I have been asked if i will be willing to review some more books from Russel Phillips, and while this books arent directly connected to the Sabre Squadron. But if you are interested in vehicles of Cold War era or you want figure out what was this strange vehicle with this strange name is this book is good for you.
Firstly we will look at Tanks and combat vehicles of the WARPAC. The book itself is sporting 180 pages including cover and it is divided to the following sections
- Introduction
- Tanks (13 entries)
- Infantry Fighting Vehicles (8 entries)
- Armoured Personal Carriers (16 entries)
- Antitank Vehicles (13 entries)
- Reconnaissance Vehicles (5 entries)
- Self-Propelled Anti-Aicraft Weapons (13 entries)
- Self-Propelled Guns, Howitzers and Mortars (11 entries)
- Multiple Rocket Launchers (9 entries)
- Tactical Ballistic Missles (8 entries)
So in terms of negativity i will write things i dont like about thise ebook and then what i like.
The main problem with this book while it contain lots of well researched information the graphics and visualition look amateurish and downgrading whole publication down i mean even in word you create nicely looking document that will look more profesional than this - dont get me wrong the writing amount of information are cool no problem with that, but when i publishing book like this i would take more effort into design.
Another thing i wanted it is usually written in vehicle description but i would love seperate entries for entered service and which nations used it and what variant but thats just me.
On other hand the amount of informations are really extensive, book itself well indexed so no issues looking for particular vehicles.
As I said before the information about vehicles are well researched, ofcourse you can find odd bits here and there but there wasnt book about Warpac vehicles that had 100% correct information
The book is excelent value if you are interested in this era and great guide if you are new in modern wargaming.
Just to clarify: the PDF that you can download from Wargame Vault is not the same as the one that is used to create the print book. The download PDF was designed for people that wanted to print some pages, so it's A4 and has much simpler formatting than the print book.
OdpovědětVymazatThe formatting in the print book is much nicer :)