AARs of Wargaming and Book Reviews – Russ Lockwood

If you like being broiled alive at a variety of outdoor events, July proved to be a wonderful experience. I’m sure the gaming inside Historicon 2024 was so cool, but alas, for the first time in many, many years, I missed it due to scheduling conundrums. <sigh>

In any case, here’s the July AAR. Enjoy.

After Action Report Newsletter — July 202

ACW Gaines Mill: Gray Tide
Race to Ace: Card Game
Space Base Expansion: Mysteries of Terra Proxima
HMGS Next Generation: Education and Miniatures

News

Terraforming Mars: Final Score Correction
HMGS Resolutions: Adopted
Lindbergh Kidnapping: September 2024 Lectures (NJ)
New Figs: 1812 Russian Leib Guard and Edward III
New Wargame: Lang Vei 1968
GHQ: 6mm Modern Polish Tanks
Reprint: Java Sea
Cities of the Damned: ATO 60 Shipping

Books I’ve Read

Playing With Reality: How Games Shape World
Manchu Empire Army: 1600-1727 (CentSold 116)
Handbrake: Falklands/Malvinas 1982 (LAmer 28)
WWII Italian Soft-Skinned Vehicles: Volume 1
Super Slick: Huey Helicopter in Vietnam
Against Hitler’s Luftwaffe in the Balkans
2SAS: Bill Stirling WWII
War on Ukraine: Volume 4 (Europe at War 35)
War on Ukraine: Volume 5 (Europe at War 36)
South American Armies: 1825-1865
Into the Endless Mist: Vol 1 Aleut Camp 1942
The Italian Wars: Volume 5 (Ret to Regt 25)
Sword for Peace and Liberty: V1 (Eur War 35)
Russian Patriotic War 1812: Vol. 1 (RtoRegt126)
Through Blue Skies to Hell: WWII Air War
Fortress Britain 1940: Secret Defences
Cold War Berlin: An Island City: Volume 3
Sailors, Ships and Sea Fights: Age of Sail
Dwell in These Demons: Part One
Model Rocketry: America’s Hobby in the Cold War
Pathfinder Pioneer: Memoir WWII Bomber Pilot
To Boldly Go: Leadership, Strategy and Conflict
The Penultimate Truth (sci-fi)
The Last Days of the Schooner America
French Armies of the Thirty Years War 1618-48