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WARGJJ:iER'S NEWSLETTER
Fo . 69 . DEcum:CR 1967
EDITORIAL
You will note certain ch ang es in the Newsletter - new format,
new series etc . It is hoped that they will Lleet "Ii th the
approval of readers, who will send in their views.
The proposed I n t ernational \'Iargames Council is t2king
shape. To date , t he Ancients Society, the l'.raval Wargames
Society and Society napo l eonic h ave all g iven t heir support
and form a powerful nucleus of the best or ganised g roups i n the
hobby . Each of them haB its own j ournal so that their members ,
together with 1'largamer's Newsl etter .sub-scribers , will be kept
f u lly informed of developments and act ivities of t h e
Council.
It is envisaged that each and every member of these groups ,
plus subscribers to the Newsletter will automatica,lly become
members of t he Int erne,tiona l Uargallles Club formed under the
auspices of t he Council. War~ames Cl ubs will be encouraged to reg
i ster and liaisons organised . It is hoped t i:[" t p[,~:01:::: of
r,uthori ti e:::: or. v[',riou:::: [',opecto of t h e hobby will bE
f omed and be availabl e to give advice-- and answer queries.
Further to l as t month ' s editorial, I have been i nformed
the,t the British f10del Sol dier Society hav e withdrawn the
privile;;e of permi t ,ting 8, 1:T£',r gemers Section to operate
under their neme . The group may be carrying on und er another name
but r 2nk- and- fil o members ( disagr eei ng with t he policy of t
heir le2,ders) he-ve been in communication ",ith me and a r e
desirous of being e.ssoci ated with the International \1:-:;:~ "
,os Council and to democratically tak e part in furthering our
rlUtua l hobby.
It is most pleasing to 8. writ er l"}'-c:r ["EythinG that he
'has written receives some out-of~the-run recognition. My r ecently
published book, THE BOI'lr-1EN OF ENGLAND, has been selected a s
the Adventurer's Book Club choice of the Nonth; the National
Library for the Blind have 2.sked (end been freely given)
permission to transcribe it into bra.ille 2nd an Americrl.J1 Publi
sher who specializes in education books has bought 2,000 unbound
copies for se,l e in U . S .A.
DON FEATHERSTONE .
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WARGl\l" ER OF THE If.ONTH
Brig~di er Peter Young D. S.O ., ~~
M.A., F . S . A . ~.R . Hist. S .
Pet er Young i s cert8.inl y the mo st medp.l-decornt ed
ws.rgPIDer i n the Vlorld - if not the most illustrious. A
well-known fi gure c.t Engli s h w2.r ga.mes gathering s , h is ben
i gn countemmce, b l ue eyes and, i f I may say so, rotund figure
present s £1 mislendingl y affable end easy- going picture . I n
reality , just as Brigadi er P et er Young was a brave and ruthless
sol dier in r eal lif e , so on the wnrgamcs t nbl e he is shrewed,
sharp and even a little un-scr upul ous as he mallipulates the be
p,utHully pp.inted 30= Willi e figures which fo rm his ext ensi ve
armies .
All wargamers ['r e different but some a r e more different than
others and Peter Young , in a uni qu e sort of way , is p l ayi ng
a rol e in tod.ay's wargPIDing akin to t hf1t p l ayed in the p£1st
by such emi nents as H.G .1'lells and Robert Louis Stevenson. .
Peter is one of a g roup of mature middl e- aged military men, £111
experienc ed i n actual warfare , who bring to t heir wa r gaminG
Ft knowl ed£; e of t e,ctics a lli ed to 8. g res.t s ense of fun
2nd i l'tag inat ion . As the "Elector", Pet er Young fights l
engthy 18th century cPID-p[',i gns with Ch2.rles Grant p.nd his son
(now a Cadet a t Sandhurst ) which not onl y i n-volves soldi ers
but e,lso the ir mi stresses : At t i mes, off-the-fi el d
p1.mishnent s and ex e cut ions are c8.rri ed out with scrupulous
f1.c cure,cYi
us i ng sC2.1 ed figures, sCP.ffo l ds and torture ch2mb ers. Wi
t h Bil Holmes of Delto r nm8. continually turning out b ril l i
pnt bui l dings and terra i n f e8.t ures and Ted Sur en sweating a
t the brow on his fi C;ures, Peter Young prob ably h a s the mos t
valuab l e and col ourful wargpmes s et -up i n the world .
Being in such clo se touch with war gaminG and. continunlly
writil~ about it, I t end to become b l ase in my encounters with
littl e tha t i s new . Thcrefore, I cherish those f ew war gpmer s
who st i mul a te me by their characters, t emper 8IDent s 1'nd
idep.s - Peter Young i s definit Gl y one of t hem:
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::XCF .. AHGE for Avnl on t: 11 ga::e, p ref e r ably
"V.Jo.tel'loo;; : 8 p::intod Napoloolli cs; 20 p r- int e c1 Sp cnc
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THE ENGLI SH CI VIL 'dARS .
Brigadi er Peter Young D.S.O., N . C.
The gr eat struggl e between King =d Pe.rli 2111ent, C2,valier
and Rounclhend, begins in 16~.0 with tho opening of the Long
Parliament and ends in 1660 with th e Restor2.tion of Ki ng Charles
II. It i s one of tho most fasoinating in our long history , and
some of our Gre8,test men tread the stage. Charl es I, martyr to hi
s own h i gh idea l of Kingshi IJ , Oliv er Crotlw:Jll, one of the
most ' quote2,ble' of our ste,tesmen; the noble Lord Fa lkland; the
sol dierly and magnetic Prince Rupert; fiery but incrticule,te Sir
Thomp.s Fnirfax, the General of the New Hodel Army; stout Skippen;
dour Sir Harmp,duke Lang dal e ['no. 2. host of others enri ch the
rlr2.fn2 . .
