of interest
16/1/04 Simon Ford has changed the address for his site WW2 site to www.simonswwiiwargames.com
6/12/03 Colin Rumford and Richard marsh have launched an "official" rapid Fire website at www.rapid-fire.uk.com
17/8/03 Great new FREE wargames site at www.wargamesjournal.com Greatarticles and photos (including photos of Colin Rumford's Sword /Pegasus bridge scenario.
29/12/02 Fellow Australian gamer Simon Ford has a great sitededicated to WW2 gaming. He features sections on What's New,Snippets, Battle reports, Gallery, Reviews and Links. A
very graphical site with lots of useful links to photos and other sites. In particular check out Simon's Links page.
The Britannia Miniatures page is very useful for modelling
and gaming purposes. It features colour photos of all their ranges.
28/12/02 A Canadian Military history site with loads of official reports on WW2actions involving Canadian forces. Detailed accounts for NW Europe of particular interest. Also check outPen and Sword Books(UK) for there upcoming Battleground Europe titles for NW Europe.
21/12/02 An excellent OperationEpsom mega-game in 15mm for Spearhead rules. Includes special rules, orders of battle and maps. Could be easily adapted toRapid Fire. Also a link to theWargames Jounalsite including asample issuewith some RF links, e.g. a D-Day photo section and a "Tigers in theSnow" scenario for the Battle of the Bulge. Promise to have more RFin the future (only available to subscribers)
24/6/02 Paul Reed's excellentWW2 Battlefieldswebsite. Paul has put together a lot of useful information forwargamers with links to other WW2 sites. I'm still "plowing" my waythrough this one.
29/3/02Rapid Fireorganisations for the Vietnam War.
29/3/02RFwebsite with pages on Allied units in Crete 1941, vehicle sheets,fFrench lists, Far East & Battle of Yenang, Rumanian equipmentlist, expanded air rules, ideas and house rules. Worth a look.
2/3/02 An excellent sitehttp://www.davidpentland.com/with a lot of NW Europe paintings of Allied and German tanks. greatresource for painting models.
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12/2/02 ExcellentWorld WarTwoRostov Front picture gallery by Andy Watkinsandrew.watkins@ventelo.com.Beautiful terrain, vehicles and figures.
28/1/02Rapid Firesite. Outline of RF. Supplemental rules - Speculative fire,command & control, close combat.
25/1/02 I'm currently reading "Citizen Soldiers" by StephenAmbrose. I don't have a US army (both my friends Brad and Bob havethough). Lot's of good info about both US and German doctrine. Irevisited the Fire and Fury WW2 website recently and found some goodresources for late war gaming - potentially of use to RF players. Latewar orders of battle and Unit quality in zip and pdf formats.Alsoscenariosdesigned for Battlefront but some large enough to be easily convertedto RF.
CANUCK :Clothing, Equipping and Employing the Canadian Soldier in CombatMission.
(23/12/01) This mini-website is a subsidiary of theinternationally-known CANUCK websitehttp://www.canadiansoldiers.com/ The Combat Mission page is devoted to providing information,scenarios, and uniquely Canadian imagery to the computer game CombatMission. Includes a good section on modeling an infantry battalionand a weather and day chart for NW Europe 1944-45. Both excellentsites for both Combat Mission and table top gaming.http://www.canadiansoldiers.com/games.htmincludes a section on the Canadian Army in Wargames
TOMMY : The BritishSoldier in Combat Mission (23/12/01) This site providesinformation and imagery for the computer game Combat Mission.Includes vehicle markings for British vehicles. The game is excellentand plays very much like a Computerised Rapid Fire game. I have justconverted my Hill 112 scenario to this format and have played thegame several times. I plan to convert some of the CM scenarios toRapid Fire and will post them on this site as available. Details ofthe game available for PC and MAC (on the same CD) can be found atwww.battlefront.com
TheWargamers Tavern (23/12/01) American Gamer Matt Pavone's newwargames web site including a section for Rapid Fire with someterrific photos of his games. Other photos of Matt's stuff can befound in the Gallery section of this website.
BRITCON- UK National Wargames Convention 2001 (7/6/01) Interesting listof offical and unofficial rules for RF to be used at thiscompetition.
Operation Market-Garden(12/5/01) Comprehensive web-site dedicated to all aspects of theMarket-Garden operation. very good.
Battle Depot(12/5/01) 1:100 00 period U.S. Army maps and other assortedtopographical resources. An excellent site with maps covering theNorthern Ardenne, Eastern Normandy Landing Sectors and ImmediateInterior, St. Lo - Normandy Interior, Mortain - Normandy Interior andFalaise - Normandy Interior. A must for any WW2 gamer.
PegasusBridge, 6 June 1944 (10/5/01) Nice selection of a 20mm PegasusBridge scenario from the Napoleon Nuts group in Singapore.
SavingPrivate Ryan Campaign (10/5/01) Napoleon Nuts group in Singaporeare running a 20mm SPR campaign.
NormandyToday (11/4/01) Photo gallery and info site with Now and thentype photos - 1997
After D-DayWebsite (11/4/01) Includes a research guide, teaching material,online sources, book reviews, travel information,biographical data,essays, articles, photos, sound recordings, bibliographies, tacticsand techniques for researching military history, and multimediaresources and links on the battles of Normandy during World War II.
CanadianNormandy Page (26/03/01) Excellent source of informationregarding Canada's involvement with the Normandy Campaign. Includesan excellent map feature using official maps.
Game Design HomePage (10/3/01) A massive site with lots of information for gamingthe Normandy Campaign using Command Decision 3 and the assortedplaying aids available on the site. Highly recommended for the Mapsavailable for the Normandy area. Also has a sample Pegasus Bridgescenario. Bill Owen who runs this site has done a mighty effort onproducing practical aids for wargamers - well illustrated throughout.
FrenchRapid Fire Page (10/3/01) A French web-site with information andphotos of Rapid Fire games.
HistoryGuy WW2 Normandy Page (11/3/01) An ambitious site constructed bya History teacher covering all aspects of this conflict.
WW2Scenario Page (11/3/01) Scenarios for Command Decision,Spearhead, Grey Steel, Red Storm, Overlord and Crossfire)
Battlefront (Fire &Fury) WW2 Rules Page (11/3/01) Official home page of theBattlefront WW2 rules. Produced by the authors of the excellent Fireand Fury ACW rules and incorporates many of the same concepts.
Spearhead Page(11/3/01) Official home page of the Spearhead WW2 rules.
North Hull WargamesClub - Panzer Marsch Page (11/3/01) Panzer Marsch! is a set ofrules for the Wargamer who wishes to recreate W.W.II battles inminiature. Used for over twenty years by the North Hull WargamesClub, these rules are now in print and available.
Mega-BlitzPage (11/3/01) Megablitz is a set of operational-level wargamesrules for 20th Century warfare.
MiniaturesPage WW2 Periodical Index (11/3/01) This web page is an index toarticles appearing in periodicals of interest to historicalwargamers.
Achtung Panzer !Page (11/3/01) Everything you ever wanted to know about Germantanks from WW2.
Advanced SquadLeader (11/3/01) One of the best sources of ASL resources.
Pen and Sword Books(UK) (11/3/01) An excellent on-line source off 19th and 20thcentury books. Features several books on Normandy Campaign.
D-Day 2001Page (11/3/01) The official site for the mega-campaign version run in January 2001. Still active as at 11/3/01 with maps and info.