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Other Related Sites
National/Regional Colonial Histories
General British History
The
British
Empire
(Valuable site dedicated to all aspects, including
arts and
sciences, as well as military.)
The
British Colonial Wars,
1797-1903
(Another recent site with loads of information for
our period.)
19th Century
British and Indian
Armies
Land Forces Of
Britain, Empire, And The Commonwealth
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South Africian History
Cape Frontier Wars Message Group
Rorke's Drift
Victoria Cross
Recipients
An excellent Zulu War Site!
Victorian
Voices
Eyewitness accounts and newspaper reports from the
Zulu War
The Anglo Zulu
War
Written by Ian Knight, This site is not only about
the Zulu War. It
also contains loads of information about the history and
culture of the
Zulu people before and after the war. A real must see
site!
Battlefields
(Part of a Tour Site associated with Ian Knight,
this page is
CRAMMED with information on South African battle sites and
historical
data.)
The
Great Trek
(Site dedicated to the Boer Voortrekkers and their
battles.)
The South
African Military
History Society
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Other National Histories4>
The
King's Carbine -
Nuno Pereira's guide to Portuguese colonial history
German Colonial
Page
(The text is in German, but there are loads of
pics.)
Ian Croxall's
Morroccan History Page
(For those of you interested in the Red Shadow or
colonial gaming in
Morocco/Algeria)
Americans
in
the Egyptian Army
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Weapons And Fortifications
The
Springfield Armory
National Historic Site's Cyber Museum
(Invaluable resource on weapons for the Colonial
Era, and others,
with color photos and complete tech details. Important
resource for early
Machine Guns and Spanish-American War period weapons.
Highly
recommended!)
Research
Reference Notes
(19th Century Military Firearms and British Military
History
described in contemporary technical articles. Excellent
resource!)
Military
Rifles In The Age
Of Transition, 1865-1888
(Specifically dedicated to non-U.S. weapons)
The Grand Atlas
Of 20th Century Spanish Artillery
(A marvelous resource, especially for 1898, but
you'd better brush
up your Espagnol as that's the only language they've
got!)
Fortifications At
Vladivostock
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Specific Campaigns
Abyssinia--1868
(Another fine site with tons of info on this most
bizarre
campaign.)
My
God--Maiwand!
(An entire site dedicated to the battle with
valuable contemporary
sources.)
The 1871 U.S.
Korean Campaign
(A neat little site with loads of contemporary
newspaper and other
accounts, with photos and uniform data.)
Shared
Experience
(Part of the Shared Experience Homepage, this
portion covers
Mexican/Texican history with emphasis on the wars,
including 1846-48 and
others.)
The National Army
Museum
Spanish-American War
Centennial Website
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Naval History
H.M.S.
Warrior
Page
(Fascinating info and views of this remarkable
Victorian
Warship.)
The USS
Vesuvius, Dynamite Cruiser
(The wierd experimental warship that flexed its
muscles off Cuba in
'98. Remarkable photographs and links to more data on The
Great White
Fleet.)
The
Amazing Huascar
(An amazing site, in English, dedicated to the
famous Peruvian
warship with color photos of her restored appearance, and
data on guns,
etc., including some fabulous 3-D imagaes perfect for
modelers.
Inconceivable!)
Trenches
on the Web -
Timeline: 1870-1914 - The Austro-Italian Naval Race
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The Wild West
The Denver
Public Library
(A useful collection of Wild West photos.)
The
West
(The PBS Homepage for the Ken Burns Documentary with
loads of photos
and stories.)
The Wild West
The Wild West Skirmish Game Page
Jim
Janke's Old West Page
Kansas
Gunfighters
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General Military History
Mal. Wright's
Battles And Research Page
(Australia's Premier Wargames And Military History
site with
invaluable info on damn near everything!)
Military
History
(A remarkable resource for world military history.
One of the
BEST!)
The
History Net
Victorian
Military Miscellany
(Bob Cordery strikes again! Go and see some great
photos with more
to come!)
British
Wargames' Wargames
and Military History Search Engine
The
University Of Texas On Line Map Library
(Article archives and more from the publishers of
"Military History
Magazine")
Savage &
Soldier Online
(The best Colonial magazine that ever saw print--or
internet
reprint!)
Defence
Journal- A
monthly magazine for the Armed Forces of Pakistan
You can find some good history articles here!
