A new sample article from the pages of Lone Warrior is available! George Arnold traces the evolution of his naval wargames in “Games at Sea: In Search of a Perfect Balance”. Starting from his acquisition in the 70’s of Battleline’s Trireme and Avalon Hill’s Jutland, he details his modifications to the former and how he moved to […]
Naval gaming
The New Kamikazes
by Rob Morgan For some time now, I’ve been working on a late Pacific War piece for Lone Warrior, but it’s still far from finished. The title will be ‘Jinrai Butai’, which if your Japanese is as poor as mine, means ‘Divine Thunderbolt Corps’ in translation. Look out for it when I eventually get the […]
Short Obit for Wargamers at Sea
by Rob Morgan Captain Richard Sharpe has died. No, not the Sharpe of the books, obviously, but the retired naval officer who edited the one annual volume that no naval enthusiast, no wargamer, no model-maker or historian can do without, Jane’s Fighting Ships. Sharpe succeeded the perhaps better remembered, and certainly more widely published Captain […]
The ‘Seekriegspiel’
by Rob Morgan From time to time, the nineteenth century development of the wargame for military purposes gets an airing in magazines and journals, and these are well worth consideration by the solo wargamer. Now, in the February 2024 issue (Vol: 110: 1, pp 84-97) of The Mariner’s Mirror at last there’s an article on […]
Another Photo
by Rob Morgan Back in In Lone Warrior, issue 144 (Oct-Dec 2003), on page 31, I wrote about another Science Fiction warship, Titan. In this case, the model is the 1/600th scale Peter Pig CSS Nashville – in reality a floating heap of junk, but a big and solid steam-punk warship in SF terms, and […]
“Crazy Ivan!” TYPHOON TK-508.
by Rob Morgan You’ll probably remember this ballistic submarine better as Red October, and not by its Soviet code number. A great film (movie), The Hunt for Red October, the Tom Clancy book published around forty years ago makes brilliant reading, too. But try as I may, I haven’t been able to find a wargames […]
Arms and the Steamship
by Rob Morgan George is right, the USS Manassas model’s hull looks well indeed. But of course the warship represented by the model was very weak. She saw action only twice and on the second occasion was finished off in an hour or two. If you have a Confederate navy, well, there’s only one of […]
What I Should Be Working On?…Partly as a Result of Exchanging e-mails with George in Australia.
by Rob Morgan I was of course in total agreement with the replies to our esteemed editor’s call for ‘more photos, etc.’ I stopped writing for the glossies many years ago, after having an article on the Peninsular War, based on C.S.Forester’s brilliant novel, Death to the French, rejected because of the poor quality of […]
War with Ironclads in the Late 1800’s . . . continued!
by Rob Morgan The questions about fittings, rigging, etc. on models of warships in the Ironclad era bring a few thoughts to mind. If you’re gaming solo, and are a dedicated model-maker, then super detailing your models in whatever scale is a splendid option. If, however, like me over the long years, you sometimes have […]
Flying Battleships! It’s a thing – right?
So, following on from my recent question on things naval, circa late 19thC, I started trawling the Solo Wargamers Association site and came across a few posts by Rob Morgan with references to converting American Civil War ship models for Science Fiction games (I also noticed you can’t say Sci-Fi anymore!), and this lead me […]