March 2014 Web Mailbag
Additional letters to the editor from the March 2014 Issue of Armchair General.
Read MoreAdditional letters to the editor from the March 2014 Issue of Armchair General.
Read MoreThe January 2014 issue of Armchair General® presented the Combat Decision Game “French Foreign Legion in Mexico, 1863.†This CDG placed readers in the role of Captain Jean Danjou, commander of the French Foreign Legion’s 3d Company, 1st Battalion, which was part of an army that France’s Emperor Napoleon III sent to seize control of Mexico. The Mexican republic, however, fiercely resisted this blatant aggression by the much stronger European power. Indeed, Mexican forces defeated the first French attempt to capture the capital, Mexico City, at the May 5, 1862, Battle of Puebla. Yet Napoleon III persevered in his campaign to conquer Mexico and sent troop reinforcements beginning in September. On March 16, 1863, in another attempt to capture Mexico City, a French army began a siege of Puebla. However, it was operating at the end of a long and tenuous supply line extending through hostile Mexican countryside back to the main French base at Veracruz, on the Gulf of Mexico coast. To protect French supply convoys from attacks...
Read MoreIn Armchair General magazine Jan. 2014: British attacks on Dwight Eisenhower; Vietnamese combat artists; Texas Revolution; Pete Dawkins interview; plus interactive articles on Soviets in Afghanistan, French Foreign Legion, and American Revolution
Read MoreArmchair General magazine challenges you to find the best solution for a battalion of French Foreign Legionnaires facing 800 Mexican cavalry near Camerone, Mexico, in 1863, in this interactive Combat Decision Game.
Read MoreThese are the left over letters to the editor from the January 2014 Issue of Armchair General.
Read MoreThe November 2013 Armchair General magazine features "Hitler Takes Command," how the Fuhrer won the contest with Germany's General Staff to take control of military. Plus, Siege of Jerusalem 70 AD, Honey Springs 1863, and more.
Read MoreIn this decision-making game you must choose the best course of action for a Polish motorized rifle battalion attempting to seize the French town of Chambois and close the Falaise Gap in August 1944.
Read MoreThese are the left over letters to the editor from the November 2013 Issue of Armchair General.
Read MoreThe Sept 2013 Armchair General magazine examines the 1942 battle along the Chir River. Plus, The Indian National Army 1942-45, an interview with Sal Giunta, and games based on WW1 Africa, Eban Emael, and Rommel's defense of France, 1944.
Read MoreExtra Letters to the Editor from the September 2013 Issue of Armchair General: a comment on "Ten Myths of Gettysburg."
Read MoreAssume the role of Lt Col Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck as he leads the German East Africa colony’s Schutztruppe - colonial security troops - in an attack on a large British force that has invaded the Tanga Peninsula in 'World War I in Africa, 1914.'
Read MoreIn the July 2013 issue of Armchair General magazine Ralph Peters examines 10 myths of the Battle of Gettysburg. Other articles explore what the U.S. would have faced if it had invaded Japan in World War II, Julius Caesar at war, and more.
Read MoreCommand Decision Game No. 57 places you in the role of Brigadier John Godfrey “Jock†Spragge, commander of 7th Infantry Brigade, 3d Canadian Division. Your mission is to attack across the Leopold Canal near Antwerp and establish and hold bridgeheads.
Read MoreThe May 2013 Armchair General magazine covers "Hitler's Eagle," Adolf Galland; the birth of modern war in the 1860s, by Ralph Peters; America's Medal of Honor Heroes; the little-known 1838 invasion of Canada from the United States; plus interactive articles.
Read MoreThe article below is an abridged version of Combat Decision Game #56, “British Rifle Brigade in World War I, 1915,†written by Andrew H. Hershey. Additional text and illustrations appear in the May 2013 edition of Armchair General® magazine, where you’ll also find additional interactive articles based on an Italian attack at Bir Hakeim, 1942, and Hooker at Chancellorsville, 1863. On newsstands now. This CDG places readers in the role of Colonel George Handcock Thesiger, commander of the British 4th Battalion, the Rifle Brigade, charged with recapturing key positions at Saint Eloi lost just hours ago to a German attack. Armchair General® challenges YOU to take command of this historical battle. Here’s how to get in on the action: READ the article carefully DEVELOP your own solution to this tactical dilemma RECORD your solution on the CDG map and form from the attached PDF. SEND to Armchair General® by April 26, 2013 Winning solutions will be announced in the September 2013 issue. However, those eager to read the historical outcome...
Read MoreThe March 2013 issue of Armchair General magazine explores Patton in WW1 and Japan's "Stealth" Kamikazies, plus "War and Peace 2013 and Beyond," what you must know abut the global strategic situation.
Read MoreWhere in the world is Armchair General magazine? How about Pembroke Castle, Pembroke, Wales.
Read MoreIn this decision-making game YOU command a regiment of Spanish volunteers fighting for Germany against a powerful Red Army attack in 1943.
Read MoreIn the January 2013 issue of Armchair General: 1943, World War II's forgotten year of victory; Germany's Secret Army 1918-20; Vietnam War "cuisine"; plus interactive articles about Wake Island, Confederate Guerrillas, and WWII's Eastern Front
Read MoreAs commander of a force of irregular Confederate cavalrymen, YOU lead your men against Union troops at Fort Blair, Kansas, in this Command Decision Game.
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