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"King George and the tn lhe medlimq in ihe absenceof lhe Royal Golemor. rhe Patriols
had eslabhsheda Provincial Council to run the govemenr of tbe
Broadsword!" colony. Following $e recomendations of the ContinentalCongress,
this Conncil authonsedfte mising of two rcgimeDtsof ContiDenral
The Battle at Moore's Line Infantry, togelherwith sevemlbattalionsof Militia. On receiviDg
Creek Bridge newsof the lryalkt force gatheringat CrossCEk, the Patriorsbegm
to aseDble at Wilmington. tbrcwing up breastwork for their defence.
27 February 1776 ln New Bem. the distict Militia was musteredunderColonelCalwell
dd orde€d rojoin olher Pairiotforcesin lhe fietd. Field coffnand ws
given to ColonelJanes Moorc of the lst Nortb Cdolina Contircnlals.
A Skinnislt Scena.t'lofor.
'Brot ber Agalnst Bt'otb er'
MacDonaldplamed to marchalong ihe southwesrside of tbe Cale
FearRiver to the coastod join with tbe British force dividg by sea.
by He beganhis mdch on 20 February,but was blocked by M@rc at
Rockfish Creek. Tming eatw&d towardsC4well\ posilion across
Daoid Bicklav the river he mdch€d towdd tbe Negrc HeadPoint Road,a rcute inlo
Wilnington which he thoDghl undefended.Calwell found himself
ouhdoeDvred dd withdrew fion his posidon on Co.bettt Ferry to
INTRODUCTION lale possessionof the bndge upon widow M@rct Cr€ek. 20 miles
aboveWilnington. MacDonaldwould have no option but to crcss at
Today Moore's Crcek Bridge lies some 20 miles nonhwest of
this spot if he was to join the expectedBntish force. Colonel Moore
WilninSton, Nonn Carolinaotr N.C. 210.The BatdefieldPdk is in ihe
sent Colonel Alexeder to join Caswell and withdrew lowdds
cde of the Nalioml Park Seryice, and nay be visited every day
Wilrninglon, hoping for an opportunity to fall on M&Donaldt @d
betwen 9.00 a-m. and 5.00 p.m., except Christmas Day md New
while Cswell held his fioDt ar the site of the bridge over the cEk.
Yeff's Dayl The 86 acre park preservesfte site of one of the fnl
actionsin the RevolutionaryWr, when North Crclina Loyalists ed
Patiots clashed across the blek waters of the creek. The site THE FIGHTING AT MOORE'S CREEK BRIDGE
encompasesthe site of the bndge. a poltior of the old NeCroHead When Lillington dived at the site on 25 Fetsruaryhe qs quick to
Poinl Road, dd the site of the Iine of eanhworkserecledby Colonel gr_aspits defeBive qualities.The oeek is abour35 feet wide, a ddk
LillinSion dd his Patriots to take advartage of tbe higher ground sluggishwateNal winding i$ way thrcugh swampyteEain with otrIy
acrossihe creek.Todaythe Battlefield may be toDredin betveen one the bridge as a crcssingpoint in rhe vicinity. Liltington ordereda low
andlwo hours.dependingon the time spenlin fte conltiruenrareas:the eanhworkto be buil! on a slight rise to dominarethe bridgecrossingto
Visilor CentE, with its exhibils dd audio-visualshoq: the History the est. Caswell sert metr acrossthe bridge 1othrow up eanhworks
Tmil: md the Ttr Heel Tnil. aho on the other ba*. As evening feli on 26 February the Patriot
position straddledthe cre€k,850 underCalwelt caDp€don the west,
THE GENERAL STTUATTON t50 underLillinglon to fte east.MacDonald,uiving in the vicinity to
find his path unexpectedlyobsFucted,optedfor an attack iNtead of a
In the mid 17?0's Nonh Cdolina was a divided colony. with the
detour,promptedby the presenceofCasw€ll on the LoyaLstsideofthe
electedtf,gistaturc opposingrheRoyal Govemor,JosiahMartin. In the
counEysideat large, the population war divided .oughly into two
At 1 a.m.on 27 Februarythe l,oyalist force set off tlrcugb thickers
camps, between those who were willing to take up ars for
md swmp toward! the creek.a pety of 75 pickedbrcadswordsmen in
indelendence.tl'e Patiots; and ftose loyal to rhe lower of the croqn,
principally the wealthy landowneB, ploteB. merchmts dd crown d'e lead, commandedby Captain John Campbell. Unknown to this
force, Caswell abandonedhis cup dd crosed back to the eastside
offcials. mostly to be found in the seabodd ma of the colony, rhe
Loyalists. This latter group included mdy Highldders who had of the creek. Safely acrossthe Patriotsremovedrhe planh iom the
recen0yimigmted into the eea and someof lhe RegulatoBwho had bndge and set aboul greasingthe wooden girders of the sFucture.
AJrillery waspostedto coverthe bridge md the Patiots qaiied in fteir
beendefeaiedarAlanance in 1771.
eanhworksfor the advocing Higl oders.
In May l?75 the colony hedd the newsof the fightjrg ar tainglon
An hoDrbeforedaun the Highlande6 cameuponthe desenedcmp
and Concord in the previousnonth. The news electrified the Patrior
which Casweiihad lacatedduring the nigbt. Cmpbel movedhis m€n
elementsof the population and hodfied the Loyalists. Manin was
forced to flee Fofr New Bem to Fon Johnsonon the lower CapeFear siowly forwad. pssing the rallyirg cry, "Kin8 Georg€ and rhe
Broadswordl . along the line. Al daybreakihe tnyalists gave $ree
river, diving thereon 2 June1775.Six w@kslater Manin wN forced
lold cheers and rusbed fosdd wiih bagpipes skirling and
to flee by tbe Noflh CarolinaMilitia seekingretugeabodd the wmhip
broadswo.dsdrawn, clad in their traditional plaid .liess. to atbck the
Crurzealeaving the fon a bl@ing ruin. Even with this revers, Manin
Palriois still engagedin demotishiDgthe bridge. C@tuly negotialing
still laid plds to redseri Royal auftority in the colonl He plmed to
tlte gresed strDcture.during which soDe unfortumtes fel into the
raise a force of 10,000 men, rwo tni.ds of rhem HighlatrdeB md
creek to be drcwned owing to fte weight of a watertoggedplaid, the
Regulatos,ed mdch ro the codt fo. a rendezvouswirh a force led by
surivors rushed to within 30 paces of lhe eartbworks before a
Conwaltis at Bdnswick, a seapontown below wilmington. Frcm this
withering fire cut themdo*n. Almost the whole of the leadparry were
basethe fo.ce would strike ar 6e seatof rebellionandcrushopposition
cut down,the mainpany remainingon $e wesrbankof the cEek, from
with minisry approval,Manin ser abourexecutinghis ple. On l0 wheretley soonrelired.The actionlastedbut minut€s,but it rallied the
Pariol causein the Carolinas.The PaFiotscro$ed the creekto pmue
January1775he issueda call for Loyalisr sympathiF6 to join him,
placine the force under the commandof Brigadier ceneral Donald the fleein8 tnyalisb and soon a route wd in ful flow. Loyalists
sutreredsome30 ldlled and40 wounded.Only onePat.iot died,Private
MacDonald tud Lieulendt Colonel Donald Mcl€od. In retuo the
Jobn Gndy, dd one {as wounded.
HigliludeB wereprcmiled 200 acresof laDdeachatrdthe cecelation
In just n few daysthe PatriotsbadcapturcdaI suspectedpeBonsand
of ldd feesand tax exemptionfo. 20 yeds I Whenthe force assembled
dismed all the Highldden ed Regulators,in rhe processtaking
at Cross Cr€ek, the site of modemday Fayetteville,on 15 February
1,500rifles,350gunsandshotbags,150swo.dsdd dirks,13wagors,
1776it numberedsome1600menin total. well shonof Martin s hoped
two medicinechestsftom Engtod dd t15,000 in gold coin. Some850
for l0.000l
Loynlists were aten prisoner: tbe leades held or beished, the
soldieNpuoled to fteir homes.A local WhiE newspaperdescribedthe
vilal moment. On reaching a point wiftin $irry paces of the
KEEPWARGAMING
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PaulandTer€s€
breastworksthey werereceivedwitb a very heavytue. which did grcat HHm
"execution."Moore reportedb the Nonn Cmlna ProvincialCouncil. 5Er-F! | he Keep
Thus, sir, I have the pl€surc to infom you. has most happily
teminared a very dangercusinsurccrion and will. I rust, pul m
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The etrecl of the actionwas felt fd beyod the rea of the creekand
wo shall bc at ihe iotlowlng shows ln lhe nEr lutur€:
irs bridge, Ir fannedthe flnmesof revolDtion1osucha extentthat on
12 Apd North Cnrolina instruded ils deleSalesio the Second
ContinenlalCongres held in Philadelphiato vole for independence,
thus becomingthe fi6t colony to so !oie. Perhapsmoreimponmdy, it
cauFd the B.itish force to abon a plmned ldding in the ma, opting
insteadto land on Sullivan s Island off Chdleslon. SoDthCmlin4
Hereit remainedfor four monthsuntil the local militia repulseda naval SAHAClub,RoyalShMbury Hospilal
We ae no- abla to .upply lkling ol Ellthe E.g€s we stock on
atlack underSir Pele. Pdker Perha?s,bul for Moore\ Creek Bndge, dlsl, Pleaseconlacl us for dgLib.
rebellion mighr neverhaveflded into revolution? tt i.d'Dilorn rrldhft oot,P|3sdrr
r r..!'2narbdtu.60r.r'n-,EtE,itF &b,Ydrfldi|fu
WARGAMING THE ACTION AI MOORE'S CREEK Ml"hn'EFLul'n6^nlhm,ndh
M
Hsrci6adGt'o16&Foun(h.v
BRIDGE.
The trunbeB involved in tbe acrionsuggesta scenaliomore suited
M.thboxwhicbs; Ailfir; frevell;Fujidi&Ha.eqawa
1o a skimish tbar a wd8me. The happy coincidence ot the
appeddce of the secondedlton of Brcther Agoinst Btulher stggests
a scendio in that fom. Gilen that the rules sugg€st10 fieures to a
sqDad,I sDggesrDp b selen squadsfor the Loyalist Highlander B-baR.b
atGmptingthe crossing:for the Patriots,oneiight gun andup to twelve
o$GvMon,rlhrEl{.,vrnqda'o&c'mF enSe'ies:Ar*FrLs: adi€s€aic.

Tenain shouldinclude fte oeelq the slrippedbridge,the eathworks

and plenty of trees.thjcketsand swampygmund. I haveincludedtwo rraryrEin): Had@tD6'sn(ddt: D'!pa'
Mods3(15mmNaooleonice,d buirdinF)
phorographsrakenon a visit in April 1997ro help fie ganer gaugethe
l@k of lhe Brcund.The ground slopesgently down fion the Patnot
eanhworkstowardsthe creek dd is crcsed by lhe old Negro Head
Poinl Road.As the creekbendssharplyto the north side of the bndge,
lwo sidesof the rablecould be co.sideredro be the creek.The bndee
ilself shouldthenlie iust soutbof the northen comerof the table.wirh MILI-ART
(Esrablished
1982)
the w@ds dd thickets coveringboth sidesof the road. thinning out
neder the Pafiot eaithworks.Swmpy das should bound the creek, A PERSONALQUALTTYSERVICEFoR l5|m &
wift the giound being lmer ned the road and turther away ftom the
25mmWARGAMEFIGURESOF ANY ERA
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fJD.70 m.a0 fl.20 1r.50 Ir.75
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Victory conditions for the Loyalists should be lo carry lhe Palriol All pricesindude rhe con ot de figue
earthworksand to hold their posidon ai the aCreedend of the gmq PainriiCscfli.. 15mn
f0.5s !0.65 !r.r0 f1.20 1130
either expressedin tine or in bonnds!For the Patriotsvictory will lie Mountd !1.10 fr 30 f220
in desEucionof then Loyalist foe, eitherby lft of by drowningin the
Orddov.rArm irmu

To sinulate the dangen of crossinS dd rccrossin8 the cEk I o,neF o\q t]m l5ei di$ounr
suggesta dice roll for eachfigure asit cro$es.A six might indicatethat SUPERB YALUE!!
lhe fieurc losesils footing. promptmga funher ihrow wherea 4, 5, or Esx r5mm prinad amY Pqckl + '
By populr d.ddd rlle* mies @ nov rvsilable pantd
6 eould indicac a fall into the black wale6 belos. once in the cold b Connoiss.r sd Nmd sdda'&
waters a figure, weigbed dom by its beavy t€didonal plaid dress
would have no chdce of rescuemd very little of swiming lo the
bmks, which m very steepdd slippery eywar Perhapsthe sadists
mongst you mighl like to conside. a lhrow again of a 6 to avoid PAT TED ESSEX D.BAS
dmwning-At my rate,sucha swivor would play no tunher part in lhe Avail$le ai Connoiser dd Nmd shdsrds.
PAINIED ESSEX ls.d DBM & xlm RMAARMIES NOw
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SG I El Loco . Guerilla lexdershouLins.
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long bair lied ar the back.
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SG 8 Enrique-.Guerillaadvancin-e wirh ho6epistol,F.enchshakowirh feather, shoncivilianjacket, carrridgebox.baggytrouseB.

