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Tactical Historic Society

The THS was founded in 2004 with a project called Code-Ronin, Zen’s new Tactical Realism project “Bloodlines” is the first project with details to try and understand how Tactical rules came to be and how the first clans formed around this very unusual rule set.
Me: Who did you create THS with?
Zen: The […]

Ostfront Reenactment: Breakout at Kozatin

Tactical Realism community player FL-Reinhold attended a reenactment last weekend of combat on the Eastern Front:
German forces left behind in the wastelands of Russia were tasked to form a new Kampfgruppe and prepare for the withdrawal back to their homeland. However, the untimely arrival of a Russian Guards unit has hampered their progress and losses […]

Tigers in the Mud

Tigers in the Mud is the combat narrative of Otto Carius, one of the most successful Panzer Commanders of the Eastern Front, who destroyed hundreds of tanks and won the Knights Cross with Oak Leaves. After being long out of print, Stackpole Books has reprint this fantastic account of Panzer warfare on the Eastern Front […]

Music for the Motherland

So you’ve already preloaded RO and the release is still a couple weeks away. You’ve read all the interviews and no which weapons and tanks will be available. What next? Well how about some music to set the mood? For the Motherland!
Soviet National Anthem

Operation Barbarossa

“The armed forces of Germany must be prepared, even before the conclusion of the war with England, to defeat Soviet Russia in one rapid campaign (’Operation Barbarossa’).” Adolf Hilter, Directive No. 21.
On 22 June 1941 the Axis forces surged across the Polish border to begin the largest land battle in the history of warfare. […]