HISTORICAL ARTICLES

In issue 2 of Battlegames, Barry Hilton wrote eloquently about his passion for WW2 gaming. At the same Partizan, in May 2006, where the Editor was shunting hundreds of Old School figures around the field of Sittangbad, Barry staged an Eastern Front game of his own devising and here you can see a few photos of his remarkable workmanship. Click on the image numbers below.
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Dan Mersey's "Beowulf: skirmish at Heorot" from issue 4 can now be downloaded as a PDF. See "Other articles".

Adrian Hussey has given us lots of additional information to go with his article in issue 6, "I'll put a hex on you". Select this link for details.

In issue 16, we featured the magnificent Long Island American War of Independence game organised by Eclaireur using his well-known British Grenadier! rules; he also penned the article, a very busy man!
    Your Editor was present at the game, snapping away merrily, and now you can see a host of photos of this epic encounter right here, arranged in chronological order, together with an enlarged version of the map (2.9Mb PDF). You may notice that there appears to be a discrepancy between the map and the photos, but I should point out that what appears, for all the world, to be a stream bisecting the centre of the table in the photos is actually the Flatbush Road. As is often the case, the lack of precisely the correct hex terrain was not going to prevent the players getting on with the game! Please note that some of the photos needed a long exposure in the low light conditions and therefore moving body parts are sometimes blurred. The dates given beneath the enlarged format images use the American style of mm/dd/yyyy. All images © Henry Hyde 2009.

Issue 17 features the magnificent Battle of Waterloo game that was staged alongside the Long Island game shown in the previous issue. Once again, you can click here for a huge gallery of photos taken at the event, so get a cup of coffee and enjoy the view! Just in case you're not familiar with the ground fought over historically, you can find a great deal of reference online, and here's a link to the Google image search results for "Battle of Waterloo map".
    In addition, we have a PDF of additional material to accompany Daniel Johnson's "Arsuf 1191" piece, including the Lancaster Wargamers' own army lists and some maps of the theatre of operations created by Daniel himself.