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We have regular visits from Israeli students at the high school where I teach.  It started as part of a peace corps style program to allow America students to interact with their counterparts overseas.

As part of their enlistment, these 18-year-old volunteers act as ambassadors for Israel and answer questions about life there. For them, it serves as a gap year and after it is done, they complete their enlistment.

The school where I teach tends to graduate a mix of those interested in military careers as well as college or trades, and the question inevitably comes up regarding Israel’s mandatory enlistment requirements.

“Why do you require everyone to enlist in the military?”

And the best answer I heard one of the Israeli students give was this,

“The first war we lose is the last war we’ll ever fight.”

Battlefront and NoDiceNoGlory will host the 2018 Team Yankee Nationals at Historicon, Lancaster PA
July 13 2018; 10am – 8pm

Arrive at 9:30 am to register. Four 2-hour rounds.

64 Points.

All official lists from Team Yankee (incl Afghansty), Leopard (incl Panzertruppen), Iron Maiden, Volks-Armee, Red Thunder, Stripes and Free Nations will be allowed.

All forces will be fully painted. No proxies allowed.

We have spots for 48 players and we will make a stand-by list if the tournament sills up. Each participant will get the EM-50 objective for free for playing in the tournament.

Players will register by sending their force lists to ndngtournaments@gmail.com by 30 June. Information and questions should be posted on a on NoDiceNoGlory.com or at NDNG_Mitch_R@nodicenoglory.com.

Prizes will also be handed out for the best-painted army and each faction will get “Best Player” Award.

The folks from have yet another new release that many of us have been waiting for. A few years ago, we saw the first venture into the Arab-Israeli conflict with the original Fate of a Nation book which focused on the 1967 war, now in 2018 we revisit the strife-torn region and expand the conflict beyond the Six-Day War.

While I know many folks who loved the models with the original release, I knew few gamers who seriously played it. A lot of people wanted to see the 1973 conflict, or felt the game was limited to great Israeli tanks against hordes of Arab tanks.

No matter what the rationale for avoiding the game before, the second iteration of Fate of a Nation has a lot of things that you will enjoy and it may be worth a second look. This article will not delve into each list and nation in the book. My more talented compatriots will do that over the next week or two. So, consider this a quick look at this book.

By NDNG_Dane

The 1973 Arab-Israeli War, also known as the Yom Kippur War in Israel, and the Ramadan War in Arab countries, is the fourth war between the Arabs and the Israelis. The first being the 1948–49 Arab-Israeli War, second being the 1956 Suez War, and third being the 1967 six-day war. On October 6, 1973, Egyptian and Syrian forces launched a coordinated attack against Israel on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.

As a tournament organizer (TO), the choice of how to find the attacker/defender is a choice, that can have a significant impact on the lists you will see.

I started playing Flames Of War (FOW) about the time when version 3 came out. I have always been an organizer. One of those pesky types, that loves to see people gather and have fun, pushing their small homemade dolls, sorry soldiers around. Before FOW, I was active in another well known doll-pushing community. Always making events, small and big.

Greetings from Virginia. I wanted to start by introducing myself. I began my journey into tabletop wargaming as many of us do, with a force of plastic warriors from Games Workshop’s, Warhammer Fantasy.

I reveled in the joy of High elves before slowly getting bored with the game. I found a winning strategy ended up with who had spent more USD and not who had built a better force on paper or led his troops better.

I moved from Warhammer to a new game I had seen at my FLGS, Flames of War (FoW). This game seemed to have it all. Tactics, list building, and strong individual models (Yup I thought King Tigers were invincible, how quaint young me was.)

by NDNG_Dane

The 1967 Arab-Israeli War is the third war between the Arabs and the Israelis. The first being the 1948–49 Arab-Israeli War and the second being the 1956 Suez War. When reading historical accounts of the 1967 war, there is often national bias on the part of the author. For example, the Israelis claim they were provoked by an imminent Arab attack. The Arabs claim they were reacting to Israeli aggression toward Syria.

Background
Ever since the start of the first Arab-Israeli war in 1948, Israel had existed in a continued state of war with all of its Arab neighbors, including Iraq and Saudi Arabia. The first two wars were ended with cease-fires, but not with lasting peace. Thus, when the military forces of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and Iraq, began to mobilize and make obvious preparations for war, Israel felt forced to act, in self-defense.

By Scott Grasse, Kevin Morris, and Tom Burgess

—FLASH —

AXIS OFFENSIVE THREATENS ALLIED HOLD IN TUNISIA – ALLIES FAIL TO BREAK MARETH DEFENSES
Press release – March 1943

By NDNG_Dane

Feature photo from Wikicommons, by 

The Montagnards are a tribal population dwelling in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. The name “Montagna rd” was first used by the French Colonial Forces in Indochina, referring to the indigenous population of the Central Highland region of Vietnam.

The French Experience

During the Indochina War, which began on 19 December 1946, and lasted until 1 August 1954. Fighting between French forces and their Viet Minh opponents in the south, led by Ho Chi Minh and the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN) led by Vo Nguyen Giap.  On V-J Day, 2 Sep 1945, Ho Chi Minh had proclaimed the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV).

By NDNG_Dane and Glenn Goddard

Everyone loves the Dutch! So says Austin Powers anyway.  Anyone who has been to the Netherlands knows that the Dutch language seems to be half German and half English.  Apparently, so is their military.  Want to have the power and armor of the Leo 2? You get ’em. Want the staying Gone to Ground while shooting TOW missiles that the American M-901 gets with the Hammerhead rule?  You get that too.