Wargames, Soldiers and Strategy 141

Roman Italy, invaded! Even before Hannibal menaced Rome with his famous alpine expedition, other forces were pushing into the young republic and causing trouble.

• Guy Bowers, 'Enemies at the gates - Invasions of the Roman Republic'.
• James Dilworth, 'Brennus ad portas - The Senone Gauls defeat the fledgling republic'.
• Robert Lister, 'The Pyrrhic victory - Rome versus the Epirotes at Asculum, 279 BC'.
• Mark Backhouse, 'The Battle of Ticinus and Trebia - Hannibal's invasion of Italy in 218 BC'.
• Guy Bowers, 'The elephant in the room - wargaming with the tanks of the ancient world'.
• Andrés Amián, 'Stompin' time - Creating a pachyderm for WS&S'.

• Warwich Louth, 'Monmouth's first rebellion - The Battle of Bothwell Brig, 22 June 1679'.
• David Hiscocks, 'Learning from the Boers - A scenario from The Defence of Duffer's Drift'.
• Jasper Oorthuys, 'It's not easy being king - The British Airbornes' last day on the Oosterbeek perimeter'.
• Mark Bretherton, 'Twilight of the Reich - The 1945 Siege of Königsberg's final moments'.
• Paul Mackay, 'Closing the gates of Hougoumont - Making walls the walls of a Waterloo-themed diorama'.
• Andy Lilof, 'Remodelling Panzer Lehr - Dealing with minis that don't meet expectations'.

• Miniature reviews
• Rick Priestley, 'This Gaming Life - Do you know the Bishop of Norwich?'.
• Phil Millard, 'The Irregular - Making a game of it'.
  
• Robert Lister and Guy Bowers, 'Let's try playing Battleground HD - Rules for gaming the Cold War – any beyond'. 
• Travis Pogson, 'Let's play Sand - "This is my desert. Arrakis. My Dune"'.
• Eoghan Kelly, Chris King, and Chris Payne, 'Game reviews - Armies of the British Commonwealth (a Bolt Action 3rd ed. supplement), Junction Jeopardy, On Bloody Ground, and Battle Maps for Miniature Wargamers'.
• Book reviews
• Parting shots