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    Number 135 $12.50 | Strafebyalactics | #135 FEEDBACK QUESTIONS | PUBLISHER'S NOTE: Due to many roador requests, S&T Is once again utiizing the feedback ‘CARD’ format Feedback Questions: Aer reading this ssuo ‘of S&T, road the feedback questions below, then fil out and return the response card 10 : Unless otherwise 3, responsos should be on a 1 (lon) 109 (igh) scale with 0 or no answer meaning you aren sure or no answer, 119. mo question 4 Thisissuo overall 5 (game) iseshow 6. (oad aie) Sideshow 7M 8, OUTGOING MAIL 8. OPINION: Ancient Bates 10. 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Your age; 1=13 years or younger, 2914-17, $18.21, 4222.27, 6-28.08, 6096-45, | 7248-55028 or alder, 17, Whan dd you tet subtrbe (orga pr chase at a store) S&T. 1=1970 or eave, 2u1071-75, 3=1976-1960, 4=1961-82, {51988-1987 61987-1088, 71080 present 18. Whendiayoutistgetivolveswehwargames? 191860 or earir, 29196115, 3-1986-1070, 1971-15,5=1976-1080,6=1681- 82, 7.1969 1867, 8-1987-1988, 0=1989-presen. 18, How many how's a month do you covets to laying wargames (or ely taking them out land studying her. 1-0 hours a month, 22 4 hours, S95: hours, 4-0-12 hour, 13-16 hour, 6-17 20hour, hour, 9331+ hours. igi oo" A 2-Player Version of the Award-Winning AMBUSH Solitaire Game! In the tradition of such thrilling movies as Combat and A Bridge Too Far, SHELL SHOCK is an exciting game of World War Il squad-level action. A 2-player game of combat, adventure, and heroism in World War II Europe: SHELL SHOCK is adapted trom the award-winning and Incredibly Popular AMBUSH solitaire game. A complete game in itself, SHELL SHOCK pits a German squad against an American, British or Soviet opponent. The defending units’ positions are unknown at first as the attacking squad probes Hiden Deployment markers in search of them. Then, suddenly, a quiet reconnaissance explodes into action when the opposing sides come Into contact The Scenario Generation System in SHELL SHOCK offers hundreds of combinations and insures that no two missions will ever play the same. In each of six missions, one player commands a squad of German infantry while another commands American, British or Soviet troops. The Players determine the composition of their squads — men, weapons, and equipment — and purchase Light and Heavy supports to assist them in the mission — from foxholes and barbed wire to artillery support, Every Playing is different as the intensity of the battle, mission objectives, forces, ‘and weather change. SHELL SHOCK contains a 22x32” game display, four 8x22" map sections, 40 playing pieces, 120 cards, rules booklet, scenario booklet, two charts and tables booklets, two vehicle displays, two squad record Pads, and two decimal dice, SHELL SHOCK retails for $35 at better hobby and game stores. If not ‘available locally, fee! free to order direct. Include postage and handling: 85 USA; $10 Canada, Mexico; $45 foreign, For quick credit card purchasing, call TOLL FREE 1-800-999-3222. Victory Games, Inc. \y DIVISION OF MONARCH AVALON, INC. 4517 Harford Road * Baltimore, MD 21214 Issue 135 Summer 1990 SIDESHOW World War in East Africa by Richard Berg and Dennis Bishop | "Story of the SMS. | emigsberg ” sven 16 | by Richard jupa and | Jim Dingemert "The Original African Queen” 0.19 | | by Rica Berg | “The Kaiser's Sea Cavalry” by Richard Jupa and Time Dingoman 4 13 Issue Game: SIDESHOW ‘The Campaign for German East Africa 1914-1918 by Richard Berg Game Insert | 25 Tank Battles: QUALITY FACTORS AT ARRACOURT The Leadership, Training, Organization and Tactics of the 4th Armored Division. by Gregory M. Smith “Organization of the Major Combat Units”. se 44 “Tank Eifectiveness 1944" 46 ‘A Photo: von Lettow leads hie amy through Portuguese East Atica, 1818, (Bundesarchiv Kobionz) 44 OPINION: Enthroning the Doing Right by King: Artillery and | the Ancient Armies the Twentieth Century Wargame | ty jin: Simon by Seth Oven /Mariants” scene 5 ‘A Paucity of Ancient Games” ..54 50 53 | FEEDBACK QUESTIONS 3 | OUTGOING MAIL 6 FYI by A.A. Noft : 7 GAMERS'GUIDE 41 OPINION 4 MIXED MEDIA 2 CONVENTIONS ws CLASSIFIEDS 6 COVER: The illustration, is from Anthony Livesey’s Great Battles of World War i. The | battle on the Panjani River—where van De- venter’s mounted troops “obliged Lettow to abandon the crucial Kahe position entirely” — was