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After Action Report Newsletter: February 2026

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After Action Report Newsletter — February 2026

The Count of Monte Bello: Napoleonics
MVP and Ditto
Big-Time A&A: Europe 1940
The Allied View:
A&A Europe 1940
Alternate A&A Europe 1940: Set-Up
Operation Ironclad: UK Invasion
Martial Madagascar: Another Ironclad
Alien Ambush: Xenomorph Bait
Alien Bug Hunt: More Xenomorphs
Ready, Aim, Fire: Point Blank
Bigger Points: Point Blank
Mars Needs Women: GIs vs Martians
Psycho Killer: Run, Run, Away
Dice Masters: Dungeons & Dragons
Dice Masters: A Kinder D&D
Transformers: Risk Averse
Omen: Fantasy Card Game
HMGS Next Generation: New Year Gaming
HMGS Outreach: Reaching Out
NEWS: Products, links and events
Shhhh! We’re Huntin’ Dwagons: Heh-heh-heh-heh-heh

Books I’ve Read

Hitler’s Brandenburgers: Special Forces
The Man Who Stopped The Sultan: Tadino 1522
Tanker War in the Gulf: Op Earnest Will
Broken Eagles: Volume 2
Then All Hell Broke Loose: Vietnam
Kriegsmarine N. Sea Command 1939-42: Fleet 13
First Battle for Kesternich: December 1944
Pacific Profiles: Volume 19 US Nightfighters
Spanish Civil War in the Air: V1 E at War 58
Hetzer vs SU-76M: Hungary 1945 Duel 149
Putin’s Mercenaries 2013-24: Elite 265
Kaiser’s Panzers: WWI German Tanks
Central Pacific 1943-45: Air Campaign 57
Tanks & Armour Ukraine 1941-1944: Images o War
German Self-Propelled AT and AA Guns 1939-1945
Russian Machine Guns Since 1945: Weapon 89
Real Weathering: Vol. 2
The Hump 1942-1945: Air Campaign 58
Barbarossa Victims Vol. 2: Camera On 35
Fiat G.55 Centauro: Orange Series
Guadalcanal: Images of War
Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter
Manseed (sci-fi novel)
Guards! Guards! (fantasy novel)
1804: Time Travel to Napoleonic France (novel)
Fallen Aces (1930s Detective novel)
Defeating the Japanese Zeros: Thach
China’s Fighter for the World V2: Tech War 10
Operation Power Pack: V1 Dominican Republic 1965
Hitler’s War Against Poland’s Partisans
Out Country War Vol. 1: Laos 1954-1960

 

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