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    Issue 130 SALIENT POINTS OF THE RUSSO-JAPANI WAR AT SEA by Dave Fuller 14 Historical Article: THE BATTLE OF TSUSHIMA: THE RUSSO- JAPANESE WAR by Jack Greene by Jack Greene Game | Insert OUTGO FY 7 [CLassiFIED 57. ERRATA 60 Fall 1989 Issue Game: | TSUSHIMA: | THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR COVER ART: Thisissue’scover was prepared for us by David Fuller of EarthSurfaceGraphics. | Eater: Jim Dunnigan ‘Associate Edltor: AA, Nofi ‘Contributing Editors: Richard Berg, James Dingeman, Jack Greene, Charles Kamps, ‘Vance von Bories, David Martin, Fichard Jupa ‘Advertising: For rats and spaco confirmation ‘contact Jan Reynolds, 3W Advertising Depart. ‘ment, 4070 West Street, Cambria, CA 93428 PH (605) €27-5438 FAX PHONE: (805) 927-1852. ‘$87 Magazine: Design and Production: Beth Queman, Maggie Smith (Special thanks to Jack Greene for his help with layoutin this magazine) Design Consultant: David Fuller Circulation: Ana Thomas ‘Shipping: Vivion Peach Warehouse Manager: Jerry McKinnon STRATEGY & TACTICS®ie publchod 8 timos 4 year by World Wide Wargames (8W) Inc. 8 issue subscriptions are $50 US.. Overseas subscriptions cost the same, and must be paid in US. dors (only) by means of an interna- tional money order, o U.S. or Canadian postal ‘money order. All ordors should be made pay- ‘blo to SW, and should be sent to SW, PO Box F, Cambria, CA 98428, VISA or MastorCard ctders may be made by mail or tolophone— (05) 927-5439, Single copy $12.50. U.K. sub- satibers (only) may alternatively pay in pounds stofing at tho rate of £30 (Surtaco Mail), oF £48.75 (Air Mal for 8, to: 2W, 8 Barbridge Fd, Cheltoaham, Glos, England. NON US SUBSCRIBERS PLEASE NOTE: 2nd class mal to foreign addrossos may take to 16 | weoks for dalvery. Inquires should be sent to 3 attor this time STRATEGY & TACTICS® is arogistored trado- ‘mark for 3W's miltary Fistory magazine. All Fights on the contonts ofthis publication are re- served; nothing may be reproduced from them in whole orn part without prior permission from the publisher. All corespondence should be sent to 2W, PO Box F, Cambria, CA 93428, POSTMASTER: Send addrots changes to Stratogy & Tactics, PO Bax F, Cambria, CA 93428. STRATEGY-&-TACTICS-(second-class-mait ‘permit ISSN #1040-886X) is published 8 time ‘yearby 3W Games, 4070 West St, Cambria, CA 93428, NEXT ISSUE: ‘SAT #131 willbe Donau Front. Tho final chaptor in the Contal Front Series... tha Ardennes of the 905." (SAR ance sak | 5 OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 1908 Return of the Native za by Tin Dunnigan | ever underestimate impulse. Back in August, Al Nofi mentioned that SET was again without an editor. We then discussed changes that could be make to improve the magazine. Both of us had recently written pieces for the 20th anniversary issue and the subject ‘was still fresh in my mind. Al has been a regular contributor and editor for all those twenty years. Thad been the editor until 1980 (issues 18-82), but had received the fifty issues edited by others since that time. Meanwhile, Al and I had continued to work on various projects together. During 1989 we collaborated on two books that will see print in 1990. I had spoken to Keith Poulter, the current publisher of S&T, several times in the past. After my conversation with Al, it struck me that it would not take an inordinate amount of my time to edit S6T again. Actually, it never had. Editing the magazine was largely a matter of making numerous decisions quickly and correctly. Talking to contributors and going over their work was something I got through very expeditiously. A few hours a week should do it. I called Keith, offered to take over the editor's job, he accepted, here | am, My objective here is simple; to make S&T a magazine the readers, including myself, can be proud of. Times have changed, and S&T has to change accordingly. I did not edit the issue you are reading, which was ready for the Printers when I came on board. My influence will start showing up about issue 132 or so. While I have several ideas, the most important source of guidance is the readers themselves. The Feedback will be scrutinized with more vigor. For starters the articles are going to be tighter, more concise and more modular. In other words, it will take ‘you less time to read them while you will be