by John Lambshead | Mar 14, 2019
Scale Shot Against A 10p Coin of The RealmPre-Dreadnoughts have always fascinated me. They existed in a brief slice of historical time between the iron clads and true battleships when naval architects were still experimenting with how best to mate steam power, steel...
by John Lambshead | Mar 10, 2019
The CastSteven from the Colchester Wargames Club sent me a report of a mini-campaign that they devised using my One Hour Skirmish Wargame Rules.Movie fast action was what these rules were designed to recreate so the Colchester club were using my book exactly as...
by John Lambshead | Mar 4, 2019
DracheIt's the 26th September, 1943. You are looking through the gun-camera of a Bristol Beaufighter at a ship called the Drache - and she's taking a straffing from the Beau's four 20mm cannon and six .303 machine guns.This time, she survived.Drache is a very special...
by John Lambshead | Feb 11, 2019
Sailing The Wine-Dark SeasIn the coastal waters around the Balkans, the Adriatic and the Aegean, a wide variety of local small ex-coastal craft were used by both sides. These were converted civilian ships that island-hopped carrying people, animals and goods. One of...
by John Lambshead | Jan 29, 2019
TA48In a book by Zvonimir Freivogel on the coastal war in the Adriatic, I came across a fascinating story concerning the TA 48 Torpedoboot. There doesn't seem to be a photo of this ship but Freivogel includes this drawing.78 T - Austro-Hungarian78 T was one of the SM...
