Category: Podcasts
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The SAS in Italy, 1943-45
The SAS made their name in the North African desert, but less well known is after that they continued to fight in the mediterranean theatre. They carried out raiding missions in advance of the invasion of Sicily, Operation Husky, and then operating behind enemy lines during the Italian Campaign. For this episode Angus is joined…
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WSS24 – Participation Games
With Poldercon, which Jasper organises, over for another year we thought we’d discuss participations games, why put them on, what makes a good one and how run one. >Download<< Links: Bolt Action: Campaign: Fortress Budapest Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth The Zone – The Cold War Turns Hot Richard Borg’s Red Alert: Space Fleet Warfare…
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Alarmstart East: The Luftwaffe on the Eastern Front
“There are no more than a handful of Second World War Luftwaffe members alive today. Patrick Eriksson had the foresight to record these experiences first-hand before it was too late. Some witnesses ended up as senior fighter controllers. The recollections and views of the veterans are put within the context of the German aerial war…
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Rome’s Indispensable Auxiliaries
‘Men recruited from every corner of the empire, auxiliaries played an important role in augmenting Rome’s military might. For the soldiers themselves, service meant a path to citizenship and future success.’ In this episode we’re going to be discussing Ancient Warfare Magazine XII.5, ‘Rome’s Indispensable Auxiliaries: Serving up front and on the flanks’. Joining Angus…
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Shot Down
In this episode we’re going to be looking at the story of Howard Snyder, a B-17 ‘Flying Fortress’ pilot, flying with the US 8th air force from Britain. Through letters Howard wrote to his family, and exhaustive research, his son Steve Snyder has pieced together the remarkable story of his father, and what happened after…
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WSS23 – Issue 100
In this episode of the Wargames, Soldiers and Strategy Podcast we discuss the magazine publishing issue 100! Guy heads off to Meeples and Miniatures HQ for a question and answer session with Neil and Mike about producing the magazine. The boys also catch up on the analogue painting challenge, of which Mark is well and…
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Spartan Invincibility
We are once more between issues of the magazine, so running with a random ancient warfare topic, the one that has been pulled out of the hat for this episode is ‘spartan invincibility’. We have a full house for this episode with Jasper Oorthuys, Murray Dahm, Mark McCaffery, Marc DeSantis, Lindsay Powell and Myke Cole.…
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Operation Crossbow
In 1943 allied surveillance picked up the construction of V1 and V2 rocket sites in France. Without quite knowing the extent of the threat allied planners decided to embark upon a pre-emptive campaign to deny the Germans the use of these sites, the code name was Operation Crossbow. It would be an Anglo-American Operation with…
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US Navy vs IJN Fleet Submarine, 1941-42
In this episode Angus is looking at Japanese submarine operations in the Pacific during the early part of the war. While we’re sure you’re all familiar with the Imperial Japanese surface fleets actions during 1941-42, especially if you’ve listened to the discussions with Jeff Cox in episode #14and #63, but there seems to be very…
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2510 The Battle of Marston Moor
On Sunday 22nd of August, 1642, Charles I of England unfurled his standard at Nottingham, it would signal the start of the English Civil war; a struggle which pitted regal power against Parliament. The war had ebbed and flowed for two years with varied success when in April of 1644 a Parliamentarian force laid siege…