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Victorian Flavor
Charles
Booth's 1889
Descriptive Map Of London Poverty
(A remarkable, tiled, full color map, perfect for
role-playing games
or those jsut wishing more information about the great city
at the height
of our era.)
The
Victorian Web Overview
Harappa--Glimpses Of
South Asia Before 1947
(Photos, maps, artifacts, and more, especially for
the era of the
Raj. "Must see" for British India buffs!)
The Martin & Osa
Johnson Safari
Museum
(Located in Chanute, Kansas, it has artifacts, a
library, and even
films taken in Africa, Borneo, and the South Seas from 1910
to 1935.)
Around The World
In The 1890's
(Photographs from the World Transportation
Commission, 1894-96)
The
Maneaters Of Tsavo
(The true story behind "The Devil In The Darkness"
with great
photos.)
Rajah
Brooke And 19th Century Sarawak
(Your one stop shopping place for everything to do
with the "White
Rajahs", Dyaks, and The Dutch East Indies)
The
Durbar
(Link for those with interest in the Sikhs and
Sikhism.)
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Free Translation
Services
Provides translations in several different languages
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Games And Accessories
Free Rules And Rules Development
Wargames World Hobbies
Wargames Worlds Hobby Site. Terrain & Miniatures Gallery, Projects, Game Reports, Free Products and much more! Fantasy & Historical
Free
Colonial Wargame Rules Page
(Courtesy of the peripatetic Mr. Tim Peterson. Go
Get 'Em!)
The
Wargames
Development Network
(A remarkable resource for all wargame designers and
a must see to
those so inclined.)
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Wargames Research
British
Wargames' Wargames and
Military History Search Engine
Mal. Wright's
Battles And Research Page
(Australia's Premier Wargames And Military History
site with
invaluable info on damn near everything!)
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Specific Games
Tim's
Pony Wars
Page
The Old Moulmein
Pagoda
(The Colonial Diplomacy Website)
Sir Peter In Darkest
Africa - by
James Stuht
The heretofore unknown explorations of that madabout,
gadabout Sir
Peter de G. as he bashes his way across the unknown reaches
of the Dark
Continent
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Wargame Accessories
Steel Navy - Ship
Modeling Site
(The Web's Best Ship Modeling Site!)
Ian Croxhall's
Warflags Page
(Beautiful work, and some nifty flags for Colonials
use--Downloadable & Free!)
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General Wargaming Sites
Description of the Site: Wargames Worlds Hobby Site.
Terrain & Miniatures Gallerys, Projects, Game Reports, Free
Gaming Products and much more!
Warhammer, Fantasy, Sci Fi and Historical periods covered.
The
Universal
General
A history of the early days of wargaming and reports
on the author's
"Afriborian Campaign". by Rudi Geudens
Major-General
Tremordon
Rederring's
Colonial Wargames Site
(Most highly recommended! Come here for a breath of
pure
inspiration!)
Ed Allen's
Colonial
Wargaming Page
(The definitive list of all things pertaining to
Colonial
Wargaming.)
Savage &
Soldier Online
(The best Colonial magazine that ever saw print--or
internet
reprint!)
Trevor's
Colonial Wargames Page
Steve's
Wargames Page
Bob
Cordery's Colonial Wargames Page
(Check out this intricate fantasy campaign.)
Gisby's
Page
(Tim Peterson's new and recently expanded site
dedicated to
Victorian Adventure Gaming with lots of supporting
info.)
Web Grognards
THE Most comprehensive board wargaming site on the
web today. Web
Grognards provides senarios, errata, addendum and variants
to almost every
wargame ever produced; along with freebies, rules
translations and links to
every wargame manufacturer and producer in the known
universe.
ConSimWorld
Want to keep up with what wargames titles are in
production. Is Game
"X" a hit or a bomb? Want to talk to over 6,500 like minded
individuals on
everything from Panzergruppe Guderian to
SPQR?
Then ConSimWorld (especially the discussion area) is the
site for you!
Line of
Departure
Line of Departure is a quarterly magazine dedicated
to
"professional-quality strategy and analysis articles, along
with reviews,
scenarios, variants, and expansions". They also have one
Heck of a links
page!
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Board Wargames
Kyber
Pass Games
Exquisite board games produced by Andrew Preziosi,
Dennis Bishop
(both editors at By Jingo!), and Jesus Mateo (Author of the
Battle For
Baler series).