The fi ghting beg en in 16 42 a ye8r me.rked by the King ' s
hp,rd- won , thouGh indecisive , v ictory at Bd[; ehill pnd the
Royalist thrust at London , whi ch W2.S foiled Qt Turnh2111 Green .
The yer:-:r 16Lf3 was morked by ROY2.1ist successes ' 8,t Hepton
Henth , Str2.tton, Chalgrove Fiel d, Roundway Down and Adwnl ton F
oor, but the big battle, First Newbury, W2.S again i ndecisive .
And now the tide
(begen to turn with the ris e of Oliver Cromwell , who , though
only a captain at Ed.;ehill, was a li eutemmt- general 2. yefIT l a
t er . His successes at Gr enthrun , G2.insborough and Wi'ncmy
brought him r8.pidly to the fore . He confirm e
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~t the batt l e of DuPlcirk Dulles. The former army included ~
strong contingent of Cromwellien so l diers, who greatly
distinguished them-selves. The Spenish had the little army raised
in the Low Countries by King Charles II in 1656 . His GUP.rds
fought particu-18.rly well and the future King J2111es II, no mean
soldier if a poor king , l ed a gallant charge.
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I have made R nUl11ber of cont~cts thrcugh writing to N ews l
ett er subscribers (in this area) and from that it snowball ed
until' we now seem to have the nucleus of 8. l ocal group .
We have about 5 r egulars nnd several occasional players or
potential ones. We've fought sever£ll f • • C .W. battles Rlld one
modern one , all Vii th two or three people on eE'.ch side
(incidentally I find I much prefer this type of g8111e , provided
strict rules about inter-communicHtion are used - there are
wonderful opportullities for confusion , wrongl y- int erpreted
orders et c., and it i s altogether more realistic then the game
between two single pl ayers . Vie have had some wonderful
situations where H break through sends couriers ,'lith frantic
notes gallopil'1_t": in ['.11 directions , C. in C ' s going mad as
inexperienced subordinates hurl Hviay the r eserves in suicid8.1
attacks and so on). At the moment we are mfl.inly concerned with A.
C . W. and W. \¥.II, but I have a Fapoleonic a r my well on the
"my, and I an] now planning 1870 Airfix armies (I think I sho.ll
E'.ssume that Italy , Denmark E'.nd AustriR joined in, i'.s they
might in fact have done) . I have two campaigns rUlIDi nc; at the
moment - one Western Desert 19~,2 Pilld one A. C.W .
If 'IOU are in this arec. - writ e to GeDrge Gush, 1 54D Upper
Grosvenoi- Road, Tunbridge Hell s , Kent.
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AIDIOUR I N THE FIVE DAY \JAR .
by
F.BARKER .
The Israeli aroy g roup ed nost of i ts t anks into e.rnoured ·
brige.des of two te.nk be.t talions end one i nf2ntry battalion in
ol d American half-treccks.
'rhey appear to hgve concentrated their 105TI1':l gun Centurions
against their mai n arnoured eneny , the Egypti&~s , l eaving
the Jordani2J.ls to be del'.lt with by disnounted infentry
acconp81lied by 76mo gun Super Shernens .
They al so had a considerabl e number of N. 48 Pattons , but no
infoIT:lgtion as to the employment of these is aV2.ile.ble .
The l ight .AJlIX .13 tallies, which were not the n issi l e
equi pped vers i on , were used to screen the h C8.vy tfmk
brigfOdes operating against the Eqypti8ns and had e. r ather har d
tine . The outst('.11d-ing I sraeli tanlc Vias the Centurion, whos
e 105= Aore 8Lmuni tion decioivel y outrru'lCed t he opposinc;
Russi C'n =d ilnerican built t=ks.
The Eqypti[ln 2nel Syri tm 2Tcies reliecl r..ai nly on tho T . 5
~r 2nd ithe very sini1 2.r T . 55, RUSSian tgnks wi til powerful
100Lill guns but :firing l es s so;:>histicatecl 21"nuni tion .
They b".o sn"ller n1lI·,bers of obsol ete RUSSian vehicles such 8.8
the T. 34/85 mediun t ame with an '851:'':1 gun , the J . S . 3
heavy tE'XLK: with 122m, gun, p.nd the SU . IOO I'.nt i -t81lli:
vehicle with the S2ne 100Lm gun f\S the T.54, but in a re-stricted
travers nountinE .
The Syri8ns also h gd a snaIl nUl".ber of wartine Germ:m tanks ,
2nd the Eqyp ti2.l1s n few enrIy node l 20pdr . Gun Centurions ,
to-g ether with Sheroans and A .Ti!. X. s .
The J ord2ni 2.n 2roy reli ed mginly on gOm} GUllS, but a l so
had sone Centurions . 8.rr,oured personnel carrier.
l1Lleri can N. 48 P[' ttons wi th They used the M.113
Both s ides used pl~nty of 8.J1ti- tank guided nissiles and
re-coiless 2nti - t2nk c uns, but of thes e the fOrI'lCr had little
influ-once on the battles conp2.r ed with the h i gh velocity
t8.J1k guns.
lTe2rl y 1'.11 these vehicles can be found in the Eini t2.nks
range in 1/87 sCl'.l e . The nost sui t2.01e inf2.ntry PTe thc
Airfix British COl'1bat g roup, who Hre corroct sc:o.lo . The
!':ini tanks nen vary gr eat l y in scale, 2-..'ld the other Airfix
sets are too large .
Thc [lain di s:o.dv81lt aGe to using 1/72 Airfix vehicl es is
the l ack of :::ny Russian t:o.nk othor th8.J1 the obsolete JS. 3.