SC 9 El Lobo . Gue.illaadvdncing.
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It is not my intentior to re,tell the story of the Turkish siegeof Malra
Closeto finchleyCenFalUnderyroundr\odiem Line)
i! 1565when they attempledlo destrcythe Knigbts of Sr John.For an
excellentaccountof ttre siegeoperationsEmie Bradford'sfre SteSe-
Maltl 1565remainsd excellentaccoun! First publishedmorethan35 MAIL ORDER WNLCOMD
WeN North Irrdon\
PLDASD SEND STAMPDD
yed ago it still remainsthe definitive work. Dosr completelystocked
S.A.E. FOR LTSI
The flagvstddards itlnstratedheft de taken hom rhe iiesco€s$ar (4 I.RCr OVERSEAS) Adult gamesgroup
specialist
adomthe walls of the stateroons in the fomer GrandMdter's Palace
Valetta.They now fom part of the PresideDtialoffces. Valenaitself
FULL RTNGES IN STOCK:
did not exist at the time of the siege.Buildine wN sbned shordy aftd AVATON HILL. ATI-AS. CHAOSIUM. CLASH OF ARMS, COLUMBIA,
the Turks left the isldd when it wd €aiised a better defensive DEcIsIoN, DEcPrsR. eA's'A', FLlT{a BUFlAro, cArGs woRIGHoq
CIISONS. C.D.W. C.M.T., ff,{Ns IM CLUCK. HERO. ICE. LEADING EDCE.
situanoDw6 requiredin the evenl of a retum allack. The foun.lation MILTON BRADLEY. OMECA. PALI,ADruM,
stonewa3taid on 28 Mdh 1566andwork prcBresedat a quick pace.
R TALSORIAN. TASI( FORCE.'TSR,\,.ICTORY WEST EN'D. WIIITE WOLq
One of the resul$ of the successof the Knightswa a masive boostto wrzARDsoFrrff coAst woRr-D
their coffers by glaletul Europem nlers. Thew rule6 deemedthal
expansionof the Ottomm Empire hadbeendealt a major blow. Money
was spenton re€quipping md building of fortifications. Someof lhe
money ws also spert otr the lavish chwh decorationsmd on the
adoment of the buildinSssucha the Gmd Mdt€r s Palace-
In 1576a certainMatteoPerezD'Al@cio wd invited to Malta by the
' DIJNCEON,
EUFOPAFIFEA OVEMENI
Knights Gred Master of lhe time. La Valette had died in 1568. GMES GEETTE T] EGENEFAL MOVESPHACNCAL WAHGAMEF,PYFATiID,
scfrYE sli^lEcY 3 TACTCgSIMO
D?leccio, bom h Italy in 1547,was an engraverand painte. who is
said to havealsistedMichelangeloin working on the SistineChapel.
D'Aleccio was corunissioned to paint a series of friezes that
depicted the history of the Kdghts ftom their edly days in Nortn
Airica. througbto Rhodes&d Malta itsef Tne work! lhar show lhe
Malu siege comprise some twelve large ftescoeswhich follow fte
story ftom the eival of the TUKsh Alruda (18 May 1565)throDghto 'NAPOLEON'MAGAZINE
their departureon 13 September.D'Alecio wd to Emain in Malta
(fomelly "Empires,
until l58l. Eagles & Lionj)
There are relo.ts of captued Tukish srddards being taken before LrK subs to the bi-monthly tull @lou! Ameri@ Napoleonic
ti Valette.lhe Gred Master,whilst the conflicl wa still in progress. magzine d available 6om Stratagem Publicatiore.
As there was quite a riv.lry betwe€n lhe various national groups
One l€d's subwiption (6 isu6):
(Inngues) t\^r nade up the l(nighis, fte chancesde that these
€2!.50 (€21 to l4,.1subsoibeF)
sbndard! would havebeendisplayed.They would thercforestill have
E.E.L. bin.l6 (hold 12 i$u$) €6 p6t paiil.
ben in ensbnce uponD'Aleccio\ anir€t oily l0 yeds afterthe event.
It theEforc sems redonable to a$ume ihat many of rhe stmddds Exd6ively fbm Sharagem
depictedoD the frcscoescould well b€ accu&te.Turkish standadsof 13 Love6 Lae, Newdk, Nofts NG24lHZ
rhe reMissece leriod often included horsetails(?io4ss'). Decomred
with Ed ud blue ribbons,surmountedby a gih ball. ftey were usedto
Key to illusEations:a) AuvergDeb) Fmce c)AJagon md Navaft d)
indicatethe rark of military leaden.The D'Aleccio paintingsshowtwo
min types of flag- The 'D' - shap€dflags ue shownmainly as being Provence e) Cemuy 0 Siedard of Order of S1.Jobn (also appem
cdied by inJmlry or flying iiom Enrs. The triangute designsre a a trimgul& design) g.h.k.l.) Some stdddds on the fresces e
shown mainly being nee 1o ihe vtuioDsartillery batte.iesed sioge shoen either folded or in lhe distance.Thesefou. iUust alions shown
lines.Therc de exceplionsin bothces. Mosl de shownwirh ei6er a arefterefore somewhatconjectlral reconstructions-Drawingsg, k, md
gilt ball or a crcscenton top of the flag pole. None de shown wi$I aJeshown a! being wirh the relief forces. Ihese were som€ 10,000
Koranic inscriptionsor ^SwordofAllah" desiSN as @ stmdtuds of men gatheredin Sicily and included Spanishand Ilalians. Tle cros
thelatersiegeof Vienna( 1683) ragnly of (g) was fiequen y usedon Spanishflags. (i) showstne Cross
of Knights of St. John fron the time of Oeir stay in Rhodes(1515)
STANDARDS OF TIIE KMGHTS OF ST. JOHN AND which Inay sdll hnvebeenin use.The shietd of La Valetra,being his
RELIEF FORCES coarof alms. m) one of the v4ianIs of Cdtile I haveseen,allhough
nore like fte old Spanishnationalflag. I haveseenvuiants of castles
'|lj€ 'laasuel were
the vdious groupiDgsto which the Knights wnh roundedbasesand lions both rmpant and passant.
belonged.They representedmen fom the most powertul fmilies in h is not clear if the v{ious standardsof the Langueswere actualty
Europe.They werc bandedtogether,quarteredtogetber,ed allealed carried as battle flags. It would seeDreasonableto ssume that these
certain s@tionsof the defencesduing the siege. Counfies / states could havebeenflown ftom deferces.Most ofthe st2ndardsde shown
epesented we!€ Provence,Auvergne,France, Italy. Gemuy, Castile a! modemreproductionsbangingin lhe armoury,a separatesectionof
and Aragon.Thesewerc Catholicswhich explaiN why the Lague of lhe fo.ner Grand Master'sPalee-
England had disappearedsome yem before the siege and why
officially therewas only otreEnSlishKtri8bt prcsentin 1565. Sources:FEscoe.'n Prer'denrialOffices ander}ibiLsin moury.
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A GASII RIDGE FRONT.IER designof conquestat rhat rim€. Inchturhil fort \ra! abandonedin roid
WATCIITOWER coostnction, sbowinglhe hastein which the troopshad to leave,along
with someof tbe Highldd forb-
by The app@t ned, 6 wa usu.l in ihe Eb9ile, to conbol the
m@emeDtof tribs, p€oplesdd lnde ftom the as yet unconquer€d
AIcx Krng teritdis sa addrassedwirh the establidtmentin aroundAD.86 of
wbat h6 becom€known asllle Gark Ridge frontier.This wasa lin€ of
At thc outset of the invasionof Britain in 43 AD, any suggasdotrof small watch toweN, so nam€d b€causeof the large dornberof the
o.ry cdqu€ring part of lhe island would have t€e! ndi@led B e 0owers,poeitionedalodg th€ Gsk Ridge D€d Perthir Scoddd.
insult io Rome. Howei€r the qentual Mlities of the rher gtwirg, The Rone md wbicb Ied up tom rhe largd @hdt fdt at Ardch
knllM wdld domimtion by Rorne,would force a rc-tbink, to lhe fort at Shagedl, tuming edt to rhefon at Berthaon the rivq Thy
Aft€r lbe victory at Mors Gnupiur over dre Caledonians(who on lhe eastco6st,wa! given a line of waochtowers.Fii!€n arehl)M
@upied lbe lowq Hiehrands) by Agncola all looked s€t for the to dist, but it is asrum€dther€are asyet moreio t€ foun4 s fiflilg i!
islandto b€ totaly addedto the EmpiE. The nw isldd Govemorwho Ue Sapsbetwen thos knoM.
succed€dAgricol4 cuied on the task towardr that goal, wilh the The twe6 werepositionedon the norrhside oflhe roadon lhe ridge
builditrg of forts dd roads, to consolidate fte gdp on th€ low€r .nd to the w€ston theroadleadingup 0oSt"geath. All wer€position€n
S@ttishHigblatrds.Itrchtuthil leeiomry fort $as stnted and it would just a few m€tresftom the road and were of . woodenconsEuctio!,
not b€ long b€forc a[ the taditioml Roman set piec€s wer€ put in b€irs 3-4m square. Fach had foul main timt€r posb and were
place, to €Ebl€ it to lauch lhe flal pusb towaids total conquestby smurded by d e3nhb€nk(andpresunedl"rnpa{t) alone with €ith€r
advancingup irto tb€ @Dtnl md upperHiSblands- ole c two ditchs. Tbop ktroM up ftom fod Ardoch weregiven two
Alas lhe pr€ssunso! Rore's mtulatrd Bmp€d ftontid werc to ditches, with the G6k Pjdge sites having just one- The spacing
prove the dowffal ofany artrbitioN tow€ldsbrilgilg lhe eDtircisldd b€twe€Derch (ruot be judged exrcdt wilh thN aloDgthe ridge
under Rome's yoke. The Dacids End then then neighbom of tbe having distaNes of 76Om- l520m betweD thm, althoughas siated
Msrcomami, Quadi,Jazyg€sfld SamatiN. sh@k the empiE vith a th€E my yet be toeeB to be di$ov@d so 4 to sboneDrhoselonge.
seriesof raidsacrossthe riyer Dmube fiom 85-92AD. destroyirg two
legions and killing sone selior Rond figres. Rome l@ked lo hq Th€ir purposewoutd s@mlo bavebeD lhe obseNatiorof a[ things
earison! ftom aiound the EnpirE to rc-etablish tbe ftoDtier dd alould tbe Md \ryith the toweB b€ing close eDoughto be able to
Bricain,with iti complime of4Irgions, sn€d to be ableto rcpla@ obseNeeeb otber, lhey @uld esily wat h for ey potdtial trcuble
the lost troops eithout uduly ee€tering tbe islud province. and control atry morcrelvFade msing/aloDg the rcad, much a the
So l€gio fl Adidrix left, along wirh, no doubr, sore uiliary Rolm 3my did alolg ofbs froDLieBoftbe EDpiE.
cohorb to shoE up the ftoDtier a@ arourd modem Romania-The It is thought though that this ftonti€r last€dfor no more than 34
ekctdate it left cannotte esiabtshe4 but it nay hay€h€€n85-86AD, years. Wlen it b€cameapparenrthai th€ islmd was mt to b€ wholly
wben the Dacians 6tst iNade4 causing rhe l6s of the r€gio V broughtinto the EmpiE at that lime it alongwilh most of the Highlad
Alaudae. With the rduction of fte guisn to tbe ]€gioN, tbe fons mrth of the Fortb- Clvde islbmus.wa abardoDed.
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CONSTRUCTIONFOR 25mm SCALE
All of the infomation abourthe rower wa! gleanedirom the excellent Thenwith the samedowelingcul out another16, this time al4.m
book, The Nonhem Frcnie\ of Ronan Btuai,. by D^eid L Brceze, length, for the upper roof suppons, and posilion them above th€
illustrat€d by M. Moore. li was fte fronr cover of lhe book, adomed balconysupponsyou havejust glued in place.
with a dmwing of what one of the towe6 may havelooked like, ftat
be$ned me ro mate a mod€I. If I'm hon€sth€re, the basic rower
slrucrurc was mad€ som€ l2 years ago and has Salhereddust eve. On lh€ fronl and back se.tion. glue in place your 4 main timber
since! I neler got round to tinishing the entire slructure.So. wilh my poslson eachofthe edgesof you. two seclions-14 cm thick squm
low€rhavinglastedlongerthd theoriginalRoma ones.I rhoughlir balsalengths-Then,oDall sides,adda funb€r2 Glightythinneosqude
only ridt to put it ar lalt in it! conect suroundings. lengths,evenly spacedin betwen the ldger ones.
You*illhave to cut all ftesesuppo.tsto allowfor thebalcony.Then
add some cocktail stick offcuts to position above and below rhe
I used '/r cm thick balsawood and cut out 4 s@tionsar l4cm heighr windows,alsoabovelhe two dooMaysto acrassills/lintels.
xTcmwidth. ODwhat is ro b€ your fronr secton, cut out a dooNay oD Add ar fte comers.undemearhthe balcony,two extra angl€dbalsa
Oe groundfloor 3.5cm x 2cm and $er about l.5cm abovethe dowel supporu - 3cm lengths Gee pidure). Once all thh has be€n
dooNay, cut otll a winclow I .5cmsquare.You may alsowanrro cut our done,you can tackle fte rickier typical Romd c.oss sectionsfor the
anofter wjndow directly opposil€ on $e back sedion of lhe tower baluslmde.First using some cocktail slick lengths or similar thin
Tl'ese windows are to gjve light to the lst floor chamberof the tower doweling,ghe in placetheupperhandmilar2cmup fromthebalcony-
and no1for obsewationas they de on the sme level al the rampart Thenadd rhe x\, using3 cocktajlslick pieces(havepatiencewhen
doinglhis).
Top Floor
A funherl-5cm abovethelop oflhe windowon rhe lst floor,cut our Ihe Root
of your front section, fte doosay ro gain accessonto the watch This wasmadeusing rhewills RailwayH.Opantiledroofkit. available
tower'sbalcony.As beforeyou may wish to adda window oppositethe at Bealtiesad modelrailway shops.Four t.iangular pieceswerecut at
dooruay on the back of the tow€rwhen all windoes and doors have l2cm length,wilh anapexof7.5cmin lhecentre.Jointhefourlogelher
beencut, glue the four s@tionstogetber with a lotal apexheightofrcughly 5.5cn. whendry add,a lhin balsa
dowelinglengthto all lhejoinslo ddy themDp,
The Balcony
It extendsout 2cm md can be made using thin balsa/pictu.efmme The Rampart
cdd. Oncedry andfinn, usiDgsomebalsadoweling,you cansnn on To allow fo. somedepthto the ditch, a baseboardof hardboardwascul
thesupponsfor tbebalconyandrool Cut lhemjust f.actionallylonger 4ftm x4ftm,with lhecome6 slightlyround€d.This *as misedvith
lhanthewidthof thebalcony:l6balsadowelinglengthsjustunder!/,the addnionof somelcm thick balsa.For the groundmeasuments
cm rhick.Usethesefor your undemqthsupports. Placeyour dgled plede .eferro ihe pld.
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You cd row stan on the tdpan dd with lcm thick batsatengths. a li8ht brushover of whiE andthis shouldgive you somedepthto you
cut md Sluein pl@ tbe baic mpart oudine,which is z|.cmiD height, model.As for the mf, use a basecolour of a dmk t€nacoftared md
leavinSa Salewayof 3co width at the ftoDtof the model,oppositeyou theDgive a fw brushesoverwift oruge, finishing with a lighter brulb
gound level dmruay in the tower The model showDhd a plain
venical wall inside, but in r€ality it would have had a morc ugled
slope,with tinb€r suppotu !o slop the eanhfrom colapsing. This cd MAIERIAL SUMMARY
ensily b€ achieved,usingcocktail sticks a! lhe revettedsupports.
With the basicouttine of the earih sectionconsructed.now cut out Bast - hddbodd 40x40cm(l5r/a in sq).
the slope s@tions(outside dd itrside?)using picturc ftme card or Bas€milt - balsa '/2in thick.
similid at 4.5cmh heightsctions, dgled out frcm the wall at rcugbly Ramprrt - balsat/2cm thick.
2.5cm. Ens@ a cled joir to yor sctioB so d to stop ey warping Ramp$t slop€s- thick picnre filme t}?e cdd or simild balsa.
when washedover wilh filler. Ranprrt wal - Thin cardor balsawith thin crenellationsDpporls.
Ibwer sid€s- balsar/2.- thick l,lcm x 7cn {5.5in x 21lain)
The Rmpdt WlI To ,er posts - main i/2.n rhick, with thinner for additionalons.
It wa likely to havebeenwicker andthercre someretail s@tionsnow Bdcony - C&d/balsa for walkway and doweling/cocktailsticks for
available.The wall shown her€ on lhe model wa! made fiom quite
thin bals4 cr€nellatedto suit my figures. at rougl y l.5cm spactugs. Tower mof- l2cm x 12cm(43lain sq), railway pdtiled rcofkit or cut
Eacb @nelation was givetr edgirg supponsfor top ud sidesmde do*n ftom cardonto balsa.
from very thitr sttuds of w@d, (in my ce ftom a Jaqdese t}?e Grie - 3cm wide, card or balsa for mmpan walk ovtr dd earth
bdbo fan/table mat), but some thh balsa stmds would suffi@. or revetting. Two snall balsasqurr€ pie.€s for gateposts.
ev€n cocktail stick. This is a tir e fiddly, but wel worrh the effort Windoddoor Si[s etc - cGkail sticks.
Paints - Ddk brown bae, lighter brcM, stotre.Wood brom, light
grey,while. Grassgen, yellow.
Ihe Gate Plast$ Filer.
The entroce was just rcaly ldge €nough for a tm, the tower's Railway t,?e ballart and cal liter
geisn beirg Do morc thu a hudftl of auxiliary idury, with the Ladder,or balsafor st€ps-
eDtr&ce madefor their om entrece/exit. Fis! cut a balsas@tioo,or Fi,glres by waryowt Fouadrywith someCaledonids about to have
plarkiDg, fo. the walkway ovq the garewaydd theDcut out $me
balsa/c&d pl.nkng suppotu to shorc up tbe earth for the etrtrdce
itser, leavinSa sligbt gapbetwe€neachone.Allow thae to sdck out a WARGAMINCUSAGE
litde to beyondihe sloping banksfor when they are built up with lhe
plasterfiller Two balsapostswe.eput in abovethe gate,addinga small The towernakes a nice visual accesory to a gme, asit takesup such
squarepiece for detail on tlE tops.You co then add uy detait ud litde space.Having two on the edgesof a tablewitb someactiontakirg
eveoa unit building idendficatioDpieceof balsaabovethe galeway.As placebetweenthen would give a nice focuson the game. well it only
for a gate,it would bave beentwo d@6 dd cm be madewiti thin .emainsto saybestof luck Dd if you havea go al dis nice lide nodel,
balsastlips with somesu?portson the back. I hopeyou finish it quicke. thD I did, ( 12yeds, ?'ish nontbs, oh and
Lastly you cm eitberadda ladderfor accessto the rampart.or mak€ 2 days!.)
an eanh lmp Atepswith balsasupporlsfor oDeof tbe comers.
Now you shoutdhavea completefort readyfor plasteriDg/painting.
For easeof mov€me /st@ge, I did lot glue th€ tower to the mitr
bae, or the rcof, so a to gain acces to the balcony.
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Renoving your tower and avoiding your crenellaEd batttementand
ofter simulatedwood sections,warh over with plaslerfiller. Thi! will
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wbitst &e LCT begins disembarkingaBou, led by the sherman
BI.]FFALO SOLDIERS cot]rl]Hd tank dd AYRE. No otherfire is reeived ftom the defede6,
whoseset positionsrcmain a natter for conj@turedd concem.
PLAYING THE RAPID FIRE 'WALCTIEREN'
SCENARIO FROM W.I.T12 1030hls
On White (south) the AVRE drives straight loward! the dunes dd
81,Rlcbard Marcrr destroysthe enemy bl@khouseoD the southemshoulderof the gap
q$ petard fire la roll of 3.4.5 or 6). An eneDy suft'vor is s€en
tt my mt haveescaped qery W.l. re3den' atlentlontbat 'OpeEtion eveuattug tbe ruins (and probably hitrelD, but no incoming fle
Infatute tr w4 Dising soDe vital info: namely the tactical hints of meas the alies de still uncenainof enemydeployment.
the British llaye. od the ord€r of batd€ for this armouredfor@. Otr White (nortb) 75nm tue ftom W15t clos support gus hits
Cleely the work of lifth colmist typogEphical grEr ins. I have Botralo l, causirg light ddage. Two commandosaie lost to MMG
decidedto couDt€rtheir fi€ndishplus by offertug mt only fte nissing md small alm fire ftom troopsdug in aroundthe gm cemate. Wl7
amou OB, but also a brief accountof a Walcheren punch-up'which fiEs aeair (ud misses).
recendytook pla@ here, in suliEnched Plymouth,b€Meen myself
and rcgular opponentJohn Du$ton. I hoPethis may prov€ ustut to l1.00hls
uyone contemplatinggiving the grme a whirl. On Red Beach,B, P and S troopsof 4l (RM) seekshelEr underthe l€e
of the sea wall. Next door, on White Bqch (Dorth). Buffalo I
disemba*s 41 (RM)'s HQ on lhe northm sho'nderof the gap dd is
TIIE TABLE
pronptly desEoyedby 75mn fire fton Wl5. Acros the water butralo
OUJdykes dd smd duoeswerc cobbledtogetberliom cloths dEped 2 dhgorgesX andY troopson the edgeof the dunes(wong side of the
over lumps of polystyrcnewhich st otr top of a ptaying surfee nade
up of chipboard'sea' s@tions.For this g@e we decidedto rcducethe The arnoured breachng tem now splits the shemd. dozer and
depth of lhe lable from 5' 1o4' dd place someof the temin featurcs Flait headinginro rhe dunesmd the A\IRE dd sBG bndg€ splashing
slighdy closertogetherto se€what eff@t - if dy this might haveon otr lowardsRed Beach.So far nodtingbd boggeddoM on the mudty,
fte game.Otherwis€the table was laid oDt N dictatedby the map itr debris-sEM forcshor€{a D6 tltroe powe.vehicleper move- 6 = bog!)
dle anicle Geedingram).
Our wl5 and wl3 wer€ scratch'bDiltbunkeB constructedby Jobn. 11J)hrs
but the rest of th€ termin was otr-the-sh€lfstutr suitablypainted,apart Rodtug in over the headsof lhe commmdosa bomb'med Typhoon
fioma few plasFlcf girder obshcles,handtulsof nilway balldt (plus ('pE b@ked' dd on tine) drop il! load on Wl5 with spectaculd
someEal dbble for tbe sap) md home-rnadeenboss€dcard 'dyke' inerectiveness.Irspired by the air anack the commardos otr Red
setions to prcvide the slipperyexit ftom Red Beach B€ach scaiethe seawall md imediately lose 7 casualtiesto MMG
and 20mn fire pumped out from WestkapeUeed wl5. Only the
TIIE FORCFS 20lm Polstencannonon Butralo 2 mmagesto evetrthe scorea lirde
by causingcsualties mongst fte defende6of tbe village. Tbe A\IRE
ThN were exacdy d specinedir the eticte, but includedthe Brirish is on the way: they needil!
amou that wa misilg ftom the order of batde.
UDder'Ldding o! While Bsch (South)' th€ amour OB shouldread; l2.00hN
In the dunesthe conunandShemm takesthe lead md finds the first
I x Shemm (75m. colmatrd) nine by the direct melhodof getirngblowtr up (0 on a Dl0), blGking
the paft of the folowing Flail (shouldn't theyhavebeenthe otherway
I x Churchill AVRE rcud?). Behind them fte coffnandos of 48 (RM)'s fi6t wave
I x Churchil AVRE with SBG bridge disembdk frcm Butrales 3 dd 4 on d|e edgeof the dunesand the
I x ArmouredBulldoar seond wavemotor ftrtber soutbalotrgfte b€achin BuFaroes5 dd 6,
(I hop€thal solvesthe mystery!) attemptingto outrluk the sEongpointsscreeningW13-
Memwhile, acrcs ihe gap,6 moreconmandocdualties from Wl5,
TIIE GAME W17t gun od MMGSarepanially baldced by the lo$ of 2 defendeF
