WARGAMES SOLDIERS & STRATEGY # 122: Fighting -- Fish Out of Water

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From gladiators helping out in Roman armies to sailors and airmen being pulled into close combat during WWII battles, this issue explores the role of atypical units on the battlefield.

Theme: Fighting Fish Out of Water
* Necessity, the Overworked Mother of Invention - Improvisation in Warfare
* The Second Servile War and the Battle of Skirthaea - Slave Soldiers
* The Siege of Lucknow During the Indian Rebellion - Defend the Residency
* Bravely Defending the Sittang River Bridgehead - Brews in Burma
* Assembling Your Own Ad-hoc Units - Needs Must
* Recreating a Famous Colonial Scene - Under Siege

Features
* Norwegian Viking fights Norse Gael in the Irish Sea - The Raid on Man
* A river crossing scenario from the Napoleonic War - Passage of the Duoro
* King Charles XII of Sweden's greatest folly - Refighting Poltava
* Refighting the battle at the former HQ - Arnhem at Arnhem
* A basic guide to painting Aztec warriors - Mexica 1519
* Turning perfectly good MDF buildings into ruins - Through the wars

Departments

Miniature reviews
* Up Front - Public Wargaming
* The Irregular - All Miniatures Should Be Equal
* The Popular Medieval Ruleset Gets a Sci-fi Update - Let's Play Xenos Rampant
* Game Reviews - Song of Arthur and Merlin, Fighting the Dragon, Pulp!, and Black Powder Epic Battles: The Hundred Days Campaign
* Book Reviews
* Parting shots