Mechanised Warfare

Only the mighty Yamato displaced more than the massive, yet very fast, Iowa-class battleships. The last battleship to be commissioned by th...

At one time, the HMS Hood was the largest and possibly most famous ship in the world, representing the supremacy of British sea power. Though attac...

Sister ship to the Bismarck, the Tirpitz was 2,000 tons heavier and thus the heaviest warship to have ever been produced by a European navy. She se...

Two Bismarck-class battleships were built for the Kriegsmarine. Bismarck was the first, named for the Chancellor (Otto von Bismarck). The battleshi...

The Littorio class was the first new Italian battleship class for nearly a decade when design work began in 1930. Initially designed to remain with...

Yamato (大和, "Great Harmony") and her sister ship, Musashi, were constructed shortly before the outbreak of World War II. They were the heaviest and...

Victory at Sea is the game of naval combat during the Second World War. Throughout 1939–45, the nations of the world duelled across the oce...

At the outbreak of war, Britain had 3 formed MTB flotillas, precious few to cover the world’s largest empire. But with judicious use of what were p...

The Schnellboat or ‘E Boat’ as the British Admiralty called them, E for enemy, was a truly formidable beast, in many ways incomparable in detail to...

On December 7th, 1941, the US Navy could only boast 3 squadrons of motor torpedo boats, or PT boats (patrol torpedo) as they were named. PT squadro...

  There was much confusion in the dogfight that was a WW2 motor torpedo boat battle. Poor visibility, gunfire, smoke and noise could overwhelm the ...

'MiG Alley' was the name given by the United Nations (UN) pilots during the Korean War for the northwestern portion of North Korea, where the Yalu ...

The Hawker Typhoon was a high-speed low to medium altitude interceptor. It was rushed into service in 1941 but suffered critical flaws which were o...

Vital Statistics Crew: 1 Length: 6.13m Wingspan: 9m Max Speed: 525kph Range: 700km Armament: 2x 7.62mm ShKAS MGs, 2x 20mm ShVAK cannons. In...

The Macchi C.202 Folgore (Lightning) entered service in July 1941 and soon emerged as one of the best dogfighters available to the Italian Regia Ae...

The Curtiss P-40 Warhawk is an American single-engined, single-seat, all-metal fighter and ground-attack aircraft that first flew in 1938. Used by ...

The Nakajima Ki-84 Hayate ‘Frank’ was Japan’s fastest fighter aircraft during the Second World War. It could match and exceed any Allied aircraft o...

The D3A ‘Val’ was a dive bomber and the B5N ‘Kate’ was a torpedo bomber. Coordinated strikes from these two aircraft redefined the future of naval ...

  The evolving nature of naval warfare gave more and more prominence to the carrier, and the control of island airfields were of paramount concern ...

A quarter of a million Gurkhas from the sovereign state of Nepal served in the Second World War in over 40 battalions. They fought as part of the a...

Making up the core of the Belgian Army tasked with resisting the inexorable advance of the German Blitzkrieg swarming across France and the Low Cou...

includes five plastic Grant tanks, one plastic Tank Commander sprue, one Decal sheets and five Unit cards. British armoured regiments were delighte...

  Get ready to build and battle across North Africa with the British 8th Army starter army box set! The British 8th Army comprised of men from arou...