able to get information ‘out of them more easily. The same approach will be increasingly applied to the games, Unless, of course, you all decide otherwise During the last nine years I have kept an eye on the wargames market, largely through friends who continued to work in that field, It became increasingly clear that substantial changes were taking place in the wargames market throughout the 1980s. For one thing, it stopped growing. Fantasy and computer games drew off increasing numbers of potential subscribers. S&T currently has less than a third of the circulation it had when Tast edited it. Indeed, when [left S&T in 1980, circulation was at an all time peak, it has since fallen from nearly 37,000 to about 10,000. But even then the winds of change were evident and that was one of the reasons I moved on. But S&T has since shown remarkable durability, with an assist from TSR’s deep pockets and 3W’s ability to control costs (does he mean we're cheap? KP). S&T is profitable, but hardly a cash cow. Something should be done to get circulation increased. Even with the shrinkage of the ‘market for manual historical games, demographics indicate that a circulation of 20,000 or moreiis possible. The market for military history books has increased, and computer games on historical military topics are viable (although not the best sellers). The tastes of military history buffs have changed and S&/T must change to accommodate these. | want to see that articles are much more synchronized with the games they accompany. For example, the article should cover the same ‘main points the game emphasizes and illuminate (continued on page 58) for your information by AA. Nofi DID You Texas National Guard, which | suliient1o displace 34 billion | available to them, Thore was he was not dismounted unit May | tons ofeath — ten times that, uebus,arelaively light KNOW? of 1943, when it was stationed | evacuated for both the Suez and | firarm manageable by one man, SstNew Caledonia in the South | Panama canal — whilst 2 well a the very common Pacific creating 26 milion craters and__| crossbow, and the longbow, flavening 20,000 square ‘which was mot limited w use > The English victory over the Sree Batlcer indies 9 | >Uneer pressure fom vaious | lometer of forest, by the English, Technically the souaeriuyae tae religious groups in 1883 the arquebus was inftior to both i British Amy in India closed its | > With a Lite Help from Our | the longbow and the cosibow espite considerable grumbling eee erred ow Setedee | Fegimenal brothels, inconse- | Friends. Inrange, accuracy, and ate of whe hetero weedoye | qlenceof which there was an | ‘hit iste thanks are inorderto | Sr, asthe accompanying ble Thophathecating buroner | almost immediate 100% Cari O, Schuster, for his ilasrtes (ee char belo), TUNE oc bos cng, | erase in the venereal disease | consibuion w “Di You “The figures given here ae, we e Know..? ofcourse approximations ‘Actual figures would have | soypaieoweerasaay > USS. Navy siships escorted | We Do Not Have a ‘varied grealy from piece to poison gas available during ‘seme 90,000 msschent vessels ‘Winner! piece due to an extraordinary World War, was fetal to only | 7058 the Atlantic during World lack of standardization. Weight Wouter onetevey Woosna | Wart witouttesingasingle | Well, once agsinin SA 127 we | isthatof the weapon proper, in srine canace he iteseent, | one © Germany U:boats atthe | had a question which noone | kilograms, without ancillary cost of only one blimp, K-74, | was aleve find the answer equipment Tn the cas of the Onlyone woman has ever | shot own on 18 July 1943 by | Tha'stwice in arow that we've | argucbus, sch equipment U-134, which esuied inthe | done that, and wee times out | frequently included aight stand the seven questions which have | in addition o tools for servicing sofarrun in "Do You Know... | the weapon, Pro Wiis the Do You Know? “7” We'll try something different | weight ofthe missile, in grams. inthe fare, butplease bear in| “MIs the “muzae velociy,” What isthe historical significance of 5 November 1988? tind that we operate several | o speed ofthe projectile as ‘ssues ahead. Meanwhile, te | leaves the weapon, expressed in Please submit your answers by post card to: FYT, c/o A.A. Nofi, 732| | answer to the questions What ‘meters per second. The higher Westminster Rd, Brooklyn, NY 11230, U.8.A. Winners