Wargames, Soldiers and Strategy 137 (pre-order)

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This issue of WS&S focuses on rearguard actions throughout the ages. We look at when they succeed in delaying the enemy and when they fail — usually spectacularly!

Theme: Rearguard actions
  • Guy Bowers, 'Those left behind - A look at rearguard actions'.
  • Mark Backhouse, 'Gallus' grave - Marc Antony's retreat from Phraaspa in 36 BC'.
  • Robert Lister, 'The song of Roland - Refighting the Battle of Roncevaux Pass'.
  • Eoghan Kelly, 'The Battle of Hubbardton - "A helpless king of his troops in the woods"'.
  • Robert Lister, 'The stand at Cacabelos - The brigadier general and the rifleman'.
  • Dave Watson, 'Baker Pasha's redemption - The Battle of Tashkessen, 31 December 1877'.
  • Chris King, 'Later summer in Tuscany - A rearguard actions breaks "the Gothic Line"'.
  • Guy Bowers, 'The forlorn hope - Tin doppelsöldners on the tabletop'.
  • Armand Anise, 'Flanders my grave, but not today - A Spanish-themed "rearguard" cover'.
Features
  • Matt Stevenson, 'The king, the prince, and William Marshal - A painting guide for Barons' War personalities'.
  • Mark Bretherton, 'Building beautiful jungle huts - Enhancing MDF huts for Far East wargaming'. 
Departments
  • Miniature reviews
  • Rick Priestley, 'This gaming life - Had we but world enough'.
  • Keith Flint, 'The Irregular - Let's escape'.
  • Joe Mealy, 'Let's play Konflikt '47 - Warlord Games nakes a return to Weird War II'. 
  • Robert Lister, 'Let's play Epic Revolution - The American War of Independence in epic scale'.
  • Ian Beal, Chris King, and Chris Payne, 'Game reviews - Death and the Landsknecht, Port Royal, Pillage, and Armies of Great Britain (Bolt Action 3rd edition)'.
  • Book reviews
  • Parting shots
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