’s largest ethnic group and the Taliban’s primary source of support, tribes are particularly important... stabilizing the long-suffering country.
However some Afghans see the tribes as inherently anachronis... overnment could never control. A warning that has some basis in the experience following the Soviet withdrawal.
===== Pashtun heartland =====
The larges
to the first phase of basic training most western soldiers go through. All non-infantry Militia (excep... t officers) fight at this level if required to do so as infantry. At this level only basic weapons can... cers) will fight at this standard if forced to do so in an infantry role. Militia infantry and GF non-... | Each stand represents a squad of about 8 to 10 soldiers, officers are individually based. Each crew
your confidence in us, after having seen how far so many of your nobility and gentry have owned our d... terest and inclinations of the people, that after so much trouble and great suffering, they may live h... side all animosities and factions that may impede so good a work.
We were glad to find that so many of the nobility and gentry, when here at London, were
the wife of King James VII and II gave birth to a son. This brought home to those that he had upset wi... number of English nobles and bishops invited his son-in-law, Prince William of Orange, to come to Eng... William of Orange landed at Torbay in the extreme South West of England the Scots army (then commanded... vil war.
The King fled to London, where he made some attempts to persuade William not to proceed. Wh
re to meet together at our good town of Edinburgh some time in this instant March by the usurped autho... fulness and affection of your our Ancient People, so much that in our greatest misfortunes heretofore ... tance and that with good success to our affairs.
So now again we require of you to support our royal ... ur posterity, the gracious promises which we have so often made of securing your religion, laws, prope
've also designed and run a fair number of games, some of which I still have the rules/briefings electronically (there were a few games and some design sessions that were done without pre-prep... and never got written up effectively afterwards, so not everything is available).
===== Games in Pr... tions for running them. This means that there are some half-finished, or just started projects that lu
ext couple of days I expect to post the rules and some of the general background briefing on this page... ules:clwg:coin:islam.pdf|Short guide to Islam}} - some background on Islam, key beliefs and some of the bits that could be relevant to those living in a c... full depth, but sufficient for an outsider to get some limited insight.
===== Game Description =====
Earl of Argyll (born 25th July 1658).
The eldest son of Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll and Ma... hter of James Stuart, 4th Earl of Moray, Campbell sought to recover his father's estates (by moving in... James VII's favour). However, after failing to do so, he supported William and Mary's quest for the th
====== Logs ======
There is a famous((obviously so famed that I've forgotten the source)) quote that: "//Amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logis... . (Heinz Guderian)
You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge ... = Main items =====
The following items could have some direct impact on how a unit operates.
^ Item
====== Morale ======
The morale of the soldier is the greatest single
factor in war. (Field mars... has to be tested for more than one group then do so in the following order.
* all attacking groups
ore to a combination of //Plan A// and //Starship Soldier// all of which were written by Jim Wallman. ... it should cope with things too big for ‘Starship Soldier’ and too small for ‘Plan A’ in a way broadly... e craft on each side with perhaps one side having some shuttles to conduct a landing from orbit.
===... les:wargames:universe:070830-biacorerules-vb3-jmk.pdf|full rules}} (all 15 pages so far) also as a PDF
it should cope with things too big for 'Starship Soldier' and too small for 'Plan A' in a way broadly... e craft on each side with perhaps one side having some shuttles to conduct a landing from orbit.
===... f similar capability to artillery. There might be some attempt using shuttles, pacifiers or marines to... to a quick lookup table with a set of factors and some way of working out how long it will take.
Shu
er title...
I also need to properly organise it, so far it is just an ideas dump of things I thought ... r roles (platoon and company commanders) and also some of the NCO roles that often get subsumed (i.e. ... s.
In short what I want is a game that captures some of the teamwork involved in battles and also sh... ==
As always I follow the maxim of '//two down//' so for a game where players are the platoon commande
ndee. After a few weeks he had gathered about him some of his very loyal troop of Horse. They rode out... _-_rules_-_bonnie_dundee_-_jmk.pdf|Rules}}
There are also some briefings, but will upload those later
