Category: Podcasts
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WSS48 – The Magazine
In this episode of the Wargames, Soldier and Strategy podcast the chaps chat about about the magazine, answering some of those questions you might have wondered whilst flicking though it’s pages. Plus, Guy brings us all the latest gossip from the newsroom of Bowers Towers. >Download<< Links Analogue Hobbies Winter Painting Challenge ‘O Group’ from the…
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3001 – The Vicksburg Campaign
By the winter of 1862, the American Civil War was going poorly for the Union. Begun in 1861 with the secession of eleven Confederate states from the United States, Confederate forces had more than held their own in the field against Union Armies. In the Eastern Theater, the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia under General…
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The Defeat of Army Group South, 1944
At the start of 1944 the German army on the Eastern Front was reeling after suffering defeats at Stalingrad and Kursk. Hitler was keen to hold on to the territory occupied by the Germans, but all the while the Wehrmacht was forced to give up ground to the Red Army. In this episode we’re going…
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AW137 – The Greco-Persian Wars
In the late sixth-century BC, it became clear that the expanding Persian Empire and the Greek city states in Asia and the Aegean would soon come into conflict… The Ancient Warfare Magazine team discuss the latest issue of the magazine XIV.4, The Greco-Persian Wars. For those who are not already patrons of the podcast, we’ve…
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Spaniards in the British Army
In previous episodes we’ve touched upon the Spanish civil war, when the war came to an end there was a large number of displaced Spanish living in France and to a less extent other Europe countries. With the second world war looming, the French began to recruit these displaced men into their armed forces. When…
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WSS47 – 7TV, academia and narrative gaming
In this episode of the Wargames, Soldiers and Strategy magazine podcast, Guy and Angus talk to Karl Perrotton from cooked dice, Dr Peter Wright and Eddy Price about the development process of Crooked Dice’s 7TV fantasy rules, a collaboration with Edge Hill University. Guy also brings us what is new in wargameing. >>Download<< Links Salute…
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2910 – After Cannae: Dark Days for the Roman Republic
At the Battle of Cannae, 2 August, 216 B.C., Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca administered one of Rome’s most crushing military defeats. Depending upon the ancient source, Roman losses on the Apulian battlefield numbered anywhere from roughly 50,000, as Livy relates, to around 70,000, as Polybius insists. Hannibal had enacted a double envelopment of the Roman…
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The Original Jeeps
During the interwar years the US army had worked to develop a light weapons carrier, but by 1940 the ‘perfect’ vehicle had not been found. The war in Europe focused minds in the American army and in June it compiled a list of requirements for a revolutionary new truck to replace the mule as the…
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AW133 – Coups, successes and failures
In this episode the Ancient Warfare team are between issues of the magazine so Mark suggested they discuss coups in the ancient world. For those who are not already patrons of the podcast, we’ve updated the tiers. We’ve added subscription to the magazine. You can find out more at patreon.com/ancientwarfarepodcast. >>Download<<
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2909 – Army exercises in the English countryside, 1853-1914
The last pitched battles on English soil were Sedgemoor in 1685 and Preston in 1715. But after that the army still needed to train and practice. The first land on Salisbury Plain was not bought for army training until 1897 and Catterick Camp was opened after the outbreak of WW1. So from 1853 when there…