recreated in 3-dimentional computer graphics. Published by Macmillan, N. PUBLISHER: Keith Pouter : EDITOR: James F Ounigan [ART DIRECTOR: Joyce Gusnor ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Abort A Not ‘SENIOR GAMES EDITOR: Paul Dange! GAME EDITORS: Fora LNickeson, Nol Randal, anc Ket, Schlesinger ‘CONTRIBUTING EDrTORS: Flare Jup, chard Berg, Paul Dargo! PUNCTUATION POLICE: David A Vandonbrauche, Nel Randall FINAL GAME TEST (store prising) Keith Pouter, Paul angel {reo he oer, depending on how ight he pines deadne DISPLAY ADVERTISING: Call or wite fo order the brochure of _aéverising rates and mechanical urements for bw and color 6s. For prmptatentonal Display Adcoraspendence.ncding Inserion oes, payments, anwore & negasves, snuld be drocted {0 SW, PO Box 157 Canbvia, Calloria $9428 ATTENTION: ‘SUT-DISPLAY ADS ALL CLASSIFIED ADS shoulé be sent to SW. PO Box 157, CCambia, Ca, 93428, ATTENTION: SKT—CLASSIFIEDS ADS Giassifed a rates are 106 per wocd and payment shoul be enctoses wi te oder. 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SUBSCRIBERS PLEASE NOTE: Second clas malo foreign adresses may take @ 1o 16 weeks for dolvery. quis should be sentte Water ths me, STRATEGY & TACTICS? is a rogistered vasemark lor We ‘ilar history magazine. €1000 Copyright W, Inc. Al ghison the eoniens of tis publeaion are reserved: nothing may be. ‘eprodiod trom tem whol orn part with out prar permission tram ho pls’ Al carespendence shouldbe sen 19 3W Ine, PO Box 167, Cana, Calera 93428 POSTMASTER: Send address changes 19 Suategy & Tactes, PO Box 187, Cambria, CA 03428. STRATEGY & TACTICS® (socond class ma permit ISSN #1040 £8863) is pubied 8 times a yearby SW Games Inc, 3045 Main ‘Sweet, Cambria, CA 93428 NEXT ISSUE: Doomed Vicwry, the 1612 batlo that Nagotoon won, yor which everually cost him his empire, Ps, History of Wargaming, and much moc. 6 SUMMER 1990 #195 BY JIM DUNNIGAN Outgoing Mail WORK IN PROGRESS ‘As of this writing, the game schedule is a follows; les Pub Gamo Perlod ‘Author 136 Jun-90 —Daomed Vietory 1812 Morgan 137 Jul-90 Mena Arms BC-1500 AD Nofi/Dunnigan 138 ‘Aug.90 Holy War: Afghanisten 1980s Miranda, 139° Oct-90 Valverde 1862 Berg 340° Nov-50 Chaco 19308 Farcau MI Jan91 Onto Moscow 17005 Englund M42 Feb 91 Peloponnesian Wars 3-400 BC Herman 143 Apr 91 Chad: The Toyota Wors 1980s Davis and easiest to play Napoleonic games in many years. Although not as simple ds the Borodino game published in S67 32, it adds great deal ‘more realism with only a slight increase in complexity. To ease even the most time constrained player, we have included an introductory scenario that can be played out in less than 15 minutes. And that's playing solitaire. More on solitaire below. ‘Man at Arms is being tested with squares instead of hexes. Thisis being done {or several reasons. For one, many players have, for years, been asking. for the use of squares in pre-gunpowder games, Second, the "squares instead of hexes” Cnr regarded asa “pest” power, india neverthle spends about 20% Fie budget om defense, > Alou michaunted at thet the ar Lev Line the ters dleneive oytem slong the Ser Canal win ict, tmanned by only 50 men, ds Sut in forties along 2 ont of over 10 les onthe veel te Egyptian srtullon 6 October 973 the being of She Yor Kippur War > Although only 27% of the tested men inthe US. Army hing Word War ct to having bern onatona tant hen hy wee i shod and ony 3% ade to having been cok tran fy of en who went ‘AWOL were fund to have Been Chronic ran > inaninteresing ranean of te ineensingly fendlyslton between Eas tnd Wes the USI hae ‘erly begun periting ‘Western ep breakers to Srop serpin vercipe a Spansh concen far acer fo spose cittvewws > During the mi230 Beh Ii Chit Marsal Robert Bronk Popa ence tuned down areuet for an interview from an Arca jal in the misaken that Cllrs ‘aa publication ofthe US. Calis. > Inthe Continental Navy 20 bet curse, or apheme the tame of Go was offense panic by the wearing Revy moodon elon > During Word War about e010 Jewish personnel served inthe rant tier and Royal Avsto-ngatan Armed Fores or about 35% o the total sobre manponer. > Within cg days of te bith én iM, Napoleon reed 200 oe, and ther exprenion of Homage from poets and poetasters, who's loyalty and devotion he graciously rewarded with gifts | totalling 10,000 francs. > A light anillery regiment— | attalion—of the British | Army fires