Web Grognards
THE Most comprehensive board wargaming site on the
web today. Web
Grognards provides senarios, errata, addendum and variants
to almost every
wargame ever produced; along with freebies, rules
translations and links to
every wargame manufacturer and producer in the known
universe.
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Science Fiction And Alternative History Sites
20,000
Leagues - James Mason
A site about the Disney Classic
Plans
and
Pictures of the Nautilus
Website by Phil Broad
The
Adventures Of Sir Peter de Gee Web Page
(James Stuht's own home page for his Darkest Africa
adventures,
beautifully illustrated with his work. One of Sir Peter's
first adventures
appears elsewhere in BY JINGO!, so go see what he's been up
to!)
Radium League:
The
Future That Could Have Been
The
Official Decline of
Empire Webpage
(A fantasy game with wonderful ship models
and
information!)
Victorian Science
Fantasy PBEM RPG
Aeronef
(A Victorian Era alternate history site emphasizing
decidedly wizard
19th Century flying machines.)
The
Mogdonazia Campaign
(Tod Creasy's fictional East African game, with full
particulars.)
The
Official
Campaign For India
(A fictional campaign game with a good sense of time
and place.)
The
Peshawar
Gazette
(The fictional derring-do of "McDuff To The
Frontier"--Fun!)
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Commercial & Craft Resources
Amazon
Miniatures
Manufacturers of 25mm Biblical, Ancient, Historical,
Fantasy and
Future Wars.
15mm Biblical, Acients, and ACW.
Microscale tanks and spaceships
And
That's The Way It
Was...
(High quality professional designers of historical
dioramas with
some beautiful examples. Go and drool!)
The
Courier
The "Classic" American historical wargaming journal,
now an
excellent on line source as well.
Italwars
Superior line of 20mm and 28mm wargame figures
sculpted in Italy by
Pier Paolo Triglia well representing Italian Colonial
adventures in Africa
(Abbyssinia, Libya, etc.), as well as both World Wars.
Model
Designs & Craft
(Suppliers of figures, resin models and scenery
(including a VSF
range).
Battleground
(The FREE resourse for Wargamers and Modellers. This
site contains
articles about figure design, terrain and building making
and just about
anything to do with tabletop gaming.)
The 19th
Century Miniatures
News Page
(Part of Bill Armintrout's professional Website with
news and info
on virtually everything to do with wargames and
miniatures.)
Tim Peterson's
"Unofficial"
Foundry Site
(The last word in updates and free games, painting
data, etc. for
Foundry Products, as well as other links.)
The Foundry &
Wargames
Foundry OFFICIAL Website
(Thoroughly illustrated and loaded with free,
downloadable rules and
articles. Indispensable for Foundry customers.)
Signifer
(10, 15, & 25mm Franco-Prussian War, and 15 and 25mm
Crimean War
Flags--and other goodies!)
Reviresco
(Manufacturer of white metal wargaming figures and
equipment. See
their new Colonial Era British Train and rolling stock!
Gorgeous!)
Langley
Miniature
Models
(A British company selling beautiful 0
and 00 scale
buildings and accessories for Victorian era street scenes,
plus toy
soldiers H.G. Wells would have envied!)
Sabrina Von Horn
Studios
(Beautiful Adobe and Tiled type models, well priced!
Go Look!)
POP
Enterprises
(Another Brit with very good buildings for gaming
and a good
selection for the Darkest Africa range.)
Military Miniature
Bookstore
(Excellent source for obscure books on all aspects
of painting and
modeling for wargamers and collectors.)
Kings X Toy
Soldiers
(Exquisite collectible figures, not at all
"toys"!)
Game
Tech SPACE: 1889 Catalog
The RLBPSB
Home Page
(Providers of Honorable Lead Boiler Suit Company
miniatures and
other products for Colonialists.)
Mania:
Hot Lead! Index
MindSim Corperation's War Games 2000 CD
An overview of their excellent compilation of war game
related
material.
The London
War Room
A wide selection of figures, buildings, terrain, and
accessories.
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And, Lest We Forget,...
The Flashman
Papers
The Royal
Flashman
Society
Flashman
Society of the United Kingdom
(Probably the most outrageous site on this most
outrageous cad!)
