By Rob Morgan January’s edition of the British journal The Literary Review contains an interesting review of a new book by Simon Parkin, “A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Secret Game That Won the War” (Sceptre, 309pp at £20). The “birds” are, of course, Wrens, women officers of the Royal Navy, and the “wolves” […]
Month: February 2020
Ancient naval rules added
Another set of rules from past issues of Lone Warrior has been added, this one titled “Classis,” a set of rules for ancient naval encounters, played on a hex-based game board. It’s on the Complete Rule Sets page.
‘Mad Mike’ Hoare, mercenary
By Rob Morgan I honestly thought he’d died years ago, so the appearance of his obituary in The Times the other day surprised me. He was over a hundred years old, which seems a remarkable age to reach for someone who courted death for decades. The ‘Thunderer’ described him as ‘perhaps the best known mercenary […]
Sample article on San Juan Hill added
This month’s sample article from previous issues of Lone Warrior is by LW Editor Rich Barbuto and includes rules, OOBs and a terrain map for recreating the Battle of San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War. It’s on the Sample Articles page.