View in Store For two thousand years; from 3000 BC to 1000 BC, warriors fought battles with weapons of bronze. This gleaming red-gold metal is an alloy of copper and tin. The warrior nobles rode into battle in chariots and were clad in bronze armour. Their followers gripped bronze thrusting spears, battle-axes and slashing swords….
Keep the skies clear with the Afrika Korps 2cm Flak 38. View in Store Designed to engage enemy aircraft, many automatic cannons saw ample use against other type of targets. Their high-velocity shots were lethal against enemy lightly armoured or soft-skinned vehicles, not to mention against infantry. The standard light anti-aircraft weapon of the German…
Punch through enemy armour with the new Pak 36 light anti-tank gun field by the Afrika Korps. View in Store The standard issue German anti-tank gun in 1939, it equipped the Panzerjäger battalions (Pak is short for Panzerabwehrkanone – anti-tank gun, and 36 indicates the year the weapon was designed). It was arguably the best…
Keep putting on the suppressive fire with the Afrika Korps LeFH 18 10.cm medium artillery. View in Store Based on an original American idea, recoilless guns vented propellant gases through nozzles (venture) at the rear of the barrel instead of damping recoil using a gun carriage’s recoil mechanism. As a gun’s recoil mechanism was always…
Smash the enemy aside with the new Plastic A12 Matilda II infantry tank! View in Store Battle For France The battle for France saw Matilda IIs fighting what would become a general retreat. However, Matildas caused problems for the Germans, whose 37mm and 50mm anti-tank guns were simply too small in calibre to penetrate the…
Form your own Centre Company and Light Company with these new Napoleonic British Centre Company + Light Company Heads in Uncovered Shakos. Napoleonic British Centre Company heads in uncovered Shakos View in Store Composed of the battalion’s rank and file, the centre companies form the bulk of the battleline. The majority of the figures in…
Keep up the anti-tank fire with the new 8th Army 2 Pounder! View in Store At the outbreak of war, the QF 2-pdr (QF stands for ‘quick firing’) was the standard anti-tank gun of the British Army. It was an adequate weapon for the time, being slightly more effective in terms of armour penetration then…
Wargames Illustrated WI377 March Edition is out in stores now and comes with a FREE plastic sprue of either Napoleonic French Chasseurs, Lancers or Hussars for the award-winning Black Powder game from Warlord Games – Order yours today! Discover Issue 377 Contents: Observation Post Theme: The Irish Army’s Forgotten Battle Cover Mount Focus: Eyes and…
US Scientists have managed to find a way to create a field variant of the Tesla Cannon, use it to destroy the horrors of the Axis forces! View in Store The Tesla cannon being deployed on a Sherman chassis, research continued into miniaturising and enhancing he clearly potent technology –in particular the size of the…
Sound the air raid sirens! Three new flights of aircraft are taking off over Cruel Seas! Ju 87D Stuka flight View in Store The Junkers Ju 87 or Stuka (Sturzkampfflugzeug meaning “dive bomber” in translation), was a dive bomber for the Luftwaffe. This is also the infamous aircraft that was equipped with its wailing sirens,…