# air war — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover air war. Page: Feed: --- ## [Hugh Sullivan’s escape: a soldier’s tale from Greece](https://rommelsriposte.com/2026/08/16/hugh-sullivans-escape-a-soldiers-tale-from-greece/) _2026-08-16 · Rommelsriposte · The Crusader Project_ In a recent blog I wrote about the problems faced by the New Zealand Broadcasting Unit in getting their reports cleared by military censors. But in … Hugh Sullivan’s escape: a soldier’s tale from Greece ## [Breaking Rommel – Errata and Materials](https://rommelsriposte.com/2026/08/15/breaking-rommel-errata-and-materials/) _2026-08-15 · Rommelsriposte · The Crusader Project_ Background In a project of this nature and scope there will be errors. Towards the end of the publishing process, the perfect is very much the arch enemy of the good, and we know there are mistakes. When we find them, or when they are pointed out to us, we will correct them here. Please \[…\] ## [Tanks in Unexpected Places – Author Blog](https://rommelsriposte.com/2026/08/14/tanks-in-unexpected-places-author-blog/) _2026-08-14 · Rommelsriposte · The Crusader Project_ By Jonny Briggs Tanks in Unexpected Places: The Fighting Effectiveness of 4th Independent Armoured Brigade 1943-45 is the first book I have written … Tanks in Unexpected Places – Author Blog ## [A note on AI](https://rommelsriposte.com/2026/08/14/a-note-on-ai/) _2026-08-14 · Rommelsriposte · The Crusader Project_ Background AI is becoming more prevalent every day. That is unfortunate, as it is a lying, thieving hallucination machine based on industrial-scale copyright theft, environmental and societal destruction, driven by lunatics. It perverts history, it deceives us, and it destroys every joy in this world and will wreck society if left unchecked. AI and this \[…\] ## [Gray sky thinking: John Boyd and generative entropy](https://grayskythinking.substack.com/p/gray-sky-thinking-john-boyd-and-generative) _2026-08-04 · Michael Uhall · Gray Sky Thinking_ For Boyd, entropy becomes a generative engine, the very means by which the breakdown of one order supplies the materials for another. ## [More Wee Planes](http://mojobob.blogspot.com/2026/07/more-wee-planes.html) _2026-07-31 · Peter Fitz · Shouting Into The Void_ I've been 3d printing and painting some 1:144 WW1 aircraft, for playing Canvas Eagles , a tabletop WW1 dogfight game. I can't say that I've been exceptionally productive: these three (plus a Fokker Triplane that I gave away as a gift) are the sum total of my completed work so far. However, I've just ordered some 1:144 decals, which will make painting the little things much less of a chore.… ## [Doors for Dungeons](http://mojobob.blogspot.com/2026/07/doors-for-dungeons.html) _2026-07-19 · Peter Fitz · Shouting Into The Void_ These 3d printed doors are some that I found on some site some time in the past, and I don't recall when or where or who the designer was. I printed them at 0.2mm layers on my Ender 3, and painted them with some home-made washes. The tall one in the middle is the original design, but I enshortened it, mainly for the sake of cutting its print time in half. The figures are the flat card standees… ## [Skaven (Wererats)](http://mojobob.blogspot.com/2026/07/skaven-wererats.html) _2026-07-09 · Peter Fitz · Shouting Into The Void_ Some time in the 1990s I bought a pack of GW metal Warhammer Skaven. I didn't have any interest in Warhammer, but I did want something I could use as wererats for my AD&D game. The skaven are a bit more heavily equipped than your standard AD&D wererat, but they looked ratty enough for my purposes. ## [OUT NOW: Breaking Rommel](https://rommelsriposte.com/2026/07/06/out-now-breaking-rommel/) _2026-07-06 · Rommelsriposte · The Crusader Project_ Book Announcement – Breaking Rommel Available for Purchase Breaking Rommel: The Struggle for Air Supremacy over El Alamein is now available to purchase from IBN publishers in Rome, in time for the 84th anniversary of the 1st Battle of El Alamein. This is the end of a project that took several years of detailed research \[…\] ## [So when DID the siege of Tobruk end?](https://rommelsriposte.com/2026/06/26/so-when-did-the-siege-of-tobruk-end/) _2026-06-26 · Rommelsriposte · The Crusader Project_ Background On WW2Talk it was noted that the Australian Descendants Association of the Rats of Tobruk (soldiers who had been present for at least a day of the siege) took 10 December as the end date of the siege, as they considered this was when Rommel gave the order to retreat to the Gazala position. \[…\] ## [Open directory of blogs for agents (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/TvY5mkiw7b7b) _2026-06-26 · **Sponsored**_ Submit URLs or OPML; receive feed pages with summaries, plus JSON/OPML/plain text ## [DTRPG Loot](http://mojobob.blogspot.com/2026/06/dtrpg-loot.html) _2026-06-24 · Peter Fitz · Shouting Into The Void_ I got these today, four AD&D adventure books, PoD items from DriveThruRPG, bought mostly on a whim. I must confess, I bought Halith Vorn and Zorth mainly because the illustration appealed to me, but they also had pretty good reviews on DTRPG. They took a bit longer to arrive than PoD stuff usually does, though only a bit. I made the order on June 8th, and today is the 24th; I normally expect a… ## [Flocking Flock](http://mojobob.blogspot.com/2026/06/flocking-flock.html) _2026-06-14 · Peter Fitz · Shouting Into The Void_ I'm trying to make some modelling flock, with only limited success. This is made from bits of a kitchen sponge, whizzed up in a blender, coloured with ordinary house paint kneaded through, dried in the oven and then ground again in a little electric coffee grinder. It's not utterly worthless, but I was hoping for a smaller grain size than this. Also, the sponge is yellow, so that affects the final… ## [Kriegsmarine Operations out of Le Havre on D-Day, 6 June 1944](https://rommelsriposte.com/2026/06/06/kriegsmarine-operations-out-of-le-havre-on-d-day-6-june-1944/) _2026-06-06 · Rommelsriposte · The Crusader Project_ Background The general story of the German defence against D-Day tends to focus on the land defences. While this is where the primary focus of combat action took places, it overlooks what was considered an important element of the integrated defence of the Normandy coast, the naval units based at Le Havre, and Cherbourg, and \[…\] ## [First paper figure from 1981](http://mojobob.blogspot.com/2026/06/first-paper-figure-from-1981.html) _2026-06-04 · Peter Fitz · Shouting Into The Void_ Since I'm on a cardboard standee kick at the moment, I thought I would show you this — my very first hand-drawn paper AD&D character mini, from 1981. My friend Ivan (a wonderful man, now sadly deceased) was running what I think was his one and only AD&D campaign for our group, and wanted to try out the use of figure markers. Up until then, we'd always done pure theatre-of-the-mind stuff. For the… ## [How the war was won – on killing](https://rommelsriposte.com/2026/05/30/how-the-war-was-won-on-killing/) _2026-05-30 · Rommelsriposte · The Crusader Project_ Background A recurring discussion on ‘who won the war’, which started by ignoring the contribution of the Red Army in the beginning Cold War, then went towards over-emphasising it sometime from the 1980s, and in the last twenty years again went back to ‘actually, it was the Western Allies’ has a few years ago culminated \[…\] ## [Standees for Mythic China campaign](http://mojobob.blogspot.com/2026/05/standees-for-mythic-china-campaign.html) _2026-05-24 · Peter Fitz · Shouting Into The Void_ Many years ago I ran a short-lived campaign set in a Mythic China milieu. I didn't have any 3d minis suitable for the aesthetic, so I made a bunch of standees. Naturally, being set in Mythic China, none of the players elected to play an actual Chinese character. Not one. We had a Japanese sumo wrestler, a Japanese samurai, and a Mongol warrior. And a donkey. The only vaguely Chinese character was… ## [Swansong of the Malta Blenheims](https://rommelsriposte.com/2026/05/23/swansong-of-the-malta-blenheims/) _2026-05-23 · Rommelsriposte · The Crusader Project_ Background I have previously written about the story of the Malta Blenheims (see e.g. here, here, here and here) and more generally about the Bristol Blenheim here. A while ago I came across a war diary entry in Axis files that German merchant Brook, escorted by Italian