Chalons: The Fate of Europe
Throughout the mid-5th century AD Attila's Huns terrorized Europe. The skill of the Hun horsemen particularly their accuracy with the composite bow while mounted made them a veritable shock army. They continued to bring victory after victory to Attila making him the master of Central Europe. After years of conquest oppression and extortion however Attila's recent invasion of Western Europe ...
Leipzig
Napoleon was by 1813 the victim of his own success. His Grande Arme had ransacked most of Europe but then the Prussians Austrians Russians Swedes and others converged their armies collectively known as the Sixth Coalition around Leipzig in an attempt to annihilate Napoleon once and for all. The coalition commanders knew they had to approach cautiously. Napoleon had previously ...
Golan
At the start of the 1973 Arab-Israeli War the Israelis could only spare two brigades to defend the strategic Golan Heights. On 6 October the Syrians attacked with five divisions three of them mechanized supported by mortars artillery mobile SAMs and a heliborne commando brigade. The Israelis were therefore badly outnumbered but were quickly reinforced by reservists (much sooner than ...
Struggle for the Galactic Empire
In the far future Earth is a distant myth. When mankind gained the means to transit the vastness of space safely and quickly a great human wave extended across the galaxy and humans soon inhabited thousands of worlds. Communities of worlds formed alliances; alliances became federations and eventually a galactic empire was born. That empire existed for millennia growing and ...
Arnhem: The Farthest Bridge
In September 1944 Operation Market Garden was intended to open a direct path for the Allied armies to circumvent the West Wall and threaten Germany's industrial Ruhr heartland. British American and Polish airborne forces were ordered to assault and capture key bridges along the main highway leading through Holland the Arnhem bridge being the most distant of them all. Unfortunately ...
