A Book of Sandhurst Wargames

Griffith, Paddy

Arrow (A Division of Random House Group)

The Ultimate Weaponry - What it is and How it Will be Used - Now and in the Future

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Sidgwick

Battle Tactics of the Civil War

Analyzes the events, weapons, and strategies of the Civil War and argues that the introduction of modern weaponry did not have significant effect on the outcome or the conduct of the war

History

Americas

Yale University Press

Historians have portrayed British participation in World War I as a series of tragic debacles, with lines of men mown down by machine guns, with untried new military technology, and incompetent generals who threw their troops into improvised and unsuccessful attacks. In this book a renowned military historian studies the evolution of British infantry tactics during the war and challenges this interpretation, showing that while the British army's plans and technologies failed persistently during the improvised first half of the war, the army gradually improved its technique, technology, and, eventually, its' self-assurance. By the time of its successful sustained offensive in the fall of 1918, says Paddy Griffith, the British army was demonstrating a battlefield skill and mobility that would rarely be surpassed even during World War II. Evaluating the great gap that exists between theory and practice, between textbook and bullet-swept mudfield, Griffith argues that many battles were carefully planned to exploit advanced tactics and to avoid casualties, but that breakthrough was simply impossible under the conditions of the time. According to Griffith, the British were already masters of "storm troop tactics" by the end of 1916, and in several important respects were further ahead than the Germans would be even in 1918. In fields such as the timing and orchestration of all-arms assaults, predicted artillery fire, "Commando-style" trench raiding, the use of light machine guns, or the barrage fire of heavy machine guns, the British led the world. Although British generals were not military geniuses, says Griffith, they should at least be credited for effectively inventing much of the twentieth-century's art of war.

Battle Tactics of the Western Front: The British Army`s Art of Attack, 1916-18

Military

Describes the various non-nuclear weapons systems of modern warfare, and discusses strengths, weaknesses, and tactics

The Ultimate Weaponry

PIMLOTT, John

st.martins press

METHUEN

Describes the various non-nuclear weapons systems of modern warfare, and discusses strengths, weaknesses, and tactics

The ultimate weaponry

Longmeadow Press

An excellent and scholarly survey of the principles of simulated warfare, with four boardgames, including a simple game of medieval warfare during the Hundred Years War, a grand Napoleonic campaign game, a cat and mouse wargame of WWII espionage and airpower during the last days of the battleship Tirpitz, and a thoughtful examination of the psychology of battle in the form of a WWII Pacific Theater role-playing game of personal man-to-man combat.

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

Coward, McCann and Geoghegan

In the early days of ‘modern’ wargaming, Napoleonic games were tremendously popular. They allowed the new, not necessarily young, wargamer to fight the glorious actions they had heard about in their school history lessons. Often starting with the Battle of Waterloo as their first action, the general would deploy his hastily painted soldiers from Airfix’s Napoleonic range. Airfix offered British and French infantry, as well as cavalry and guns for both sides. Napoleonic tactics were simple in principle, but were hard to master in practice; for example infantry in a line maximized its firepower, but was vulnerable to cavalry. Changing to a square kept the infantry safe from the cavalry, but made them vulnerable to artillery and reduced their musketry to ¼ of the unit’s strength. The games, just like the battles of history, were all about combining the efforts of the infantry, cavalry and artillery using ‘combined arms tactics’ to sweep the enemy away. The key problem with these games was the ‘helicopter overview’ of the action the players had of their largely divisional sized games. While representing the battles of the Napoleonic Wars in some ways, they did not recreate experience of the commanders of the time. Paddy Griffith’s excellent book aimed to fill the gap and offer no less than seven different sets of rules to simulate the experience of command at different levels. Just as the early wargamers took the Airfix Napoleonic’s and converted them for use in a wide range of periods, the ideas offered by Paddy in these rules have equal potential to transform any wargamer’s tabletop experience. I am very pleased for the opportunity to reprint this classic work. This book contains no less than seven sets of Skirmish level, Divisional game, Brigade game, Army level game, Generalship game, Map Kriegsspiel and Tactic Exercises Without Troops This revised edition A new comprehensive bibliography for the Napoleonic Wars and a new foreword by Arthur Harman.

Napoleonic wargaming for fun

Ward, Lock

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