ARTICLES

U.S. Marine Corps
Squad & Platoon OB, 1965 – 1970 by Pete English.

Best of the Old Courier

Egyptian Army XIX Dynasty 1350-1200 B.C. by Terry Griner

Schutztruppe Deutsch Ostafrika The Battle of Tanga, November 1914 by Dennis L. Bishop and Holger Doebold.

Background
Preliminaries
Tanga
Preparation for Battle
The Battle: Nov. 4, 1914
Denouement: Nov. 5-6, 1914
Tabletop Tanga: Wargaming the Battle

The Battlefield in Miniature by Bruce Weigle

Introduction
Getting Started
Painting the World

One Hand Tied Behind His Back
Wargame Design Series by Ned Zuparko.

Infantry and Armor for 28mm WW II Combat Part II - Vehicles by Mike Reese.

Sniper Clearing South of Hue
A Vietnam Scenario for Easy Eight’s BattleGround by Pete English.

Gladiators
Almanac of Figures by David Gundt.

Fiendish Plot of Fu Manchu
1920s Pulp Action Game by Howard Whitehouse.

Burgundian Domain
Warlord 1050-1500AD Rules Stats by Chris Parker.

DEPARTMENTS

The Vanguard Editorial: Updates
Dispatches from the Field Letters to the Editor: Survey Results
Volley Fire Response Readers rate Issue #85.
Cartoon Rules Lawyers

Courier Dispatch News About the Hobby.

Historicon ‘02 Convention Recap
Back to Origins: Showing the Flag 4-7 July 2002
Jim Parcella Obituary
Product News
Calendar of Conventions

THE REVIEWING STAND
Figures, Books, Rules, and Accessories.




Redoubt 25mm ACW Mortar and Crew
Redoubt 25mm VMI Cadet Set
Aquilifer 15mm Seven Years War
Mirliton 25mm Cavaleieri Italiani 1250-1300
Essex 15mm Medieval Accessories
TommyGunner 15 25mm WWII Painted Troops
Imperialist Enterprises 27mm Demi-Brigadiers
DZ Miniatures 1/48th Scale Viet Nam Range
Copplestone Castings 30mm British Sailors in Sennet Hats
Reviresco 28mm African Civilian Sailors
Reviresco 28mm French-African Sailors (Laptots)
Reviresco 28mm Mountain Gun with Pack Train and Crew
Reviresco 28mm Pack Train
Gripping Beast 25mm Ancients
Navigator 25 mm Ancients
Colonial Campaigns: Ethiopia 1887-1896
Battlefront WWII Blitzkrieg Card Supplement
GURPS WWII: Iron Cross Role Playing Game
Tac-Skirmish: Arc of Fire 20th C. Rules
Thomas Audley & the Tudor ‘Arte of Warre’ (book)
Six-Gun Sound Western Gunfight Rules
The Grate and Famous Battel of Lutzen Reprint of the 1633 Publication

The Barrett Scale for Reviews

Cover (at top): 6mm Republican French troops maneuver to engage Germans defending siege works outside Paris at the Battle of Champigny, December 1870. Figures and 1:4000 scale terrain boards from the collection of Bruce Weigle. Photo by Bill Keyser.
Large Version of the Cover (very slow: 113K)