Mail call! Battle for Kirovograd by Banzai magazine and Forgotten Front Italy 1944-45, complete with Partisans and Brigate Nere #wargame @thestudyofwar.bsky.social @playersaidblog.bsky.social

7 Cunning Byzantine Tactics to Defeat a Medieval Army www.medievalists.net/2024/06/7-cu... #ByzantineWarfare

Cover for World at War 109 Burma 1945 due out in July 2026 #wargame

Craig Moore’s new book. www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/the-panzer-a...

Despite US military operations in the Caribbean and the arrest of former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, the drug trafficking networks operating in the country remain largely intact. Read our analysis to learn more:  https://bit.ly/49TNw6N

Small homage to “La Nueve” (The Ninth) in the Royal Palace Gsrdens in Madrid featuring a replica of the M3 “Guadalajara”, of the leading Free French combat group, first ti enter Paris on 25th August 1944

Reglas traducidas WaW 106 France Overseas. Descarga: t.ly/-1AuA @desafioaguilas.bsky.social @ardwulf.bsky.social @agapablo.bsky.social @palafoxz.bsky.social @playersaidblog.bsky.social @snafustore.bsky.social #Wargame #DecisionGames

Please leave a review and comment for my Littoral Commander Indo-Pacific #wargame. I would really appreciate it. 😁 🎲 💥 #wargaming Link boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/35...

27 May 1915 // Battleship HMS Majestic, supporting military operations at Cape Helles, Dardanelles, was hit amidships (despite her anti-torpedo nets and escorts) by a single torpedo fired by U-boat U.21. She capsized and sank with 49 dead. (Imperial War Museum Q 21479) #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory

May 24, 1926: Abd el-Krim, the leader of Morocco’s Rifian insurgents who has been battling Spain for five years and France for a year, makes an offer to the French to cease hostilities with a view to negotiating his surrender. France will counter that he must unconditionally give up.

#otd 1941 - the battle of Denmark Strait and the sinking of HMS Hood. Footage shot from Prinz Eugen showing Bismarck firing during the engagement. #history #ww2 #navalhistory

Morning #Wargaming Fight Club session trying out BattleGroup Clash Baltics at CGSC. @jsbuckley.bsky.social @fight-club-intl.bsky.social

Striking while the iron is hot - I have a MILITARY MEDICINE article to share! academic.oup.com/milmed/advan.... This is a good medical-related version of this article: warontherocks.com/conflict-cas...

"At the Dalian Shipyard in northern China, construction is underway on China’s fourth aircraft carrier. Speculation about the vessel, known as the Type 004, is widespread, but many details pertaining to its size, propulsion, and capabilities remain unclear." features.csis.org/hiddenreach/...

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS AND #WARGAMES. The US Army War College is hosting the first "Wargaming Professional Military Education Symposium" -- 11-13 August in Carlisle, PA. Join us and be part of the campaign to foster PME #wargaming across the force. 🔗 lnkd.in/eeS_eBNn

Here's the first peek at the board for The Pure Land: Onin War in Muromachi Japan, 1465-1477 from @gmtgames.bsky.social. This looks absolutely terrific, and just like that - there's suddenly a new COIN game for my consideration. Thanks a lot, @zweigefuhle.bsky.social. 😉

Home for lunch and this was dropped on my doorstep! The Far Seas from @vucasimulations.bsky.social

And if you want to read something else while waiting for this, well, you're covered. crusaderproject.wordpress.com/2025/09/14/n...

So this is actually happening. @rgpoulussen.bsky.social @garius.bsky.social @cedricmas.bsky.social @ww2tv.bsky.social @ima-naval-history.bsky.social @airminded.org @smoorebofb1940.bsky.social @airpowerhistory.bsky.social @rafhistory.bsky.social @jamiemctrusty.bsky.social @karljames1945.bsky.social

Seeing this happen must have been sobering. (1945. Operation Plunder/Varsity. #WW2 #HISTORY)

"Only 10 copies left!" Kerching!

I'm not saying it is time to bring back rams on naval vessels, but it is definitely time to bring back rams on naval vessels. Make Lissa Great Again. @dreadships.bsky.social

Nobody said an amphibious assault 8,000 miles away would be easy... Forthcoming later this year from Sapper Studio and @leebwood.bsky.social

#OTD in 1945. The war is not over, yet. (A German type XXI submarine, U-2502, coming under cannon fire from a De Havilland Mosquito FB Mark VI during an attack.) #WW2 #HISTORY

One of my sponsors recently told me that he googled, "Who is the best professional wargamer?" And told me to do it. This is exactly why AI cannot be trusted. 😂 #wargaming

«Ahora me he convertido en la Muerte, el destructor de mundos». Ochenta años después de Oppenheimer, ochenta años después de que la primera explosión atómica alumbrara una nueva era, el mundo se asoma de nuevo al abismo nuclear.

