Currently the Europa mailing list is pretty active, and we received a request to maybe host the JET/Jet replacement files. As a small preparation, we’ve uploaded all recent Vassal modules and all Errata sheets we could find onto a new Google drive, and updated most of the game pages with links to those files. The result is depressingly unremarkable, considering that alone took basically a days work. But such is life with WordPress, and besides, we haven’t done maintenance on the site apart from the technical updates for a while, so it was a good thing to start reviewing some pages. And the files are now up, and the system can be easily extended.
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US Army Field Manuals – A Collection
Full Disclosure: This is me advertising one of my own side projects
Over the years I’ve collected quite and amount of the publicly available US Field Manuals that set down doctrine and guidelines for the way the US Army trains, organizes, and operates. The collection is still woefully incomplete, but contains now ~1900 files of US Army Field manuals from 1930 to 2024. I hope it will be a useful resource for anyone interested in the US Army and its history.
VDV Manuals – A collection
Keeping it up with military manuals, in 2021 some friendly reseacher posted a huge cache of military manuals and publications from the academy of the Russian Airborne Forces, the Воздушно-десантные войска России (ВДВ), or VDV. Again a translation is necessary, which fortunately can be done for free with a range of tools online these days. But the files deserve their mention, especially since the site is virtually invisible on search engines these days, and not everone as the stomach to go Ex to view the sites Twitter account.
The Austro-Hungarian Kriegsarchiv in Vienna traces its roots back to the foundation of the “Ständiger Kriegs-Rath” by German Emperor Maximilian II. With the advent of historism and mass printing, the Kriegsarchiv started to produce a remarkable amount of publications about the military history of Austria-Hungary. These volumes, while certainly biased and not up to modern scientific standards, contain a wealth of information dug from the imperial archives, and will continue to searve as valuable sources for German military history.
Das Kriegsjahr 1683
Feldzüge des Prinzen Eugen von Savoyen
1. (I. Serie I. Band) Einleitung zur Darstellung der Feldzüge des Prinzen Eugen von Savoyen, Wien 1876
2. (I. Serie II. Band) Feldzüge gegen die Türken 1697-1698. Karlowitzer Friede 1699, Wien 1876
3. (I. Serie III. Band) Band Spanischer Successions-Krieg. Feldzug 1701, Wien 1878
4. (I. Serie IV. Band) Band Spanischer Successions-Krieg. Feldzug 1702, Wien 1877,
5. (I. Serie V. Band) Band Spanischer Successions-Krieg. Feldzug 1703, Wien 1878
6. (I. Serie VI. Band) Spanischer Successions-Krieg. Feldzug 1704, Wien 1879
7. (I. Serie VII. Band) Spanischer Successions-Krieg. Feldzug 1705, Wien 1879
8. (I. Serie VIII. Band) Spanischer Successions-Krieg. Feldzug 1706, Wien 1879
9. (I. Serie IX. Band) Spanischer Successions-Krieg. Feldzug 1707, Wien 1883
10. (II. Serie I. Band) Spanischer Successions-Krieg. Feldzug 1708, Wien 1885
11. (II. Serie II. Band) Spanischer Successions-Krieg. Feldzug 1709
12. (II. Serie III. Band) Spanischer Successions-Krieg. Feldzug 1710, Wien 1887
13. (II. Serie IV. Band) Spanischer Successions-Krieg. Feldzug 1711, Wien 1887
14. (II. Serie V. Band) Spanischer Successions-Krieg. Feldzug 1712, Wien 1889
15. (II. Serie VI. Band) Spanischer Successions-Krieg. Feldzug 1713, Wien 1892
16. (II. Serie VII. Band) Spanischer Successions-Krieg. Feldzug 1716, Wien 1891