However , I
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near rtmours or [;, 1/72 'r . 54fron~·ii· 'J'2.panese firn. t he
two sC21es, 1/8 7 aDd 1/72 just do not n ix, in hop8ful;L HO/OO s21
8s te,l k . They now seem to have of 1/72 with their excellent set
of peI'e.t r oopers .
Unfo r tunately, spite of Airfi~'s decided i n fl'.vOUI'
The f ollowing list of te.nk guns and penetr2.tions is based
en-tirely on published i nfornat i on . SODe i nfor L1etion is
therefore Dissing , but conp,criso n vehicl es h2.ve b een included
so the.t the nissing bit s cgn be ce.lculfi t8d . Lll penetrat i
ons 2r e at en 2.ngl e of inpe-ct of go degr8es, except the 17pdr
., which is at 60 degrees . This should therefore be incree.seo. by
apprcxinat ely 25~' to put i t on the S2ne be-Sis gS the others
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Tank.
SherLlan 7 6nr.1
1'1 . 47 90= 1\l'1)( .13 75:'-:r:
p e-nt11 er 7 5~i!.,
Centur- 105rlTIl ion
20pdr. 84rm
17pdr . 76nr.l
T.5 ~,) 1001:11:1
T.,55))
SU .100)
T.34/85 8 5nn
J.S.3. 12 2m:1
APCBC
APCR
APCBC
APCR
APCR
APHE
APEE
IJ'DS
1.1'DS
l'J'DS
A1'HE
APCR
1.PHE
APCR
ilP
Vel oci ty. - ~ 2600 f ps .
3400
2800
4100
3350
3000
3070
38 50
4700
3950
2950
3950
2600
3950
2600
Pen . 1D 500 netre.
12L'GIl . 212
1 55 ?
282
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160
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208
155
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111
138
143
1,00Q
117
179 1 47
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252
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135 ?
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192
135 ?
102
100
126
2,000
102
127
132 ?
194 ?
98 ?
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161
100
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85 ?
97
lLPCR ['.I,rr,JUni tion is ine-ccur2,te, and is not nOrIl2.11y
used Rt l ong -ro.nge for this rC?e.son.
~1 . 48 and JS . 3 h2.ve frontfil 2.r1:10Ur C?Qui valent to
200ml of vertical p l e.te , when a llewe.nc e hgs been Tl2.de fo r
the v arious 2ngl es of s l ope.
Centurion, T . 54 i?l1d T . 5 5 hev e fronte.l 2.filour equi
v21ent to 150m1 .
Shernan e.nd T . 34 he.ve the equi ve.l ent of 120r,lLl , e.nd
AMX of 'rOnI.l .
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All have side armour equivalent to 75lJD, except JS.3 with 120mn
and AJ'I]X with 20=.
Nobility. Only the JIlIX is signific2ntl~r faster th2n the
others cr08S-country, 2nd it suffers nore than the others from soft
sand.
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Duty.
The following games are 8,v8,i18,ble f',t 42s . - d. plus
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The Following larg er g8J1les cost 52s. -d . plus 12s. 9d.
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Blitxkrieg. Guadalcanal. Jutland.
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Some short whi le aco ~1erberlen PVC battlefield products to U.S
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Limited exported one of It departed beautifully cardboard
container.
their packed
A l etter from Merica announced its arrival ••• so buckled that
its owner did not know whe,t to do with it. brilliant inspiration
he entered it in his local Modern tion as a piece of Abstract
ConteElporary Sculpture, and First Prize.
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bent and With a
Art Exhibi-Vias awarded
There 8.re 5,00 subscribers to this magazine and yet onl;v jEst
over 200 have purchps ed the 'tif'Tg8mer' s Annual for 1966- 67!
This Annual i s 2, {;re8,t ly en12rged Yewsletter - how come so few
need it?
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CRY GOD FOR ENGLAND, HARRY AND SAINT GroRGE~
Don Featherstone
This was the first occasion on which two arrJies of Airfix
mediaeval soldiers (macte up of boxes of Robin Hood and Sheriff of
Nottingham - suitably converted) vlere used. The English force
consisted of Henry V 2.nd his personal troops (50 dismounted
men-at-arms Bnd the sallle nUlllber of archers); Harwick ana his
personal troop (25 dismou.nted men-at-arms and 20 archers) alld
Chandos and his party (30 dismount ed men-at-arms and 15
archers).
The English force, ende2vouring to get back to Calais after a
devastating raid 2.cross FnulCe, were movir,g along the TO;:J.d
to"", wards the bridge crossing the River Somme. The bridge ';.I2,S
small and narrow 2nd c01Ild only be crossed by 20 cavElry or 30
infantry in a game- move. At the east and west sides of the table
were tvlO fords, each capable of tEking 15 cHvalry or 20 infantry
per game-move.
At the commencement of the battle, the English force were dnn'ID
up on the southern bank of the river with the King's troops in the
centre by the bridge, Varvrick at the western ford 2nd Ch811dos B,t
the er-.stern ford ..
!rhe f 'l'en ch Army were massed along the southern border of
the wargames table 8110. vIaS formed as follows.
The Banner of the Kj.ng of Frcnce 30 mounted knights; 40
dis-mounted men-at- arms 2lld 20 Genoese crossbowmen.
The Banner of the Da:uphin of Frvnce 30 mounted knights and 40
dismounted men-at-arms.
The BB.nner of the Duc Alcncon, N2.rshEl of France 30 mocmted
knights 2nd 40 dismounted men-nt-arms.
The Duc de Bery 30 mounted knights and 40 dismounted
men-at-arms.