will be was the last 74-gun ship-ofthe- | this figure, the more accurate the nmounced two issues hence, in S&T 132, s0 that overseas readers | | line tobe lost in action? is ‘weapon is likely tobe. KE is the Tivho must use armmal—willhave a chance to participate Ties | | “IMS. Wellesley, launched in | kinetic energy posessed by the Simamcienud 1815, which took a German projectile as itleaves the | ‘bomb during the Second World| wespon, expressed in joules tcudncnaual whine Geman) Ios only on ote War.” RPM i the numberof rounds it decorated with the German | oss of only one of the ten man ‘was possible wo fie per mine, | eon Cross, Hanna Ritch, crew FOOT- Tike lowes gue being be Hiter’s favorite lady plot, who | bialeedvteba eto tay received both he frst and > During the Camprignot i814 | | NOTES. Nip Hi ee Rage second degrees athis hands for | Napoleon's Garde Imperial a eauaescnatete her services as atest pilot. consti ver 1M ois Infantry Missile | ‘respon coud sexsonably be > The frst wireless installation " Weapons of the | ore scien: Moximum in an airplane was made in > The first German bomb ofall i fo aieerinieeeenetrey Hilehaieteckiny | ausigaidnmg¥edlWa | RORISSEROE: § — | nngrwucmytinitiin mounted 246 pound radio in an | TTkilled the only elephant in the | BY 1500 infantrymen had ee ‘Henri Farman biplane. city 20. three different missile weapons > Worldwide, about 20% of > Inthe course of the Vietnam an Missi Weapons merchant ship cargoes consist of || War the United States dropped ¢. 1500 Prstoleum and related com- over 13 milion ons othigh ex: || brusibles. Plosive ordnance, or about six || Wetpon Weight ProjWt “MV" KE RPM Range times the total dropped by (kg) (grams) (mm/sec) (ils) (m) > The last American horse American aircraft in World War || Longbow 3.0075 4 18 26 50 ‘cavalry unit to serve in acombat | II, for an explosive force Caan SA 125 45 17 12 50 2one was the 112th Cavalry, Arquebus 65 45 20 ge Dare sushi STRATEGY & TACTICS 7 footnotes arquebus was subject fouling | busier than ether a crossbow Sweden 154% Act Mob duet the build up of unburnt” | man ora longbowman A few Finland 145% | Bulgaria 18% 65% powder inthe bare, its weeks training was all that was ‘Astra 14% — | Russia 13% 41% effective range ended 1 decay | necessary to tum out a fairly EastGermany 19% 68% afer afew rounds. Moreover, | capable arguebusir, while “The four European Hungary 10% 32% since a charging infantryman | took yeas wo properly waina | counties listed have a wel Coschosovakin 10% 40% cancover some 75 meters ina | bowman, whohad to develop | organized, heavily armed mitia | Poland oss 42% minute, and acavalryman in less | considerable musculature before | system, while Cuba has large | Romania oss 38% than thatthe ange ofthe bring able to use his weapon to | paranilitary contingent which arquetus was cistnely inferior | its fllesteapacity thee was a | could be expected io perform (Act— Active: to hatof ether thelongbow or | saying to the effect that make | intemal security dts in the Mob Mobilizes) crossbow. Indeed from the bare | a good longbownan you had | eventof a war with the US. fates, one would be forced to | stat with his grandfather. “Those countios have 20 | Tre European neurals are conclude thatthe arquebus was organized ter defenses to make | actually more heavily mit in every way inferior tothe wo | JP Milita ‘heir maximum potential | tized than either ble, with an older wespons. Technically, this Participation military manpower available on | active force MPR of 3.2% and a was proczely the cae. How Ratios Shortmoie: Mostother posers, | mobilization MPR of 12.4% {ver te arquebus poses | incuding bok superpowers, | Indeed te of the European several advantages. Relatively A.Miltary Paricipaton could match thee figures only | neutrals — Switaelan, speaking it was cheaper than || Ratio is the percentage of the after several more months of | Sweden, and Finland — are both the longbow, which had to | populaionof acountry whichis | moiliaton among te five powers wih the bemeticulously handcrafied | serving in the armed fores in Europe iss expected, the | highest active MPRS, and four from yew, andthe crossbow, | some eapacity. The present smosthewvly amed region in| — Switzerland, Sweden, hich required equally ‘world MPR, for example, is | the world, witha combined Finland, and Austia— ae meticulous