gunboat Zuri, was attacked by enemy planes on \[…\] ## [More Paper Minis](http://mojobob.blogspot.com/2026/05/more-paper-minis.html) _2026-05-23 · Peter Fitz · Shouting Into The Void_ Ive printed and cut out a new batch of paper minis from OkumArts, bought via DriveThruRPG. David Okum's minis are my favourites, when it comes to card standees. My main regret is that he doesn't seem to have done a great many fantasy RPG character class variants, or if he has, I've missed them. There are a few, but not a particularly wide variety. If he produced two-sheet PDFs of character minis… ## [No. 94 Squadron’s very bad day – 15 February 1942](https://rommelsriposte.com/2026/05/22/no-94-squadrons-very-bad-day-15-february-1942/) _2026-05-22 · Rommelsriposte · The Crusader Project_ Background (from IWM) Ernest “Imshi”\[1\] Mason (29 July 1913 – 15 February 1942) was a British World War II flying ace, credited with one Luftwaffe and 14 Regia Aeronautica aircraft destroyed, two shared destroyed, three damaged and another three shared damaged in the air. In this photo he is serving with No. 274 Squadron RAF \[…\] ## [Battle Map](http://mojobob.blogspot.com/2026/05/battle-map.html) _2026-05-21 · Peter Fitz · Shouting Into The Void_ I have a large (A1) laminated offset-square 1" grid that I use as a battle map for D&D. It works great, being very quick and convenient to set up with a whiteboard marker, and it's very clear and visible to all the players (and me). However, it turns out that it's not ideal for exploration sessions, as even on an A1 sheet, a one-inch grid doesn't go all that far. And if the party go off in an… ## [Stream Torrents & IPTV Instantly (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/BsRRrvEY26l6) _2026-05-21 · **Sponsored**_ Search magnet links and stream movies, music, books, and live TV in-browser ## [SdKfz 251 ambulance](http://mojobob.blogspot.com/2026/05/sdkfz-251-ambulance.html) _2026-05-15 · Peter Fitz · Shouting Into The Void_ This 15mm (1/100 scale) Hanomag SdKfz 251 half-track ambulance is a model I designed and printed some considerable time ago, but the print was a partial failure — the nose of the vehicle is distorted, and the wheels didn't print at all. I just got around to making some new wheels and gluing them in place. I'll add it to the rest of the ambulances I've been modelling over recent years. I've got a… ## [Found (again)](http://mojobob.blogspot.com/2026/05/found-again.html) _2026-05-14 · Peter Fitz · Shouting Into The Void_ I'm in the process of re-re-re-re-reorganising my workroom, and I found some 15mm WWII figures I've been looking for for quite a while. They're Battlefront 15mm WWII Mediterranean Brits in BD trousers and shirt-sleeves, ideal for representing troops in Italy in summer. It's quite an old set, and I don't think they're still available any more. Plus, I found some other Brits that I didn't even know… ## [Mystery Mini](http://mojobob.blogspot.com/2026/05/mystery-mini.html) _2026-05-12 · Peter Fitz · Shouting Into The Void_ I got this figure in a mixed lot of 15mm medievals and ancients some time back in the early(ish) 1980s. I'm not familiar with ancients though, and I'm not at all sure what it might be. I thought maybe a clibanophoros, but I'm really just guessing. I also don't know who the manufacturer was. ## [Adventures Dark and Deep (Lite)](http://mojobob.blogspot.com/2026/05/adventures-dark-and-deep-lite.html) _2026-05-05 · Peter Fitz · Shouting Into The Void_ This arrived for me today, a PoD hardback via DriveThruRPG. Including postage, it cost me about $40 yankeebucks, so about $65 Kiwibucks. I got it purely out of curiosity, since I'm pretty happy with running AD&D2e and don't intend to change that any time soon. The author, Joseph Bloch, has said words to the effect that he was trying to write the game that Gary Gygax might have produced as AD&D2e… ## [Tome of Magic](http://mojobob.blogspot.com/2026/05/tome-of-magic.html) _2026-04-30 · Peter Fitz · Shouting Into The Void_ I bought a copy of the AD&D2e Tome of Magic in PDF from DriveThruRPG. I would have preferred a PoD hard copy, but they don't offer one for this volume, and I figured that at least I could print the PDF and bind my own