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This is a WIP…

1. ONLINE BOOKS, DATABASES and SOFTWARE

General

  1. Hans Delbrück, Geschichte der Kriegskunst im Rahmen der politischen Geschichte, Georg Stilke, Berlin, 1900-1920
  2. US Army Center of Military History, Online Book Shelves
  3. Nafziger Collection of Orders of Battle
  4. Perry-Castañeda Library, Historical Maps
  5. David Rumsey Map Collection
  6. History of Wargaming Project
  7. Draw a Map
  8. Battle Chronicler
  9. Photographing Miniatures from Wee Toy Soldiers

Renaissance and 17th Century

  1. Mansfeldische Histori, Schlacht, und herrliche Victoria in Ungern, 1595
  2. Theatrum Europaeum, 21 volumes, Frankfurt am Main, 1646-1738
  3. Hartmann, Hartmanni, Gründtliche, Warhafte, kurze Beschreibung … wie ein Fürst sein Regiment gottselig bestellen soll, Heidelberg, 1623
  4. Mémoires de Montecuculi, Nouvelle Édition 1664
  5. Billon, Jérémie de, Les Principes de l’Art militaire, 1633
  6. The Relation of Sydnam Poyntz, 1624-1636, 1908
  7. An history of the late warres […] by the Count Galliazzo Gualdo Priorato, London, 1648
  8. Wallhausen, Johann Jacobi von, Ritterkunst, 1614
  9. Wallhausen, Johann Jacobi von , Kriegskunst zu Pferd, 1616
  10. Wallhausen, Johann Jacobi von , Programma Scholae Militaris, 1616
  11. Lostelneau, Colbert de, Le mareschal de bataille, 1647
  12. Vincart, Jean-Antoine, Relations des campagnes de 1644 & 1646
  13. Grimmelshausen, Hans Jakob Christoffel von, Der Abentheurliche Simplicissimus Teutsch, Mompelgart (probably Neurenberg), 1669
  14. Grimmelshausen, Hans Jakob Christoffel von, Continuatio des abentheurlichen Simplicissimi, Mompelgart (probably Neurenberg), 1669
  15. Bessé, Henri de, Relation des campagnes de Rocroi et de Fribourg, 1826 (1673)
  16. Histoire générale des guerres de Savoie, de Bohême, du Palatinat …, 1616-1627, par le seigneur du Cornet, 1868
  17. Cardinal de Richelieu, Mémoires, 1908
  18. Gush, George, Renaissance Warfare (Airfix articles), 1975
  19. La época de los Tercios
  20. Tercios de Flandes
  21. Conde de Clonard, Historia organica de las armas de infanteria y caballeria españolas desde la creacion del ejercito permanente hasta el dia, 1851-1859
  22. Schiller, Friedrich, Geschichte des Dreißigjährigen Kriegs, 1790
  23. Schiller, Friedrich, The History of the Thirty Years’ War, 1996 (1790)
  24. Gardiner, Samuel Rawson, The thirty years’ war, 1618-1648, 1875
  25. Grant, James, Memoirs and Adventures of Sir John Hepburn, 1851
  26. Wedgwood, Cecily Veronica, The Thirty Years’ War, 1938
  27. Gindely, Anton, History of the Thirty Years’ War, 1884, volume 1
  28. Gindely, Anton, History of the Thirty Years’ War, 1884, volume 2
  29. Helfferich, Tryntje, The Thirty Years War; A Documentary History, Indianapolis, 2009
  30. Le Poulet Gauche
  31. Atlas Van der Hagen and Atlas Beudeker
  32. Wer war wer im Dreißigjährigen Krieg
  33. Der Dreißigjährige Krieg in Selbstzeugnissen, Chroniken und Berichten
  34. Die Geschichte der Söldner
  35. Researching & Dragona
  36. De Bello Belgico
  37. Dutch Regiments
  38. München im Dreißigjährigen Krieg
  39. Ingolstadt im Dreißigjährigen Krieg
  40. Agoston, Gabor, Military Transformation in the Ottoman Empire and Russia, 1500-1800
  41. Pike and Shot Society and P&SS TYW Yahoo Group
  42. UK Battlefields Resource Centre
  43. British Army Lineages
  44. University of St. Andrews: The Scotland, Scandinavia and Northern European Biographical Database (SSNE)
  45. British Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Protectorate 1638-1660
  46. Condottieri di Ventura
  47. Börekçi, Günhan, The Janissaries’ Use of Volley Fire during the Long Ottoman-Habsburg War of 1593-1606 and the Problem of Origins
  48. Ottoman Articles and Illustrations of Soldiers
  49. Polish Renaissance Warfare 1450 to 1699
  50. Sienkiewicz Society
  51. Giancarlo Boeri, Josè Luis Mirecki, Josè Palau, The Spanish Armies in the War of the League of Augsburg (Nine Years War 1688-1697), 2002

