medieval/renaissance, the American Revolution, Napoleonics, the American Civil...
Rules for playing wargames set in the Spanish Civil War, Abyssinian War, Sino-Japanese War, Russo-Japanese War, Russo-Finnish War, all the campaigns of the Second World War from the Invasion of Poland to the Russian sweep through Japanese held Manchuria, and the Korean War. The rules are largely scale agnostic but specifically mention 1/72nd scale and...
This book introduces the hobby of miniatures wargaming, presenting the history of miniatures wargaming, how to collect and paint miniatures, and--taking up most of the book--simple yet (reasonably) realistic rules and army lists for a wide range of historical periods, from ancients to WW2, including special skirmish-level rules. Its Ancient rules were...