17. (II. Serie VIII. Band) Der Türken-Krieg 1716-1718. Feldzug 1718, Wien 1891
18. (II. Serie IX. Band) Kämpfe der Kaiserlichen in Sizilien und Korsica 1717-1720 und 1730-1732
19. (II. Serie X. Band) Polnischer Throhnfolge-Krieg. Feldzüge 1733 und 1734, Wien 1891
20. (II. Serie XI. Band) Polnischer Throhnfolge-Krieg. Feldzug 1735
Orts- Namen- und Sach-Register, Wien 1892
Österreichischer Erbfolge-Krieg 1740-1748
Nach Feldakten und anderen authentischen Quellen bearbeitet in der kriegsgeschichtlichen Abteilung des k.u.k Kriegsarchivs von Aurel von le Beau und Rudolf von Hödl
Volume I. Part1, Wien 1896
Volume I, Part 2, Wien 1896
Volume II, Wien 1897
Volume III, Wien 1898
Volume IV, Wien 1914
Volume V, Wien 1904
Volume VI, Wien 1905
Volume VII, Wien 1905
Volume VIII, Wien 1905
Geschichte der Kämpfe Österreichs. Kriege unter der Regierung des Kaisers Franz
Im Auftrag des K. und K. Chefs des Generalstabes herausgegeben von der Direktion des K. und K. Kriegsarchivs ·
Teil 1: Der Krieg gegen die Französische Revolution, 1792-1797
Band 1: Einleitung, Wien 1905
Band 2: Der Feldzug 1792, Wien 1905
Teil 2: Der Krieg 1809
Band I: Regensburg, Wien 1905
Band II: Italien, Wien 1905
Band III:
Kriegs-Chronik Österreich-Ungarns
Militärischer Führer auf den Kriegsschauplätzen der Monarchie (all volumes have been scanned into one file)
I. Theil : Der (nordwestliche) Kriegsschauplatz : Böhmen, Mähren, Schlesien. Wien 1885
II. Theil: Der südwestliche Kriegsschauplatz im Donauthale und in den österreichischen Alpenländern. Wien 1886
III. Theil: Der südöstliche Kriegsschauplatz in den Ländern der ungarischen Krone, in Dalmatien und Bosnien. Wien 1887
IV. Theil: Der nordöstliche Kriegsschauplatz in Galizien und der Bukowina. Wien 1891
Österreichs Kämpfe im Jahre 1866
1. Band. Die Kriegsvorbereitungen, Wien 1869, 352 pages
2. Band. Der Krieg in Italien. Wien 1869,
3. Band, Der Krieg in Böhmen 1: Vom Beginn der Feindseligkeiten bis nach der Schlacht von Königgrätz. Wien 1869,
4. Band. Der Krieg in Böhmen 2: Vom 4. Juli bis zum Friedenschluss im Norden und Süden. Wien 1869, 294 pages
5. Band. Der Krieg auf dem Adriatischen Meere. Wien 1869, 426 pages
Various
Biografien K.K. Heerführer und Generale, Wien 1888
Der Krieg in Italien, Nach den Feld-Acten und anderen authentischen Quellen bearbeitet durch die Abtheilung für Kriegsgeschichte des K.K. Kriegsarchivs
3 Band: 1876, 490 pages
Die Occupation Bosniens und der Hercegovina durch K. K. Truppen im Jahre 1878, Wien 1879
Der Aufstand in der Hercegovina, Süd-Bosnien und SüdDalmatien 1881-1882, Wien 1883
Mitteilungen des K und K. Kriegsarchivs
Mittheilungen des K.K. Kriegs-Archivs 1. (1876)
Mittheilungen des K.K. Kriegs-Archivs 2. (1877)
Mittheilungen des K.K. Kriegs-Archivs 3. (1878)
Mittheilungen des K.K. Kriegs-Archivs – Österreichs Kriege seit 1495 (1878)
Mittheilungen des K.K. Kriegs-Archivs – Die Occupation Bosniens und der Herzegovina (1879)
Mittheilungen des K.K. Kriegs-Archivs – Beigabe (1879)
Mittheilungen des K.K. Kriegs-Archivs (1881)
Mittheilungen des K.K. Kriegs-Archivs (1882)
Mittheilungen des K.K. Kriegs-Archivs (1883)
Mittheilungen des K.K. Kriegs-Archivs (1884)
Mittheilungen des K.K. Kriegs-Archivs (1885)
Mittheilungen des K.K. Kriegs-Archivs (1886)
Mittheilungen des K.K. Kriegs-Archivs 1. (Neue Folge, 1887)
Mittheilungen des K.K. Kriegs-Archivs 2. (Neue Folge, 1888)
Mittheilungen des K.K. Kriegs-Archivs 3. (Neue Folge, 1889)
Mittheilungen des k.u.k. Kriegs-Archivs 4. (Neue Folge, 1889)
Mittheilungen des k.u.k. Kriegs-Archivs 5. (Neue Folge, 1891)
Mittheilungen des k.u.k. Kriegs-Archivs 6. (Neue Folge, 1892)