"McGonagall's
Military Verse(collected and assembled by Bob Cordery)
And, finally, the very soul of our interests!
The
Complete Kipling Site
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Some Highly Recommended Print
Magazines
The Heliograph, Edited by Richard Brooks:
Rt.6, Box 771,
Saluda, SC 29138 (864) 445-3039 (brooks@saludasc.com).
Subscriptions are
$12 American, $15 Canadian, 15 Pounds (Airmail) Europe, 10
Pounds
(Surface).
The longest running Colonial newsletter currently in print
(issue #108 just
came out). Always full of the latest product news and
reviews, it is as
regular as Prussian clockwork and twice as reliable. A
"must" resource for
Colonial gamers everywhere! Check it out!
Back issues available from Mr. Robert W. Burke, Jr.,
4726 Appaloosa Ct.,
Antioch, CA 94509. Prices are $1.50 per issue for issues
1-91; $2.00 per
issue starting with #92. Issue #1 is free upon request
with any order.
Issue 79-80 is a double issue (counts as one issue for
ordering) and there
is no issue 96 (due to a numbering error).
Overseas orders should add an extra dollar per issue for
Air Mail for
issues #1-91, $2.00 per issue starting with #92. In the
alternative,
overseas customers can send £5.00 for every two issues.
Overseas customers
who are interested in ordering large numbers of back issues
are welcome to
contact me for a price quote on Air Mail postage.
There is a 10% discount on all orders of $20.00 or more
of The
Heliograph.
HELIOGRAPH INDEX: The Heliograph Index covers issues
#1-60. The cost
is $10.00, including postage. Overseas orders should add
an extra $2.00
for Air Mail. Bob
Burke
Savage & Soldier: The all time classic
Colonial Hobbyist's
magazine, now being reproduced on the Internet by former
Editor, Milton
Soong. Photocopies of back issues are available from Bob
Burke. Cost is
$2.75 per issue, which includes postage within the US.
Overseas orders
should add an extra dollar per issue for Air Mail to cover
the cost of
international postage. In the alternative, overseas
customers can send
£5.00 for every two issues.
Currently available are Volume 1, #1 to Vol. 24, #4,
with the exception
of
Vol 1, #3 (Three free copies of any issues are offered for
a copy of this
missing issue). There are 4 issues per volume, with the
following
exceptions:
- Vol. 1 had six issues (I'm missing #3)
- Vol. 3 had only two issues
- Vol. 5, #1-2 is a double issue (counts as one issue for
ordering)
SPECIAL SAVAGE & SOLDIER ISSUE ON THE SUDAN: Photocopies
of this special
issue are also available. This issue included 4 color
uniform plates.
This issue costs $2.75 for black and white, or $7.50 for
color.
ORIGINAL ISSUES: There are a limited number of original
issues
available. They include:
- Vol. 17, #1 Vol. 19, #3-4
- Vol. 18, #2 Vol. 20, #2 through Vol. 24, #4
For a limited time only, each issues costs is $2.50.
Photocopies of
these issues will not be available while originals remain
in stock.
Original and good quality photocopies of Volumes 1-6 of
Savage and Soldier
(especially Vol 1, #3) are sought by Mr. Burke. He is
willing to trade
issues of Savage and Soldier or The
Heliograph
in exchange. E-Mail Bob
Burke for
details.
The Midwest Wargamer's Association Newsletter
(MWAN),
Edited by Hal Thinglum: 22554 Pleasant Drive, Richton Park,
IL 60471.
Subscriptions are $35 a year for six issues. The best
general wargaming
magazine in the U.S., unsurpassed for regular production,
breadth of
subjects, and editorial good sense. Almost every issue has
modeling
information, historical articles, and whole rules sets,
many of which are
directed to Colonials.
El Dorado Journal (The South and
Central American
Military Historians Society Quarterly) is printed in
booklet form with
stiff wraps and averages some fifty plus pages an issue.
Departments
include Book Search (a detailed listing of worthy South,
Central, Latin
American and Caribbean military titles), one or two uniform
articles drawn
directly from official "reglements" and several articles on
military
(including naval and aerial) conflicts ranging from circa
1775 to present.
Along with several maps, the "highlight" of every issue are
several pages
of black and white line drawings, plates and uniform
cut-aways from such
noted military artists as C.A. Norman, Jose Belaguere and
others.