iiom the hous€ nearestthe shoulder (inclDdirg ode of tbe priceless
Over the pat few ye{s I've dselop€d e iEitating habit of $iiting up pMerfausts l) ud 2 of tlle haplessnavalgunneBftom W 15,strafedby
wargms d they happen,scribbling ftoncaly b€tweenmoveslike a the l}?h@n whilst iMdvisedly shelt€ringin a tren h oDtstde-
miniatlE we coftspoDdenr (that s a miinaturc war - not a niniature
mel). The urfonuate by produd of this affliction is tbe mw naterial l230brs
for prodDciDgthat most dreadedof all walganes anicles, the battle Now bette. organise4 the commandosfrom the White Beach(south)
report. I hopethis otred@sn1b@oln€too tedious. 6lst waveadvanceinto lhe dues towardsW13, followitrg the Flail (in
Each timed.€nty rcprcsentsone nove, and vehicles, fi8ues dd honr rhis tine!) md the empty Butrale. To th€ir nght tbe $cond
rcundsof fiE ,re d€scnbedby refening to the actualnumbes usedoD waverush out of then dphibim to prcvide the other half of what is
the tabte. Th€ Geman fores nonh and south of the saDtsted for now a thr€ateningpincer movement up to the monent, that h, wh€n
a concealedpderfaust in Strcngpoint285 udeahes its .eservetue
and knock out the Flaill
ASSATILTON THE WESTKAPELLE GAP On lhe edge of Wgtkapeue aI hell bEaks looF. The T)Thoon
1 NOVEIVIBER 19114 skims in ove. the vaves to riddle the ntued vilage with camon fiIe a5
fte comnandosof 4l (RI-f) stom the fi^t houseb€bind a showerof
10.00t^ genades and their own VickeB MMG tue- The defendeB lose 4
Or RedBeachthe I-CI lmds successtunydd dis€nbark HQ and B,P cduatties andan MMG, but retaliatesuccesstuIywith a s@ondMMG
and S Guppon)troop of 41 (RM) Co'mando. Oie rculd of incooins and their s@ondpanzrfaus! used as an impromptu anti-peNonnel
fiE fiom W17\ 220m guD(otr table)causesno casualties.On Whit€ weapon(m etrect).
Bach (north) ButralB I dd 2 d.ive thmughinto the gap.On White Simultaneouslyadvancingon wl5, otber coMdos of 41 (RM)
Bach (south) the fist wave of Butralo€s &ives up onto the beach swop genades wirh rhe defendeB dug-itr outsidethe concrete(yes,
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they were that close) od the 20lm AA d@s its bit to bring th€ utrit\ infetrt backwith heary cduatties and forcing all Foopsin the areato
total toll of cdu.ltis to 25 md a compulsory mor.le test. The test moralenext move. The swiving defend€s now craminto W13 to
defendm of Westkapelle mdWl5 de in nedly a pd shape,with
ody 3 casualtiesto lose b€f@ s!fferin8 the sde fate, but they
15,30brs
responddefimtly by heavily dmaSirS the approachineAVRE with
Th€ cl@k is realty ticking for the Alies. They still havetill l?.00 hrs
?5Im fire. In synpa$y the SBG bridge bogsdown (a 6 at last!)
to datroy the two guDpositions a posp€d tatrtalisinglycloseto W13
13.00bs wherc eoSin@6 mdage to place 2 demohon chargesagaist its
4l (RM) lakesiil morulelest - andfails nisenbly. (A hrsty conference. concretehide. Ar wl5 the situation is almost reveBedas the 75|m
would ll)ey really rout? vlere \ro d fiey go? In the Eue spirit of lets rip acrossthe b€achat the appoaching SGB bridge. It misses.
r4pil ai.e we agreethat a morc togical outcomewould b€ to pull back
16.00hls
belowthe s€awall and awaita 'orce moreuntofte breach inspiEtioml
The SBG lowers ii! bridge agalnst the sea wall - sudde y the
ee-bdhing fton their CO rcprcsentedby the tbrcw of a D6 each
destrucdonof Wl5 looks a distinct possibiliry
move. With a 5 o. 6 th€y'Uspringb&k itrto actiotr. Prcblen sotved-)
W}itst the d€fendeB to the north tate a bMth€. fld swig a few In lhe dunes everything suddenly g@s ped-shaped (SNAIU, or
ru.de. for non UK readen). Both demolition chdges fail, leavinS
botdes of $hnapps, their comdes in the dunespastethe advdcitrg
enough for only one morc attomptl
colmddos of 48 (RM) with mortar |re, causing2 caualties. At this
momentin time the entire armouredbre3chingleamis brokenor stu€k 1630 hrs
in mud. Things atenl looking goodfor the anackers The AVRE Fundlesup its oM SBG bridge atrdlets fly at W 15with its
petard mo.ta!. The defendeB gratefirlly watch n whisde by and
1330 bN
(9?icalD explodebehnd rhem. The comnedor wondd how yon cd mi(
4l (RM) rally at tbeir fist attempt dd the rcpaircdA\aRE
anythingthat big ...
hurtles its€lf hercicaly at tbe sa wall ... th€n stidesal the way back
At Wl3 the remainingdemo chmgesare hasdly placed againstthe
dom again(it rceds a 5 or 6 otr a D6 to suc@ed). - their la$ chanceto destroythe enplacenent on schedule.
casemate
N@ing W13, 46 (RM) irflict casualties otr Strongpjrt 285.
Bufralo 3 is kn@kedout by tbe 75|m closedefen@guD,but this bd 17.00hrs
rc impact on the gatheriDgmomentumof the dsault. Bmgl (lwice). Wl5 is wrecked by the explodirg chd8es ' all
rcsistmce at d end - md 1orhe north the AVRE Sumer fnally lmds
14.00hla
his 'flying dDsrbin on €iget wilh identicalBults.
It's op€ns€asonon Butralo€s! On Red Beach.the retuming Buffalo 2
ft.s an Allied vicrory - of a son - with both gm posilons destsoyed
is blastedapet by rcseR€tue ftom W15\ 75'm asthe revitalised41
(RM) stom the nerest houw in Westkapene(again). The A\.RE tries and capured in rhe lasr nove of rh€ game. But with tle surviving
defetrdeE of westkapeueholed up in th€ tow€. (albeit sufi€nng ftom
to grind its way up the slippery surfaceof the dyk€ for a secondtine,
distitrcdy shatf morale) it\ trot complete. However, despite
fails md h the retaliatory pha!€ is rewardedby r direct leminal hit
tecbrically beinS able to claim a draq the defetrding colmmder
from the ?5Im (lhis time firing in ils 'normal' nre nove). Disasterfo.
(youn trDly) graciouslyconcedesdefeat.
lhe att ckers? Perhapsnot, d the Westkapellegdison ee forced to
pithdraw to the tower becauseof the mountingprcsu@,
tn the dDnesBntralo 5 is knocted oDtby nines, b no.e ci,iualries DEBRIET'ING
e haped on the sfongloint supenisoB, including nonnr ard 20lnm
Always the best bit of tuy gme tal}jng about it aftesards! This
flak creqs. The FOO tries to cortact his medium guns to bring fir€
playinS of 'Westkapelle'wa ridiculously. but satisryingly,close'run.
downon w15... andfails.
After the fint 5 movesI felt I'd got this oDe'in the bae (s rheyused
1430 bN to say), but was p.oved very wrong; ldgely drc to the cunning
In the aieaof Red Beach,Wes*apelle andw15 the two sidesglale ar employnent of a classic pincer move in the dunes and the false
eachotherand swapfady ineffectivesmall lltm fi.e. Alt Colmodo confidenceI gainedftom lo@king oqt somanyAlrys. As it tumedout
hop€se now pinnedon fte SBG bridge - still lumberingtowdds the Oe finale was lruly nail biting - even though I could exen litde
sa wall - which alonecdies a weapon(its petdd motaJ)capableof influenceon the proceedingsfrom aboutmove 12.
destrcying Wl5. The commdos cm'l ger close eioud to fte Dismounting his colmddos before they cde wirhin etrective
cdemate to usetheir dedolitioo cbages witbout risking caMlties dd rdge of my gms proved vilal to Jobn's success. Buffal@s weren't
&otber.is!y moralettuow. desienedfor lengthy trdsponation over lud in the batde zone Dd
In the dDnesit\ molher matter. Despit€tle demiseof yei anolher anytning with negligible protecrlon rhat cmies rhat mmy figures is
BDffalo (lherct now only one left on rhe table) the conmandosof48 going to be a liability in an assauh afte ll, you wouldnl chege
(RM) clos in for the kill from two sides- The crew of the 20mm flat prepareddefenceswith troopsin BedfordQLIS ...-. woDtdyou?
@ euminateddd the 285t nond is put our of aclion. The gmison Undoubledlythe gme hinged on the d@ision 1omodiry fte !onl'
of Strongpoint154 sidelinedb€hinda ldge duneby tbe dis of attack resDlt that struck 4l (RM) or move 7. To us, the abiliry to reach
- launch a desperatecountd-attack into the flank of rhe pinceB left- dicable ed objectiveag@mentsis @cial to m etrjoyableeme ud
hdd :m. The colMatrdos lose 5 cdualties to Wl3's 75Im dd in this caseit rcsult€dh a trew sp@ialrule for this scendo:
infanFy tue - but th€y rc uNtoppabl€. The defendd havelost a total
of 16 cdualties at this srage. SPECIAL RT'LE
15.00hrE Comnandos receiving a 'rouf or 'sunender' result iiom a momle
Their compaEiot! to the north breezethrough their owtr momle lest. throw mole back to the nearestcover (at least9" ftom the enemy)if
bur constart pr€ssureforces then to concetrEateinside the twin lhey areable* andmay neithertue nor advance.Throw 1 x D6 on each
fortesses of Wl5 and the wes*apelle Tower, as 41 (RM) breaks followitrg move. A duow of 5 or 6 neans they may resumenomal
unopposedinto enpry buildings. This se.tion of the gane mw activity wiftout penalty, but additioml carualties *ill still require
resemblesa medi@€l siege the defendm playing for time dd morale to be testedotr subsequetrtmovs. (*Surcunded E@ps must
causingthe odd csualty wilh MMG fire directed fton the windows
and finng slit! of $en bastions. You might be ableto transferthis ntle to olher scenarioswhen 'Eli!e'
In the don€sthe FOO gets his radio nerEd in and 5.5 itrch shells Eoopsale in situationswherepaniclcyexit! or masssurrenderseemout
thund€r do*n on SFongpoint 154, &iving the counter-attacking of place(ie Arnhem, or Su.lingrad).
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In supponof Willim Coupeis l€tter {Wl Sept97) I too would like lo
fantaly/science fiction wdgdes? Our Editor says he o$.ns iantasy
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I becde int€rcsledin the hobby a nub€r of yes ago. dd have figures and seems to adrnil il is a side of tbe hobby with potendal,
pteas€ don\ t€ll us you haveneverreceiveddy anicleswortb prtutitrg?
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But I still bavenot joined a gamingclub, 6 I lse the painthg side
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thought provoldrg anicle that cate6 for thoseof us eith nore vdied
Iocal libmry for histolical referencebook! for inspintion or €v€n,a I
join intercsts. ff Dothingels, ple6e, rc moreletten wilh the pathetic,well
havebeenadvisedby like mindedpeople, a loc.i wdgmes club,
fdtasy isn't realy wargdes mlvay.
evenif the sight of SSstormEooperswalking moundpul! him ot I too
havemadea hastyEtrEat wben cotrfront€dby suchp€ople.who seen
to tale thinSsjust a little 1oserioudl Graham Smith.
K€nt
Just to end, if ey one is put of by the .lr€ssin8'Dpside dd jDsl
wishe! to ltay at homedd painr,hopinSlo bmp into someoneat wore
or in school who just wmis ro re en&t the batde of Albuera or
GO TEE CAMF,S WORIGHOP ROUTE
Toulouse usitrg then n€wly painted but un-blooded mi€s, the
foUowing irstoctions were Siven to me by Sgt Tumer. who ldt was This lener is one that raisestwo points concemig the hobby at lmge
beardof in Sdajdo, pairting a FrcnchAmy. md its eve. greaterexlusioD.
I have read mdy of the rcaders leners that were reponsesto rhe
2. Paini the main colou- leaving the strapserc white which savestime arncies by S.W. &rley dd foud in neely al of them nemones of
lheir younger days md tbeir experiencesas adolescetrtwdgme6. I
3. Paint ucillaies - waterbotdesetc - varying the colous of packsetc felr noved lo wite abour what ir is like beginning the hobby at th€
1ogive a cdpaiSn feel. nomenr. and I wa! Fniculdly encoDraged by the letter fiom Wilim
Couper (€very waryones llusnabd ad still a begimer!). I m
5. Walh the flesh with GamesWorkshopflesh w6h. sixteen. with seventeenthbinhday approaching, dd hav€ beetr
6. Line beMeenthe colouE wilh black using a Rotring Techdn*iDg anempting the jump inlo wdgming for a few nonlhs noq rftei
penwilh .18or.25 nib . severalabortive tries. Wlat strikes ne about it the most is lhe great
?. Dry brushfigws with white paint. difficulry in gettinS advice dd naterial otr the hobby, particularly
8. Bae the figures. sinc€I st.ned wargming, like mdy of my geneEnon,by collating
9. Finally a coDpleof coatsof Gmes Workshopmtr veisb. Ho?ethe Games Workhop mies. The sp@Ffed mmer of G.W- is very
abovehelps,the paintingof kilts etc is prctty esy a well, but thafs fc attractive1othe yolng, ed althoughhug€ swatheslose iDterestonce
tbey re teenages, I e sw that mmy would tm to historical
wdgming if they knew of its existence(pleasebelieve m€. but most
StephenO'BrieE of dy hiends lhink my modelsde Citadel Miniat'm).
ClwJd I an sdll greadyconfusedby the new hobby I e trying to get irto.
I ve beento shows.notablySalute'97, I haveboDghlmaSzines,I have
discused il witb my wargamingmetrtor,the s€hoolchaplain,but he
BEGINNERS & FANTASY hasvery Ijtrle actualconbcr with otherw&gameB.I haveboughtrules
HavingjustsatdownandreadSeprembelsReade6t rtersIfeelit* ud figurcs recomended in lhe aforenentioned magdineq md I m
time 10speak.It appees we still haveto put up wirh tle ongoingsaga nore confused$an eve. The finr problen for the begimer is ruls md
of shoDld we o. should we nor be depressedabout the turue of scales-For WWII gaming il looks that tbe sb.n money is oD iopld
warganing. Who cares?I aln too busy€njoying my hobby.l-eB arl be iiE md 20mm. On Napoleonicgmirg, howqer, it is p@ly a lottery
a bit nore positivepleaseand leam to havea bit of tun wift our hobby. Does one buy 25min. lsmm, 5'm, or even 20 or l0lm? The
Two letteB howeverI w4 pl€ed to seeaDdfeel desewecoment, photogaphsof yoqr excellant magazinethrow doubls in my mind. I
Firsdy M. Coupefs requestfor a beginners'section,excellentidea - L$tglrttg Frcn volnr to ware.loo' rul€setat Salute'9?, bnt soonfelt
its always the obviousthat doesnl get nentioned. I havebeenin the that its populariry was uncenain. The DBM nleset md its ody
hobby for fte past 20 soDethingyeals and could sdll do wirh n bit of varietieswere soonspoltedas populd, bul dot the scale.It would be a
advice.Sometinesit i! very easyto assumethe iechniqDeswe use for grtathelpif Waryow\ lllusrrarpdwawrirLenwith begitreh moE in
painnnS,sceneryrulesetc. de widely known ad no-ore wfts to read mind, as we as the veteres who make the seventiessund tike the
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about rhen. Well, sDpriselsuprise! some of us woDld welcome the London BliE ('1 was there. I tell you The days wherc plastic and
opportunity1oshde in the knowledee.Mr CoDperhasit right, we need iumps of lead w@ a]l we were ratiotred tol)
to male our hobby more open to newcomers,a rcguld begimers A mDch shorter poiDt to fDish witi, I wd fortuDateenougl to find
sclion would help dojDst that and maybegive the old hdds a few new the FreDch maSuine va? t.ra, mentioned in WI 119. I wa very
ideasas wel- So how about il Ed? IfyoD eet swmped with anicles impesed by the glossy style dd tull colour pages.as wetl 6 the
will you prinl them? Mayb€ even a cul dd pdte type coltrm wilh subjectscovered,although, the subsqu€nt lek of ftucs afteNards
ideas ftom veious soNes (even more work for the poor old Fdl). made ne think about how a wdgding magazirc sbould be
Could I sDsgesta ditrerent subjecteachmontb.You could eveniNite appro@bed. I woder how noch wI would Iose by adopdng lhat
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reade$ to suggestsub.ie.ls, a bit like the letters pag€ bDt morc approach dd price, dd I felt unsur€ if fie obvious gains could b€
POSITIVE! irten on. As a relatively new fan of wL I am in no positiotr to say
Also I would lik€ to add my coments to the Fdtasy vs. Tnditional whee the bald@ is, but I would say that the colour and presentation
Ierrerby Ntr Culpin. Wl)y vs." I ws not awm they were mutnally of Gmes Workshop products have played a major factor in their
ex€lusive.Iust b€causeyou play 'Tradllon.l ' wargamesthrs dcs not success,ed I believe tbat those who producerules dd figurcs witl
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ro be rwo najor issuescausingthe impressiveinflux of letrers.One is
the presentstateofwargaming and ii! possiblefutures,the ofter seems
to b€ Mr. Siggins' colm. So here gcs. When compding pdt dd
presentof the hobby,we shouldtake into accountthe overall sitration
of patimes in 8eneral.Pernapsprices haveriser sirce Mr. Eardley\ A FTILL RANGE OF
first contact with wdgaming. Perbaps they have eve! nse!
disproponionately!o the price incree of milk or other "meNuinS BATTLE IIONOIIRS
sti€ks'in the sane timespan. How€v€r my exp€ri€ne is that the WARGAME FIGIJRES IN
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oth€r"hobbies', namelyhistory andmodelling,hasa relatively hnited
'tdget audience",fld the clretrt Eendis for this tlpe of hobby to be
more expensive-Pri@s, although higb, re mt t@ srEepdyway: I
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DELTVERY.
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more new lhings to say for the 1877Russo-Tuikishwar than for the 0r86s730267
battle of Waterloo and no sane publisher wantr to bore hivher
@deship. Sometimesthe extra publicity is tu€Ied by p€ople who
werc int rested in the p€riod but did not f@l tike convertinSa f€w
hundred Napoleonic AusFim to wadors of a wild hib€ of the
Serengeti(rhis.of couEe,is an extrene example).Anyway,fte paying
public decideswhich range sbould sink dd which shoDldswin, dd
rh€yshouldbe trustedto know wh8fs best.
Finaly. lhere was nention of some vignettes being uselessor photogaphs) in tbe sane, or eventhe previousissue.Now sincemost
sonething (I do not haveacces to the pafticutarissueas I *,rite this, wargmeB @ mt blind. it is naturalto assunethat lhey cm alsels the
but the essencewas dle smq althoughfte phrasingwas milder). They quality of the new releasesfiom the Foundry ads,md therc-forethe
may be uselesson fte ganing table - an old lady carryinga ball of hay pamgmphsof Mr. Siggins' praise b€cone noihing bDl ballst. This
can inflict negligiblecalualties on a chdcug cohon - but they m not migh not b€ obvious to British read€rsa they do not live "a million
me l for it myway. They ee therebecausesomelibesgmeB n@da miles fion anywher€"a! I do (wherewdgding is concemed).As Mr.
breakfrom pailling batralionaJterbattalionof battlet@ps you could Sigginshd access1onewfigues, it would be morc efficient if he could
say they act a saJetyvalves. smple the mges we don't s@ in the pagesofWI - 6 he h6 doneon
MovinS on 1oMi. Siggins, a lot of what he writes about dd gets
criticised for is oulsidemy experience.howeverthercis a poitrt that b4 As for his personal opinios, he did wm everyonein the fi6t
not ben consideredso fd. As a wdgmer in Greeq I d isolated "Notebook". dd there is no redon he should be silencedfor them.
from the ce re of w{eeing rctivity. AI the ido@tion I get is Aom Howeverhe hd ben dstinS with the sme issuesfor a while atrdhis
this magzine (dd @caionally otheB of its kind). When a nw rdge colum is beginningto staenate(perbapshe shouldchege into line -
is announced,the only way for anyoneherc to ch@k it out is eithd to sorry,I coDldn't rcsist it). As long d tbe Notebookis Aeshit\ fine by
wair for an illustrated adven m to find a review. Tlren 'rfiargmeB'
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not disappointed-Then a tunny thing happened:MJ. Siegtus was
reviewing almost exclusivelyFoundry figuJesthat welE also pichned A. Kosionidis
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E&h player begiN with a tg€ad' misting of 20 -lm cante ard 6 boudari$. methe. or not you place the.mnen b wate. or othq
r2 c.rds (nen or ddll), eachfisN in the carnpaisrrEprerenriryjust favoumblet€rEir is up to you. Inirialy ir hasno effe.t, bu. the dr€€d€d
hins€r- Additiolaly rhe buildiDssfor eachnach shouldbe govide4 ChaDc€Cfids dy cbmee thar
ad it is $uggesEdthat theplayer omirg lhe ruch collars th*. They
n€€d mt abount !o m@ rh,[ two or thre buildings, tur ir $hoUld TIJRNS
encoutageplayersto talc mc of a! i erEsrTbe canle lrart in herds
Plryen take it h tlms io more 6eir @ttle a Vor (wbo}s, using rhe
of m (s€estioD or Catl€). The cowboysincruderheranchomE and
following tn squeme:
for€ina!. As eachfigtue hs a chamclercardd wbicb ale displayedhis
1. Drrr Chrne Card- nle acdw phyer dm$rsthe top cad fion th€
details,all that is rec€38alt is fa all the suitablecbamciers(so do!'t
u8e the lcal storetE€p€rd sherifr) ro h€ decked togett€r dd 12 ChrDce D€ck (d lhe Joh T ch,""e D€ck if you'E ptayiDgin Rio
Bralo couay) ud rakesit irro his had. Thi! hrDd msists of ary
hrnded out to €achplayq. fton ea.h cha@ler deck the play6 then
previous cards which he is ertitlcd io rerain, plus aU rhe Chara.ter
oomiratE who wi be tbcn Rarcb Boss ed Foreman.All lbat is
ne€d€dto do lhm is nam. @h mrch. Cad6 for th@ fig|lles a.hany ar&€ rarch, asoppGd to out working
the range.Itis is .alled the Rach b,!d! Al1 the cads belongingto
otber charetEB out on the @ge or orherwis€eEploy€d ar€ sta.k€d
TEEMAP
Ako r€ed€dtu a hex bap of tl€ aM to be fougbt ova. The scalen€€d
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4.'Indidsl'The localtribehavebeentarkedup on illegalwhiskyand