Mittheilungen des k.u.k. Kriegs-Archivs – Supplement (1892)
Mittheilungen des k.u.k. Kriegs-Archivs 7. (Neue Folge, 1893)
Mittheilungen des k.u.k. Kriegs-Archivs 8. (Neue Folge, 1894)
Mittheilungen des k.u.k. Kriegs-Archivs 9. (Neue Folge, 1895)
Mittheilungen des k.u.k. Kriegs-Archivs 10. (Neue Folge, 1898)
Mittheilungen des k.u.k. Kriegs-Archivs – Supplement. Geschichte K. und K. Wehrmacht 1. (1898)
Mittheilungen des k.u.k. Kriegs-Archivs – Supplement. Geschichte K. und K. Wehrmacht 2. (1898)
Mittheilungen des k.u.k. Kriegs-Archivs 11. (Neue Folge, 1899)
Mittheilungen des k.u.k. Kriegs-Archivs 12. (Neue Folge, 1900)
Mittheilungen des k.u.k. Kriegs-Archivs – Supplement. Geschichte K. und K. Wehrmacht 3/1. (1901)
Mittheilungen des k.u.k. Kriegs-Archivs – Supplement. Geschichte K. und K. Wehrmacht 3/2. (1901)
Mittheilungen des k.u.k. Kriegs-Archivs 1. (Dritte Folge, 1902)
Mittheilungen des k.u.k. Kriegs-Archivs 2. (Dritte Folge, 1903)
Mittheilungen des k.u.k. Kriegs-Archivs – Supplement. Geschichte K. und K. Wehrmacht 5. (1903)
Mitteilungen des k.u.k. Kriegs-Archivs 3. (Dritte Folge, 1904)
Mitteilungen des k.u.k. Kriegs-Archivs – Supplement. Geschichte der K. und K. Wehrmacht 4. (1905)
Mitteilungen des k.u.k. Kriegs-Archivs 4. (Dritte Folge, 1906)
Mitteilungen des k.u.k. Kriegs-Archivs 5. (Dritte Folge, 1907)
Mitteilungen des k.u.k. Kriegs-Archivs 6. (Dritte Folge, 1909)
Mitteilungen des k.u.k. Kriegs-Archivs – Supplement. Erzherzog Johanns „Feldzugserzählung” 1809 (1909)
Mitteilungen des k.u.k. Kriegs-Archivs 7. (Dritte Folge, 1911)
Mitteilungen des k.u.k. Kriegs-Archivs 8. (Dritte Folge, 1914)
Catalogues and Bibliographies
Katalog der Bibliothek-Abteilung des K und K. Kriegsarchivs
Band I, Erster Teil, Wien 1896 – Kriegswissenschaften und Heerwesen im Allgemeinen, Truppenkunde, Heeresorganisation ; Heeres-Ergänzung und Verwaltung, Personalvorschriften ; Truppenausbildung, Dienst und Exercieren ; Kriegskunst ; Waffenwesen und Artillerie
Band II, Zweiter Teil, Wien 1896 – Kriegs- und allgemeine Baukunst ; Technologie und Verkehrswesen, Militär-, Train- und Pferdewesen ; Terrainkunde ; Seewesen ; Mathematik ; Naturwissenschaften ; Sanitätswesen ; Geographie, Statistik, Volkswirtschaft, Reisen
Band II, Erster Teil, Wien 1897 – Kriegsgeschichte ; Heeres- und Truppen-Geschichte ; Militär-Schemata
Band II, Zweiter Teil, Wien 1897 – Allgemeine und Staatengeschichte
Band II, Dritter Teil, Wien 1897 – Biographien, Mémoires und Correspondenzen ; Staats- und Rechtswissenschaft, Culturgeschichte und Religionswesen ; Philosophie, Unterrichtswesen ; Sprachwissenschaft, Literatur und Kunst ; Encyklopädie ; Bibliothekswissenschaft, Bücherkunde und Archivwesen
1. Nachtrag, Erster Teil, Wien 1905 – 1, Nachtr. 1 / Von 1897 bis Ende 1904
1. Nachtrag, Zweiter Teil, Wien 1905, 2, Nachtr. 1 / Von 1897 bis Ende 1904
1. Nachtrag, Autorenverzeichnis, Wien 1905, Nachtr. 1 / Von 1897 bis Ende 1904
Ukrainian Field Manuals – A Collection
The Ukrainian people were forced into a brutal war by Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, and had to adapt quickly and creatively to stand against the numerical superiority of the Russian Army. Support from the West was often lackluster and unreliable, many NATO states themselves torn between rising nationalist sentiments, pacifist traditions, and the desire to help a democratic European nation to defend itself.
The Training Department (G7) of the Headquarters of the Territorial Defense Forces Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine follows the example of the US Army and has made most of its manuals available online to the public. With a bit of automated translations, a lot of knowledge about the Ukrainian Army is available in these documents.