El Dorado is the premier history magazine
involving all subjects
military in the America's. Recent and on-going articles
include the
"Spanish Defence of the America's" (so far in nine parts),
"The
Peru-Bolivian Confederation vs. Chile, 1837-39" (the
precursor to the Great
Pacific War and now in its fourth installment), "Imperial
Brazilian
Uniforms During the War of the Triple Alliance, 1866-70,"
and much, much
more! Some back issues are still available and the "Best of
El Dorado,
Volume One" will be printed in the near future.
The Journal is Edited and Published quarterly by Terry
Hooker. Available
in the UK (L6.75) and Europe (L7.50) from him at #27
Hallgate, Cottingham,
East Yorks, HU16-4DN. It is also available in the Americas
from Paul V.
Walsh (3412 Huey Ave, Drexel Hill, PA 19026-2311) for
$25.00 (U.S.) and
Pounds L12.50 (S.A.). El Dorado is also available through
Magweb!
The Courier, the longest running "pro
'zine" in the United
States, published quarterly, is lovingly edited by the
one-the-only Dick
Bryant. Its life long focus has been, and remains,
HISTORICAL gaming and
has always well served the Colonial Wargaming community (it
was the
original home of Dave Waxtel's classic campaign game
system, The Sun
Never Sets, among other things). Visit The
Courier at its
new Web Site, or write Dick at PO Box 1878, Brockton MA
02303 for
subscription, back issue, and all manner of useful
information.
...And finally, the primary archive for all "Print"
wargame magazines on
all topics (including Colonial/19th Century), created by
the--literal--"Editor of Editors," Mr. Russ
Lockwood...MagWeb!
Imagine finding back issues of gaming magazines on-line
where you can
down load the text and complete graphics of any of the
magazines that you
might be starving for in your collection. Whoda thunk
someone would thunk
of it! It's a masterful notion, and the folks there should
be pounded
roundly on the back for thinking of doing it for us gamers.
For a modest sum you can have access to all of the 57
magazines and
thousands of articles, maps, uniform drawings,
illustrations, orders of
battle, and more that feed our ever-burning hunger for
"game stuff" Not
only are there all the articles in the issues of the
'zines, but none of
the ads. The editorial staff there is also busy knocking
out articles
themselves including battlefield tours, sample book
chapters, news, book
and game reviews, and historical summaries. All this is
yours for $5.00 a
month. One of the nice things about these guys is that they
turn some of
that money back to the magazines they have on-line, so they
can afford to
stay in business and provide us all with hours of pleasure
and tons of
gaming information. This is a Five-Star Premium Site for
any gamer - Check
it out! (Reviewed by Staff Editor Scott Saylors.)
MagWeb
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Let us also call to your attention Wargame
Developments (WD), a
group of like-minded wargamers dedicated to developing
wargames. It is a
non-commercial organisation, and its aims are:
- To provide a forum for the exchange of new ideas
and concepts.
- To develop both new and existing methods of
recreating military
conflicts.
Wargame Developments was founded in 1980, and since then
it has pursued
its aims in several different ways. These include:
- Running an annual conference (COW - formerly the
Conference Of
Wargamers and now know as the Course fOr Wargamers).
- Publishing a regular journal (The NUGGET) that is
sent to all
members nine times per year.
- Putting on participation games at major wargames
shows in the UK
in order to demonstrate the sort of developments in
wargaming that are
being undertaken by members of WD.
- Supporting groups of members who are working
together to develop
particular ideas and concepts (e.g. Megablitz--a set of
operational level
rules for twentieth century warfare--and Matrix Games).
Anyone who has an active interest in developing
wargaming can join
Wargame Developments. The current cost of the annual
subscription is:
£16.00 - UK, BFPO, and Europe £24.00 - Rest of the World
(Please add £5.00
conversion charge if paying in any currency other than
£Sterling) and the
subscription year runs from August to August.
To join WD send a cheque, International Money Order, or
Postal Order -
made payable to Wargame Developments - with your name and
address to:
Wargame Developments, 84, Eglinton Hill, Shooters Hill,
London, SE18 3DY,
UK If you would like to have further information about
Wargame Developments
and its activities, write to the address shown above or
send an e-mail to
Wargame
Developments.
If you are writing for further information about WD,
enclose a stamped
and self-addressed envelope or IRC with your letter.
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