Second World War

  1. World War II resources for Gamers and Modelers
  2. All World Wars
  3. World Military
  4. WWII Armed Forces
  5. Lone Sentrey, Photographs, Documents, and Research on World War II
  6. World War II Aerial Photos and Maps
  7. Tanks & Vehicles Database
  8. Battle tanks
  9. War Wheels, Rollin’ Since 2005
  10. The Battlefield
  11. The Armor Site!
  12. US Army Center for Military History WWII Bookshelf
  13. Australian War Memorial Second World War Section
  14. New Zealand Electronic Text Centre World War II History
  15. History of the British 7th Armoured Division (“Desert Rats”)
  16. Lexikon der Wehrmacht
  17. Feldgrau.com – The German Armed Forces 1918-1945
  18. Wehrmacht History 1935 to 1945
  19. US Army pamphlet Operations of Encircled Forces, German Experiences in Russia
  20. 2nd Panzer Division
  21. The Luftwaffe, 1933-1945
  22. The Battles of the Winter War
  23. Engines of the Red Army in WW2
  24. RKKA in World War II
  25. Axis History Factbook
  26. 1941 Russian/German front
  27. The Eastern Front
  28. Map Archive of Wojskowy Instytut Geograficzny 1919-1939
  29. The Russian Battlefield
  30. Mechanizirowanye Korpuza RKKA
  31. Military Improvisations during the Russian Campaign
  32. Kursk – July, 1943

2. Imagery

General

  1. Héraldique Européenne
  2. Warflag
  3. Historical Flags for Wargames
  4. The Vinkhuijzen collection of military uniforms
  5. Richard Knötel’s “Uniformenkunde”
  6. Viskowatov’s uniform plates
  7. Theatrum ichnographicum omnium urbium by Frederick de Wit

Renaissance and 17th Century

  1. Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection
  2. Alabarda’s uniform plates
  3. Miniaturas Militares de Alfons Cánovas
  4. Don Juan de Valencia, Catálogo histórico-descriptivo de la Real Armería de Madrid, Madrid, 1898
  5. Count of Clonard, Álbum de la Infantería Española: desde sus primitivos tiempos hasta el día, 1861
  6. Count of Clonard, Álbum de la Caballería Española: desde sus primitivos tiempos hasta el día, 1861, Part I
  7. Count of Clonard, Álbum de la Caballería Española desde sus primitivos tiempos hasta el día, 1861, Part II
  8. NY Public Library Picture Collection: Costume in the 1600s
  9. Swiss Soldiers of the Renaissance
  10. Fisher Library, Wenceslas Hollar Collection
  11. Jacob de Gheijn, Wapenhandelinghe voor roers musquetten ende spiessen,  FIGVIRLYK UITGEBEELT, 1607
  12. Johann Jacobi von Wallhausen, Kriegskunst zu Pferd, 1616
  13. Theatrum Europaeum, 21 volumes, Frankfurt am Main, 1646-1738
  14. Colbert de Lostelneau, Le mareschal de bataille, 1647
  15. myArmoury.com
  16. The 1640s Picturebook: Costume & Stuff from the English Civil War
  17. The Military Costume of Turkey, 1818
  18. Nicole Kipar’s Late 17th Century Clothing History
  19. Ottoman Articles and Illustrations of Soldiers

Second World War

  1. WWII in Color
  2. Eye on the Reich: German Propaganda Photographs, 1939-1942
  3. Uniformes et équipement du soldat français en 1940
  4. Russia and Eastern Europe in Rare Photographs, 1860-1945
  5. WWIIdaybyday

3. RULESETS

General

  1. H.G. Wells’ Little Wars (free)
  2. Jack Scruby’s Basic War Game Rules (free)

Renaissance and 17th Century 

  1. Dadi&Piombo’s Impetus (basic rules are free)
  2. Dadi&Piombo’s Basic Baroque, an Impetus expansion for the Baroque Age
  3. Nicholas Wright’s Irregular Wars
  4. Warlord’s Pike & Shotte
  5. The Perfect Captain’s Spanish Fury (free)
  6. Trevor Raymond’s A Glorious Victory (free)
  7. The Assault Group’s Father Tilly and the Father Tilly Yahoo Group
  8. Osprey’s Field of Glory Renaissance and the FoGR Yahoo Group
  9. Clarence Harrison’s Victory Without Quarter (free)
  10. Jack Scruby’s Rules for TYW Game (free)
  11. Chipco’s Age of Gunpowder
  12. For Parliament, King or Glory ECW rules (free), downloadable from the PKG Yahoo Group
  13. De Bellis Renationis (free), downloadable from the DBR Yahoo Group
  14. John Armatys’ Pike and Shot ECW rules (free)

Second World War

  1. SMP’s Blitzkrieg Commander
  2. Arty Conliffe’s Crossfire and the Crossfire Yahoo Group
  3. Arty Conliffe’s Spearhead and the Spearhead Yahoo Group
  4. Fire and Fury’s Battlefront WWII and the Battlefront WWII Yahoo Group
  5. Hervé Caille’s Blitzkrieg

