What's new

What's new ...

Recent updates to this site

19 September

Russian cavalry combined operations, an extract from "Four Weeks in the Trenches: The War Story of a Violinist", by Fritz Kreisler, added to 'The twilight years: Cavalry in World War 1"
Retired 'Gallipoli' special feature

11 September

Scenario generation system first draft posted to site

21 August

Photos of Australian Light Horse added to the Home page, and the Picture Gallery.

17 August

Further Great War Spearhead musings, written by rules author Shawn Taylor

1 August

Breaking the line: a photo report of a battle set in 1915 using the new scenario generation system

23 June

A big chicken from a little egg... some aircraft ideas for the war games table

19 June

Photo after action report on A hot day's work added to AAR page

7 June

The World War 1 cavalry of Nuno Cabeçadas added to Cavalry feature page

28 April

Additional photos of 1914 French added to French army feature

19 April

Added FT17 photos to the Nuno Cabeçadas feature

14 April

Additional photo added to the Nuno Cabeçadas feature

12 April

The World War 1 vehicles and guns of Nuno Cabeçadas added to Special Features section

6 April

Jon Harding's 20mm French army added to Feature Armies section
Picture Gallery amended

24 March

Photos of Jon Harding's French added to the Picture Gallery

29 January

Making barbed wire entanglements: photos from, and link to, Tim Brown's blog with some great ideas, added to the Resources section.

23 January

Photos of 15mm Eureka Australian Light Horse figures added to 'The twilight years'

11 January

New page 'A typical desert patrol' added to 'The twilight years'

30 December

Edited Cavalry feature, amended articles to web pages, and added photos
Added photos of HaT Canadian heavy weapons to the Picture Gallery

27 December

Retired 'Painting wargames figures' page
Added special feature: 'The twilight years: Cavalry in world war one'

25 October

Map grids provided in .pdf format on the Resources page for quick map drawing

2 September

Brief photo after action report on the action up the Euphrates to capture Nasariyeh.

26 August

Up the river to Nasiriyeh 1915 added to the scenarios section

4 July

Advanced Guard 1914: Mike Hennessy's after action report of this exciting action can be found on the AAR page.

13 May

Affair at Abu Tulul added to the scenarios page

2 May

Links updated with Hong Kong Society of Wargamers

23 April

Advanced guard scenario added to scenarios page

18 March

'Battle of the Silver Helmets' added to the Scenarios page

4 March

'Fighting in the Garden of Eden', a 'what if' scenario based around Qurna, added to Scenarios section.

19 January

New 'Feature Army': Kieran Mahoney's 15mm Eureka Turkish Division

9 January

Scenarios index page re-formatted

19 December

Added six photos of BB Miniatures Indian Cavalry and Infantry to Photo gallery.

15 November

First 'Feature army" added: Andy Gorman's Turkish forces.

12 November

Pre-release HaT German Colonial Infantry added to Photo gallery

30 October

Shifted beginners' scenarios 'Rolling with the punches', and 'A hot day's work' from Yahoo Group files to 'The Great Adventure'

8 October

'All arms counterpunch' scenario and after action report added.
Added link to Andy Gorman's home page 'The Painting Studio'... Andy offers a good value painting service.

4 October

Photos of painted pre-release HaT Serbian Infantry added to Photo gallery

3 October

Added further titles to the World War 1 Sources page

11 September

After Action Report 'Breakout from Suvla Bay', by the Exiles War games Club of London, added to AARs page
Photos of HaT American Infantry added to photo gallery and index page

24 August

'Crisis in the Balkans' transferred to 'The Great Adventure'

22 August

Added link to site featuring maps of Austria Hungary circa 1910

20 August

Added BEF and German cavalry photos to picture gallery and on home page

16 August

Added link to Kieran Mahoney's '6mm war games' site, which includes some nice 6mm material based for GWSH.

14 August

Added World War 1 sources reference page

8 August

Summary of rules additions and clarifications added to Resources page
Home page updated
Added links to scenarios on Great War Spearhead Official page

1 August

Battle of Neuve Chapelle added to the After Action Reports

24 July

Base labels added to Resources page, new photograph of HaT Bedouin (masquerading as Arab irregulars in Palestine 1915), posted to Photo Gallery..

22 July

Battle of Shaiba added to After Action reports.

12 July

Updated links page with World War 1 research site.

17 June

Posted further links to two Balkan Wars scenarios available from Dave Watson's Balkan Wars page.

11 June

Links updated with Rich Baier's Spearhead: France 1944 web site, and an excellent Verdun 1916 resource site.

10 June

Added link to Great War Spearhead Battalion data sheet creator

4 June

Link to Plastic Soldier Review placed on Links page

26 May

Modeling trench sections added to Resources page

12 May

Photos of HaT FT17 added to picture gallery

2 May

Breakout from Suvla scenario added

25 April

Dardanelles timeline up-dated. Future up-dates will not be individually noted.

18 April

Photos of Irregular ANZAC MMG, and HaT German Heavy weapons, added to Photo gallery.
Shawn Taylor writes.. some thoughts on war gaming WW1,

5 April

Introductory Dardanelles campaign page, and campaign timeline, added.

2 April

Additional photos added to the Photo gallery. Scroll to the bottom of the gallery to see the photos of the LW German 1914 Cavalry, and the HaT Turkish Heavy Weapons. New links added.

5 March 2005