There was considerable rivalry amongst these four bodies and
they were none too firmly under ' the commEmd of the King of Fr2,nc
e. Any suggestion that they should amalgamate would only come true
if· the co==der making the suggestion were able to throVi a 5 or 6
on the dice for his particular Banner.
Each FrQ11ch Ba.YJner and each separate group of the English
troops moved independently. A chart was made out before the game
for each of these bodies and columns were drawn headed by the
number of the game-move i. e. 1st game-move, 2nd game-move, 3rd
game-move and so
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on. Before each move the commander of each body had to vlI'i te
down his intentions to which he had to firm1 ? stick once the
moving a ctue.11y began, regardl ess of t he enemy s int entions or
movements towerds him .
Th is was e. game n "ther ",fter the style of the English
retreat tovlards Crecy in 1346, wher, Enblish .rms movcd r;te[',dil
~T over the bri dGc vlhil st thc lll['.sDcd r u lle::: of B['.rr~·
' S ['~ochcrs three.tened the ,,'rench who were very 10t:!1 to move
tOvlards them or to make contact . Finally, all the archers cxcept
10 were e.cross and lining tr_e northern bank of thc river . '.rIle
briqge Vie,s, blocked by a doub le nmk of dismounted. men- at- arms
(10 men with ' 5 archers on either side of thcm). The French f
inally attacked wi th their dismounted men- at- arms and a fierce
melee ensued at the bridge for five ge.me- moves before the English
men- at- arms were decimated enough to be forced to withdraw ,
being ridden down by the triumphant Fr ench knights . This was
about the onl y substantia l success the French had throughout the
who l e battle . The 'English archers had m=8.ged to cross =d got
s8.fely buck to the ridge with the rest of Har ry ' s t r oops
.
On the western wing , Alencon , the I'brshal of Francc , urged h
is men forward again in the hardly chi valrous fashion of mounted
knights sheltering behind the dismounted men- at- arms who pl odded
forward into the face of ho.ils of a rrows from Warwick's archers
who made a number of stands between the clumps .J f trees on the
edge of the board until they finally covered the crossing 0 f the
ford, by which time all the French infantry had been killed 8.lld a
number of the mounted knights had also v8nished .
. The English suppl y waggons were now safely on the rear s l
opes of the ridge and the English army , with pl enty of t ime to
spare, took u p their position along the ridge with their right
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slightly r efused because of the threat of Alencon ' s kni ghts
who wended t heir way through t he woods on the foot at the western
end of the ridge and tried to turn the British flank. On the
eastern flank the mounted knights of Bery actually did manage to
turn the f l arik go ing round the grove of trees e:nd appearing on
the r ear slopes of the ri dge . King Henry turned 20 ar chers e:nd
20 men- at-arms rOl):nd to f ace them so that he had men _ ' f
l).,'; ing b
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Saving throws after melees.
Horsemen
4, 5 or 6.
Inf8ntry
5 or 6
Arcb ers.
6
(Add 1 to saving throw if a shi el d is c8.rried).
Hand-to-h8nd fighting.
Archers Dismounted men-at-arms Dismounted men-at arms Haunt ed
knights
.- 1 point and crossbo\'IIDen = It points with shi elds = 2
points
3 points
(Axemen and spe8.rmen add t point each for the first round of
the melee.
Comrn8nders fight i ndividually adding 1 to their dice, kings
adding 2 to their dice.) . .
Fi ght in groups for every 5 paints . named commanders and
King.
of appr oximat ely 20 points with 1 dice thrown Add 1 per dic e
to a g roup with one of the add 2 to the group commanded personally
by t he
"!hen mounted knights charge home on disElo unted infantry - the
i n f [,21t:cy nood t o thrb,,[ [" 4 , 5 or 6to c t nnd (
cpo["TIlOl:. [,ll.d L'.xOllon will f),IV/ny o stnnd) .
If the infantry stand, t hen t :'lO cavalry will r efuse to cha
r ge home if they t h row a 1 or a 2 .
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17 Assort ed Fir;hUng vehi cl es s ome painted .
330 Vi .IJ . II Airfix fi gures a ll 1 Revell :1'34 Kit.
TH:;; LOT - £ 3 . - 8 . - d. pl us postp,ge.
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COUNSELS OF WAR.
This is the first of P. s eri es of suggest-ions , ideEOs 2nd
propositions cs.l cule.ted to stimu12.te action or EO:q:;ument
f'monz wsrgamers . Do not hesitate to send i n your views and ideas
for future items suitable to be i ncluded under thi s hep.di n·~
.
I run indebted to H. R .Thurber for"thc i deas cont sined
below.
The English 10ngboWIDP.n , -'as probably the best foot archer
ever seen but he was an infan-trymen! Even mounted, he '"HS f'
mounted infsn-tryc::pn - not P. caval ryman and his weapon could
never be p. horseman IS wep.pon . How would he hp.ve fared
8.,zainst the pick of the r ev.l horse-=chers - the Comni1che
horseman referred to in
Prescott Febb I S ;'l'he Great l 'lain"; the Par thian arche r s
who destroyed Crc.ssus at Ccrrhae; or, gre8.test of 8.11, the
Mongol archers of Gcnc;his Khm. 8.nd SPobutai , 1".S described. in
L2mb I S "~r, arch of the B=b3ri
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BOOKS
.Among recent publications the following stond out as being of
interest to wargnmers. Obtp.inablo from Kon TrotmrTI ( l\.rms
Books) 3 Ash Clos e , l'r.phill, High Wycomb e, Bucl~s, o.re
details of three new books publishec'c by the l'iuseum Restoration
Service , Ottav'a, Cpno.da. The first deals with the 9 pdr muzzl e-
londing field r;un which vJ[,.S the stmldprd British field
E'ortillery piec Co in the last c;uo.rter of the 19th century and
one used throughout these epoch-rnp.king colonial c21llpfligns.