4. WARGAMING SCENARIOS

General

  1. Charles Grant’s Table Top Teasers

Renaissance and 17th Century

  1. Ottawa Miniatures Gamers Wargames Scenarios
  2. Fire and Furia Frances, Great Northern War scenarios
  3. Historical Miniatures Wargaming Resource Site, two scenarios for the French Wars of Religion

Second World War

  1. Steven Thomas’ Crossfire scenarios
  2. IanH’s Crossfire scenarios
  3. Tim Marshall’s Crossfire scenarios
  4. Nikolas Lloyd’s Crossfire scenarios
  5. Keith McNelly’s Spearhead scenarios
  6. Battlefront WWII scenarios
  7. Blitzkrieg Commander scenarios
  8. Blitzkrieg scenarios
  9. Bob Mackenzie’s Command Decision scenarios
  10. Rapid Fire! game scenarios
  11. Mark Piper’s Rapid Fire! scenarios
  12. US Army Pamphlet Small Unit Actions During the German Campaign in Russia
  13. Command decision 2 scenarios
  14. Ottawa Miniatures Gamers Wargames Scenarios
  15. Panzer War scenarios
  16. Society of Twentieth Century Warfare scenarios
  17. GHQ’s WWII Micro Armour scenarios
  18. Arc of Fire’s “Skirmishcampaign” scenarios
  19. Final Round’s scenarios 
  20. Battle Group II scenarios

5. WARGAMING CLUBS, MAGAZINES AND INFO SITES

  1. Warfare and Wargaming
  2. The Miniatures Page
  3. Edinburgh Wargames
  4. Schild & Vriend Leuven
  5. The Society of Gentlemen Gamers
  6. Wellington Warlords
  7. Gentlemens’ Wargames Parlour
  8. Armchair General Magazine
  9. The Wargamers’ Emporium (Scarborough Wargamers)
  10. Scalemodel.net – an International List of Scale Model Related Web Sites

6. 10mm BASING, PAINTING AND TERRAIN

  1. Nik Harwood’s Compleat & Excellente 10mm Painting Guides
  2. Video by Toby of Artmaster Studio: How to Paint 28mm Horses (works for 10mm as well!)
  3. Coritani Magnetic Displays
  4. Terrain Mat
  5. Mark Luther’s 6mm Terrain Guide
  6. Elliott James’ 10mm Terrain Cloth Guide
  7. The Lion of the South’s Wargaming Terrain Cloth Tutorial
  8. Jeff Knudsen’s Building the Table Guide

7. 10mm MANUFACTURERS AND VENDORS

  1. Pendraken Miniatures produce 10mm figurines and models ranging from Ancients to Fantasy and Sci-Fi as well as scenics, flags and other accessories. Their new League of Augsburg range is ground-breaking. Staff are helpful and maintain an active forum.
  2. Irregular Miniatures produce a wide range of affordable 10mm figurines, scenics and accessories ranging from Ancients to WWII. Of particular note is their range of (die-cast) miniature trains. Staff are helpful.
  3. Pithead 10mm Miniatures produce a large and distinctive range of 10mm WWII military hardware, including armor and vehicles of various smaller nations. Staff are helpful.
  4. Magister Militum produce a wide range of 10mm figurines ranging from dinosaurs to modern and Sci-Fi armies. Of particular note is their range of 1:200 scale aircraft. They also sell 10mm scenics, flags and other parafernalia.
  5. Bend Sinister produce a pretty range of “Redline” 10mm Napoleonic models as well as some Peninsular buildings
  6. Old Glory Miniatures produce a “Grand Scale” 10mm range including a large variety of early Renaissance and English Civil War models, as wel as a line of fine 10mm buildings
  7. TBLine (Tridente Bologna) produce a range of 10mm Ancient and Medieval figurines and the Anticamente wargaming rules
  8. Warrior Miniatures sell a small range of 10mm models
  9. Orange Scenics sell a small range of highly detailed, highly refined 10/12mm buildings and assorted scenics. They do custom work as well.
  10. Timecast produce many small ranges of delicately wrought and cast 10mm “historic” buildings and related scenics suited to specific periods and landscapes, as well as N scale railway buildings and accessories plus wargames rule books
  11. Hovels produce 10mm Arab, French and Fantasy buildings and related scenics
  12. JR Miniatures produce 10mm buildings both Ancient and Modern
  13. Chiltern Miniatures sell the “Mainly Military Scenics” range of 10mm buildings for Tudor period and after
  14. Field Works produce a distinctive range of 10/12mm buildings for urban warfare in WWII, mostly Stalingrad. Of particular note are their GUM and Tractor Factory.
  15. The Baggagetrain sell several ranges of 10mm figurines, scenics and miscellaneous equipment
  16. Total Battle Miniatures produce an interesting line of Dark Age to Early Modern village houses in their “Skirmish” section
  17. Jerry’s Hobby Junction sells ranges of N-scale European and American houses and buildings
  18. SHQ MIniatures sell a range of 10mm Arabic, European and Vietnamese buildings