Promoting the study of military history through the art of tabletop miniature wargaming
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Historicon 2024 is over and I wanted to provide a “brief overview” of the convention results, allowing everyone to understand some of the details that each convention director considers before, during and after each convention. This report was delayed due
By Lt. Col. Wilbur Gray This is a companion piece to the History of Wargaming; used here with his permission. A Short Primer for the Newcomer Introduction Historical miniature wargaming is the recreation of historical battles (the tactical level of
By Lt. Col. Wilbur Grayadapted from the author’s master’s thesis Playing War: the Applicability of Commercial Conflict Simulations to Military Intelligence Training and Education (DIA Joint Military Intelligence College, Bolling AFB, DC, 1995)used here with his permission. Military Wargaming Early
Author: Hans von Luck Although a touch too light-hearted at times, it is nevertheless an amazing account of a soldier who fought in Poland, France 40, Russia, North Africa, France 44, and versus the Russians again in 1945 before being
How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory Author:Â Ben MacIntyre The British “Section 17M” concocted a plan to plant false information on a dead body. It would drift it into Spain and
. . by Raymond P. Loch A 1982 look at the 1945 sinking of the USS Indianapolis by a Japanese submarine. Anything that could go wrong in the tracking of the ship went wrong — and way wrong — from
. . by Lloyd Clark This mistitled book is about 400 pages, with the first 200 covering the rise of the German military. The last 200 pages deal with the Kursk battle with reasonable operational and tactical coverage, although overly
. . by Frank Joseph This aggregates a multitude of alleged plane, ship, and troop encounters with UFOs, all gleaned from the internet or UFO books. Not one footnote references any military report — all classified, you understand, even ones
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