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Latest updates

  • Nov 2008 - 2 articles on modern warfare added to Dunn Kemp articles page

  • Nov 2008: on the 30 November I am putting on a participation game at Reveille 2008 Show, Bristol. This is based on Donald Featherstone Skirmish Wargaming book and it is to celebrate the new edition of this book.

  • Oct 2008: 'The Fred Jane Naval Wargame (1906) including the Royal Navy Wargaming Rules (1921)' is now available as a book. link

  • Sept 2008: After recieving feedback for 490 sales via ebay, my feedback rating is 100%,
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  • Sept 2008: Added book review for Donald Featherstone's War Games

  • Sept 2008: The first reference to my site on a blog! link

  • Sept 2008: Started work on 'Paddy Griffith's Napoleonic Wargaming for Fun'

  • Sept 2008: 'Donald Featherstone's Skirmish Wargaming' a new edition of this classic book is now available. link

  • Sept 2008: 'Verdy's Free Kriegspiel, including the Victorian Army's War Game Rules' is now available as a book. link

  • July 2008: Donald Featherstone's War Games (1962) is now reprinted as a new edition (2008) Available from this site NOW link
    • or from Amazon.co.uk or from www.waterstones.com .

  • The rules are now being released by Lulu.com. For orders outside the UK, it may prove cheaper than ordering direct, as Lulu has publishing houses around the World. Tacspiel, Dunn Kempf, Staff College Exercises and British Army 1956 rules are now available via Lulu.

  • May 2008: Tacspiel: The American Army's Counter insurgency Wargame is now ready link

  • May 2008: Two centuries of Staff College Exercises now ready link

  • Two more articles added about the British Army 1956 Wargame

  • I have started to add articles about the history of wargaming, see the wargaming articles page

  • Dunn Kempf- the American Army Tactical Wargame is now added link

  • Shambattle (1929) now added. link

  • Lionel Tarr rules for World War II added, written in 1959, they were the first modern wargaming rules

  • December 2007 Professor Philip Sabin (of Wargame Developments) has followed up his very successful Strategos rules for ancient battles with a 130,000 word academic book entitled 'Lost Battles' which updates the system and uses it to shed new light on the many scholarly controversies surrounding these engagements. See this link for further details of this new Wargaming Book by Professor Phil Sabin

  • December 2007 Two articles added for British (1956) wargame

  • December 2007 H.G. Wells (1913) Rules added, including article on Robert Louis Stevenson 1870 Napoleonic Campaign

  • November 2007 Greek and Turkish Ship Cards added for the Fred Jane Naval Wargame Rules

  • November 2007 Two articles added on the war in Afghanistan, look under Wargaming Articles

  • November 2007 Fred Jane Naval Wargame Rules have just been printed. No ship cards available yet

  • October 2007- Article by Fiske on Fleet Tactics (1912) under Fred Jane Naval Wargame Articles

  • October 2007- Fred Jane rules updated to include Fred Jane's (1915) Your Navy as Fighting Machine