comeon a murdermid. 3D6Indianshit anyranchofyolrr choice,or
altemativelylhey cM a(ack any colnter not in a tovn.

caitle requireat l$$ one cowboype. herdto be driv€n. 5. 'Stagecoach.'The playe. may use this 'F@ Tickef on the stagero
do one of rhe following: Either, moveany ONE cha.acterto any place
3. Play a ChanceCa.d. Tbe activeplay€rcanplay any cad (including oDthe map free of cha.ge,or load a storeof points and get it safely to
theone he hasjust dmwn) from his hand,and any playerrequiredmust
'mmediately ad on rharcard.
6. Ambushl This specialcdd ca be retai.ed and played at any time
4, Play Any Gunfghts. Whether by counteA moving into rhe same on any cardor actionby an opponent.
Fo. instance, if ano$erplayer
hexor asa res'rxof a ChanceCard. hasjust declded the Stagecoach
cardmd intendsto tmnspofihk ilL
gottenpointsto town,you may innediat€lyplay thisca.d,usirg any
The game goes on in sequenceuntil either one playe. emerges or all of rhechdacreGfrom your Rmcb Deckto attackit- Whateverrhe
vicloriousor themovelimit for thegameexpjres. ambushyou plan,only the RanchDeck can be lsed lo do rbe di.ty

CHANCE CARDS
7. FreshHerd.'A new hed of 20 cattle hasbeenboughl by your ranch
Each card r€sulls in eithe. an occuftence,an opportunity.or dotber andmaybe placedon anyvacanrhex.
charact€rto b€ addedto the player's deck.The ChanceDek consish
of all the remainingchamcteBwho arc rot commitledelsewhere.What E. 'Sodbusteu.'Afamilyof fte varmintshasnoved ontooneofyou.
lhh meansisthatpeoplelike Oe localunderlaker willnor beavailable, opponenfshexes,etreclivelyblockingall movementanduse.Placea
becaDsehe whill be undertaking.These form a Usr oi Non Player sodbustercolnteron anyrangehex,evenmovinga herdmarke.to an
Chdacterswho lnay influerce a 8ame.bDt will not be diretly adjacen(hex if necessary.
Only unglardedherdscan be moved.The
involved.Who coun$ as such is opento personaltaste,but as a Sodbultenwill remainin situ unril shownth€ ero. of thei. ways.
guidelinelet me suggeslthe following:allow peoplelike sherifls, Thereac D6 of then, chosenat .mdom from availablefigures,or
saloonowners,robbe6,elc-who cd be takenon asalliesor could do usinsspecialNPCsodbusrers ifa!€ilable.
a job' for you. see the Iisr of Gming Nrcs and rhen efeds lo get a
belteridea.Basically my of your figures who rendsto endup involved 9.'Cattlemen's Association.'Oneplaye.of yourchoiceis lenporaily
'n garnescan be tak€ninto a hand.Many of the celebrities of the Old suspendedfron the local Caftlemens Asociation. and musr pay 20
Wst did menialjobs from riDe,lo,time. For eve.y card in rhe Chanc€ pointsto be readmitled.Until he doesno stock frorn his mnch nay be
Decktheresbouldbe addeda blankone,neaningthat50%ofthetime legallysold.
no occunence will takeplacewh€na playerdrawsa card.
10. Cold Stnke- Nearbymires a.e takingup all the spacein rown
SUCCESTEDCHANCE CARDS usuallyreseNedfor the cowboys.includingmerchandise tiom the
local sroreand the stock wagonsat the railroad depot qhich a.e now
l. 'Rustle6l'A gangoi NPC rusdersafiacka herdof yo!. choice.If cloggedfull oi theirequipnenr.Playthiscardon an opporentwhena
the herd is gudded, ften a fight ukes plac€. If not, D20 carle are herdarrivesin townandwatchthe sparksfly. 2D6 hard'nosed miners
stolen. There are D6 tustleB selecredrandomly ftom appropdate areout andabout,aSainchosenandomlyor from specincNPCS.
available fig'rres. or using specific figures if design€d as
11.lNew Business- Yo! acquiresha.esin a randombusinesf.om the
Iocaltown,nettingyou an extral0 poinGper monlh.Will anyol the
2. DoubleMove. Any counrerslreadymov€dcannoq movedgain. olherplayersattemplto stopyou?

3. Lawmer.'The playernay set one of the local lawmenand his 12.'DodgyBrands.Oneofyour opponents hasa herdwhosebrands
deputiesaagainstany opponent,effectivelyon mrnped up cha.ges, appearslighdyodd.Alen thelocaljudgewho hastheherdimpoDnded
The eventis cndomisedas follows: 1,2 - D6 cha.acters f.om the until the mattercm be clededup. In effectrhechosenherdcanrotbe
playe. s deckarein town whenthey fall foul of the local law: 3,4 - The moveduntil a 6 is thrownon a D6 (onetry pertum).or unrilrhejudge
Lawmm comesout to the nnch naking enquiriesabout illegal canbe convincedhe hasmadean eftor.
acivities;5,6- Oneof theplayelschamcteshasbeena..esaed in rown
dd is beingheldin thejail. Eitherd artemptmustbe madero break 13. Dry River.'Any herdin a riverhexbelongingto a chosen
opponent
him our or his cardis rcmovedfrom the playerand €tumed to the suffersD6loses dueto lackofwater
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t4. 'De€p tuve.'Any of your herdsin a nver hex breed well due lo KillinS the Rdch OM€r ce imediately win you llje game.unless
pbtrtiftl water Add D10 cattle. IJ this takes the total above20 then he has anolherfamily rembq ir you employnenl, iD which c6e he
split into two herds.ore of which will haveto be mov€dto an adjacent is alsuned to iate over That of couBe dep€ndse whether you
corsciously crcat€ "fmilies' from moDgst your ch@cte6. We do,
genenlly dependentoo simildity itr trgures tr just whim. It is
15. 'Amy ContEct.' You 8et rhe meat contractfiom the amy post conceivableto havefamily memben on opFsite sides,altboughtbey
who pay 25% dtm fd erch st€er Trouble is that it s throughIDdid may b€ loathe to actually shooteacholher we bavec@led a 'tive
Tenitory, and that could mate inatt€n hairy. rule to baldce the Hate ad Fear rutes,and family memben initially
st.n out havingthis for eachothq. Things canofcoune change.Also.
16. 'Spannerio the Work.'This is you opportunityto put the brakes just becauseone brolher mieht retuseto go up agains morher,d@snt
on one of your rivals. You ca force him to retum any card of your meanthat he will not work prfecdy wel aslor8 astbey de kept apet.
choicelrom his Rdch Dak (excludinshis OMer cardor Forenan) to
the bottom of the Choc€ Deck, or perhapst€minate d imporrant DROVING
contractor sideline.You could fl€n wip€ out one of his herdsthrcugb
disease.How much you alow depeds on rhe limirs of the individudl Unless somelhinghatpens 1o caDsea labletop gdq a herd cd b€
8me. I su88qt that it be limit€d to one item, be ir a ch@ctEr, a successtullymov€dby onecowboyon his own,regardlessof his riding
contracl,or a herd. You can also useil to inlluencedother event,E.8. ability. Howevea if somethingwere to happ€nand thal one cowboy
To help wift a slage hold-up you might have the wheel come off, tried to contol a herd oD the table things mi8hr b€ different. In the
forcing it to stop.Get the idq? Can alsobe playedagainstanothercard GuemseyFoDndrynles a rider Doves by rctling a certain numberof
usedby an oppone to negateany atamgecaused. D6 per tm, ad we moveour catdethe sameway.Eachherdhasa lead
steer,whom the othersfollow. Much Iike goup novene in tbe nles,
17. 'Rogm Steen.' One of your opponents'berd. hd wmdercd off- a long as everlthing is going snoo$ly only one roll is mrde ach
Selectone ungudded herdand nove it Dp1o3 hexesin dy direction, tu, dd the whole herd movesat this mte, which is normally 4D6
evenif that neans that it ha5wanderedotr their own ldd- inches.As inett ride6 thrcw 2 dice md nultiply Oe resuhtog€th€rand
Pmr ride6 cm thrcw Dpto 6 dice it is posibte for a bad droverto tose
18. CatdeGlut.' The marketha! ben floodedwith stees dd the valDe his herd evenat this stage.
The herd bftats up ud acts individuaUywh€n one of the following
deliveredthis moveis halved.

