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After Action Report Newsletter: August 2025

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After Action Report Newsletter — August 2025

 

Runs, Guns, and Huns: WWI Trenches
Sa Batella 1409: Obscure and Curious
Guillaume III 1409 : Captured
Mumakils on the March: LOTR
LOTR: Adventure Game
Attack: Undeveloped Rules

7 Ronin: 7 Samurai
HMGS Next Generation: Games
HMGS Outreach:
ACW
Shore Leave 45: Celebrity
Connections Conference: Professional
Summer Camp Miniatures: Variety
Helm’s Deep: A 51-Year-Old Game
Magic the Gathering: LOTR Campaign Game
Liches Get Stitches: D&D Showdown
SpaceBase: Quick Game

Books I’ve Read

Roll to Hit: Unofficial History of D&D
The Sieges of Rhodes: 1480 and 1522 (RtoR 26)
Inspired Enterprise: NASA, Smithsonian, Star Trek
South Pacific Air War: Volume 6
Battles for the Channel Ports: Then and Now
Colonel William Prescott: Bunker Hill
In Strange Company: Iraq 2003-4
Hitler’s Collapse in the East: 1944 Analysis
Prince Rupert of the Rhine: King Charles’ Cavalier
12 Years With Hitler: Secretary to the Fuhrer
Battle Yet Unsung: US WWII 14th Armor Division
Battles at Annapolis: Army-Navy Football
Ride to the Sound of the Guns: Gen. Mataxis
Given Up for Dead: America’s Stand at Wake Island
From Stalingrad to Italy: Von Senger’s War
Conquest (sci-fi novel)
Forts and Roman Strategy: A New Approach
Designing Video Games: Step-by-Step Guide
Bio of a Space Tyrant: Vol. 1 Refugee (sci-fi novel)
Bio of a Space Tyrant: Vol. 2 Mercenary (sci-fi novel)
Bio of a Space Tyrant: Vol. 3 Politician (sci-fi novel)
Patton Versus the Panzers: Arracourt Sept 1944
USMC Tank Markings in the Pacific: WWII
US Army Tractor Trucks and Semitrailers: WWII

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