December 2025 Book Vote: Men-at-Arms
This month's book vote sees five Men-at-Arms titles battling for your support. Read the full descriptions and have your say by visiting the Book Vote page. Plus, check out the results of last month's Raid vote.
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Duel 147 – VLR P-51 Mustangs vs Japanese Fighters – Japan 1945
When pilots of VII Fighter Command flew their first mission over Japan on 7 April 1945, neither they nor the Japanese pilots they encountered could guess the campaign that opened that day would last just 13 weeks.
The Hooded Man – Character Creation
Graham Rose, author of The Hooded Man, breaks down creating characters in his roleplaying game of medieval outlaws.
New Guinea 1942–43
As its military campaigns in the Philippines and Dutch East Indies successfully concluded in early 1942, Japan turned its attention eastward. Japan’s goal in the South Pacific was to secure a defensive perimeter to resist future Allied attempts to reverse its conquests in the Indies and Southeast Asia.
Two Sides to the Coin – Primer
Planning an RPG adventure for Two Sides to the Coin? Author Beckie Blake has written the perfect primer to send to your prospective players.
Putin’s Outsourced Warfighting
One of the striking features of Russia’s current war in Ukraine is that it is often, perhaps inaccurately, described as a “mercenary war” because it is being fought not by conscripts serving out their national service, or even reservists summoned back to arms, but by volunteers
Two Sides to the Coin – Launch Day
Two Sides to the Coin is out today! Read on to find out more about our cooperative roleplaying game – with only one winner...
February 2026 Artwork Reveal
Today we're showing three pieces of artwork from our February 2026 series books! Let us know in the comments which books you'd like to see featured in our March 2026 Artwork Reveal!
Extract from The Killing Season: A New History of Autumn 1914
More men died in the first four months of the Great War on the Western Front than in any comparable interval in the four-year struggle. “The enormous losses in August and September 1914,” writes historian Alan Kramer, “were never equalled at any other time, not even by Verdun.”
Across Generations
I’ve found myself in a number of email conversations with various family members of these men, mainly children, and now a granddaughter. I’ve heard stories of the later lives of men who “were very private about their time in World War II,” or who “never talked much about it.”
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