Collins class submarine cutaway and article -> www.hisutton.com/Collins-Clas...

Our interview with Javier Romero designer of Partizan! The War in Yugoslavia, 1941-1944 (Walter’s War) from Kilovolt Studio. theplayersaid.com/2026/05/04/i...

A documentary of this B-17 crew was made by Major William Wyler in 1943. His daughter Catherine Wyler co-produced a fictionalised version, Memphis Belle, in 1990. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1945. Venice (Italy) is liberated. Sherman tanks in the Piazzale Roma. #WW2 #HISTORY

¡Buenos días! Nuestras novedades de mayo llegan a partir de hoy a kioscos y librerías, pero ojo, que este mes vienen en dos tandas 👇👇👇

This is me whenever I look back at one of my #wargame designs. I see so many elements I could have done better, expanded upon, or just removed. The struggle is real. #wargaming

Monday morning re-up: It even surprised Belousov when he was picked to be Russia's next defence minister. Why was he picked, and how's he doing? And what does it mean to be a "real Bolshevik" these days?

Reglas traducidas ST 358 Pensacola: Luisiana y las Floridas, 1779-81 #Decisiongames Descarga t.ly/lpxMN @desafioaguilas.bsky.social @ardwulf.bsky.social @agapablo.bsky.social @palafoxz.bsky.social @snafustore.bsky.social #wargame

Set-up inicial (No histórico) y posiciones finales en Santander 37' de @snafustore.bsky.social @javier-romero.bsky.social El ejército popular tiene todo para perder, pero los eventos de clima, ofensivas fuera del escenario y la voladura de la fábrica de Reinosa, le da la victoria. Joyita de juego

Más recomendaciones para el #DíadelLibro ‘La última batalla’, de Stephen Harding Edita @despertaferroed.bsky.social Traduce @javier-romero.bsky.social eldesafiodelasaguilas.wordpress.com/2025/07/03/l...

DOJ arrested one of the commandos involved in the Maduro raid for insider trading on a predictions market on it. abcnews.com/US/doj-arres...

Monday morning re-up: While western media often runs overhyped tales of proxy and coming "war with Russia", there's an even more toxic brand of Russian militarist fantasy that craves confrontation. I deconstruct an example of each, and discuss how they feed off each other

Baltic Wargaming Convention in Helsinki, Finland. #balticwargamingconvention. www.flintlockgames.com/baltic-warga...

Playing Polar Storm (2024) #wargame on Autumn 1944 Soviet operation against Germans in what is now border region between Norway and Russia (used to be part of Finland). Game is from Swedish 3CG and we are playing at VASSAL. Screenshot is from turn 3. So far working well.

A Ukrainian Yak-52 light aircraft crew is fighting Russian Shaheds.

Three Spitfire Mark VBs flying in close starboard echelon formation off the Tunisian coast. In the foreground is the personal aircraft of the Wing Commander I.R. "Widge" Gleed, which he flew when he was shot down and killed over Cap Bon #OTD in 1943. #WW2 #HISTORY

The Pope dealing with critics of his interpretation of theology.

July 27 scenario. The XIII International Brigade tries to break the Fascist line and occupy Gandesa. Without support, not an easy task. GTS Ebro 1938, the Spanish Civil War, with some adaptations: prefixed orders, no radios.

Playing #wargame Battle of Finland 1944 (2025), designed by @javier-romero.bsky.social and published in World at War magazine #103.

It is one of the overlooked facts of the Middle East and East Africa campaigns that some very much obsolete aircraft such as the Wellesley operated well into 1941, still doing bombing runs in November of that year. IWM (CM 658)@curatorian.bsky.social Details in ALT. @airpowerhistory.bsky.social

2 Apr 1804 // Transport HMS Hindostan (a former East Indiaman) caught fire in the Gulf of Lion and was run aground, well ablaze, in Rosas Bay on the Catalan coast. An orderly evacuation followed. 256 of the 259 on board survived. (Image: Wikimedia Commons) #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

Moving on from the German intelligence assessments, another resource that is likely unique, are the full translations of the war diary of the German Africa Corps, the Deutsches-Afrika-Korps, at this time complete to late April 1941. @kstatehistory.bsky.social @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social

A 12th-century “Warder” from the Lewis Chessmen—the medieval equivalent of a rook. Discovered in 1831 on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland but likely carved in Norway around 1150–1200, these pieces reveal the artistry and reach of the Norse world.

History without historians is doomed to fail. With an interdisciplinary team of scholars we show how the purported link between late Roman conflicts and drought has been misunderstood. We also outline a path forward in the use of sources in paleoclimatic research. link.springer.com/article/10.1...