some 2,500 103500 roundsa year in training: heavy regiment -M-109-—fires 2,200 0 3200. > Thefirst Dutch warship lost in World War Il, NMS Wille ‘an Eick, a mine wi vessel was sunk off the Dutch coast on 8 September 1939, ight months before Germany attacked The Netherlands, being clone in by one ofits own mines asit wasa laying a defensive ‘minefield. > During the Soven Years War (1756-1763) Austria and Prussia were unable to conclude an agrooment on the exchange of general officer prisoners, apparently because the ‘Austrians decided that thelr generals wore so inferior to those of Frederick the Great's Prussia that the war might go better for them if the prisoners romained where they were. “With a Little Help from ‘Our Friends..." This iste thanks are in order to Kendall King, Carl 0. Schuster, and Dario Benedet, for their assistance inthe preparation of “Did You Know...” FOOTNOTES Mr. Healy’s Wonderful Invention ‘The Rock of Gibraltar, Which has long had a reputation for invulnerability, has been ‘witness to many an historic ‘ceasion. But perhaps none was ‘more unusual than one Which took place in 1771. | In that year a certain Mr. Healy demonstrated an unustal ‘and innovative weapon. He had. ‘hole evacuated in the ground, in the shape ofa parabolic | conoid. This hole which was Sewn | For Your Information ‘excavated in solid rock, with the central plug removed in one pioce, was four feet deep and setata45. degree angle to the surface ofthe ground, at an altitude of about 650 fect above sea level, ‘To mystified onlookers, Mr. Healy explained that his dovico was a Sort of mortar. A. demonstration ofthe new weapon was arranged for 14 ‘May 1771. The weapon was loaded by placing 27 pounds of black povider in the bottom; Healy actually wanted to use 50 ‘pounds but was overruled by the nervous military authorities. ‘A large wooden framework not ‘unlike the bottom of a barre, was placed above the ‘gunpowder, with along hollow copper tube containing a fuse inserted through the wood and half way down into the explosive. Then the hole was completely filled with rocks, 1470 of them, varying from 1.0 t014 pounds, all packed around the copper fusing tube. A five minute port fire was rigged to Ignite a quick match in the central tube. ‘The first attempt to dis charge Mr. Healy's new weapon failed when the port fire was accidentally extinguished. The Ssscond attempt was more successful. ‘The “mortar” went off with tremendous blast, showering stones as much as 500 yards away. Dispersion of the “rounds” was good, and the general opinion of the cobsarvers was that the weapon held promise, and might be of value in other more or less fixed defensive setings, sich as ‘mountain passes. However, this may have been more of 8 charitable than a practical recommendation. Mr. Healy’s “weapon” had a number of drawhacks, not least of which was that it'required con- siderable effort to “emplace” and was totally immobile. ‘Asa result, there Is no evidence that anyone ever gave Healy's brainchild any further attention. Tom Trinko Georgia and the Defense of Colonial America, 1733-1747 In 1733 Baltain established ‘anew colony in North America, {in the area between South Caro. lina and Spanish held Florida The colony, called “Georgia” after King George I, served several purposes. One of these was philanthropic, an experi- ‘ment designed to sce if some of the many debtors languishing in English prisons could be turned. {nto useful citizens. Not much ‘came ofthis, and in fact few of the colonists wore recruited from the debtors prisons. How- ‘ever, the new celony quickly demonstrated that init second role it was to be quite successful, as a military buffer between the other English settlements in North America and the Spanish in Florida, who occasionally ‘encouraged various Indian tribes to raid the English and who gave safe refuge to fugitive slaves. ‘The new colony was run by a board of trustees. All ofthese ‘men were English, and remained in England, save for General James Edward Ogle- thorpe. Oplethorpe settled in the new colony, and was ‘charged by his co-trustees with developing the economic potential of the colony and providing for its defense, An energetic, able man, Oglethorpe soon proved his worth and the young colony soon began to thrive. Thon, in late 1739, the s0- called “War of Jenkins’ Ear” broke out between England and Spain, so-named after its alleged cause, a Spaniard’ alleged slicing off the ear of an English ‘sea captain named Jenkins some ‘years earlier. On the outbreak of the war, Oglethorpe was imme- diately appointed military com- ander of both Georgia and South Carolina. He quickly de- ‘veloped a plan forthe invasion and conquest of Florida. Opethonpe had already STRATEGY & TACTICS STR Britain had no real defense policy when it came to her American colonies. 