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May 13

Mission Command: Normandy - Pushing in a German Outpost 2

This post is a session report for Mission Command: Normandy, our WW2 miniatures ruleset. However, it is deliberately incomplete, as I...

Jan 29, 2023

Just Desert

A review of Eighth Army Versus Rommel: Tactics, Training and Operations in North Africa This scholarly book by James Colvin analyses the...

Jan 1, 2023

Bonding on the Western Front: a book review

https://www.helion.co.uk/military-history-books/survivors-of-a-kind-memoirs-of-the-western-front.php?sid=99fee03d3b638d9cbcc04f4ffc1a8a32...

Nov 1, 2022

Further musings on Policy, Strategy, Operations, and Tactics

See earlier blog post. After reading BA Friedman's On Operations, I would slightly modify my musings to remove any hint that 'operations'...

Sep 28, 2022

Kingmaker Developer's Notes - 8, Stuff we left out

This is the eighth post in a series about Alan Paull's re-development of Andrew McNeil's game Kingmaker for Gibsons Games. Posts: Basic...

Aug 16, 2021

Some musings on Policy, Strategy, Operations, and Tactics

TACTICS A definition: The deployment of friendly forces and engagement of a part of the enemy forces by them. Usually, with the purpose...

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