The Frigates & Brigs Flotilla box allows you to field these vessels in Black Seas. Though not the largest ships, they play a vital role in your fleet. Frigates Frigates were perhaps the hardest-worked of warship types during the Age of Sail. A small warship with a perfect balance of speed, armament and resilience that…
In this Aircraft Profile series, we’ll be looking at each of the aircraft released for Blood Red Skies, their history and their abilities in your games, continuing with the North American Aviation P-51 Mustang The introduction of the P-51 Mustang could be said to have changed the aspect of the air war in 1944. The…
At midnight on the morning of the D-Day attack, a different – and perhaps lesser-known – kind of invasion launched from the air. The first Allied troops to get their boots on the ground that day were from the Pathfinders. While all the airborne were considered elite, the Pathfinders were in a class by themselves. Their…
Before we get into this article we would just like to point out this is a fun, optional set of rules which we’ve created in order to add a little fun twist to your games as you battle across Battleground Europe: D-Day to Germany. Please give them a go, have fun with them, and let…
To coordinate with our Battle of the Bulge campagin book release, we thought we should sum up all of the current Winter American and Winter German ranges. Bastogne, by Peter Dennis, courtesy of Osprey Publishing These releases are ideal for recreating the harsh Winter conditions of the fighting in-and-around the Ardennes in the Winter of…
Forums and facebook provide a great resource for our hobby and there are some great examples to inspire and help our creativity – check out this M4 Sherman by angusin ModelBrush for a start: The Sherman Tank was the mainstay of the American army. The break-out from the Normandy beaches and the bocage could never been achieved…
Andy Singleton of VolleyFirePainting has been preparing for a game recently involving a lot of reconnaissance units in his Bolt Action American list and shares with us some tactical advice for using the Recce rule (page 96 Bolt Action Rule Book). Andy: I’ve long wanted to do an American force for Tank War, as I’m…
The Snow arrived with a ferocious tenacity, 1944 would see on of the harshest winters in a century and yet somehow the war went on. For many it would be the elements that were the worst enemy. This weekend we’re bringing you 3 new army bundles that allow you to field a dedicated winter army…
Battle for Iwo Jima (19th February to 26th March 1945) During their ‘island hopping’ campaign, the US Marines were tasked to take the heavily fortified island of Iwo Jima, in the Volcano Islands, the first area that was universally considered Japanese home territory. This battle was to become arguably the most famous engagement in the…
Looking at a brief history of the conflict often forgotten as Empires erupt in flames across the Pacific A brief history of the Pacific theatre in World War II In late 1941 the war between Japan and China, began in 1937, was drawing to a bloody stalemate. The Japanese invaded French Indo-China to further surround…
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