Over the weekend, I played in my second Crisis Point game (Crisis Point IV), organised by Richard Crawley. This year, I played the Russians (I’d…
Military history and RPG books
Month: March 2015
The ZSU-23-4 entered service in 1966, as a replacement for the much less effective ZSU-57-2. The ZSU-57-2 mounted a pair of 57mm autocannons in an…
The Nahuel (“Tiger” in Mapuche, an aboriginal langauge) was an Argentinian World War II medium tank, designed in 1943. Although the design was indigenous, it…
A turretless prototype was ready by the end of 1943, and tests were carried out with a mock turret. The extreme weight meant that Maus…
Today is Commonwealth Day. It seems like an appropriate day to remember that Britain didn’t stand alone in 1940. The Commonwealth, and a few other…
Today is International Women’s Day. I’ve decided to mark it by re-posting one of my earlier blog posts, about “the unexpected colour of military badassery“,…