Wargamers' Digest

[m10bob]

When I DEROS'd I found a real nice monthly mag being published for wargamers, WW2 wargaming specifically.
The magazine was published by an ex WW2 tank Lt as I recall.
It specialised in OOB's and tactics and came with pics of both miniatures game tables laid out to show battles being discussed, and occasionally had historical pics of the real stuff.
Lot of tips and pointers were in the mag which discussed unit tactics of the same scale as SP..
Too bad the mag apparently went bust in the late seventies.(Possibly we lost that old veteran around then?)

One of the things I remember he discussed more than once was the use of the American M16 SPAA quad .50 going on recon junkets for supression fire,(if things got hairy).


EDIT:I just learned from the Ft Knox library the mag was later called the Military Digest and Ft Knox retains copies of all issues of both.:

MILITARY DIGEST (8755-9307) (Formerly: Wargamers Digest)- Sep 1980 - Nov 1994 (Irregular

[Wyke]

ORIGINAL: m10bob

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One of the things I remember he discussed more than once was the use of the American M16 SPAA quad .50 going on recon junkets for supression fire,(if things got hairy).

I'd have to dig out a couple of books to get the references, because I have come across this same info on this use of the quad.50. If I remember right, in the last couple of years of the war this became the M16 quad's primary role, especially in the Pacific. I may be getting mixed up with something else, but I'm sure that it was because of this new role it earned the nickname 'Daisycutter'.

Also, if I remember right, the self same quad .50 mount was used on some US river gunboats quite successfully in Viet Nam to do the same role