In 2004 the players known as Danny, Ekrommen, and Shiloh1 played the Bull Run scenario at TowerGames.com. Danny took command of the Confederates while Ekrommen and Shiloh1 took command of the Union forces. This post contains two accounts of the battle from the opposing commander in chiefs.
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Hitler pussied out at Arras in April 1940 when he had won it all.
In 1940 as the German army raced across the fields of France, overrunning allied positions, ripping through supply lines and straining to reach the coast, the head of the German Army, Mr. Hitler, was in Berlin sweating. Guderian’s panzers were off the leash and he might lose them all. Or so his fear-wracked body thought.
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A tactical analysis of which formation is better, and in what circumstances
By Mark Coomber.
It is the question that military commanders and historians have argued over for decades; the line has firepower, the column has brute force. The column favoured by Napoleon, against the line used by the Duke of Wellington. Yet the conclusion decided by the result of The Battle of Waterloo (1815) could be questioned by other confrontations like Jena (1806) and Austerlitz (1805).
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Tactical Analysis of the Battle of Thermopylae
By George Bisset
The Battle of Thermopylae can be viewed as a noble legend ending with the sacrifice of Leonidas and 3,000 of his men, many more than the 300 Spartan “Equals” of the Hippeis. It’s possible Leonidas thought of the battle as a Roman act of “devotio”, a willing human sacrifice in battle to gain the favor of the gods.
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Every now and again the idiocy of General Burnside is debated here and there. Was he good, or a complete buffoon?
Was he misunderstood or do most people accurately assess him as having the leadership skills of a hamster?
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Jackson’s Valley Campaign, 26th February to 17th June, 1862
The Valley Campaign was one of the smaller actions of the American Civil War where the numbers of troops were small and the battles were not big. It was also characterised by long marches of Jackson’s “Foot Cavalry”.
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Travelling through and around the small Belgium town it’s hard to picture the fighting as it occurred in the winter of 1944.
It is a very pleasant town, surrounded by rolling hills covered in green and cows.
Read more →This is the start of “Sword and Rifle”, the official online magazine for Tower Games.
Here we are going to have historical articles, reviews of books, games and even Tower Games battles, commentary, and scenarios to do with just about any wargame you can think of.
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