8 ‘THE WAR OF JENKINS’ EAR IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA, Contingent Strength Note 42nd Regiment” 634 A uth Carolina Rangers 40 c | landers! Company* 80 E | Seamen 180 c ‘SPANISH Flerida Miia 250 ‘Cuban Mila 500 J & TES * Indicates rogular troops. A. This regiment went out of existence shortly after the war, and is not connected with the present 42nd Foot, The Black Watch, which was raised later. |B Concern over the possibility of lave uprisings or Indian attacks on the Appalachian frontier resulted inthe bulk ofthis force being retained in South Caroling. Only about 500 South Carolina militiamen took part in Oglethorpe's Florida expedition. . As with the militia, most of the South Carolina Rangers remained in their home colony during the war. However, a detachment of about 10 served in Georgia, where they helped train the Georgia Rangers. D. The bulk ofthe Georgia militia remained on home guard duty during most ofthe war, though several companies did take part in the Florida expeditions E, This company was composed of regulars raised in the Highlands, F, The “Marines” were actually a coast guard force, operating in small boas to protect coastal areas from Spanish raid, ‘seamen manned a 22-gun frigate, a 14-gun schooner, gun sloop, as well as being available for some service ashore. FH. The potential pool of Indian manpower was quite large, the Creeks alone having some 3,500 warriors available. However, despite Strenuous efforts on Oglethorpe’s part, most of the Indians remained neutral, though some 300 Yamacraw and Cherokee served, as did perhaps 50 Creeks. 1. Comprised the permanent garrison of St. Augustine |i. These forces were what was made available from the considerably larger gartison in Cuba, . The Spanish were regularly supported by the Yamasee Indians, ‘who usually numbered between 50 and 200 warriors, and by ‘occasional small contingents of Creeks as well SUMMER 1990 #135, convinced Parliament to authorize the establishment of a ‘regular regiment for garison duty in the new colony. Asa result, once hostilities broke out, this regiment, the 42nd Foot, ‘would form the backbone of his forces, Oglethorpe also had available the South Carolina ‘lta, which wae reasonably ‘well-trained after years of experience fighting the Yamasee Indians, his own Georgia militia, plus several independent com- panies of voluntesr infantry and rangers. This gave Oglethorpe some 4,500 men, an appreciable force in terms of colonial warfare. In addition, he could draw upon some Indian allies, notably from the Yamacraw, ‘Cherokee, and Creek nations, Who proved excellent irregular troops. ‘Soon after hostilities broke ‘out, Oglethorpe invaded Florida, striking down the east ‘coast and investing St. AU- ‘gusting the principal Spanish postin the territory. However, his siege of St. Augustine proved unsuccessful, due partially to the arrival of rin- forcements from Spanish Cubs, and partially to the destruction ofan English outpost. These two events dealt the morale of (Oplethorpe’s army a serious blow, and he fell back upon his base in Georgia. For a time the ‘war settled into a series of frontier raids and counter-raids, ‘Then, in 1742, the Spanish landed a stzable force on St Simon's Island, off the Georgia coast, wth the intention of burning English settlements in the area and dispersing, (Oglethorpe’s army. Moving quickly, Oglethorpe defeated the Invaders atthe Battle of Bloody Marsh (9 June 1742). Losing heart, the Spanish reembarked and sailed off back to Florida and Cuba. Once again the war aseumed a rhythmic pattern of raid and counter-raid. The following year Oglethorpe once ‘more essayed an attempt on St ‘Augustine, and was once more repulsed, the war yet again ‘becoming one of small affairs along the frontier. Shortly afterwards, the war ended, Lite having been decided, at least in North America. By 1747 all provincial forces had been

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