Another vol1une is Highland Ihli tary Discipline of 17:)7 which is
n reprint of the drill manuPel for High12,J.· d regiments of the
period. J~nd the Inst is a reprint of the oric;inel plates and text
of a drill book of th e }i'rench regular o.rmy rd; the time some of
its regiments were serving in Cpm'da in 1755. Both the 12st two
books have [" lot of ff'.scin2eting old en-gravings and Bll the
('rill movements and poei tions.
Splwrc Books have produccd in pnperback form the s eri es that
hr'.Ve recently b een running in the rC imes enti tlec' ;;Alamein
o.nd the Desert Vf2,r;:. At 7s. 6d . , this book with IDP,ny
plf'.tes nnd illustr['.-tions is of c;reBt value nnd interest not
only to the men fic;htiYl[~ Forld Wcr II wa.rC;Bmes but o.lso to
anybody interested i n thinc s of B mili t['.ry nature.
Another pRparb :c.ck rmC: y et o.nother book on \'l"tcrloo i s
Chris-topher Hibbert's book "~[nterloo - N,.jloleon's 18.st
C,mpeign". This is a Mentor Great Battles series book published in
]\.tlloricn =d sellilJ.[, in this country P.t 2s .6d. I h ave not
yet got eround to reedinG my copy but it seems to be very
comprehensive reconstruction of this g rea.t bD.ttle. On tho rep.r
eovcr of the book it cl8.ims that "this work i r.troduces a
dytJ21llic on- the-spot venture into mili t2ery history" . This
seri os a lso include s " 'r ha I3c>ttle of HastinGs" by T.Ii:
.I1c ,: ,}Jfie (author of tho e:;collent book "Rmlk and File';)
a.nd ",Iso the "Bnttlc of the I;arne" by Davi d B. Rglston.
It seems as thou:sh mili tPTY book selle-rs .A..A " r ohnston of
Pitney 12.1'£;po1't, Somerset, pnd K.G. Wynn, of 42 Eshel' ~)rive,
1ittleh8Jnpton, Sussex, are vying with ench other to see who cgn
turn out the longest 'IfUlc1 most ma(~neti c list of s econd-hm ,d
military books! Once 0. month two fat envelopes ClO[lP onto my desk
end I hp.ve the drep>d-fnl task of fighting off tempt2tion to
buy far more books then I cen afford or ever g et p.round to
rep.ding . I' TIl 2.fr2i d I do not do 1', very good job in some
OgSOS when reSisti ng this plmost irrestible ur£: 8. }) oli eving t
hat one can only fi [;ht vJ"Ftrg2IllC c2Jnpaigns \·,i th accur2.te
lmowlodge of thgt cmapRign and stinu12.ted by recEmt re2d-inr; on t
h e subj ect, these lists contain det['.i ls of book s t ha.t one
did not even knoVJ exist ed on every C8I:lpgiGl1 , wa.r c.nd
military m['~tt ar thE'.t comes into ones mind . b'vcry wnrgETlcr
is rc conunend.ed to study thes e lists P1TIO, if they C2.n
2>fford it, to buy the books thBt cover the period in which they
a re interested.
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SOJlIETHING NEW?
by
Joe r'!orschauser.
I have planned a departure fron ny usup~ grid type game which '
Day surprise you. I have contracted with Jack Scruby to nake me
several special figures of Germans and British in W.W.I dress, not
colonials but regulars. These are kneeling figures with rifl? a t
the ready or with no weapon in hand (to serve as gunner types).
These 30Th~ figures I plan to use loose, not on trays, something
which may shock you. On top of this I plan to use a model RR ~ype
of terrain 1'1Odified to the degree only making it useable for
war-gamiJ:1..g . Ny object is to set up some very small unit
battles, not . particularly of W.W.I but of the 1920s and 1930s.
The figures will just be basic, all the same and I sel ected
kneeling types because I felt this was the best compromise between
the stability of a prone loose figure pnd the looks of a standing
loose figure. It's a good position for modern war and one in 'which
troops are often pictured. AnY>'JaY, ny plan is to first set up
a mythical Centre.J. American c2np8.ign between two tiny banana
republics, one with l eardngs to-wards Germany, the other with ties
with the U.S. Thus, ,of course, the uniforDS would fit. Some
S.Americ2n· countri es .still wear Ccr . ~~o pct l:.oJ: .ot c :'~
:: u :; c 1:'''u:;er rifleD b~T the wry. I n ,--::y event t l,ic '
rill "~lGW -'c to intro::ucL ['.wil .~ vrxiety t'loUt,h c ::,l1
'1U,':,.nt:jJ:y of equipnent into the ga,~e, anything from W .1'1.
I tanks and ACs to nore "TIodern" types, VI.VI.I a ircraft and
later types including sone Ford or Junker tri-notor high wing
TIonoplane transports for crude paradrops on the table. As
8.nything fron anywhere was used in the area in wars of the period
t his should be good fun.
r·!y plan is to set up a nostly jungl e type of terrain cut with
TIany roads crOSSing each other and a very few hill s, an
occaSional streelTI etc. Since jungle in that p.rep, is quite bad
only the infentry will have any mobility off the roads a.l1d even
then their weapons' ranges will be cut. (A 30J06 or a .303 bullet
doesn 't go far in dense brush and jungle). The nunbers of ACs or
tanks or guns used will be snall end these will be confined to
roe.ds and an occasional small clearing. Thus nost of the
cruJpeoign will revolve around con-trol of ro e,ds and cross roads
with sone attenpted flarJcing DOVeTIents . through the brush.
