By Rob Morgan Those of us who are naval wargamers may well have been dusting off our Cold War fleets in recent months. I have and here’s an example: my 1/1200th scale Soviet Navy Slava, which hasn’t seen the light of day for well over a decade (the paint job shows this- apologies! – and for the […]
Naval gaming
A reader question
Andy in Australia writes: Anyone know where I can buy Eagle Battle of the River Plate models?
Seeking Information About the CSS St. Patrick
Rob Morgan writes: One of my fellow naval wargame enthusiasts in the Naval Wargames Society is ‘desperately seeking’ a little information about a submersible, more accurately an ‘awash’ boat called the St. Patrick built in the Confederacy. It was used, or at least present, in Mobile Bay. Anyone have any information on her overall design, […]
Sample article features medieval naval rules
For this month’s sample article from previous issues of Lone Warrior, Rob Morgan provides some easy rules for naval combat during the Middle Ages. It’s on the Sample Articles page.
Letter to the Editor
By Rob Morgan Yes, I realise the blog doesn’t have a letters page, but the old Lone Warrior, what 20 years ago, carried them from time to time, as did the best of all of the wargames magazines. We used to have ‘specialists’ to whom questions could be addressed too, I remember. Here’s a question […]
A sample article on river gunboats
This month’s sample article from the pages of Lone Warrior is a review and more by Rob Morgan of a hefty volume titled “River Gunboats: An Illustrated Encyclopaedia.” A lot of interesting information for anyone remotely interested in the suject. It’s on the Sample Articles page.
Remembering Gneisenau
By Rob Morgan I came upon a three-page article entitled ‘Batterie Austrat’ in the excellent magazine After the Battle, No. 44. Rather an old piece now, it provides an account of one of the 11-inch triple gun turrets from Gneisenau, Scharnhorst’s sister ship, which was removed in 1943 from the unlucky warship, and dragged half […]
A missing battleship?
By Rob Morgan Over the past few months, a couple of colleagues and I have been discussing the many “what if” battleship projects which litter 20th Century naval history. One battleship I can’t find a model of anywhere is the “Concrete Battleship” of Fort Drum in Manila Bay. Named after US Brigadier General Richard C. […]
Just a simple question
By Rob Morgan Something which should really go in the ‘Letters to the Editor’ page, but we don’t have one. Or maybe in the ‘Reader’s Queries’ like the old ‘Battle’ wargames magazine used to have, but we don’t have one of those. Anyway, take a look at these photos. I was in a charity shop […]
USS Ohio and USS Los Angeles
By Rob Morgan I was just writing a comment on early submersibles, looking for a suitable photo to go with it, and came upon a pack of Triang Minic 1/1200th scale waterline models that I acquired a little before the present crisis erupted. I thought it might make a short review note for the SWA, […]