Combat Tiers
This brand-new game aid gives you the ability to show elevation ranging from 10` to 50` with the base set, extension sets give you the ability to add 10` to 90` to the base unit.
No longer are ranges reduced to estimations - know exactly how the battle unfolds with Combat Tiers
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Featuring specially commissioned artwork, this absorbing study examines the origins, combat role, and battlefield performance of the Soviet Union`s paratroopers and their Mujahideen adversaries during the long and bloody Soviet involvement in Afghanistan during the 1980s.
THE TYPHOON WAS THE RAF`S CHOSEN HEAVYWEIGHT FIGHTER-BOMBER TO SUPPORT THE BRITISH AND CANADIAN ARMIES DURING THE INVASION OF NORTHWEST EUROPE
Italy`s Sparviero (Sparrowhawk) saw combat with the Regia Aeronautica in France, Yugoslavia, Greece, North Africa, East Africa, and in the Mediterranean versus the Royal Navy
The Winter War was supposed to be a quick and easy conflict
DESIGNED TO COMBINE THE BOMBING CAPABILITY OF THE B-26 MARAUDER WITH THE VERSATILITY OF THE GROUND-ATTACK A-20 HAVOC, THE A-26 INVADER WOULD BECOME THE USAAF`S ATTACK BOMBER PAR EXCELLENCE
WHEN IRAQ INVADED KUWAIT IN AUGUST 1990, A COALITION OF NATIONS LAUNCHED OPERATION DESERT SHIELD IN ORDER TO DEFEND SAUDI ARABIA
Operation Torch, launched on November 8, 1942, landed Anglo-American forces in Vichy-controlled Morocco and Algeria to create a second front against the Axis forces in North Africa, catching Rommel`s German and Italian forces in the claws of a giant pincer
By the end of the first week of November 1942, the German Sixth Army held about 90-percent of Stalingrad
This book is the third of three volumes on US Marine Corps Harrier II`s in combat, and the first volume in print to cover the whole story of the AV-8B`s service employment during peacekeeping operations and then in Afghanistan.
Although the F-4 Phantom II was the most important fighter-bomber to see action with all three American services during the Vietnam War, it was essentially a US Navy design, and the carrier-borne squadron crews were its main operators in combat
The untold story of A-10 units in Operation Enduring Freedom reaches its conclusion with this second of two volumes focusing on the type`s combat missions in Afghanistan
During the American Civil War, the Union and the Confederacy both fielded units of sharpshooters
Operation Market Garden was an Allied plan to try and end the war before the end of 1944, and relied on landing airborne troops to secure bridges over the Rhine bridges in the Netherlands
Petlyakov`s Pe-2 was the most numerous Soviet twin-engined bomber of World War 2, the aircraft being used as a dive-bomber, ground attack platform, and dedicated reconnaissance type.
The Allied airborne and amphibious landings in Normandy on D-Day on June 6, 1944, opened up the long-awaited Second Front against Nazi Germany, but after overcoming the German coastal defenses at Utah and `Bloody Omaha,` the US Army found itself having to contest every hedgerow and street in a night
AN ICON OF AMERICAN MILITARY MIGHT DURING THE COLD WAR, THE LOCKHEED SR-71 `BLACKBIRD` HAD COVERED ITSELF IN GLORY DURING THE AIRCRAFT`S DEBUT IN OVER-FLIGHTS OF NORTH VIETNAM AND NORTH KOREA
By the time the Korean War erupted, the F-51 Mustang was seen as obsolete, but that view quickly changed when the USAF rushed 145 of them to the theatre in late 1950
Of the RAF`s trio of four-engined heavy bombers in World War 2, the mighty Short Stirling was the first to enter service in August 1940
Hawker`s charismatic Tempest V entered RAF service just in time to be the most successful counter to the V1 flying bomb assault on southern England in the summer of 1944
When Hitler`s forces poured into France and the Low Countries in 1940, the uneasy peace of the `Phoney War` was shattered, and Europe was ripped apart by another Blitzkrieg
Operating from aircraft carriers off the Korean coast, F9Fs helped stop the North Korean invasion within two weeks of the communists crossing the 38th Parallel
The Harrier II jet saw conflict in Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm (Gulf War), Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan), and Iraqi Freedom (Iraq War)
In this arresting account of small-unit combat, David R
THE BEST OF THE THREE RAF JET BOMBERS IN THE EARLY YEARS OF THE COLD WAR, THE VULCAN WAS DESIGNED AS THE AVRO 698
This engaging study pits the volunteers of Kitchener`s `New Armies` against the German veterans who defended the Somme sector in the bloody battles of July-November 1916.