Airdrops by paratroops will be accomplished by . dropping sone one
inch square slips of paper from the drop point a foot or two over
the table wi th individual nen l anding where paper I m1ds. This
should really add to confusion and fun. The whole thing will be on
a conpany ba,sis, not a regimental or divisional one. It's evident
one ce.nnot use a nass of trees and still opereote a weorgruJe thus
I will sinula te forest a reas with S0[18 trees and a green
over-lay of shelf paper though I shall meke trees nunerous enough
to look effective. This should allow troops to be easily moved and
still look good . Rest of the terrain will be pretty near as it
should be.
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TOWARDS A SEVENTE~ CENTURY HARGANE - V
by
feter Gouldesborough.
There rem2cin two subj ects to be considered - dr2,~'cons 8Jld
artillery. In the first hglf of the 17th century dragoons \'Jere
still being USGd almost entirGly in their origingl rolG of m01.mted
inf[1.lltry. ThGY were nornmlly not so well mounted as the cavalry,
so it mi ght be o.dvisable in the we,rg8Ille to c;i ve them g
ra,ther shorter move. They should have no value for shock action
when mounted.. (Okey's dTag oons at Dgseby a re descri-bed gS
charging the Royalist infantry, but this seems to hfwe be'en when
the 19tter were already broken.)
DrRgoons almost glways foug ht on foot. This Dakes it neeess8,ry
to provide three fi gures for e2.ch fu'8,'!;00n on the wm'-gm1e
t8.ble - p. m01.mt eO. drngoon, g dismount eO. dra,joon and the
horse from which he has dismount eo. . ~'or every tenth man only a
mounted figure will be required, ns he will be holding the horses
of those who have dismounted. The dismounted men should be subject
to the S2Lle rules as musketeers. Dragoons were usually o.rmed with
a snaphance (flintlock) musket, not the match'-lock of the
musketeers , but I can find no evictence that this ma,de eny
material difference to the rang G or speed of their fire.
It is difficult to decide what importance to give to a,rti llery
in a w=g=e of this period. ·111. some of the battles of the Civil
iJa.r the Cems seem to have played a very sm2ll part. In others
(pl',rticularly the first bgttle of Newbury and the bgttle of
Lanl;port) they seem to have been f2,irly effective. In the Thirty
Years F= the artill ery of Gustavus Adolphus sometimes plgyed an
import2nt role. At the crOSSing of the Lech the con-centrgt eO.
fire of thG Svledish guns was decisive , but this W2S 2.gainst the
fieldworks of the Imperialists and thus approximated to the
undoubted. importance of artill ery in sieges. Even in the open
field, however, the small battalion guns of the Swedes apparently
had a gre2.t effect.
For w:',rg aTJle purposes it vTill probably be most practica.ble
to distinguish between he,wy Emd light artill ery . 'I'he heavy
guns of the period (demi-culverins in the case of fie l d
f1:rtillery) were very immobile. A lenGth of move equal to half
that of the musketeers is the most that could be given to them. The
light GUl1.S (sakers, minions &'10. rlral,es) could perhaps be
allowed the S(IDle move 2.S the musket eers . Even the light GUl1.S
ca.nnot be g i VGn a quicl[er rate of fire th8Jl mUSkets, .so I
suggest that all guns vii th a minimum strGngth of crew should be
allowed to load Ot fire in each move. 'J:he range of the light gems
could be fixed as t\1ice that of muslcetry and the.t of the he2vy
glms at four or fi VEO times.
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To recap , I suggest the followi~g proportions between m?ves
2nd. ranges. Noves: heavy guns , 2;p~kemen, 3; musketeers , l~ght
gw~s and dismounted dragoons, 4; mounted dragoons, 8; cavalry, 10.
R2Jlges: pistol, 3; muskets, 10 ; light guns, 20; heavy guns ,
50.
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"EJX:-EHILL 1642" by Brigadier Peter Young D. S .O., lLC ., ILA
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(;;19.25),
When e. men has an ins2.tiable interest such ["S that of Peter
Young in the English Civil War then, equally , he h2.s an obsession
to tell everyone else about it . We should be grateful th2.t he was
unable to r esist this tem;Jtation because wh2.t has emerged io the
I'Conple8i Coripe:'ld.iu?- 'of t!.P./'i , EnGlioh Ci vil
it![',,!:," . Not only is the ['.Ctu2~ camp a i gn of Edgehill, the
clarion-call that began t he war, described in the greatest detail,
also fully considered are the opposing armies , their equipment and
leaders . Wargamers intending to form armies of Cavaliers and
Roundheads will find all the in-formation they r equire in the
pages of this book - the many b l a.clc-2nd- white "TIinto.tures"
that fill in the page- bottoms e.t the end of each ch2.pter a.re,
almos t \{ithout exception, both i nspiring and :" ;ll1f"tructive .
The coloured plates, portraits of leaders mostly, o.re DW:lptuouS,
their richness breo,t h i :r.,g lif e into nrr-.ec tha t Dcke up
tho pr..;;es of ::::J:'-t;lisl1 histOl'Y . IJet2,il ed a l illost
to perl1icl:e-ty-point and written with a whimsical fullne ss that
matches it s author , this book; is 2. !'lost pl.c·L'.s ing 2nd
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-de2.ling with German self- propell ed guns end flak t anks . It is
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both conventional vehicles 2.nd many of which only a woo den- nock-
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RE-FIGHTING THE PENINSULA WAR 1808-1814
by
Don Featherstone
Re-fighting actual battles on the table-top presents a number of
problems. For example, if the war game is to represent the actual
battle in anything more than its name, the tactics and ,events of
that battle have, to a certair. extent, to be reproduced. The
wargamer commanding the side that was victoriwus in real life
receives an advantage through this method, whilst the command~r of
the defeated side, with hindsight, knows what not to do on thlS
occasion. Of cQurse, the size of the forces are drastically
re-duced but should ,proportionately represent those which actually
took part.
