WSS Online posts

Issue 118 - The Battle of Calatafimi

This entry was posted on January 10, 2022 by Jasper Oorthuys.

Statistically, the ‘Sicilian defense’ is a very successful opening for Black in chess. Unfortunately for the Bourbon Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, Giuseppe Garibaldi proved... Read more

Issue 117 - The Battle of Pelusium

This entry was posted on November 5, 2021 by Jasper Oorthuys.

Issue 117 of Wargames, Soldiers & Strategy is themed around the wars of the Achaemenid Persian empire. Cambyses had famously added Egypt to the empire... Read more

Issue 117 - A printable Persian shieldwall

This entry was posted on October 27, 2021 by Christy Beall.

One of the features of the Achaemenid Persian armies is their tall rectangular pavise-style wicker shields that we call spara. The troops that carried these... Read more

Issue 116 - Massed light cavalry

This entry was posted on September 2, 2021 by Jasper Oorthuys.

In issue 116 of Wargames, Soldiers & Strategy, we take a look at reconnaissance through the ages. For our online article, we figured we just... Read more

Issue 115 - Things that make you go 'Mooh!'

This entry was posted on June 30, 2021 by Jasper Oorthuys.

In WSS 115, we turn our eye to the innovations that were introduced during the American Civil War. By 1864, the war in the east... Read more

Issue 114 - If you go out in the woods today...

This entry was posted on April 29, 2021 by Jasper Oorthuys.

In WSS 114, we look at the feline favourites of World War 2, the German 'big cats'. In this online article, Eoghan Kelly describes what... Read more

Issue 113 - The Battle of Bysjön, 22 December 1644

This entry was posted on February 26, 2021 by Jasper Oorthuys.

In WSS 113, we look at the history of a 1000-odd years of warfare in Norway. Much of that time was spent fighting its Scandinavian... Read more

Issue 112 - The Siege of Toulouse (1218)

This entry was posted on December 31, 2020 by Jasper Oorthuys.

WSS 112 deals with a variety of Medieval Crusades and Holy Wars, in the Middle East of course, but in Scandinavia and southern France as... Read more

Issue 111 - the Battle of An Loc (1972)

This entry was posted on October 31, 2020 by Jasper Oorthuys.

WS&S issue 111 looks at the wars in Vietnam from the French attempts to maintain its colonies in Southeast Asia through the American involvement in... Read more

Issue 110 - 1777 at sea

This entry was posted on August 31, 2020 by Jasper Oorthuys.

After Trenton and Princeton, the winter war of 1777 ground down to a series of skirmishes about supplies. But while the issue focuses on the... Read more