The term “Landsknechts” appeared in the German language around 1470, meaning “servant of the land”, as it was formed by Maximilian I, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, around the same time. Maximilian was impressed with the tactics displayed by the Swiss Pikemen in their battle for independence against the Duchy of Burgundy and his…
Hungary was unique among Germany’s eastern front allies in that it possessed a large enough industrial base to produce its own natively designed armoured fighting vehicles. First deploying a Rapid Corps of light Toldi tanks and Csaba armoured cars in the initial invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, this armoured unit was wiped out…
Sailors have swapped stories of the horrors that inhabit the seas for centuries, creating legends of monsters that come up from the murky depths to drag whole ships down to Davy Jones’ Locker and ghostly ships of the damned that accurse all who see them. Sailors are nothing if not superstitious (and rightly so -…
Fought between 1950 and 1953, the Korean War was one of the first major conflicts of the Cold War. Backed by the Soviet Union and Communist China, the North Korean regime battled for control of the peninsula against the South Korean government and a 21-country UN task force. The Korean War is unique and interesting…
Co-author of Bolt Action Korea, Jon Russell, provides new experimental rules for use in your games of Bolt Action Korea. Please bear in mind that these rules are experimental and untested. If you use any of them, we’d love to know what you think! Flamethrower Tank This mobile fire breathing monsters were widely used in…
In the Carronade Era, there wasn’t a clearly defined painting scheme consistently used by specific nations, but rather a fairly limited pallet of colours that could be used in various combinations by each Captain. Captains of Unrated Vessels and most Frigates could paint their ships in a variety of colours like all white, all yellow…
As winter closed in around the besieged city of Stalingrad, the desperate struggle for control of the city had entered its final stages. The German army had been completely encircled following the success of the Soviet offensives as part of Operation Uranus. A Luftwaffe Ju52 lands at an airfield near Stalingrad. It was decided that…
Though, as wargamers, we are fully able to replicate famous battles of history using nothing but a tabletop and our fertile imaginations, nothing compares to rolling dice on a fully kitted out battlefield – replete with vegetation, obstacles and buildings. These hard plastic terrain kits are a great and easy route to populating a battlefield…
As the spring of 1940 approached, Hitler and his generals planned a lightning assault of France and the lowlands, intending to exploit speed and mobility to quickly smash through the Netherlands and Belgium and into France. This would avoid becoming bogged down in a static war centred around France’s extensive network of modern border defences,…
The Hundred Days and the famed battle of Waterloo marked the end of the First French Empire. You can refight the campaign using the Black Powder rules, in conjunction with Albion Triumphant Volume 2. The shattering of the Grande Armèe in the snows of Russia in 1812, followed by two years of desperate fighting, forced…