For centuries, the crossbow had dominated the battlefields of continental Europe, with mercenaries from Genoa and Brabant in particular filling the ranks of the French army, yet on the outbreak of the Hundred Years` War they came up against a more powerful foe
At the turn of the 20th century, the region of Manchuria sat atop a potentially catastrophic political fault line
Waged across an inhospitable terrain which varied from open African savannah to broken mountain country and arid semi-desert, the Anglo-Boer wars of 188081 and 18991902 pitted the British Army and its allies against the Boers` commandos
The Rangers: Rise of War is an Adventure Battle Game featuring four factions - The Humans of the kingdom of Olaran, the Wood Elves, The Orcs, and Shadow Elves - in a battle for the control of Adrasil.
The Greco-Persian Wars convulsed Greece, Asia Minor, and the Near East for half a century
This volume details the technical features and operational performance of the Soviet Su-25 `Frogfoot`, which proved itself as a durable and versatile attack aircraft in a variety of theatres such as Afghanistan, Georgia, and Ossetia.
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THE B-24 LIBERATOR WAS THE MAINSTAY OF THE US ARMY AIR FORCE`S STRATEGIC BOMBING EFFORT IN THE CHINA-BURMA-INDIA (CBI) THEATRE FROM 1942 UNTIL THE END OF THE WAR IN 1945
This gripping study offers key insights into the tactics, leadership, combat performance and subsequent reputations of six representative Chindit and Japanese infantry units involved in three pivotal actions that hastened Japan`s defeat in Burma during World War II.
WHILE THE F-105 THUNDERCHIEF AND F-4 PHANTOM FLEW THE MAJORITY OF THE FIGHTER-BOMBER MISSIONS OVER NORTH VIETNAM, THE THUNDERCHIEF`S SERVICE PREDECESSOR, THE F-100 SUPER SABRE, STAYED ON TO FIGHT THE AIR WAR IN SOUTH VIETNAM UNTIL JUNE 1971
The Axis invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941 pitted Nazi Germany and her allies against Stalins forces in a mighty struggle for survival
In the three decades following Vietnam, the veteran A-6 Intruder remained the most powerful strike aircraft available to the US Navy and Marine Corps
With the Third Reich on the brink of defeat, Hitler`s instructions to his designers were clear
The Douglas A-3 Skywarrior, though something of a cult favorite, remains a largely unremarked classic of Naval Aviation
Flying from and between bases in China and India, the B-25s bombed every type of Japanese target during World War 2 in the China-Burma-India (CBI) Theater, ultimately dropping more bombs than their larger four-engined B-24 Liberator brethren
The savage partisan war on the Eastern Front during World War II saw a wide variety of forces deployed by both sides
COMBAT COMMANDER IS A CARD-DRIVEN BOARD GAME SERIES COVERING TACTICAL INFANTRY COMBAT BETWEEN AXIS AND ALLIED FORCES IN THE EUROPEAN AND NORTH AFRICAN THEATERS OF WORLD WAR II.
The theme of this Battle Pack shifts to actions in France, Belgium, and Norway from late April to June 1940, looking at critical moments in this brief span where the forces of both sides tested each other sorely
Combat Commander Tournament Battle Pack #7 - Leader of Men features twelve scenarios, two new maps, a tournament guidelines booklet, and a tournament record card template.