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New Title From Helion & Company

Wednesday, 01 February 2017 11:01

Written by Mike

MIDDLE [email protected] 5: THE IRAN-IRAQ WAR. VOLUME 1, THE BATTLE FOR KHUZESTAN, SEPTEMBER 1980-MAY 1982
The Iran-Iraq War was one of the bloodiest conflicts of the 20th century and accidentally created the current nightmare of Islamic fundamentalist terrorism. There have been many books on the conflict, but this is the first detailed military history using materials from both sides, as well as materials obtained from US intelligence circles and British governmental archives. It provides a unique insight into a war which began through miscalculation and rapidly escalated into the longest conventional conflict in the post-Second World War era. The first volume looks at the background and describes in detail how Saddam Hussein decided to invade, but hamstrung, the Iraqi Army to restrict its greatest success to a narrow strip of territory in Iran’s southern province of Khuzestan. This left the Iraqis unable to either advance or withdraw, and exposed them to ever greater and more successful Iranian counter-strokes which drove them out in May 1982 in the ferocious Battle of Khorramshahr.

“...this book is jam packed with excellent information about the early stages of the Iran-Iraq War and I look forward to seeing future volumes.” Military Modelling

Paperback 297mm x 210mm 80 pages 120 photos, 15 artworks, 5-6 maps & 4-5 diags

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News from QRF and TSS

Wednesday, 01 February 2017 09:14

Written by Mike

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What's New?
Some of you have already noticed the new figures in the 'New Products' section of the website, but for those that haven't, here's a brief summary.
World War 1
French Limber and Caisson Teams each with 6 horses and crews, Compagnies Hors Rang with and without their bicycles for your Cyclist Companies and messengers, plus two packs of Zouaves to add more colour to your battlefields.
We have also added the new Indian Army cavalry and both Maxim and Vickers MMG teams to the British Empire lists.

Ancients
New Hoplites in two poses, but with variants in headgear and arrow skirts give a good mix of figures. We have also started our Armenian range, which is vital as both allies and enemies of Rome. The released figures are aimed more at Armenia as an ally, but more will follow. We have also done one of the essential gimmicks in ancient armies - Arab archers on camels! You will find these under the MA codings.

1st Carlist War
Cristino Command and flank companies are now available to supplement the existing Line figures, so that you can now field both Line and Light Battalions in a variety of poses.

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New from Helion & Company

Tuesday, 31 January 2017 18:21

Written by Mike

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APPROACH TO BATTLE. TRAINING THE INDIAN ARMY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

The Indian Army was the largest volunteer army during the Second World War. Indian Army divisions fought in the Middle East, North Africa and Italy - and went to make up the overwhelming majority of the troops in South East Asia. Over two million personnel served in the Indian Army - and India provided the base for supplies for the Middle Eastern and South East Asian theatres. This monograph is a modern historical interpretation of the Indian Army as a holistic organisation during the Second World War. It will look at training in India - charting how the Indian Army developed a more comprehensive training structure than any other Commonwealth country. This was achieved through both the dissemination of doctrine and the professionalism of a small coterie of Indian Army officers who brought about a military culture within the Indian Army - starting in the 1930s - that came to fruition during the Second World War, which informed the formal learning process. Finally, it will show that the Indian Army was reorganised after experiences of the First World War. During the interwar period, the army developed training and belief for both fighting on the North West Frontier, and as an aid to civil power. With the outbreak of the Second World War, in addition to these roles, the army had to expand and adapt to fighting modern professional armies in the difficult terrains of desert, jungle and mountain warfare. A clear development of doctrine and training can be seen, with many pamphlets being produced by GHQ India that were, in turn, used to formulate training within formations and then used in divisional, brigade and unit training instructions - thus a clear line of process can be seen not only from GHQ India down to brigade and battalion level, but also upwards from battalion and brigade level based on experience in battle that was absorbed into new training instructions. Together with the added impetus for education in the army, by 1945 the Indian Army had become a modern, professional and national army.

Hardback 234mm x 156mm 250 pages 6 maps

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New Goodies From Baccus

Tuesday, 31 January 2017 16:09

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As we approach the second month of 2017 it's time to think about some new releases from Baccus that will soon be heading your way.

As might be obvious from the picture above, the first item on the list is the new set of Polemos rules. Titled 'Ruse de Guerre' and written by Glenn Pearce, these will cover wars in the Americas encompassing the French Indian War, American War of Independence and the War of 1812. As all three of these are subjects which generate lots of emails to me asking which rules to use, I think that these will be very popular indeed.

I've uploaded a few preview pages so that you can get the feel of the rules.

Just click here to download.

The release of these rules will add a few new items to the Baccus ranges. Firstly, the existing AWI army packs will be withdrawn and replaced by ones tailored to the rules and scenarios. Secondly we'll be introducing some new army packs for the FIW