19. Traitoi. Playduing a Gunfight.The ftxt enemycad dmqn tums l. A gun goesotr within 6". (Atl canlewithir lhis rege go individual).
out to be in you pay md swirchs siiles at once.This doesnot apply 2. somebodyshooisthe L€ad St€er.or it otheruise comesa crcpper
to the Rdch Bos o. Foremd, md if it is otreof themlhe cdd should 3. Thereis no drcver within 1?'.

The catnenove $ follows: RoI 2D6 fo. movemetrt.If under conFol

Not€rCharaclerswho go out on a 'job' asa result of a Cbancecdd for rhenthe play€r nay pick the dir@lion. r ml, rcI a dice- 1,2- 45' left;
instdce remainin the hd rc which they werc sentfor tbe reminder of 3,4 ' 45' riSh! 5,6 ' slraight ahead.
tbat hm. ThDsit isn't a good idea to sendout everybodyed leavethe
Stmpede: r allttu@ criteria abovehappenat the sme time, i.e. The
Apan fron all the Event Caids, donl forget rhat all the sp@ Lead Ste€ris shol by someonewithin 6" dd thereis m drover within
chMcter cdds go in the ChanceD*k. So if you .liaw a Sh@tist or a 12" of that point the.e is a stmpede. All catdeoutsidedroving mge
t gend. that meanslhat he is cunently in your employnent. If yoD ( 12") moveat 7 dice sp€ed,A goodroll h€reis fasterthd the bestrider
chooseto usehim to guarda herd thenthat is your business.For every cd go. I don l know if that is totally rcalistic.but it cenainly makesfor
mdked ced in the Chmce Deck, don . forg€t to addone blank one,to
give a 50% chanceof no event@cEing during a tm. Obviously with suchtuge movesyou are going to run our or rable
No doult, you wilt be able to Oink of other evenc. Ever' trme I fairly quickly. Thk can be overcomeby the old systemof keping tbe
{ar.h a W.nem I coDeup "'O arlea:rano$e,one catde h ihe cenFe of the table and only chdging theii posinon
proportionately,anending t}e lemin 6 reqDircd.
FIGHTS
Needles to say one of rhe nost effective ways of blcking a ColisioDs: Unrike in ttE main rules, only Inept and Poorriders cin be
opponenfs plos is 1osh@r up a few of his boys.Apan from tbrough run into by cattte,avoidinghaving to test unlessftey rcll a I d 2- All
the Dseof chmce cards,this is limited to baling men of you own in a the nomat cotlision rolesapply.though.
specific hex shen it is enteredby the eneml ThDsstationing a few
hired gutrsin a rown or on d obviousroute cd lead to dificuhes. I4iury to Cattle: This is exacdyfte sme a the nles for horss in the
combatrules.but rleat bo6e boks' resultsas stdDede.
SCORING POINTS
GIAT'IGHTS
The aim of the game is to eith.r wipe out all your opponent!, thus
becomingfte locat cattle baron,or sinply makethe nosr profir when Multiple gunfighb over the sde teEain cd get fairly boring,
fte tine limit of the game expires. This tillte linit can be ser at a paniculely if you only haveone town, dd plenty of actiotr happens
numb€rof moves,or a numberof tines though Oe ChanceDeclq or lhere. The questionof whetheror not to map out you towN quickly
whaEverelset les your farcy, b€cones relevmi- We havetied it both ways, md rodomising each
Poitrlsequalpofit. andprofit is cashmoney.Needlessb saythis can gane is just as much tun as playinS ov€r fdilid teEitory This is
come in a trumberof ways, ftom delivering herdsto mdk€t or other really horsesfor coursesand it dependson wbat you arc camfo.rable
means,legaland olheNise. The balic cow i! wonh $2 or points at the with. The aim of the gue is, after all, to create westem gunfights
point of delivery.This can €ither be a milheador a specificplace,such whicb havea feeling of depthdd continuity.
a the :my cmp. In someplees the value of canle is increased,and Thafs all. folksl
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county seatwats. He joined fte Okta.homaland rush in 1889.H€ was
The Top Notches marshalof Perry beforc being appointeda deputy U.s. ndshal He
1885-1888 hunted dom the oudaw gogs of Otlahom md w6 electedro rhe
statesenat€in 1910.He supesisedth€ productionof e edly Weslem,
Part2 'The Passingof fte OkrahomaOuttaws'. He wd peFuadedto come
out of retirementto becomeM6hal of Crcmwell, a b@milg oil toM
by but was gumed dowtrby a dru.Ien prohibition offcer
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Thomas, Hen.y AndEE Younger,Thomas Coleman

Alialr 'H€ck' Bornr 15 January 1844,l.€€'s Sulnmit, Missou.i.
Born: 6 Jaru6ry rEs0, ffor4 G$.sia. Diedr 21 February 1916,Lee's S'l|mit Missou.i.
Died: August l9l2 l4wton, OH.hom.. Farner, Soldier, Bank & Tmir Robbe., Convicl Tombstone
Soldi€r. Railmad Gu.rd. Detectiye.Law Offc€r. Salesman.Insurance Sal€sman.ShowrnD. L€ctuEr.
Hek s pderts wmted him to be a Methodist Minister bur he Ian Cole joined QumEin s Missoui "BushwbackeB' dd later joined
away dd joined up with Stonewall Jacksons brigade. Worked a Confederateegula troopsas a tusr lieutenmt. He was with Quantrill
railway guardin Texasliom 1871-By 1879hadbeenpromotedto chief again foi the massacreal Laurence, Karsas.After the war he Inet an
agentibr the Tex6 Expres Compuy in Fon Wodh. Joined lhe Fon old Quartrill nar, Franl Janes. A few weeks later they led a bd*
wo.lh DetectiveAgencyafter beingbeatenfor the posilion of Chi€f of robbery in Liberty, Missoui. This ted to the fomtion of a gmg that
?olice. After Eackingdown two tugitives he was appointeda Depuly m rmpant for years.He did not get on well with Jese Jamesdd
U.S. mdsh8r. Op€ratedunderthe jurisdictiotr of JudgePdker in Fort somelimesled his own raids. If things got roo 'hof lhey woutd leave
Smith scouing Indian T€ritory for criminals. In 1893 helped tame the statefor Texasor Califomia. In I 876 in Nonhfield. Cole. Bob. and
'Hell's Half Acre', the boom tom of Perry.Betwen 1893 1896Heck Jim were woundedand eventually taken into custody.They pleaded
mademore than 300 arresrs.Wd Chief of Police in kwron unlil his sDilty to escapehangingand were imprisonedfor life. Cote and JiD
healthfailed. werepaJoledin l90l . He Fied numerousjobs beforeteanins up once
nore wift Franl Jamesandtouredthe countrf lectuing aboutrheevils
wia.hesterlzverActionRiles sta inS||ith 1873.tUrAJordt le6t d
decade eadins his careeer enh a 3A3O Mod.l 94- A Cott -45 Reningto. .14 PercussionAmr Raolvet in Ciyil War ln 1876 a .36
Peacwtar ud later a .38 lntg Colt NN Nd..} Model 1892.Useda M 1851Cok NaVtfCap lrck wastakenlon o vagruntwho later tumed
ewed-of shotSunto cut .lowh Bill Doolik. outto be ColevoungerIn No hleld rcid he useda .45 S&W Schofeld
with o 5in shonen .! boml possibb tdk2nron d stdgecodchgua4l.
James,Jessew@dson. Alia!: 'Dirgu!', Thonas Howard
Bom: S€ptemb€rs, 1E47,ClaJ County, Missouri.
Died: Ap.il3, 1E82,St Jos€ph,Mlssouri. Younger,John
Iame., Guerrilla Soldier, Brdk and TtsainRobb€.. Bom; 1851.l*e's Sumnit. Missouri.
tn 1864the leenageJessejoined QuanEill\ gleEilla bdd. He was Died: 16 \'lanh l&74. Monegas SprinBs, Mirsouri.
twi@ sveEly wounded,but leam€dbow to ki]l and loot. After the Fmea Cl€rk, Tfain Robb€r,
.|Va Killed his first man at fifteen. but was exonerat€d. Became
Civil ended,Jesse,his brother Frank and other fomer gudilla
including lhe Youngers,contitruedtheir ihiev€ry AmonStheir qploits temperamentaland surly after the dearhof his father by Jayhawke6
was the fint daylight baik rcbb€ry in America duing peacetime, and his mofter. He worked for a white as a clerk at a storein DaIa.
which occuned at the Clay SleveDt Savjng Bark on 13 February, but got into Fouble dd gumed dowDthe Sherifi of Dalas county. He
1866.Jesseusualy had a denial of his rcbberiesand an alibi placedin got iDto more gu!fights otr the fu. He hid out with d uncle in Blue
the pape6. ID 18?3the Jmes-Youngd gangbranchedout and begd MiIs, Mi$ouri- He may havejoined the Jme$Younger Gmg ar this
robbing Eains. LaEe ew&ds werc otreftd for theii anest and the time, He shot it out with Jim Youlger againstlawoen ned Monegaw
Pinkenon det€ctives attempred b track them down. In l8?5 the Springs.He kiUedtwo but w4 mortaly woonded.
Samueh' fann was bumed down by le6ons untoown. Jess's nine Coh Nqr' .36 Calibre percusion Mdel 1E5l o, Renisgton Atuy
yed old half-brother was hled od his notber lost a hdd. Despite Model .44 calibre (carlri.lse convercior) Use.l a double'baftel
sympalhy and attenpts to get mesty liom local papersthe Jares shotsu tu the Eunlsht rcsulnnEin his death.
continuedfien robberies.Jese ed his wife Ue lived under vdious
alsumed names h Tex6. Temeswe dd Kmsa. On 3 April 1882, Mastelson, Willian B.
Jessewasmurderedat his hone by Bob Ford, a Dew8u8 member,for Ali{s: 'B.f
Bom: 26 November 1853,County Rouv b, Qu€bec,Crna&.
ReninStonAmr .14perc$sior .luring Civil War M I873 Wi6ch.st.t Died: 25 October 1921,New York.
RA4 tuo .44 Cob Sinsle-Actiot Amt Rewlwrs with T- Ho||ad Fmer, Lsbounr, Bufralo Hunter, ArmJ Scout, Gambler, SalooD
inscnbed o4 th.m Schofield Snith-Wessoa.Round-But MeMin & Ome., L.w Otrer, Gnnm'n, SporrsnaD, Prirf,-fdt Pmmotcr,
H ben, -44 R.nington Model 1875, .22 7 shot Anerican Stanlad
In 1872 'Bat' dd his brolh€r Ed lefr th€ family farm and undenook
a grading contractfo. the nihoad in DodgeCiry 'Baf next nrned ro
Tilghmsn, W rim MalheE Jr butralo hDntingwhich was at it peakin lhis p€riod. He wa! fivolved in
Bom:4July tE 1,fora Dodge,Iowa, fightinS otr a major tndid attackat the buffalo hunter'sbale at Adobe
Died: I Nov€mbe.1924. Cmnwell. Oklahona. WaIs itr 1874.He becamean Army Scoutfor GeneralMil€s. In 1877
Fam€., Buffalo Euler, Army S{oul, Lan OfEcer, Rancber, Bat Etmed to Dodge,where h€ openeda saloon.He was appointed
Sal@n K€epe., Sret€ Senator,Busin€ssrnm, Depnty Sheritr of Ford County.He wasele.t€d Sheriff of Ford Counry
Crew up on a farn in Kaft6 a shned hutrtingbutralo at sixteetr. in Nov€mber.1877andchaseddown a \ariery ofbad nen. His broth€r
Scouted for the Amy uDtil 187?, wben he was appoint€d Deputy Ed wa killed in a gDn battle in 1878. b 1879 he wN also made a
Shenfl of FordCouDty.Tvice arrestedfor theft in 1878,but he ndied deputy US mdsh.l. He hired his gun out to the Alchison, Topeka&
ed wtded down. Openled two saloonsjn Dodge and w6 appointed Sdra Fe RaiLoad,in a dispDtewi& the Denver& Rio Grandeline over
City M6hal in 1884.In th€ late 1880she sawactionin two of Kmsd' the riSht of way thiough RalenPass,Colorado. 'Baf was defeaEdfor
the post of sh€riff at the eDdof 1879.Bat gambl€dwirh Wyatt Earp md
Luke Short in Tombstone.t{e backedhis brother Jim in guplay in
Dodgeud wd pan of the "Dodge City Wal'. 'Baf t@k up prcmoting
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hors€|@s ed priz-fighls. In 1891 h€ manied ud moved to Nw
York whercbe b@me a sportswiler on the Moming Telegnph. L@dingMduhctuH ol HighOualny,FiEly DeiailedF6h Cast BuitdinOs
Bought a tvin pai oJ Cob .45 Pe@enak 6 in lEE5-Useda goA- and Ac*$oris in 3ll W.rgming 5@16 and Pedods,
knobb..t wdtk stick 6 a club. Caded a sun (presu',abb a pockzt AEllable fiaint€ded unp.inr€d.
pistol ot deninqer) ne.l on a enng which |'as huag atuund his nnk
He vouA rea.h insi.le his coat, Md bdnq out thc @olye.

RiDgo,John
Born: Fady r8s0s, U*nolrn.
Died: r4 Jury Trtey Crc€I( Cmyon, Arizona.
GuDman,Cdbl€., Rurtler, Law Oficer.
Ringo's origis de unknown he may have come ftom Missold or
Rtuges, N.J. He had th€ reputatiotr of beinS one of th€ dadli€st
shootisb of his time. He is supposedro havefought in Texa Rdge 2Onm
Bltd.greundFa.g.
Wa$ in the 1870s.tD 1877he wd jailed wilh otherSuttoD-Taylorfeud Pimadlyd6ignedforTftnli€lhC.nturywaE.
vet€rans.Ringo wd d educated md cultured lm, who quot€d
Shakesp€{e.Lik€ most gmen he wrs also an alcohouc.He drift€d
to Tombstoneduing its bmD days ud war associatedwirh the
Cletor dd Mclaury rustling riDg. trespire this he held a depury's
comission ftoin Shentr JobnBehe. Folowing a two weekdrinkhg
trip with Buckkin Fra* Irslie in rhe surnm€rof 1882, Ringo w6
FuM19 Ca6log@plee end t1.2Oflus a ba. stanped adrlrea*d
found dead in Tl[key Crcek Ceyon- Deputy She.ifi BEakeridge eMlote. O@as @srdtuE Dlddsd6@d I1RC5. A@ss4'e tbtd66
believedhe conuninedsuicide in o extEmely dehyd$ted conditioD, tupn@qE k ord* on 01421-ZSOSSZUa-ni OanSpnt.
fton the large quntity of alcohol, the hot wearherud his lack of Mln'hun d.dit etd otddE t5.00.
P6t and packaglng15%up lo P25.0q 10%owt 225.
watei. Pony Deal, Ringo's fried, believed a gambler called JobDy
O'Rourke was responsibledd soDghthiln out and tiled hin in a HOIELS Ltd, 18 GLEBE ROAD, SCARTHO, GBIMSBI NORTH.
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Bom: l&tE, P{ds, lamar Couty, Texs!.

