The Raising of the Rising sun One of the challenges of creating a new Rising Sun handbook for Flames Of War was introducing a new nationality to the rules. This meant for the rules writers a little more work and testing to create a new batch of national special rules for them. When doing this they had to also consider how these rules would be used when the game moved into the Pacific and Southeast Asia, so an element of future-proofing had to be considered. In this article Battlefront writer Wayne Turner discusses his work on introducing the Japanese nation special rules into Flames of War Salute 2013 This year’s report from the world’s biggest wargames show, hosted at Excel, London. Rising Tons A look at the developments of Japanese tanks between 1919 and 1939 San Tarzgarotto We are guided through the creation of this wonderful (if fictional) Carlist Wars battle by Chris Thompson, one of the men behind the colourful masterpiece. Chris tells us about how the table was created, and what prompted the “what if” scenario. The Nomonhan incident Two members of the Battlefront Studio team test drive the new Rising Sun Intelligence Handbook, with a battle report on their refight of this early war battle between Soviets and Japanese. Sailing to New Horizons Joe Legan Looks at the dearth of Wargames Illustrated articles on aerial and naval combat, ponders why, and lays out a few thoughts on how the novice aviator or sailor can get started. When Russian Tanks led the World In 1939 the Red Army possessed the most powerful tank force in the world. In the article Phil Yates examines its development during the early years of world War two By Fire and Sword The authors of this new pike & shot era game were eager to let us know a little bit more about how it represents the fighting that took place in and around the Polish Commonwealth in the late 17th Century. Included in this battle report. The Battle on Snowshoes, 1758 As Wargamers it often doesn’t take much to spark our interest in a period or battle. A throwaway line he heard in the film Northwest Passage led Nick Buxey (40 years later) to research and construct a game around the French and Indian Wars Battle on Snowshoes. Elope to Archangel Stephen Crighton presents his findings on the British involvement in the Russian Civil War, and offers up a number of gaming ideas that pit the men of the North Russia Relief Force against the Bolsheviks Photographing: Rorke’s Drift, 1879 In the second part of his Zulu wars photo expose, Pat Smith takes us through the almost hopeless defence of the
