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THIS ISSUE: Real and imagined wargaming of present-day conflicts
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ISSUE 83
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APR / MAY 2016
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PRESENT
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MODERN WARFARE ON THE TABLETOP
Theme
Specials
• The Second Chechen War
• Practice at war in 19th
& The Battle for Hill 776
• Bac Ky: battles in a
modern imagi-nation
• Swedes, Soviets and
submarines
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century England
• A committee game with
Macro and Cato
• Let’s play Team Yankee
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THEME: Modern warfare
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CONTROLLING THE BATTLESPACE
Ultra-modern warfare
36 OPERATION RED WINGS
The Battle of Abbas Ghar
Publisher: Rolof van Hövell tot Westerflier
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Editor: Guy Bowers
Copy editor: Duncan B. Campbell
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Maps: Rocío Espin
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40 GROZOVYE VOROTA
The Storm Gate - Battle for Hill 776
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BAC KY - BIRTH OF A NATION
Building a modern imagi-nation
WHISKEY ON THE ROCKS
Soviet submarine stranded in Sweden
52 SHADOW WARS
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Building an ultra modern army
56 CHECKPOINT AMBUSH
Painting a firefight
FEATURES
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THE IMJIN WAR
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THE FIGHT FOR THE THIRD FORD
A Macro and Cato committee game
A bitesize battle from 16th century Korea
22 THE FROSTGRAVE AUCTION
Shall we start the bidding?
24
THE BATTLE OF PORTSEA ISLAND
Refighting mock battles of the 19th century
28
BUILDING STOCKHOLM 1392
How a game was planned and built for Salute
30 SO WIRD MAN FALLSCHIRMJÄGER
Planning and collecting an army
DEPARTMENTS
6
MINIATURE REVIEWS
12
THIS GAMING LIFE
Any questions?
Our usual roundup of new releases
60 THE IRREGULAR
A bridge too far
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LET'S PLAY TEAM YANKEE
Battlefront's take on modern warfare
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GAME REVIEWS
Et sans résultat, Iron Cross and more
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UP FRONT
Could less be more?
80 BOOK REVIEWS
More books reviewed by the WS&S team
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PARTING SHOTS
Hints, tips and laughs for the wargamer
ISSN: 2211-503X
Printed in the European Union
HOBBY
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WARGAMES, SOLDIERS & STRATEGY 83
IBERIAN KNIGHTS
Painting a Spanish caballero
66 MAKE MDF LOOK REAL
Building an MDF farm outbuilding
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Editorial
War does not determine who is right – only who is left.
— Bertrand Russell
Wargamers are a curious bunch. We’ll happily game ancients, where
our Romans chop their bloody way through their enemies, or roll dice
for our grapeshot against charging infantry at Gettysburg. But when it
comes to moderns, it’s suddenly too soon or too difficult to game. Warfare has always been bloody, and wargames are, after all, just games.
That said, there are some things I won’t game. I’ve had a 15mm modern
Israeli army for over a decade, which I’ve found myself unable to paint. Likewise Daesh
and the Syrian conflict. I’ve learnt much about these barbaric conflicts and find myself
with no stomach to game them, much like the feeling I have with the Schutzstaffel.
Our popular culture of movies, TV, and computer games is full of action, adventure, and death. People seem to accept this completely without question, as they
can recognize it all as being a story, and not reality. The recent rise in Cold War
gaming allows us to game “What If?” battles where no one was really hurt. When I
wrote the Osprey Black Ops rules, that’s exactly the approach I had in mind. Factions were kept generic, as were the scenarios.
I personally believe that ultra-modern gaming is probably best kept in this
realm of fiction. But whatever you do, be it modern imagi-nations or scenarios,
have fun. Imagination is the only limit.
Our next issue focuses on the ‘Storming’ Normans of Normandy, the Crusades, and Sicily.
Guy Bowers
editor@wssmagazine.com
Back to Bac Ky
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website
Now on the
An extra scenario and more background for fighting in
our Southeast Asian imagi-nation.
(http://www.wssmagazine.com/wss83_extra)
In the next issu
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&
The Normans on campaign
In this issue, we take a look at the campaigns of the
Normans and the various wars they waged all across
Europe... EXCEPT their famous victory in 1066.
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