C H E L I F E RB O O K S
Died: 13 Jaruary 1900Mukoge, Okl.hornr Mike Smith
Sltr€, F8me., U.S. Ihpug/ Msrshar Todd Close,Curthwaite,Wigton, Cumbria
R@es wa,! a black Texd ed in his edly days was a slave. He Tel:01228711388
@oDpdied his master4 a body srdt through a numberof Civil
'We
batdes.He escapedto the tndid mtions and l€med a ludber of MILITARYBOOKS
Indian diale€b ad becme hmdy with 6re3lms. In l8?5 he war Bought and Sold Send sae lor catalogue
approacheddd dked to be a deputy U.S. Muhal. He was noted for
Ns ability with his fisfl. Appar€ndy he brcke irto song before a
eufightl He wd disguisesdd .liases to get the dsp oDthosehe eas
out to ai.est.H€ claimedto havekiled foone€nmetrin the lire of dury. Cromwell Miniatures
He wa sacked for tettirg Fisone6 escape,wheo tberc w6 linle Connoisseurqualit 25mm armies(any period) andexp€rtly
mt€rial Sainin holding them,but wd rcinstatedfor lack of evidetrce. painted l5tun amies (Ancientsonly)wantedandfor sale.
He was accusedof murdqing his black cook Willian I€ch in d SAE to: Cromwell Miniatures, Flat 72,
argDmenlbut it w6 judged to b€ d accidentalcase.His deferce cost
Riverside One. Hester Road. Irndon SW11 4AN.
him mostof the w€alh be had built up as a d€puryU.S. Mmhal.
Cott .45 ond .38 - .,a pistots eith his wirchesbr nfle chabercd lor
the sMe .a.tri.lge. Sotutin.s cdftied a double-ba.rcUe.lshot guL otr rusdeB so well
lhat he ws electedsheriff to cltu up the oudasry
Cafri.d two pistok, bunsfotuaft|- corcetrtrat€dio Tombstoneand Gal€)vitte. By 1890 Cchise County
16 ct€med up dd he .etired to his blstues tutercsts. lle was
Slaught€r,Ji'hr Horton. appointeda deputy shditr in 1895 and in 1906 woD a seat otr th€
Alias: 'Telas John','Don JI'nl l€Eitoriat asembly. The canle-barondied peacen y in his bed at the
Bom: 2 Octob€r 1841.Sabire P8.ish. I4uisiara, ageof eighty.
Died: rs r€bn'ary 1922,Douslss, tuizom.
RaDcher, hdian Flght€., Law Otrcer, Strte Legislato., Mtl.on, JefiDrYis
Bornr 7 Noyebb€r lE6r,.e€r Mariaqna Floritr.
He begd Indian fightirg as a ']vlirut€ Man of the Texd Rd8eB" Di€dr May 7 1947,Thc$oq Arizona.
duing the Civil War andhe cotrrinuedto do rhis throughoutthe 1870\. Famer, Ckd! Cowbo& Overseer, Texas Rang€., I{v Ofrcer,
He |lmied and st&ted his oM mch in Atascosaafter the Civil Wd Saloo. Keep€., CusloD! Inspeclor, Rancher Tilin Firtnar &
andwastnil bosson a numberof dives. I! 1878he mord to Arizona. CoDductor, Exprcrs M€ssengEr,Prolpecao., Oil DdI€r, Range
Duing the Lincoln County W&, Slaughtervetrtur€dinro New Mexico Ihtective,
ud wa,garr€stedfor kilitr8 Bmey callagher. He sooDwor rel6e Son of the Civil War Govemorof Fhnda who died duing lhe war.
od boudt a 65,m0 acretucb in bothAJizonaand Mexico-He fought The youDg Milton worked in a r€lativet gereEl storc tu Navatot4
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Texas, before finding employmed otr a cattle tuch. He was then Cook and a groupofcitiaN th€ next momiDgp€FuadedBacato bdd
ovene€r to a gmg of coNicts workjrg on a fam ned Huntslille. In his pnsoDq over to a l@al justice of the peace,who fined the cowboy
1880h€joined the Tera Rage6 md seNedfor ttuee yearsbeconing $50 for disturbilg the Face. Baca was satisfiedthat justice bad b€.n
a corporat. He becme a deputy Sheritr in Murpbyville, and lat€r done,but Slaughterud eiehty cowboystued up l@king for Bea-
openeda saloontherc. In 1884he drjfted into New Mexico, staneda Bacatook covertu a sma]lwooden'jeal hut dd he lil€d Jim Heame
homesieadtu Sd Mateos md beme a deputy sheritr of Socoro a be attempredb nsh the hur. Slaughrer'smensmoundedthe hur and
County dd also act€d as a range detectile. In 1885 he joined tued thousdds oftoundq rjddling the walls anddoors.Bacatook cover
"Russel's Amy" a volunleer force of Apache fighteB. In 188? he in the dug out floor and occasionally retmen tued though tbe
beme a customsinsp€ctoralongtbeArizom-Mexicd borderfot tqo dght€en-inch opening b€neaththe d@r wounding a few cowboys.
years. In 1890 he worked as a fEmu dd later conductor for the About dusk a voley colalsed part of tbe rooi md Bacadug himself
Souftem Pacific Railroad-h 1894 he b@me Chief of Police in El out aft€r two hours.At did-tri8ht a stick of dynmite demolishedhalf
Palo but left dE job to becomea wels Fargo messenger.H€ Fied th€ building. At dam, he cootly cooked brealda$ to the cheersof
prosFctios for oil. In l9o4joined the ilmigation seNicein Eying to Mexicm supponeB.An atlack behind a cdt ibn cookstoveusedas a
preventlhe smugglingof Chineseinto the States.He did not retire uril shield wd bslen otr by Baca, g@ing a cowboy's skuu md grazing
r930. tbe am of dorher Cook, a depuly sberiff nmed Ross and
me Colt Peacenalt .45 ot Fnntiet .4440 and Win.hestel Nie Ftucisquito Nafujo approachedlhe hut under a flag of tluce. fld
wercsth.lad T.tos Roaqerweapo$. pssuaded Baca to sun€nder and be escon€dto S@orc. Slaughter
agreedto allow Baca to keep his grtrs. Itr S@om he wd rried for
Capt Sixklb., Sm kitling four cowboysod woudirS len more.He wd acquitledon his
plea of setf-defeD@.His fme alowed him ro be elected to moy
Bom: 1841Going Srake District, Cheroke€ Naaions,
public otrces including deputy sherin county sheriff, myor of
Died: Chrlsirnas Eve, 1886.
Farmer, Soldier, Larmsn, Pone Chi€f of tbe Union Agency Police Socono, school sup€rintendent,and disFici attomey- He Ddowly
missedthe governorship.
Two cheapMil-oder six-8uns
Sam Sixtiller wa a haffbreed-Cherok€e.Served first in the
ConfederaEforces but desenedmd joined his father's arrille.y unit.
Appoinred high sheritr of .I the disticr officers in rhe Cheroke f,alP, Wy.tt Berry Stapp
Nation and wudetr of the National P€nitenti.ry in 1875.In November Bon: 19 MaEh 1E4E,Momouth, Illinois.
1878,he chaled somercwdies oDt of town, and orderedhis depuries Di€d: JsDAry 3 1929,Lo€ Angel€s,California.
to fire uponthemwhetrthey .etusedto slop andcontinuedto discharge Fme., Section Hond, Bollalo HuDter, Ilors€ lhiei Salmn-
tben guDs.PeterThompsonwasklled and Sixhll€r wa put on trial for Keep€r, Gambler, Bunco Ardsq Sportsmar, LaE Olfice.,
EUdq- He wasfound innocent.He felt he could rc longercarry on his
job when he was retused back lay dd suspend€dagain over th€ 'Wyatt
b€lolged to a clmish fmily that setdedin Califomia. In his
monetarydispute. He noved to Muskog@, in the Creek nation. In tweDneshe worked d a lection hdd which took hiln 0oMissouri. In
February 1880, wa appoirted captain of Indian Polic€ at Udotr 1870he becde iown consbble of t amar.Missoui. He Deied but
Agency. H€ had initially tbiity men und€r his connand, which w6 his wife died wiftin nonfts. A'l argunent with his wifet fmily led to
laier mised to forty. He also held a comision as a deputy United a large fist figbt. Wyan bDled bDffalo and was arresredfor srealing
Statesnarshal, underthe Fon SDith colrr of Judgehsac Parkerand hoss. He tmed ircreairyly io ganbling, moslty in Hays City. He
wa! paid $1,200 a yed d a sp€cial agent for the Missouri Pacific b@me a city police|tm in }vichit4 but tept fines and was himsetf
Railroad. He kined oily two men while doing his duty. Solonon dested fd fidting. He waskicked our of the forc€.He becm€ deputy
Coppleof Missouri was a m@nshirc p€ddlerwho died resistingtrest l]6hal of Dodge.Ite wa5run out of Mobeetie,Texasfor tlying to ru
when he went for his shotgun.Dick Glass was killed by Sixliner's a 'gold brick' con wilh Dave Mather He aDdhis brctheB moved to
shotgDnwhen he atlemptedto escape,when b@tr caught red-hfded Tombstonewherehe fi6t becee a shotgrDgr&d fo.Wels F.rgo and
exchdSing stolenhorsesfor whiskey.Sixtiller was mudered otr duty then deputy sheritr of Tombstone.He also acquiftd a int€restin lhe
by two ddnls, Dict Vm dd AIJ Cunninglam, who wer€bitt€r aboDt Oriental. A feud devetopedbetweenthe Earps dd the CldtoD dd
being uested in the pdt. It was madea Federalotrencein 1887for d Mclaurf brothec who operateda rusditrg ring- The feud cme to a
Indiu to kill or asaull with intent Io kill an Indian polic€no. had at the gunfight at lhe O.K. Coral. Virgil and Morgo were later
CoL .45 Pedcmker. WnchesterCarbine mbushed dd Wyan in revengekilled two Iltembe6 of the Cleton
faction. Wyatt wanderedthroughthe West.opeDingsal@nsin vdious
B.@, Er.rgo towns.He joined a combinein Idahothat speciatisedir claimjumpinS
Bom: 1E65.Socorro. New Mexico. in the gold 6elds.He continuedto fotlow the openitrgof mining towns.
Died: 27 Auguit 1945Albuquerqu€, New Msio. He orgdised someprize-fightsud wd him€lf kr@ked seNelessby
Politicim, School Superintend€nt, Attoney. L.bom., Cle.k, a prize fi8bld called MikE Mulqu€enwho was twenty ye6 younger
thm him. He seftledin Los Angelesand practised@ious confidence
Bacamovedwith his fmily to Kansasand gEw up theE. In 1882
Baca\ father.Fmcisco, m ex- lawman,kill€d two cowboysdd got a Snith Weson Mo.Ll No3 aI O.K. Cortul GdfighL Iater caftied a
long prison srterce. The family noved back to SocoEowhere Baca CoUSingleActiok Atuy Botuwed d Stdens 10 Saueeshotsunfton
worked in a store.Bacawished to follow in his father'sf@tste?sdd Fred Dodge,SpecialAgent, Welb Fdtqolot the potse ofrer Brcchius.
purchded a mail order badge and two cheap @volvers.ID October Ned Bhtline clained to hate giyen d thc law@t of Do.lqe City, a
1884.a cowboynmed McCaJtygot drunk in Frisco.N.M. ed shotup special Cob with a 12" bdftel and a eoode, shovldet stock All but
the town, endmgering the lives of many M€xicus. Baca put oD his Wan are suppose.lto hate cut the bonels downto a Nre M@Beabte
badgeand six'gus ed desled lhe cowboy.Morc cowboys,led by lagth. Colt tuad. no suchgB, but did mkz ofy loae bamlled CoLs
their fore|lm Perhd. aJriled and denanded the rel@se of rheii with reMwbb skzleto^ shouldz6locks. Th.se are ww k own os
ftiend- Baca wa! infonned tbat ToD Slaughter,the biggestrmcher in Butline Specials.Morc thaaow oul@ claiw.l that Watt Eary worc
lhe area was not used to baving his cowboys arr€stedwirhout his a steel yest,frm haring shot hin in the chest with no ef..t. Watl
hiwelf clained therc eas ho tuch derice, howaet sow vhere
lemission. Brca sbngged andsaidhe would countto tbE &d if they
did not leave,he would op.n 6E. This he did, woundingone cowboy coM.ridu! tuaildble at the tiw of the Ciyil Wa.
in the kne, fd monally injuing Perham.who fel of his hose. J.H.
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The South-West,997z implausiblethat the ArglGsdon wmgamescotunander slould fitrd

hibself np againstnot just the vikings, but also rhe rcb€UiousCelric
the Achilles heel of Wessex Britishi the\tking cmpaign of 997 probablyaimedto undemine West
Sdon authority in marginalwesem areas.dd so stiEitrg up B.itish
by Ebelion qould havebeenusetul.
Rya.n Laaelle Tl'e recent releaseof GippiDg B6fs rmge of Scots md Picts is
especiallyusetul for sucha cdpaisn (dd quite a coincid€ncefor fie
'Bravehefft'
Hercin thisyearthehost\|ert atuundDetodhne iatottu ruuth oJthe nillemium of 9971),a theseguyr haverhat wild, hairy
Sqem, ond there ruwged in Comedu, in Woles,atu| in Devon ud l@k that makesthem pe.fect to becom€Comish Cells, litde differert
the! wnt to Wdtchet;there ther wrcu8ht 8reat havocby buming @d to those4l)0 miles to the nonh. Incialenbtly thesefiguEs also l@k
ki ing ond then w.nt mund land's End oa ttu south side, and the! prctty g@d asAnglo-Saron peasanbpr€ssd into thetrd, the sod of
ntered the nouth oJ thz Tarc. and truvelle.l up it. me! cdtue to menwho wereunabl€,o resistbrcahng the English line at Hastings!o
Lydlord an.l the! bumed and sls qerythine ther nd, dnd bumed charge6ner apparendyl€Feating Nomds.
doM Ordur s dbbe, church ot Tovistocband brcught Mdescibable Bul I digress.I Inu$ admit, th€rc isnl a lot of historical evidence
plunder to their shipt with thztu availableto describelhe oryanisationof a Comish my,or reb€llious
(Th. Angto-S^oa Ch@icle, 997) Celts living in Devon; cerlaidy the Alglcsdon Cbionicle's account
of 997 dcsnl Dentiod them.but the scenariois still within the realns
In the last ye6 of the first millemium, England,under rhe houseof of historical prcbability. In ninth-century accountsof West SuoD
wessex,w6 ir a mes. The poemaboutthe battl€of Maldon showsthe history the British of Comwall were a constantthom in the side for
heroic demiseof edl Byrtnoth in one of historyt greatestdisplaysof Wess. Al$, in the yearsof lhe NormanConquesl King Williu had
agg€sive nachismo.Fd ftoD beinga factualdesdiption of the bard€, Eouble ftom the comish. so there sems to be no r€asonro suppose
it w4 acrually a wo.k of propagtuda, inteded 1o encoumgerhe that with the nws that the West Sdon English colonisers werc itr
wdio6 of England in u hour of deed.Consideringihe number of Eouble ftom vikinS invaders,a few Comish wa$ands night gather
viking raidsrecordedin the cbroniclesduing the 90s andrhe dubioqs togeoer to s@ what advantageth€y could gain. ln gmiry the 997
cncumslancesin which King Ethelred(the 'utready') may haveben cmpaigD, this eilra aspectis up to you, dep€ndingupon how |!fuy
implicatedin th€ deathof his brotherin 979,it is fair ro say rhatmorale Playe6 wmr to takepan.
wat at a low ebb,to say the l@st.
On the one sidewerethe WestSdoB, by the end of rhe 10thcetrtuy GUARDING TIIE SHIPS
t'€ginning to 6sert sme aulhority over Devon, as the 'uDifie6' of
'England a natiotrwhich at
, this point was sritl a very vague@D@pt. This is the fint, and to those\.*ings who prided themselv€son being
The Dues werc concentratinganack on the SoDthEdt of England, a mobile attacking force, perhaps the most inponanr parr of rhe
prcbablyftr polilical destabilisation.The attackon the Soulh,Wesrwas campaign.Perhapsaboutbaff of the force would hav€b€enleft behjnd:
p€rhapsthe openingof a secondftont, m attackon the Achilles heel we do Dothow exacdyhow ldge lhe entireforcewoutd havebeD, bDt
ofEngldd. it would probablyhavenumberedhundredsEther thm thousdd!. You
Trre Scddinavids' 997 tume. holinay' nrkes an intercsring do not ned a dozen25mn \4king lotrgshipsto rc+nact this pan of the
wdgdes cmpaign, quite ditrent from you av@ge Viking mid; by cdpaign, thoughI adnir ir would look good. so dotr t let me stop you
this staSethe 'hoslf' had rcaly b€comeorguised mies. This adicle if you fecy thisl Perhapsyou could re-fight suchd etion by holding
is realy concemedwirh rh€qe s that t@k placein the secondpart of d impondt rcad leading to rhe esruaryagainstth€ WesrSdonr.d
the cdpaign, once the \aling amy had pNsed the south side of (thouSbadmittedly lhe We$ Saxon ptayer might have more on his
Lmdh End-It would be possibleto inclDdenids on Walesatrd North llate, gudding the fortified buhs ud fighting EvoltinS Celb...!).
Somersetin your wegmes cdpaign if you wanted,bur rhe defending Tle 'comrnando'partof ihe force might tnvel by on foot following
torceswould havebeenscatereddd quite separate.tn wesi Devon,it tle river (histoncally tlE mostlikely), or in smaliervessels,which werc
is arguablethat therc wd a singleWestSqon cotmmder rguably able to naviSatethe river al leasl a! far as Tavist@k.Even if
For the Scddinavies to haveanackeda! fff as the burh at Lydford you e a 25'm wargamer(this is my favouite scalefor rhis period
(now a snall viUagein Devonwith someimpresive mhaeology) took I don\ know why. asitb whouy impcctical, but it seemsro captue the
a ldge mount of strategicorgaiation; they would havehad ro teave edly medieval feel so ef@tivey.l) small vesselsde still reasonabiy
a detacbmenlto grrdd their shipsat the estuarydd nalch, or posibly prcducible/atrordable.The other possibility is to seize a number of
travelin smallervessels.Even accountinSfor chmgesin sealevetover hoNs dd riding on. Though there is historical evidence for rhe
1000yenrs.no tongshipsizedboatwould everky sailing upnver asfd \alings stealingho.ses h ninth- century cmpaigns in England and
a! Lydford todayl This implies that tbe laid was not just d F6nkia, I think that lhis is unlikety to havehapp€ned,as rh€ \,ikiDg
opportunistic one by a bulch of fteebooting pimtes. but was well cmpaign was wetl plamed, atrd the historical souces would have
plmed dd orchesEated with defiDedobjectives.So asfte colmader madea point of sayingthat th€y rode. However,if you are rhe \4kins
of a minat@ Viking amy you should not go out in undisciptined player tben this option should be opetr, as it cedainly is the most
rmpage bul should keep to sEict military/lolitical objectives. Of spectaculd(in Hollywood style); rh€ umpiE would haveto delignare
couse there is the questionof when n€cessey foEgins by o arny a hoe st@kadeon the map that could be a r{8er. As such @nrrcs
suriving iD eremy ienitory beconesa practiceof ravaging... lendedto be owneded run by lhegnsor the rcyal authority,they have
The cm?aien of 997 has a lot to otre. the Smer of 1997,besidea a twofold advutage for the \tking playe. - gettitrg ho6es dd
n€atmitlemial miversary (thoughaft€r all we dotr t get one of those destabilizitrg the political system. What betrer way to show you
superioritythe to be sen upon the horsesof thosewho had b€enthe

