Small Wars New Perspectives on Wargaming Counter Insurgency on the Tabletop

The author has been a wargamer since the 1970s, member of Wargame Developments and a serious rule writer since the early 1990s. His long standing interest in asymmetric warfare led him to develop a series of wargames to reflect the individual characteristics of such conflicts.

All except one of these sets of rules are written to portray the operational/ campaign level situation. Using card based systems, these games are particularly suitable for the solo wargamer.

These games are not 'fair'; they each aim to give the wargamer a greater understanding of the particular conflicts they represent. The games include:

Boots on the Ground: Company Level Actions in the early 21st. Century

An Isolated Outpost: Six Months in the Sahara

Eight Years in a Distant Country: Soviet involvement in Afghanistan

Ovambo: Counter- insurgency in South West Africa

Flying Column: The Irish Troubles 1920-21

Good Morning Vietnam: LBJ's War 1965-68