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In this article I’m going to use the Clash Battle System to recreate two important points during the Battle of France, 1940. After the Allied debacle in Norway the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was forced to resign and was replaced by Winston Churchill who formed a Coalition Government. No sooner had Churchill come to power than the German war machine hurtled into the Low Countries and France. Although there can be little doubt that the subsequent Battle of France was a...

The purpose of this article is to use the Clash of Empires Battle System to recreate two significant episodes that occurred during Germany’s conquest of Denmark and Norway 1940. This audacious campaign was the first and only in which Germany used combined land, air and sea forces to achieve its objectives. It also introduced the world to the efficiency of Germany’s paratrooper mission and demonstrated the importance of air power in naval warfare. This was the second round in the struggle for...

The purpose of this article is to use the Clash of Empires Battle System to recreate a significant phase of the Finnish-Soviet Winter War 1939-40. This conflict was essentially a land grab by Stalin to protect Leningrad in the north and was part of a wider strategy to create a buffer against German aggression. Already the Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia had been bullied into signing mutual defence agreements. Next Stalin turned his attention to the unaligned tiny country of...