physical book. For those unfamiliar with it, the Tome of Magic is just a collection of additional spells and magic items for AD&D2e, and it also expands the clerical spheres and… ## [Pill Tray Paint Palette](http://mojobob.blogspot.com/2026/04/pill-tray-paint-palette.html) _2026-04-27 · Peter Fitz · Shouting Into The Void_ I've been casting about for ages for a paint palette with very small reservoirs, suitable for very small quantities of paint. I completely overlooked this: my used pill trays. Thanks to my ever-increasing decrepitude, I have a never-ending supply of them, and they're perfect for my purposes — compact, disposable, and white. ## [Astronoetics: "Anticipation of Spaceflight as Metaphor"](https://grayskythinking.substack.com/p/astronoetics-anticipation-of-spaceflight) _2026-04-14 · Michael Uhall · Gray Sky Thinking_ Translation from Hans Blumenberg's Die Vollzähligkeit der Sterne (1997). ## [Grenadier "Night Hag" - 1986](http://mojobob.blogspot.com/2026/04/grenadier-night-hag-1986.html) _2026-04-01 · Peter Fitz · Shouting Into The Void_ While I was looking through some accumulated boxes of stuff, I found one containing a whole bunch of old white metal miniatures from Ye Olden Times. This is a Night Hag by Grenadier, dated 1986. The bottom of the base Back in those days, the standard nominal figure size for roleplaying minis was 25mm instead of 28 or 32mm, as it is today. This one is quite small even by those standards, and… ## [Reading geopolitics: "Air War and Literature" (1999) and Sama’ Abdulhadi](https://grayskythinking.substack.com/p/reading-geopolitics-air-war-and-literature) _2026-03-19 · Michael Uhall · Gray Sky Thinking_ On W. G. Sebald's "Air War and Literature" and Sama’ Abdulhadi. ## [Reading geopolitics: The Invisible Empire (2022)](https://grayskythinking.substack.com/p/reading-geopolitics-the-invisible) _2026-03-12 · Michael Uhall · Gray Sky Thinking_ On Juha Arvid Helminen's A Journey to the Invisible Empire. ## [Find what they just said (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/457dVpGs6eA3) _2026-03-12 · **Sponsored**_ Surface recent public signals so you can send policy-aware, relevant outreach ## [Pantherturm (15mm)](http://mojobob.blogspot.com/2026/03/pantherturm-15mm.html) _2026-03-11 · Peter Fitz · Shouting Into The Void_ This is a freebie STL of a WWII German Pantherturm , an emplaced Panther tank turret used extensively in the Italian campaign and during the fall of the Reich as a (relatively) cheap protected anti-tank bunker. https://www.wargaming3d.com/product/mojobob\_hoochyman\_pantherturm The model is designed at 1:100 scale for 15mm, but it will scale up for 20mm without any issues, and even 28mm at a pinch.… ## [Gray sky thinking: Augustine and institutional resilience](https://grayskythinking.substack.com/p/gray-sky-thinking-augustine-and-institutional) _2026-03-10 · Michael Uhall · Gray Sky Thinking_ For Augustine, the imperfection of political life becomes a kind of speculative engine, the very means of generating new projects and trajectories. ## [The Book of Artifacts](http://mojobob.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-book-of-artifacts.html) _2026-03-10 · Peter Fitz · Shouting Into The Void_ This just arrived for me, a print-on-demand product from DTRPG. It's pretty much what it says on the cover: a whole bunch of magical artifacts for AD&D2e. It also includes some notes on the use of artifacts within an AD&D2e campaign, and a bunch of tables with which to generate the various random powers the artifacts are supposed to have. I like the concept of these artifacts in a campaign. They… ## [Giant Hag](http://mojobob.blogspot.com/2026/03/giant-hag.html) _2026-03-07 · Peter Fitz · Shouting Into The Void_ This is an FDM print of a fairly old Duncan Louca design, one of a set of three hags he did. I've printed it at a height of 75mm, as I had a need for a giant hag in a game session I was running, though that need passed long before I ever got the mini painted. It's painted entirely with glazes (Army Painter Speedpaint and Vallejo Xpress ) and washes, apart from the metallic gold of her piercings… ## [Vallejo Xpress](http://mojobob.blogspot.com/2026/03/vallejo-xpress.html) _2026-03-06 · Peter Fitz · Shouting Into The Void_ Vallejo Xpress is another entry into the colour glaze "speed-paint" style of mini paints. I noticed them on the rack when I went in to my FLGS for some normal Vallejo paint, and thought I'd give them a try in my constant search for hobby materials that cater to my laziness. They work decently well, though there's nothing startling about them. They dry to a glossier finish than Army Painter… ## [WotC Displacer Beast](http://mojobob.blogspot.com/2026/03/wotc-displacer-beast.html) _2026-03-05 · Peter Fitz · Shouting Into The Void_ This is an old mini from the early 2000s, when WotC was newly the owner of D&D and had just published 3rd Edition. They also started producing a range of white metal miniatures to match the art in the Monster manual, of which this is one — the Displacer Beast. I don't know who the sculptor was, but it does a decent job of replicating the skinny, almost skeletal aspect of the MM artwork. It was a… ## [Reading geopolitics: Point Omega (2010)](https://grayskythinking.substack.com/p/reading-geopolitics-point-omega-2010) _2026-03-05 · Michael Uhall · Gray Sky Thinking_ On Don DeLillo's Point Omega. ## [Reading geopolitics: Cyclonopedia (2008)](https://grayskythinking.substack.com/p/reading-geopolitics-cyclonopedia) _2026-03-02 · Michael Uhall · Gray Sky Thinking_ On Reza Negarestani's Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials. ## [Gray sky thinking: Plato and political decay](https://grayskythinking.substack.com/p/gray-sky-thinking-plato-and-political) _2026-02-26 · Michael Uhall · Gray Sky Thinking_ Plato’s creation is a conceptual machine \[...\] seeking an exit to the surface, an egress to the Outside. ## [Bristol Beaufort (1/144)](http://mojobob.blogspot.com/2026/02/bristol-beaufort-1144.html) _2026-02-26 · Peter Fitz · Shouting Into The Void_ This is a 1/200 model by PlanePrinter (on Patreon), up-scaled to 1/144 scale and printed on my elderly Ender 3. It's intended for my WWII Desert Air Force, to support my 15mm WWII Brits in North Africa and the Mediterranean. ## [Reading geopolitics: The Folly and the Glory (2020)](https://grayskythinking.substack.com/p/reading-geopolitics-the-folly-and) _2026-02-18 · Michael Uhall · Gray Sky Thinking_ On Tim Weiner's The Folly and the Glory: America, Russia, and Political Warfare, 1945-2020. ## [Introduction to gray sky thinking](https://grayskythinking.substack.com/p/introduction-to-gray-sky-thinking) _2026-02-16 · Michael Uhall · Gray Sky Thinking_ The standard assumption about the future is that it will resemble the past. But this is wrong. ## [More Model Photography](http://mojobob.blogspot.com/2026/02/more-model-photography.html) _2026-02-02 · Peter Fitz · Shouting Into The Void_ Some time ago I made myself an MDF box to use as a portable photographic stage for shooting models. I painted the inside matte white, to keep as much light as possible bouncing around in there. Ever since, from time to time, I've been tinkering with various setups to get the best out of it, and in the end it seems that the simplest is best. For light, I'm just using a single cheap equipoise lamp… ## [15mm Afrika Korps](http://mojobob.blogspot.com/2026/01/15mm-afrika-korps.html) _2026-01-26 · Peter Fitz · Shouting Into The Void_ I've had these Battlefront 15mm Afrika Korps sitting around, based, primed and waiting for paint, for years now. I don't know for sure exactly how many years. I've finally pulled finger and got them sufficiently finished that I can use them in a game without being utterly ashamed. For some reason, and I can't quite put my finger on exactly why, I just don't enjoy painting infantry. So they tend to… ## [DM Screen for AD&D2e](http://mojobob.blogspot.com/2026/01/dm-screen-for-ad.html) _2026-01-21 · Peter Fitz · Shouting Into The Void_ I've printed out and assembled my new DM's screen for AD&D2e. Structurally, it's 2mm grey-board covered with some of my home-made book-cloth. I didn't have enough of a single pattern to do the whole lot, which is why it's in two different patterns. The most useful in-game charts are on the two centre panels. The outer panels are less likely to be needed day-to-day, and I've added some hinged…