Resources

Fiction

• BATTLETECH – Decision at Thunder Rift by William H. Keith (1986)
  80ies action movie in a book. “Best combat scenes I’ve read in a book.” (Eric)
• Conan novels by Robert E. Howard
  Classic Sword & Sorcery pulp setting
• Drachenfels by Kim Newman (pen name: Jack Yeovil) (1989)
  One of the first Warhammer Fantasy novels. It’s an old-school horror fantasy novel with a very healthy dose of honest humor … and lots of gore.
• Dune by Frank Herbert (1965)
  Inspiration for the Warhammer 40.000 franchise and so much more.
• Eisenhorn novels by Dan Abnett
  Crime novel in the grimdark future of mankind.
• The Expanse Novels by James S.A. Corey (2011-2022)
• The Forever War by Joe Haldeman (1974)
  Inspiration for the Warhammer 40.000 franchise
• The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien (1937)
• The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (1954)
  What brought most of us here.
• Star Ship Troopers by Robert Heinlein (1959)
  The novel inspired the 1997 Paul Verhoeven film by the same name. It is a science fiction novel with a heavy military theme. What makes it more fascinating is the indoctrinated, propaganda-bombarded, humanity first society, depicted by Heinlein. The conflict with the alien “bugs” adopts a familiar >us vs them< theme. Being written during the cold war, shortly after World War two (1945) and the Korean war (1953), Heinlein’s futuristic depiction of an ideologically motivated conflict with “the other” has a rather chilling feeling.
  For gaming purposes it might be an inspiration for scenarios and settings.
• Call of Cthulhu and other works by H. P. Lovecraft
  Classic horror pulp stories. But don’t mistake Lovecraft’s pulp novels with easy-reading and trivial literature. It’s not.

Non-fiction

• The shortest history of war by Gwynne Dyer
  The book gives a rather broad and digested overview on war, how it evolved and on general principles. It is not a book on tactics or strategy, but makes the concept of war approachable for the average reader.
• Vom Kriege (On War) by Carl von Clausewitz (1816-1830)

Gaming

• Sci-Fi Skirmish Scenarios by John Lambshead (2022)
  As the title suggests and much more.
• Elite, Combat and Man-at-arms -series by Osprey publishing
  Next to gaming systems and rulebooks, Osprey publishes a vast number of quickly read and very digest books covering warfare and the soldier throughout the ages. “Elite”, “Combat” and “Man-at-arms” are excellent series with reference material on tactics, campaigns, fighting style, military structure etc… covering the ages. They are not as precise as specific scientific works, but fairly sufficient to enter a subject. So if you just want to launch your very own punic war over a glass of brandy, here’s your how to 😉
  Sadly some of the very good earlier publications are hard to come by, especially if you live outside of Britain.

• Star Trek VI – The Undiscovered Country (1991)
• The Hunt for Red October (1990)
• Conan, the Barbarian (1982)
• Legend (1985)

• BATTLETECH
• Drakensang II – Am Fluss der Zeit (River of Time)
• Divinity Original Sin II
• The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim
• XCOM

• youtube.com
• spotify

• Barrel (Fantasy)
• Movement tray Kings of War 28 mm – 10 x 8 cm / 12 x 4 cm / 12,5 x 5 cm / 12,5 x 10 cm
• HEXAPRESS (BATTLETECH Hexagon Foam Press)

• Frostgrave 2nd Edition – Unit cards
• Lion Rampant 2nd Edition – Warband Roster and Quick Reference Sheet (ODT text file)
• BATTLETECH Pilot Cards (print at 100% scale)
• Brawl Arcane 28 reference cards (print at 100% scale)
• Brawl Arcane 28 one page rules summary (version 1.0 of the rules)