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Great idea. I'm going to borrow it too.

And Mars was, of course, technically the god of battle and fighting: I'm more into Athene i.e. military strategy!

Glad you're happy, and good luck with the gaming: you will indeed find that using historical tactics is the way to succeed in IABSM.
I look forward to reading the AAR!
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Anthony Beevor's Arnhem is a very good overview introduction.

Hi Either of those suggestions would work well for cause-crazed or drug-crazed troops: just make sure that you maintain your consistency and avoid cheese. For example, for the combat drugs, you might want that ability to only activate on the turn of a particular card (commissar-like Medics boosting ...

Hi Glad you're going to try them out. Good that you've got a clear backstory for the army: really helps with the build. Looking forward to posting the battle reports on the Vis Lardica website: we could do with some more Q13 reports on there. 1. I usually have 2-3 specialists, dependent on the backs...

Hiya The cutting is about in the centre of the map and cuts through the long low hill that runs left-to-right. So you have the disused railway line running along the top of the embankment left-to-right, and the road and the actual railway line running through the embankment top-to-bottom. The embank...

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Great scenario pack: some really good games there. France 1940: #_5__ scenarios Tunisia 1943: #_2__ scenarios Italy: #_3__ scenarios Northern Europe: #__6_ scenarios Plus the Albert Bridgehead mini campaign There are 15 different AAR for the booklet on the Vis Lardica website: https://www.vislardica...

Not sure what you mean?

You can't go wrong with John Warry's "Warfare in the Classical World".

Great general introduction to the period, plenty of pictures.