TIIE 'CELIIC FRINGE' h wargm tems, a hone slockadecan be quite siDply built,
oth€r tike a wild west conal, ftoln resin pieces- or taking the time to
Nor about a wild haiicut D, rhe idea of a 'Celtic ftjrge' is adniuedly scratch-buildftom balta wood (which aE generaly very hmdy for
quite a belitding phrale, as th€ Celts werc still iEpo.ldt in the p€riod othq s@n&ios). with a f€w ass@iat€doutbuildhgs, and p€rhapsa
we aie dealing with. I! the 9th md l0th centuries Weser wa small flid detacbmeDt defeDdiDS. Then again,if you dont wet to do
attenpting ro erped into the South,West,and it s@N thar rheComish this, the actioDcd lake plac€ 'off- table' with the Dumberof horses
Cetts were pretty obduate (and who coqld blue thebl). It's nor trlen being desiSaat€dby a roll of the dice. ad if you havea vicious
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VILIAGE GREEN

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The New Addressis:
VII,I,AGE GREEN
17 RotundaRoad.Eastboume.BN23 6LE
Telephone/Fax(0 1323) 738882
The existing rangewill now include Battlegoup Figures25mmWorld War II
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urnpirc, a fw Vrking calualties if lhe srableboys put up a spirited prery @eplable; thoughonceyou srartbatding it out you dotrt teDd
to noti@! I also found that you dotr1 !€€d to wony loo muchaboutlhe
That is why the snsible, well-plarming VikiDg play€r should not
rcaily hoF !o sterl soDehones (evenif he hd had g@d reponsfion The Lydford ,/., my havehadonepretty cleardisadveragei. that
spies- perhapsDanelawFade6 - asto wher€lhe hotrs re kept), a! ir a mjor water supply was posibly outsidethe to*nt alefeDcsd at
is t@ much of a risk to you cmpaign, and there is always a danger leat at a very wnembl€ poiDt.I think tbat sayssomethtugabourMting
that a]l therc will b€ tu the stockadewill b€ a f€w heavity pregnant siegetactics,or mth€r a tek of tbeD, a well as why the ,u rrr didr't
tMes... But then w€'E roi all sensible well-plMitrg playersaIe we? sldd up to the Nonnm a cetrturylaier. In 997 rhe Vkings prcbably
I'n c€rrainly not ad such a mid does add a cerrain amount of tried the direct assaultmethod,uslccesstully, attackingamss lhe flar
divenion and lhe 'Vking spirit' to the campaignl Sroundto th€ noni dd Dorth-€astof lh€ town - oDlya wargam€rwould
try atlackirg up the nvine sides...
ATTACKINGA BI]RH As theViking playerio a campaignyou my w€I wdt to try, agaist
histodcal precede , to istigaie a siege,poisDirg lhe warer supply
It's probable that the Lydford ,rrr, was the target of th€ viking Oul remember that iD a loD8 siege you may d$ red this warer
cdpdg4 lhoughthe nid uponit may or nay lot bavebd a success. supply), or perhaps6ght a Duber of stimishes arouDdthe dispur€d
That is rather up to you. The ,/./at w€re nore than sinply wen. A si%e could also include ArSlo,Saron r€inforcere s comiog
fonifi@tions. They w@ tNns, tle nilitary dd @oDomiccentrosof uoss Dartrnoorfiom the wst ddor lhe anival of the Comishmen,!o
Westex, where Fadi.g loot place in relative safery,and where rle fight for one side or the olhtr (dep€ndingon who tbreatensor pays
coins we.e mint€d. Sq atrackingsucha fomidabl€ fonification isn'. thd ihe Inost!) or to take on both th€ Scandinavies md Angle-
sucha bad ideaaner aI ...I
ID eracting the barde of Lydford, you might wdt to follow ihe Also don't fo4et ahatspi€sir the town could play th€i! pan in your
layout of the tov,n plu prcvi(M h*, or jusr make a gdedc ,e.r; cMpaiga, t€Iitrg theVikitrgs wh@ the weatesrplacesin the d€femes
with btrltntions, nad a$acks,posible siege\rtlfare, you havethe son e - after all, King Ethelftd w6 pretty pmoid abour spies md
of thitrg that wargamesare made of! There is the probl€m rhat rhe usurp€B- at l4t by 1002,when h€ ordercdthe massacreof a]l the
Anglo-S{oD player tnows that tbe Ly.Uod ,u, is the cmpaien Dares i! EDglard (a prctry foolish thirg to do, by all accounts).
klg€l but thetrd conmatrderwa likely ro hav€realisedthis in 99?
THE ABBEYAT TAI'ISTOCK
To makea rzrir for th€ watgalm table,feel fte€ to do whaid€r you
want; fiom expanded polystyrere mparts und€r a g@D cloth, Well, it wouldn't be a Vrking mid wi&out bdhing a few mo*! would
p€rbapswitb wooden (or €ver cedbodd) palisadeson rop, chalked it? Ttough the Arglo-Saxor chmricl€r Day bave b€en iNokirg
roads ed a few buildings iGide the compound,ro a highry $urpted 'traditioDal' inaees
of \4kings itr his dNriprion of them takilg
t€min, with considemblenvins otr thre€ sidesatrd nv6 - rhe ideal 'urimginabl€ plundei' (after all the guy
vat writiDg son€ yeln
defensiblesile - with rcsin palisades,gate,rNq, and resin houses afteru/ads,som€distamefiom Devon - and trtould!1the monk hav€
cmwdedtogether(a! the place would ImtBbly havelooked DoE like rnad€hast€with what ttey could carry?), dort let rhat put you otr
the Jorik vilhg Centrethu lhe slepy village ihar is rh@ roday!). emcting a tnditioD.l raid on the Church. TAe Chronicle €nEy isn'l
Pe6omlt I found th€ fomer 'clot dd polystlretre approeh to be clea! asto what exacdybaplEnedin 997. l@vir8 scotE for rheVking
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srelnr.s .orxund.r. pe.hlps ]ou (.uld nttlcl thc rhbc\ rli.l The Anglo-Saxonburh at Lydford,Devon
dssluliing L) dlbrd. or spli' \our ld.e into t*o !()up5. rh. snrallcronc
b.in-e nror. rlrn a rlch |{tr ! Ier nbnl\.
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DA - DA! DA. DAH! Fon Cunberland Gudd in the unifom wom just b€forc the crimed
DA - DAH! DA. DAH! Wu and fte Society's own Diehdd Companyin the unifom of the
DA - DAH! DA. DAX! 1890s. Her Majesty" ed the "Prince of wal€J' mived on the Pdade
ground in d open cdiage escortedby a nourted detachmentof
Yes.we had a st]]ndat the Victorid Military S@ietySh@ - and,yes, tnnceB md Husds. The pageant*as commded by a nounted
''Major GeneEr" with stafi officeN and trumpeter
the soundEackfion 'Zuiu' beleagueredour em for many. nany
hours! But lefs allow VMS publicity oficer Dm Allen to t€lt tho storf Music wN prcvided by lhe Band of the Honomble Aniltery
tHope he's toDedeafll - Conpany, rhe Corps of DNms of the Cinque Pons Rifle Voluntee6,
and lhe NapoleonicAs@iation s Royal Anillery bmd.
THE VM.S. AT CITATIiAM On the non-military side,tberew6 a ladies' side saddlequadrille, a
whole hosl of Vicrorim cheacters and stre€l entenainers,a mini
The Dimond Jubileein Juneof 189?wasthe culmiDation of60long Uctorian Fun Fair &d, providing a musical accodpanimenl on the
and gloriousyearsof QueenVictoriah reign during which Bntain had Saturday.The NijmegenPolice Bdd fiom The Netherlands.
c€ated the ldgest empirc the world haseverknown coveringnedly a The finale to the whole weekendwd BeatingRetrealby the Bandof
qnanerof the lod massof the Eanh and a quanerof its popDlalior.To the Honouble Artillery Company dd the Corps of Druns of the
commemonte this, the high poinr of Enpire. the Victoriar Military CinquePortsRifle Volunteers.
Sciety orgdised a two day eventon Saturdayand Sunday28/29June The 400 feel long Fined Rigging House wa! occupiedby over 90
1997at the Historic DGkyard. Chathu. strnds dd exhibitos providine m int€resung mix of museums.
The centepiece of the weekend wd a Grand Milirary Pagemt publisheB, artisrs, bookselleE, otique deale6, toy soldier make6.
pmding before 'Queen Victoria , accompaniedby her son "Albert prinls md postcdds, militaria and nedal deale6. At one siandauthor
'Our Little Atu, in lE
Edwdd, PriDceofwales". showinghow weapons,unifoms md lactics Bria A Reid was signing copiesof l,]s book
had evolvedsincethe Qleen was a girl. F dd" aboulthe CmadianAmy in the Bo€rWd. On aother therewas
P€Jading before "Her Majesty". were detachments from the €n exhibition of origiml \tctonan tull dressnililary Dnifons Escued

Top:Twasecnonsof the British Model Soldiel Societ!\ displa! dthe

Dianon.l Jubilee prc.esio". l'he vhole no.lel prccesion - 23 feet
loas with owt 2000f8ures - vas just too Jar Jor my flash sun to
copturethe whole lot b onepicture.
Below:Onsi@l victunonnilitary uiJoM.
Risht: The ihdoor pdn oJ &e paSeant vas in the eircwlr IonB
Rissing Ho6e- Fotg.t th. Meado||bdnk Stadiun\ in.loot runni,g
tn k that housesClalMre in Edinburyh- you reall, aeede.Ia bicrcle
to Eet tud.I this vkue!
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from the stotmoms of a military tailor's which closed dowDir the
1970s.
In addition, fte British Model Soldier S@iety pDt on a mgnificenr Tnarercan Mopns
display of the DiamondJubileeprocesion which strerchedto some23
122 Lazy Hill Road, Aldrid8e, Walsal, W. Mi& WS9 8RR
feet md had well over 2000figlres.
To add lo the event there wer€ model soldier, wargamesand
Victorian costune comletitions. These attrac&d a large nunb€r of Stockistsof 1/ 1200shipg 1/300AIryt & Airdaft by Ros& Nawar
entriesof a very high standard. A list of prizewinnersis given at the I /1001rtrhF. | /200Napolrcnicships.
1/3000& 1/1200FleetPacksfor aI penods
To act s a souvenir of the w€ekend,th€rc was a 68 page book High Quaility Sabl€brshes
containing a tull text, 87 black ud white pictures phs a colour Idl Colou ParV paint rdge
centrcspreadof the troops which took part. This gave a definitive
accountof the original Jubil@ pcession ir June 189?ftom the order Bulk scatterpa.ks
of the pande to the Qu€en'sfeelings on Meiving the homageof her
subjects tcopies are available fton the Saiety price f9.95 plus Revoflags,Veni,\tdi \ici trasfeF
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 SOLDIERS OF TI{E RAJ ANCIENTSBOOK REITEW
TIIE INDIAN ARMY 1600.1947
Before I ger dom ro this review. I have b cone cleo about rhe lasr
Exhibition at the National Amy Musem, Admiasion Fre€. book rview I wrote (Ar.i?trt Amoo and weapons)...| 'took my har
off to the authof,JamesHewitt, for his (lhen outmgeoud use of ihe
1997hns seenthe 50th Dniversary of the independenceof India and word ilnk . UnfortunatelyI doffed my cap in rhe wrong direction,as
Pakistan.eventswhich havebeencelebFted both in the sub conrinent this phraseis actDallyusedin The WelshWarsof Edvanl I by Johi
and in the fomer colonial power, Brilain. Of theseone of rhe most Modis ( 1901).So I apologisefor that eror which wasthe .esuhof Dy
interestin8 is fte exhibilion wirh rhe above rirle cunently a1 lhe brain ovedoadin trying 10readtwo books ar once.
Nalional Amy Museum. It is a fascinaring display of weapons, And now onto this (hopefully) mislakefree rcview of:
unifoms, decoratons,rcgimentalanifacts and numercusprints,
.liawings, photogaphsard painlings.both in oik and watercolous. Celtic Waftiors. \ tE nd ING Ritchie, 1985{and reprinrs).Pnblished
by Shne Archaeolo8y.PrincesRisborough.t3.95.
In somerespects theexhibitiondoesnorquilelive up to ils nmq for Therese€mlo be a nDmbe.of books availablewith this title, which
all loo manyof theexhibirsfearu€,or .elateto, theBdtish,primdily may be of little surprisewhentou realizeOat 'Celtic wdior hislory
the offrceN and I would haveliked to haveseenmoE emphasisgiven spans from about 500BC (the edliest Celts in cent al Europe) to
to otherrar16 along with their unifoms; nevertheless. rhis is perhapsa ADI60O (Insh gallowgaichsand bonnachts).To atlemp!ro cove. what
minor quibble.One display I did find panicularlyfascinatin8.if moun$ to 2m0 yees of history in the 56 pagesof this b@k would
sliShdy €pedrive. was a fiiD talen during the lasr wa of menfrom d have been a sysipheanlask fo. fte autho.s, and Oey have sensibly
IDdianunit dresed in I 81hcenturyunifoms (oneof De reproductions chosento limil rheirstudyto the mosrpopul& inage of the Celtic
is displayed alongside)givine an exhibition of rhe dJill and firing wdior - lhe eneny of the Clasical world.
manoeuvresof thai penod. CW is divided into sevenchapte6. ud allhoDghthe book is part of
the 'Shiie Archaeology mnge,eachof the chapreBwill be of interest
Complementingthe exhibition is a large, well pnncd and sadty to wdgmers wdnringto find out the basicsaboul fte Celts in battle.
expensivepape.backbook having the sme litle is lhe exhibition*. The fist two chapleB deal with a brief hislory and examplesof lhe
This tells the story ofthe Indian any frc6 ns ongins as weebouse evidencewe can use,followed by a look ar whd rhe classicalwriteB
cNtake6 np to its statusat the time of independence.perhapsnot in said about lhen feamomeneiShboDn.These sources,ftough Dostly
the detail which nighr be expected,bur then. rhe.eare orherbookson hiehly biased.provide someusefDlclues a! to the Celts appedoce,
its history availablefrom lhe excellendyslockednqseum shop.The tiom clothing sryledd coloua ro fte way they enteredbattle.
fourteenchaprers,writt€n by tbineenexpenson their themes,coverthe The third chapter looks ar Warrior Burials - the dchaeological
anr)y\ organisationftom its origins until 1947, its rcle in Inperial evidencelo back Dpthe written sources-It is. however,the founh and
sFalegy.ofEce6 income,expenditureand expectationsin the seryice fifth chapleGwhich nost wargameBwill be inreresredin: The Celrsin
of JohnCompmy , logisrics.the relationshipbeMeenlhe Indian and Battle,dd Celdcweapons.
Bndshtrcps, tbedefenceoflndia, race.casle,nuiny anddisciplne The Celb in Battle mostly considen the classicalwriteB opinions
(we always hed of ihe Indian Mutiny bur there is a five page table again.Chaptersubheadings inclDde:singlecombaqcheiots,cavaky,
(pp.lll 117)listing nutinies by lndian md Euopeanrroopsfrcm head raking. and noise. Ore of the nosr interesringrhoughtswhich
1674-1947), unifoms, aJms.the lndiandmy in two wo.ld was and occured1ofre lirm readingthe cldsical quohrion! w6 rhat the Celts
rhelegacyol the undividedIndranam) in Lhe\ub-conrinenr. dong most effecriveweaponwas psychologicalaarfare - lhe noise,
olber subjars. In addition there is a catalogDeof the exhibirior, boasltulnessnnd showmuship, dd unusDalalmy of deorated md
illustratinS dd desc.ibing in detail all the exhibits. mostly in colou nakedwaJriorsmust havemademo$ regularEoopsthink twice about
dd a cbaple. on the resourcesof the Narional Amy Museum fo. sBnding before a cbdge. As the chapteron Celtic WeaponsoDtlines,
studyingthe lndian Amy. A bibliography.chronology,map of Indiq manywdios wereamed vith sword,spetrddshield,sohada slight
detailsof the writeB of the vaJiouschapreBand an index conplete rhe disadvutage ar conBcr if rheir more heavily moDred opponenrs'
bottlecollecdvelyheld.Belond ltaly, *e re told $ar helnersand
amour amongstthe Celts wererelatively rare: one intereslingfad not
The Indie afuy brcamethe ldSest fDlly volunrarylmy in Asia md mentionedin fte texr is rhe probabilitythar the Celrs invenred
while fron its reorganisationfollowing the endoffte Indian Mutiny iis chainndil.Anolherfactto bebode in mindabourCelticmouris the
weaponrywaskept deliberatelyinJeriorto rhatof rheBdnsh units,this likelihoodthal sone of the nost inpre$ive itemswercprobablyjusr
did nol defact fiom ils fighling spiril. This volume senes s d ibr omamentation' experinenbl archaeoloSy(not menlionedin this
excellenlinroducnon to a miliiary force which still retairs mmy of rhe book\ admittedlylimiled space)has suegestedlhat highly de.orative
tradilions acquiredunder the Raj as well ar a record of m abso.bing bronzeshieldsbenred bucklednore easilythantheirstitrened lea$er
exhibition. altlough I strongly suspecti(s cotiee rable size will resuh
in thecoveacoding looseifit is consulted roomuch.indeedthecover The final iwo chaptes m shondnotaled lists oftunher rcadingdd
of one copy on salein the museun shopwas alreadycoming off. One placesro go to. Thereis a usefullisl ofnuseurnsb visit to seeCeldc
interesting sidalirero fte exhibitiontook placewhenI sas havinga weapoiry on displayrI v€ noticedtbat a few booksdirectly written fo.
dnnk in the museumcoffeeb& a! an adjacenttablefiere were several wdgmers have sbned to irclude sDchlis6 {eg. Ospreysotrerir8t,
eldedy Den, Indid md Bntish. swappinSEminiscences of thejr which is a Eend I d like to see extended-Colour ptaresand othe.
seNice in the old Indid amy' How I wished I could have rccorded painting guidesde good, but there is really no substirutefor seeinSa
their convesaiion. I ce only hope that the museumaurhoritieshave wniols aiay fi6t hand.
lalen stepsto pDt on record this sort of oral hisrcry which future All in .ll. Cw conrainsa surprizingly vasl Mount of infomation
military historios will. I am sure,find of considerabrevarue. aboutcla$icalperiodCelts,considering il. linired nuDberof pages-
However.a! it is sucha small b@k, ils pnce is low, and it sbould sil
SOLDIERS OF THE RAJ, The lndid Amy 1600-194?.Edited by upon the bookshelvesof mdy more waJgamersthan it prcbably does
Alan J.Guy & Pele. B. Boyden, 4!o. Illusrrated. 368pp. Paperback.
ISBN 0 90172135 2. NationalAmy Musetrm,1997.f29.95.
Dan Mersey
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Wargamer's Notebook WmgamelsGrcup very higb+ However,it se€msihey @ somelhirg