The first essential is a really authoritat:i:vebook on the war
or battle in question, giving the numbers of both sides involved,
their Order of Battle, and a good map. Vfuen Neville Dickinson and
I de-cided to re-fight the Peninsula War, thus achieving a long
felt ambition, it was decided unanimously that the book that gave
us all we wanted was the admirable "Wellington in the Peninsula" by
Jac Weller, published in 1962 by Nicholas Vane of London. When
re-viewing this book in the Newsletter, the author gave the opinion
that it was an ideal basis on which to plan a wax games campaign,
so far our experiences in re-fighting the Peninsula Vlar he.ve more
t~rn, borne out this s t etemer.t •
. ,';" We took the battles in the order in which Veller gave
them in his book"beginning with Rolica, fought on the 17th of
August, 1808. By a queer coincidence, Feville and I re-fought t he
battle on the 17th of Augus t 1 59 years l ater. Our next battle
was Vimi ero, fought on the 21st of Aueust, 1808 , and our third
battle was the Battle of Corunna fought on the 16th of January,
1809. At the time of writing thi s is as far as we have gone.
It is intended that this prologue shoul d deta.il the manner in
\'1hich we appro ached this re-fight ing of an act ual campa.i gn
and that our battle reports , together with maps will be given, one
per month, so that wargamers can fight the war along with us should
they so desire. The fi rst essential, using the maps given in
Weller's book, is to draw a diagra..lll of a terrain suit able for
the s ize of your war games table. If the battle contains more than
one "part" (i. e. two or more events of a major natvxe) then it may
either be fought by splitting your'table-top terrain so that each
part takes the form of a separate battle or by " coming i nto the
battle" just prior to what you conSider to be the major or most
interes ting facet of the engagement. For exe~pl e , when fighting
Rolica, we decided that the second part of the battle when the
French under Del aborde had fallen back from their first pOSition
because of a Brit i sh out-flanking movement, and had taken up a
second and stronger position
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on a ridge some two miles further back.
In order to obtain a r easonab l y accur ate scal ed- down
force, we decided to let 1 man on the wargames table equal 40 men
in the actual battle which , for Rolica gave the British a force of
about 350 men and the French 115 men . The French of course had the
advantage of a very strong pos i tion, they also had more cavalry
than the British .
In real life , it is well knovm that "lellington won al l his
battles in the Peninsula. This ensured the sequence of battles as
they actually transpired . On a vrargames table, considerable ;.
difficulty is enco1Ll'ltered if this sequence i s broken by the
enemy def eated in real life, daring to be successful in miniature
. This would mean of course that instead of the armi es pr
ogressing con-veniently on to the next battlefield (as l aid dO~1 i
n history) the British would probably have retreated to a
battlefield unknown to us and which no actual engagement ever took
place. To counter this, we decided to go ahead and re-fight the
battles, allocating 2 pOints to the victors, 1 point for a dra.wn
battle and additional points if &l'ly specific objectives are
gained or held by one or other of the sides . For exampl e , i n
re- fighting the battle of Rolica we deemed it necessary for the
smaller Fr ench forc e in their strong hilltop pOSition to have to
ho ld off the cons iderably stronger Briti sh force advancing up
the slopes and at the same time be abl e to mal{e their getaway
before the arri'lal on their fls.nk e·f ~::- c otl"Ol'. 3I' i ti
cll forc ~ t.u:dcr Per n cor. . I~ t h e C"i.-CT.t , t~-: c l?rc
.c::. W0re able to do t his and it was decided that the British had
gai ned 2 points for the victory whilst the French had gained 1 poi
nt for holding off the British throughout 14 or 15 game- liloves .
lJext months lTewsletter will contain the hictorical background of
the Battle of Ro li ca and a report of thc war game deSigned to
re-produce that battle.
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ALBXAITDBR THE GREAT 'S IROr ELBPHAIJTS .
And AlexEmo.er oro.ered his men to make elephants of brass and
he pour ed naptha j.nto them - now he h'.d me.de the elephants of
brass blol'!D out ho llow - ano. he set them on carri2{;es 2nd e.t
the time when the armies were about to meet in b2.ttle their thr
ust li r'hteo. paper through the holes of the elephants ' bodi es:
so that they might burn up the el ephants of India. Ar,d it C2.111e
to D2SS that when the elephants of Indie. se.w the e l ephe.nts of
Alexe.i:tder , t h ey thought th8t t hey were el eph,.nts like
thems elves, but when the armies met in battle the fl8llles of the
naptha C2,me forth from the elephants of bre.ss, and burnt the
elephants of I ndir. gnd. the men who were mounted on their bncks
2.nd those who were left of the Indi8ns fled.
From Eistory of Alex8nder the Great, in the History of the Jews
, by Joseph ben Go rion (Ninth or Tenth Century) .
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·~ENTLENEN! HAVE A CARE:
I believe tho.t this pre-cautionoTY word of COmmGlld I'ms used
in the 1 8th c8ntury to secure the 2ttent ion of n sQuad of
soldiers. It seems 2uDronrie.t e that it shoul d be the title of a
mo~thiy f eature concerninG warGaming in 211 its mfilly and v e.ri
ed fp,cets.
Thi s month we arc deE'.linc, with examples from reE'.l lif e
military his tory which C2n be adapted 2,S t ab l e-top wargames
tactics.
