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The Yorktown-class of aircraft carrier were built in a series of three. Of those, only the USS Enterprise survived the war, with the USS Yorktown sunk during the Battle of Midway, and the USS Hornet during the Battle of Santa Cruz. USS Yorktown was...
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The Deutschland-class of warships were relatively small, by battleship standards, but were well armoured and carried the type of armament traditionally seen only on battleships. This led to them being nicknamed ‘pocket battleships’. Superb commerce raiders, the Admiral Scheer successfully plied the Atlantic and...
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One of the most famous carriers of the war, the HMS Ark Royal received many battle honours in its service. The first enemy aircraft shot down by the Fleet Air Arm was with one of her Blackburn Skuas, while her bombers sank the German...
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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 served in Norway and the Baltic Fleet acting as a potent deterrent. The Tirpitz became an obsession for...
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Only the mighty Yamato displaced more than the massive, yet very fast, Iowa-class battleships. The last battleship to be commissioned by the USA, USS Missouri known as the ‘Mighty Mo’ acted as venue for the Japanese surrender in WWII. Iowa-class ships saw service far...
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The Littorio class was the first new Italian battleship class for nearly a decade when design work began in 1930. Initially designed to remain within the 35,000-ton Washington Treaty limit, the final displacement was just over 40,000 tons. As well as being good-looking ships,...
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Expand to new lands and raid across Britania with a full Viking army! This Starter set includes: 1 exclusive Viking Warlord 4 metal Beserkers 64 plastic Hirdman 64 plastic Bondi 4 waterslide decal sheet for Viking shields Models supplied unassembled and unpainted
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Formed around a core of Veteran Troops and armed with the new StG44, the Volksgrenadiers head to battle in defense of their homeland! After suffering a double loss (both Army group Center in Operation Bagration, and the Fifth Panzer Army to the Allies in...
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Originally developed as an anti-aircraft weapon, the infamous ‘eighty-eight’ or ‘88’, as it became known by Allied troops, had a high muzzle velocity, allowing it to reach the higher ranges bombers were capable of. This feature also made it an exceptionally deadly anti-tank weapon,...
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The armed wing of the Nazi Party, the extremely well-equipped Waffern-SS were rightly feared by their opponents - both for their fighting ability and uncompromising ferocity. Supported by two weapons with a high rate of fire - the deadly MG42 medium machine gun (nicknamed...
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The Onna-bugeisha (female martial artist) are members of the samurai Class of fierce warriors. They are as adept at both campaigning and defending their households and families, Though trained with all weapons, these honourable warriors favour the heavy-bladed naginata Clad in protective yet flexible...
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From the earliest days of Japanese rule, women were trained in the art of battle, becoming proficient with knives and pole weapons. When communities were short of male fighters, the women would step up to bolster the ranks, using their naginata and tanto to...
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These holy warriors are known as Sohei (monk soldiers), representing the militant arm of Buddhism on the islands of Japan between the 10th and 17th centuries. Like the crusading orders of European knights, these brotherhoods of battle-hardened warriors fought as cohesive units on the...
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Lowlier than even the retainers of the Samurai Warbands are the Bandits and Brigands - a ragtag assembly of warriors bearing whichever weapon is most handy. The inhabitants of Erehwon would do wisely to stay on the beaten track, lest they be set upon...
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A daimyō is both a mighty warlord and leader of a venerable clan. Bitter rivalries fuel centuries old conflicts between the clans, often centred around some real or imagined slight against a long dead ancestor. The most powerful daimyō hold vast swathes of territory...
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The oni are hulking creatures whose monstrous heads sprout one or more horns and whose hides are garishly coloured red, blue or green. Oni are not mere mortal creatures, but demons or malignant spirits made flesh. Of the four gates upon the world the...
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On a damp, overcast Sunday in June 1815, twenty years of continuous warfare the Napoleonic Wars came to a violent and bloody conclusion on a rain-soaked field in Belgium. These wars were truly a world affair, with European powers fighting battles not only on...
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An einem feuchten, bewölkten Sonntag im Juni 1815, kamen die zwanzig Jahre kontinuierlicher Kriegsführung der napoleonischen Kriege zu einem epischen und verlustreichen Abschluss, auf einem regennassen Feld in Belgien. Diese Kriege waren in der Tat eine weltweite Angelegenheit, in der die europäischen Großmächte nicht...
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Always at the forefront of the fighting, the Waffen-SS were well-equipped, even as the supply of new materials and weapons became more of an issue for the Third Reich as Allied bombing campaigns pummelled German industry. Armed with the best weaponry the Wehrmacht could...