of an undisov@d rcsome herein the UK. I thiok they @ imponed
w by a couple of ebtiShteneddonestic reiaileB - I have always found
them if I l@k hdd enough ' but $e good news is rhey de now
Mike Siggtns supplyingdirect.The generalidea.for thosethat havenot yet sen one,
is that a cdpaign is tackled in 72 pages,supplyirS a shoi hisrory
I supposeit sayssomethingabourtimesin which we live that tne mosr unilom md Dnirdemils.mp\. rules..cendiosdd sometimes evena
memorablepart of a major figure show is the trafic congestion. b@rdgameas well. The standardis high, a! Bruce McFelde (the
Readitrgrca]Iy dos have a serious prcblem with cd volunes and designer/serieseditor) is a talentedchap, the rules aE workable dd
leljng, espeially on the Saturdayof ColoDis.Hardly the orgdisr's ingenious,ed eachone is cralnmedwith usetul info. Topics covered
fault this, b neverthelessd lnpleasdr 45 minuEs ftom rhe M4 to so f& have ircluded The Wm of 1812,Flower of Chivalry, SYW in
The Hexagon cm pa* fomed rhe sbn of what was d othevise North America dd the Canadian forces in WWII. The two new
iDtercstingvisit. ColouB is still, for all iis predictabiliry,a srapleof the volumes I bave before me are Drcp Zone. coverilg Crere, Pegasus
gding yed. ln fac! it is probably beause of that predicrability that Bridge dd Amlem using ften imovative creat Batdes of WwU
bundredstm up year after yd knowinSexacdy whar rhey@ goitrg systemmd Whites of Their Eyes. a prcficiert oveniew of the AWL
to get - one of rhe besttrade showsaJoundofferiDgtbe chmce to s€e Highly reconmended.The guide books @ $16 esch and availabte
the latest autum products, sone decent modelling exhbiiJ, a good from CWG. Box 1725,Stanon'M', Calgary,Alb€ia T2P 2L7. Cdada.
cenaal venue tud the odd diveBionary gme. And ftis year the Visa and Mastercardaccepted.
omipresent queuerhad all but disappeded,presumablyrhanksto the
ad@ce booKng systen, or possibly extra slaff on the dooi Either The excellent Batdeground series iom Talonsoft (inported by
way. one welt eded housepoint to the orgmiseB. Empire Interactive)pr@eedsapace.As yoDknow, I havecovercdeach
The Fadeshow wd as good as evei I mmaged to pick up lhe new of these games over the lat few issues and while rhey have a
NapoleonicPrin.iples of Wor rules, a few back issuesof ai.ir ,nriru competentriaal in th€ shape of ,48? oJ Nfles, rhey s@m to have
and somehowresistedalmosr all $e €xcellent fi8ues, buildings dd comer€dthe hobby Deket admirably.Cenainly ar Colou6 I saw titrle
bookson otrer I caled in ar rhe Old Gtory stard md, ar last, rhey}ad €lse on off€r in this neld, dd ihe facr thar rheyfeaturc at all on n8re
some decent 25Im figures on display. The new gunfighle6 de dd book rctaiteB shelves is teltamenr lo their populdity. The
actuatlyrathergood,ed tbe Plains Inditus evenbetre.,which plqsed combination of superbgiaphics, easeof play dd steady srrem of
ne gready.The smple vi$elE on displayhad a coupleof befearhered peninent topics (with subdesysiemand gmphicatimprcveDeris each
chiefs dd some accompanyingbrav€s:all were of a high sranddd, tine) has obviously hit th€ spot.The latestpairing wil also b€ a musr
tric€ly posed,with acceprablederail. The acid test for Otd ctory is to buy - ,!iI iar will rolnd out your ACW collection nicely, whjle my
get in re.ily close and l@k at both paintedand bare spe€i@ns,dd favouite ofthe series.tyare.loo,is rN j.iiedby Napoleonin Russia
tbesepassednuster with no problems.The hoses rcmjr rarheroddly featuing Borodino and sevral related actions.As ever eeh gme
prcponioned,but they cd .lways be replaced.I doDbtthey would mix contains a large nunber of smaller sceneios as well d the epic
too well in th€ sme uit with the recentFoundryrdgeq beingslightly monstergme ud I have found borh well up to the usual stddard.
largerdd of thider build, but I donl supposedyone pould coment Highly recomended. Sadly,the newsgleanedftom the recentECTS
on a sepeateold Glory war pery. Now aI we need1odo is coDvince show is that therewiU be but one more Battlegrcundtirle. Pftlzd, ro
ihem lhat not s€ryone wmts to buy a hugebag of figues (yes,I tnow, Ware.l@o.which wil cover Qualre Bras, Ligny and I guessWavre.
I may ar well try to argnethar Napoleoi s Battles is ahlstoical game) Talonsofi are moving onto a rcw sdes of EasrFrcnt gred teric.l
dd we could be getting rhere. Also available wd a new colou gameswhich. on 66t sight,look lik€ advancedve6io6 of the Pa,i?r
magazinecome catarogue{ti ed & G/oirc, I think) fearwing fte Oc Geaerolseries.TheseshoDldbe .eally sonething. I also hopethat Age
rangeswhich, while an excetlentidea, wd expensiveand had some of lDr.ladr appem in time a! lhat will finally enable1osell lny copy
p@r figw photogmphy- way too small dd dark. Rarherd€featedthe

The 8me! werea little thiD as Dsual,bur rhoserhat wcrc uere wero I rcted wilh inlerestthar a recentlerterwriter quirerighdy misedthe
g@d (especialy the nulti-ptayer computergme), and rhebestwd (d subjectof begiDes ad how they could be cateredfor I think rhefirsr
itr 1996.if I recall core€dy) a W WII demonstrationby rheBasinestoke questionmay be 'Are there dy to spea,l(of?', but the dswer ro rhat
club. Using only blck termin tiles. they work Dpd inpressive overall could onty comeftom club representatives. AJterthe recetrtdebacleof
nnage with some excellent modek. I think rhe situations they use GaN dwa\ | bwe t*en Ei!ing the marEr sone thou8hi.I don't hav€
always help matten- They always l@k fedible historically.just right any answe6.b ir des sem lo me b be the one impondt arearhar
in the tactical departmentand rrety fail to come up with a new slet is not being addressedin the hobby. I noted ftom Colours thar Iain
on oft usedthemes.Tlis is an interestingpoint sinceborh Cotom md Dickie wa seling () someinFoductorypacksgeaftd to lbe pe.iods
Partizo werc nolable for discussionsover originsriry or otheNise of and I loow Nexus also sell so're baic b@*s pemed by Sruart
demonstrationgmes. A numbe. of adniring viewersindicar€dto me Asqui$. This helps, bDt it may be better to have a somethingof a
that while most of the games were impressive. ed obviousty sbner packtbat could be senroul for fre€ - this hasworked well for a
representeda lot of wort, rhey had se€nft€m atl befoft. I understand rMber of hobbiesand would takesomeorgmising, bur could work. It
this, sincelhe true original standoutis inde'eda re bird, bur thereare would b€ non periodrules sp@ific, bDt give a gene.al oveniew' u
enoughtweals on edsting gmes to makethem itrteEsting and, ro b€ aconnr offte mainperiods.clubconricc.ed.o on.
honest,I seeso moy gmes that rheoccasionalrcpeatii nor a probtem I think half the probtem is that, by definition, nost of us de so
d the onginal haslorg sinceblurred inro losr memory.Of course,therc distdced hom being begimeB that we may havelos! sight of what is
de individuatswho cd sit down, come up with a new concepiand in needed,or indeed what todayh beSimeB wanr. I catr r@al clubs
the spaceof tbree monthsput on a stuming Dewgme. The SODS. where one was nor madewelcome. dd left to lurk in a comer until
Peries, Itague of AugsbDrgand Bill c6kin spring to mind here. It beating a halty reEeat. This is s@ly the ultimare crime one
doesnt atways take a soatchbuilt Bronze Age village or Russiu someonehas nade the etrort to Bet to a club, lhe lesr rhat shoDld
Steppeto pul it or - lhoseAugsburgredoubtswe.e sufficient to make happenis that they get soDeatlention,and involvem€ntin a gma On
the gde standout in the mtud. In trurb,therenusr s!i! te hundredsof th€ otherhmd, lot of clubsexcelat this intlodDctoryprocessand even
variantsofperiod, fi8req scal€,settingandtactical situariony€t ro be I eventuailyfound lwo superbclubs(Chingfordand LeyronGrcnadier)
exploredtud I win enjoy looking ar then wheneverrhey surface. that had Oe Inix just right. I think I will let rhis run on for a couple of
I have always mied the campaign booklets ftom rhe Canadiatr columns and ask for you input. Book of ile Month is rhe recent
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Fosten volume on rhe Udforms of rhe Cuards.An excellenr Kershne.outhor oJthepopuldr I8th Centarj tules 'Wodarein theAse
compiladon of plates showing their evolution throtrgh three hundred of Reason'which ||on thij year\ FIASCq a\|ard fot th4 best
yem. I suppolerhe Fostensryle of anwork n about a diameFicalty warsaws rules. Older Boumenouth rca.lerstut recogniseG4han
oppositeto. san Richdd H@kygrubby eork as yotr cd get. bqt I Wkinson (blue T shirl, residentin CMdafor the lastJe|| rars and
stili like both. MaFellous. d regular risitor to Hisbn.on.

Editor's footnote: Not menrionedby Mike in his report on Colom,

{a\ a .jgn'ficanl lGr - the "ppemce ot d Amencd compMy
trading in its own right ar a Britbh historical wargmers shoq_ Rick
and wendy Schuldtof Scenic Etrats cameover ftom Califomia and
had a sland the show. It was only a small sland in the lee of the
mighry Dixon Miniatures srdd. but rhey seeDedto do quile a good
tradeanyway rras hopethey'll cone back next yedl

As usual the nosl atttuctive Bane at Hisbncoi w6 Duke Seifrieds.

Thit is paflry dow to Duke3 trenen lous ftodellins skilk, an t p.ttll
to thefacl that he bnngs a battery of ligh:dto pie.e the s\eian gloom
ofthe loeer letel oJde ttncasler Host Hotel- ]n thispicture the sl|]
Duke, ||nh chardcEristic nodest!, ties to hide behindone oJ his lighl
stondsds he brieJs hisplav6 al the stan ol he sane. This leat s
oteting Ms dn Eqyptiansretsus Hinnes clash in the desertsql the
Middte Eas| Betov arc t-,ropics oJfeaturesof Duk s fue Eiain.
Here's a pi.|ure of Mrs S.huldt behinl het table at HBtuncon in
Irncoster Penisllnnio in .Iul!. Quite a .oikci.len e that she's
ch4tting to Bob Cossins(chaked shift) authot oJNapoteon,sBattles
- also nentioned br Mikz Sigginsin his coluM this n@tL prcbabt!
Bob X saling wendt, lou re ny kird oJ scenic efect! probabl!
Wendyis saling Bob, you eouldn t seriousty.all Ndpoleons Botttes
a histoncal gane, would Jou? Anlear, this photogrdphsenes as d
bndgefton the Siggiascoluftn to a pot pouti oJpicturesIrou this

Historicon 97
... somesnapshots
Abore: the cit! oJKadesh,oyer looking the Olontesrivet

A hiShlight oJ this yeat s His@ticoawete the gatuesnased b! Hetu

GMdt and knce Kizet to help launch the publication ol the ne|9 Aboye: An ai.i.rt Eqtptian tebtple rith two obelisks all tcmtch-buitl
e.lition of their rul.s 'Rnther Asainst Bmthet . Stanting betneq ond han.! painted by the Duke.
Hetu (white shin) ahd ltncc (nt *e ineritabte cotrbo! hat) k Tod
 MORE FOLI(S AT SHOWS

Editor af the Pw lPoto]nac ||u,aarEdl Reriet! andJoundern.ntb.l

of H.M.C.S. lHistorical Mihiaturcs Gatrers Societr d AneriLul
'TlE walt.r Sinonpointnryout dfi.|| (surcUnot??!!!!)in Duk. SeiJt iel s
SalJbtd Si..let. AndJ Ashton, a.k.u. S..ond Chahce Ga,nes.
chatiot era rubs. WalU is k rcspecQdos a .lissectot oJvarsutne
picturedat Nothen Militairea coupleaJtea^ ugo. Ruhburhosn
rules, equallJ skilled with nle s.dlpel ard lhe chainsa||: anrl is \k
that And\ was so keeata set to this tear's Sulutethut he ias sal
kno||n arcutu mtious Enclish \rdtgdD?s rabks - in NarJolk,
outside Kersiteton Town Hall before 8an on April 5th. The .laots
O\fodntirc atu Nottinshatnshirepanicularl! forn hk regttar
apenedat 'a'h on Aptil l2th - nov thats keen! Sarll\.nte/es na
anval risitsta oM sllorcs.
Notlhenl Militaire this tear

Shau Br]-anr oJ Maal M. n znari?s parltuig senice ard Rab Baker.[

lsr Corys nt actian as bngsltzet and u. at tlle Warya'nes Halida\
Cehre d cotple of vd6 aso The ^ro ol er\ alone \tith Pete
Mo,be\ oJ Elite Mntiottr.s, hare bzcank burnlessussociates.at teasl
asJor as nE st1o||cnctit atul ddrenisins are con.enled. L?t s hape
nEir hoinets rcntur. Boesbetkrnun lknanenpts b \tnt the battc
ofcetdsburs - ontNie tl4- hare o right dabActe a, tten hands!
ht fact it vas nture lik Buket & B^art as lauret & Haru)- as Le. &

Phil Baoth.rnon., papuk" praprietor ol Spitu Gatres dnd oryaniter

of dre Beet antl Ptzl..ls \t?ekentl in Bunon on'Trent. Mosr shotl
oryonn.B hare to phrsiLallr tnare tablesdtuund but Philhere.toes it
br ntans aJ tetitalion. Sadtr theloot4 labtes rerc ist outsid. np
f.Lr of \iz\ ol M uneru, but ,"ou.an tetl h| Phits intens.
can.entratian tlrut v. ar. t?lhlgnle nrtl1! kt \ Iake thi orpotutnt\
to tlon tsht tuca"rnend the Beer dnd Prct.ek \eekend - an
invrcstuts blend of bomlgats, nl.pld) gd,n.s dnd tflnliotures
Bart.s \ith a fe$ trdde sntuls j& nt casc vu v sat t pounl or n\a
teIl oret vlkn \u ft botsht dll the beer or.l pret.eh rct can drink A pl.thara of pov,talilies at th? .e.ent Murph\ Maria slof h D.n.
At teJt Stev A,"rcs & Srzt. Etlt-Bon?lt al tlle Pike & Shot Societj. centre
back.be^te.n the n sk?t.e^. Phil Skel. ollp \o.iet,^ oJ Anciena
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They Died for Glory rs a
complete set of miniatures
wargamesrules for the Franco
PrussainWar Easyto learn and
easy to play. They Died For
G/ory accurately reflects the
new weaponry that dominated
this conflict. Intendedprimarily
for 15mm figures,the rules also
make provisions fbr larger and
smaller scales. Players can
build a division, a corpsor entire
armies from the detailed
historical orders of battle
provided with the game.

There are eleven scenarios,

covering a varicty of different
battles fought during the war.
Each scenario is a separate
game and provides all the
information a player will need
Price in the UK: S9.95 Price in the US: $19.95 for setup and play. There are
also guidelines for designing
your own battle scenarios.

They Died For Glory is a

thoroughly enjoyable set of
wargame rules that offers you
many hours of hobby pleasure.
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