Aust erli t z W2,S one of the few defens ive b2ttles fought by
N2poleon. DeliberE'.tely, he entic ed the enemy to att8ck him, to
try to envelop him and were weakening their c entre by so do i ng ,
and them counter-a,ttacked their c ent re, seizing the all i
l'1port[illt heights of the PrE'.tzen. By this he cut thE; enemies
lines in half, 2nd destroyed e2ch in det2il. NEcpol eon mp,de the
enemy ext end their left further 2nd further in their effort s to
out-fl2nk his ris ht. This extens ion weakened their c entre, on
the l'ratzen , which he knew to be the decisive point, then ho
delivered his oounter-attilck e.gainst the wep,leoned oontre .
At ilrbeln, Al ex 2nder , by e cheloning h i s flank, suoceec'cd
in mnldng D8rius e:xt end his front to a c re2t ext ent, onc' then
h e drovo at the we8kened centre 2nd cut the lin e in two .
At Rossbock Frederick the Gr e2,t ch[illged from the defensive
to the off enSive directly h is opponent 3 0ubise n.ttempted to
outflank him, 2nd , by so doing , exposed the }
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LOOKING AROur':Q
Airfix Nagazine - l"ovember 1967 . I n cddi tion to 2,11 i ts
usual fee.tures the followi ng items ere of specific int erest to
W2J \ , amers. I 'art 5 of the Ohurchill Trmk sto r y - A',iRE
vpriants; two very useful model instructions by Chri s Ellis for
1'. Jap cmese t 2.nkette flnd r. l"io rri s Rndio '1' ruck ;
converting cmd pp.inting Airfix fi eures for the U . S . Civil ,
[nr by Mi che.el Ble.ke ; part 3 of 1'0 seri es on the colourin~s
of fighter a ircraft in the early days of V!orld 1.'lD.r II.
I:ilihi striot. This mr Gazi ne for mili t ory miniature coll
ectors and h-i stori nns- i s published by Boh Berd nt Box 1 46 3,
Baltimore, Har yl e.nd 2120 3, U . S . A. Of prrticul p-r interest
to wprg2lllers i n this issue is £\n a r t icle on the uniforms of
t he Russicm cmd Japenese i nff'.n try in the war of 1 90tJ-- 5 end
en illustrated 2rticl e on the Colours ca rri ed by the Pruss ian
Army in 1 806-1815.
~lodel Bo o.ts - l'Tovemb er 1967. Cont ni ns en articl e with p
l ar.s for building t he City of Bristol an er,rly 19th century pao
dle s teemer ; p l nns cmd pho tog r r.phs o f E .11. S •
Invincible one of the most powerful wrrships ever des i gned and
n11 articl e with p l e.218 on the Jap=ese Ag=o rnd Akits uki class
cruisers of Worl d \'lar II.
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Officers of Pikes with H2,lberds, Officers of l1usketeers and Fi
eld Officers , Pikemen in v[,.Tious positions ['no. r~usketeers ,
firing, 102.dinc; 2n0 marching; there ".Te relso Cuiro.ssiers 2nd
troo:oers with pot helmets nnd mounted Earquebus iers. Ted a lso
has 2. person8:1i t~. figure of King ChETl es I but surpri s -in{;
ly not one of Rupert of the Rhine.
Hinton Hunt Figures h2vc 2. smal l but finely produced sclection
in this period consisti:og of 8n O-~fi-cer , 2. pikeman
.end-,~A§ketee~ - persono.l l y, I think these (',re as f ood as
any other figures that have b e en turned out by J'lIarcus Hinton .
'i'hese figures rere 25mm in size.
lhni p.ture Figurines ho.ve qui t e a good range of 20mm warg
nrnes fi ,:"ures in this period conSisting of musketeers, pikemen
in three pOSitions, officers, 2nd mounted C['v2.1ier nnd Roundhead
treopers. If e1fT moC els fro!!'. Hiniature F'igurines this month
include (" Gatlin(, gun and re pe.ck mule; }i'rench Old GU2rd
Sappers2.nd French Line S2.ppers. lJeville Dickinson also tells me
that within a wee];; or so he will h2.ve 2.vailable the first of h
is new 54mm raD,ge of collector' s figures. He is ste,Tting with an
officcr mld a trooper of the F'rench 2ncl Hussar Eegiment of the
Guard rend with a Lrence-Knight of the Ito.lio.n B.enaissrcnce
period. 'llhese figures will sell at about lOs. - d. e2.ch.
I have received thc lat est c2.talogue of 20j';L1 Wf',r c;,'mes
fi r;ure;J from Hinton Hunt Fi,'iures p.nd find it most imr ressi
ve . Their lo.test offerings seem to be dismountable c2ov ".lry in
which the f i gures 2.re c e,st separately from the horses . 'rhe
rO.nge includes French Napoleonic Guard Cavalry; French Lin e
Cnvnlry nnd British j:apol eonic Ca.valry. 'i'here is also 2. new r
ange of Hesse- Darmstadt snd Swedi sh infantry of the N2.pol eonic
period . This catalogue foros a very f ull Plld comprehensive
listin6'. of an extremely wi de rp,nge of f i gur es, mostly Napo
leonic but a lso including American Civil We,T 8l1d Normsn
Conquest.
t1erberlen Limit ed continue to turn out with remarkable
con-sistency their accessori es for wargrunes battlefields - their
l atest is an encernpmert of twelve bivoupcks which eoslE 3s.ld.
plus 9d. po stage and e, pair of revetted earth gun positions
formed in brown p 12stic. Another similarly made a ccessory is a
stone culvert bridge 2.nd three lengths of stone Viall.
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supplies of model Ships rnd other kits and accessories which both t
he wargmner 2.nd Nav2.1 "mrgmner v,ill fino, of the gre2.test value
. I n a recent advert I noticed a good selection of Eidor;i 1/76
scale tank kits at 2s .lld. eac;:l a n d a good rang e of Pyro 1200
scale Vlar Ships .
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