workmanship and | about 0.6 in “peacetime. there | MPR of 1.1% within 48 hours | among the tp five metilzed tather expensive steel aswell, | being about 34 million acive | and 34% within 60-day. The | powers. While Singepors holds The ergucbus could be mass- ary personne inthe world, | combined MPR Tor all sixteen | the rocord for “Third World” produced by a foundry in fairly and about 1.7 upon mobiliza- NATO powers — including the active force MPR, 4.3%, Cuba cheap cast iron Furdermore, | tion, tere being around 100 | US. and Canada — is 09% — | has it for mobilized forces, while the range, accuracy, and | rllion woops counting active, | ons in 115 — for available 173% Asie from Israel | eticivenessof an arquebus | uniformed military capacity or | forces, which isesto 2.1% vpon | (12.1% and 123%), the Urited round were allinferir to those | are available for service within | motilztion —onein48. Arab Emirates, t 34% have ofboth other weapons, an 48 hours and about 1.7% —one_| NATO MPRs are the highest active MPR inthe arqucbusier could cary more | inS5— will be available within Midale East, but Libya has the amumunition than ether of his | sbou 0 days if ull moblza- ‘Act Mob | highest mobilization MPR, competitor, since his weighed | onreservists and paramilitary | Greece 17% 68% | 44%. Curiously, some powers Jess, even after adding in the | personnel ae included WestCGermany 12% 2.3% | actually at war have ower powder charge: three kilograms | Excluding countries actually at | Turkey 11% 29% | mobilization MPRs than do ff ammunition gave the ‘war or just standing down from | Spain| 0.9% 39% | some at peace: thus, including arguebusier 50 rounds, as such — Iran, rag Nicaragua, | US. 0.9% 1.4% | insurgents, Ethiopia has « compared withthefongbow- | exc.—the ive countries with | Belgium 09% 17% | mobilized MPR of oly 1.39% man’s 40 rounds andthe the highest active forces military | Norway 09% 105% | and Angola only 14% though ‘erossbowman’s 24. Thus, a Participation ratios (MPRs) are: France 0.8% 1.8% | EI Salvador's mobilized MPR is given number ofarquebusiers The Netherlands 08% 19% | 2.6% and Nicaragua's 695. oul keep up the fire longer Israel 121% — | Denmark 0.7% 35% | Alsoofimerestis the fot that than ether sort of bow man. In Switzerland 98% | aly 07% 24% | several auhoritaian or military autton, despite the inferior Sweden 82% — | Porugal 0.6% 66% | regimes have relatively ow technical performance ofthe Singspore 43% | Britain 0.6% 1.1% | MPRs, suchas South Aiea, arquebus ball it was superior as Noth Korea 38% | Canada 03% 05% | 05%; Chil, 0.9%; Sodan, tv armor smasher: rounded lead Lixembourg 02% 03% | 039%; and Paragny, 04% bullets were ess likely to be Trefist four of thesehave | ecland 00% 02% defecied by the plished curved | milia-ype armed forces. By “Ere Now, Mind Suface of umorthan were, | thesOidxy ofmobitzatonthe | ‘Thecombined guesfor | | the Bats Govinor” arrows. However, the creat | standings have changed the seven Warsaw Pact powers clement in determining the value | considerably: ae 1.2% sctve and 42% ‘Troubled by an infestation of of the arquebus was probably mobilized. Pact MPR are: basa an underground amt the fact that it required much Switzerland 178% sion dump in Wilshire, England, | ess skill w become an arque Cuba 173% Brain's Minis of Defense 2 FALL 1900 Issue #130 decided to consult various suthorties on wildlife in the hope of finding a solution to the problem, Unfortunately, it turned out that the winged creatures were an unusual species, and the installation was promplly designated “the most ‘important bat sanctuary in Britain.” As a result, the ‘ammunition and the bats will have to live in peaceful ‘coexistence forthe future, with ‘management of the ste being shazed by the defense and ‘environmental authorities. P.S. This bit, and the one ‘on military participation ratio sce drawn from the new “FYI” - ‘ype collection, Dirty Litle Secrets by James F. Dunnigan and Albert A. Nofi, which will be published by William ‘Murrow around the beginning of 1990, The Civil War and the White House Having one's “ticket punched” by serving a tour in the armed forces has always been of some help when running {or political office, and it was no different in the aftermath of the | Civil War. Indeed, in the gen- cation following the war it was

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