Category: Podcasts
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WSS43 – Top of the pops… The Great Wargame Survey Results
With the Great War Games surgery 2020 finishing at the end of August the WSS boys are back to discuss the preliminary results, with a surprising change in the top five of favoured wargame genres. >>Download<< Links Swordpoint Battlegroup Pacific War Mortem et Gloreium A Gunslingers Paradise
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2902 – Battles of Thermopylae, Artemisium and Salamis
The year 2020 represents the 2,500th anniversary of three battles which played a major part in shaping the future of the western Mediterranean world: the battles of Thermopylae, Artemisum, and Salamis. This episode was written by Murray Dahm. Murray is an ancient and medieval military historian from New Zealand, living in Australia. He has written…
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Mechanisation of British Cavalry Units and Tank Doctrine
In episode 107, Angus talked to Ian Mitchell about the Battle of the Peaks and Longstop Hill in North Africa. Ian subsequently emailed him suggesting he talk to Sam Wallace, a post graduate researcher at Leeds University, who is working on some interesting stuff; Sam’s PhD is titled The Allied Sandbox: The Tunisian Campaign and…
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2901 – The ‘Lewis and Clark’ Air Rifle
The American West contains many epic tales and stories, perhaps the most astounding is the story of Lewis and Clark and the Corp of Discovery. Over the course of seventeen months a group of over forty individuals traveled seven thousand miles through hostile native tribes from the middle of America through previously unexplored mountain ranges…
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AW115 – Rams and Ramming
Rams and ramming, is the topic of this Ancient Warfare magazine podcast. The chaps focus on the Actian Victory monument and the Egadi and others found around Sicily. Jasper, Murray, Marc, Lindsay and Mark are joined by Stephen DeCasien. >>Download<<
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Kais: Downed airmen in New Guinea
In 1944, Ira Barnet took off from an airfield in New Guinea. Flying a B-25 Mitchell, from the 48th Tactical Fight Squadron, Ira and the crew were on a regular mission to harry any Japanese shipping they came across. Attacking a barge the Japanese managed to get some luck shots on Ira’s plane. Attempting to…
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WSS42 – News update
As the WSS team had the virtual pub quiz earlier in the month they never caught up on the news. In this episode Guy fills us in on what is new in the wargaming world. >>Download<< Links Frostgrave 2e Oathmark: Battlesworn Napoleonic Camp Followers Ultra Combat Modern Rapidfire Reloaded
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Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay
Bertram Ramsey was the mastermind behind the evacuation of the BEF from France in those crucial weeks at the end of May and the start of June in 1940. It was his planning, determination and leadership which helped evacuate around 338,000 men from Dunkirk. But for this Royal Navy Officer, still officially retired, it was…
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Warfare in Hellenistic Asia Minor
The team are back looking at issue XIV.1 Crucible of Empires: Warfare in Hellenistic Asia Minor. Thanks to all those who sent in questions, watched and commented as we recorded live. After the fall of Alexander the Great, the Successors set to work carving out kingdoms of their own. Asia Minor became an important proving ground for…
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WSS41 – And the answer is…
The team are back and finally have got round to organising the pub quiz! Joined by quizmaster Chris King, with some questions supplied by Sydney Roundwood, the boys divide into two teams… >>Download<<