Category: Podcasts
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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…
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WSS22 – Painting Challenge Update
Guy and Jasper are both taking part in the analogue painting challenge, while Angus and Mark aren’t they are competing against them in their own WSS side challenge. One week in they boys catchup on how they are doing. >>Download<<
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The Power of Poseidon
‘The first decades of the Hellenistic era are famous for the ever-growing warships of the Ptolemies, but naval warfare wasn’t just about who had the biggest ships.’ We’re discussing Ancient Warfare Magazine XII.4. Taking part in this episode is Jasper Oorthuys, Lindsay, Mark McCaffery, Marc DeSantis and Murray Dahm. >>Download<<
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2509 Operation Longcloth
‘By the end of March, the Japanese had conquered Malaya, the Netherlands East Indies, as well as many of the smaller islands around Papua New Guinea, leaving Allied forces in full retreat in the Philippines, New Guinea and Burma. Morale was rock bottom and the Japanese seemed invincible. By the end of May, the Japanese…