The Soviet Naval forces fought on land in many of the large scale Soviet actions, such as at Leningrad and Sevastopol. The Brigada Morskoi Pekhoty was formed from the grizzled veterans fighting against the Germans earlier in the war. Armed with rifles, LMGs and submachine guns, they were tasked to defend naval bases and pressed…
The auxiliary of the Roman army came about in the earlier days of the Republic. Rome’s enemies made heavy use of foreign fighters. Many of Rome’s enemies, including Hannibal of Carthage utilised the talents of many different peoples, such as his Gallic and Spanish heavy cavalry. Influenced by this, Rome adopted the idea, using foreign…
Our very own David ‘Cheryl’ Matthews has launched his own gaming group, meeting in Matlock, Derbyshire – and the first meeting has been set for 1st March. There will be a wide variety of game systems being played on the day – with a mixture of participation and demo games, as well as more competitive…
We’re always hunting online for interesting and exciting projects in the community – and as part of this, TabletopBattle leapt out at us… TabletopBattle are a group of gamers who are working together with NAWD (North Australian Wargames Designers) to create a Timeline of WWII (from the invasion of Poland through to the final attack on…
As part of our continuous range revision, we’ve revisited the Soviet Naval Brigade and have taken the opportunity to add reinforcements to provide a 10-man squad – and they’ve even got a shiny new box! View in Store The Naval Infantry Brigades fought hard in most of the epic Soviet battles of WWII. Formed from…
The release of ‘Ostfront’ brings about a focus shift – over the coming months, we’ll be unveiling reinforcements for the German, Soviet, and other nations involved in the Eastern Front conflict. Infantry, support, and of course – tanks – are all incoming, but to start things off, we have a little something different! View in Store…
We’ve had another huge delivery of laser-cut wooden scenery from the chaps at Sarissa Precision – this week, we’ve received some pieces ideal for your Hail Caesar games (however, you could quite easily use them for our other systems without much trouble!). Note that the miniatures are shown for scale only and aren’t included. Norman…
Continuing our release of the recently acquired Pro Gloria range of Landsknecht miniatures, this week we’re proud to unveil the ‘Landsknecht Casualties’ set! This Blister contains 8 metal miniatures – and is a must for anyone intetrested in wargaming the Italian Wars (or maybe for Imperial troops in a certain fantasy wargame!). View in Store…
The moment has arrived – and we’d like to announce the two lucky winners of our January Prize-draws! In January, we launched a monthly prize-draw. Each month we’ll pick one lucky Newsletter subscriber to win a £50 Gift Voucher for use on the Warlord webstore! The voucher can be used on any products on our…
The Soviets preferred method of winning a war was numbers, and lots of them. Large numbers of soldiers were trained, and Russian factories turned out incredible numbers of guns, tanks and vehicles to be thrown at the German battle lines. Here are a selection of Russia’s most well-known and key anti-tank weapons from the war:…
Rich Dando