As of this writing, the war is neither decided nor over, and we sincerely hope the West can find its way back and be a staunch defender of democracy and freedom.
URL: https://sprotyvg7.com.ua/vijskovi-publikacii
Most likely, if you end up on this website, you got sick of the song some three decades ago. But this is not about the Fall of the Wall, this is about my own little corner of the web, and some changes will be coming this year. I have not properly played Europa in over a decade, and I do not thing I will ever get my shipment of “Total War” I paid more than two decades ago. So all things “Europa” will be rounded out by files, and then assembled into an Europa archive for those still interested. And yes, I will continue to add game reports, but I would like to focus a bit more on military history. The library will become a place for online available sources, some of which may be a bit harder to find. There will be a new bibliography for the Austro-Hungarian military history, and some lists of available regimental histories as well, and I will structure and revisit the Link section, too.
As in the past, more important things like family and job mean I will rarely have time to create my own original content – it took me three or four months to research and write “Battle of Balakliya”, and its not even a very good essay, more of a test case. So I will do what I have done for the last thirty years: Look for cool things other people have written or done, and point you to them. Ever since I had to steer my career away from the academic work on military history, I have always been grateful to have the possibility to collect, curate, and assembling things I was no longer able to focus my work on. So if you have anything to share on the topics of the organization and equipment of military forces, I will always be grateful if you share.
Also, ask me about my other collections.
The Coastal Defense Study Group
Woe to the Europa player who ever would have to create maps for the US coast and put CD counters on them in any Europa scenario. Any game in which the Axis would be able to mount a significant threat to the US is one that has already turned sour for the Allies.
If you should find in such a predicament, though, the first and best source for such information would be the Coastal Defense Study Group and its exhaustive Wiki covering the history of US fortifications. The CDSG works to educate and preserve the history of the United States coastal defenses, and does so through conferences, a journal, and the already mentioned resources on the web.
URL: cdsg.org
… what exactly is unclear, but the shouting got too much for us. We will be deactivating the Twitter account of the Generalstab, There is not much else to say, it was fun while it lasted, but I refuse to look at the things promoted and shoved in my face on Twitter these days.
So the plan is to move to where the Sky is blueer during this year. I admit I have been lazy posting and engaging online a lot, since other projects took precedence. But I have been busy during the past years, and will actually be able to share some of the results soon, probably on the other long-term project the Ametria site. It will be more oriented towards interaction, scientific study and historic work, and sources will be king. I hope to interest some of you for it, come the time.
The Coast Defense Study Group was so kind as to share their collection of FMs with us. There are exceptionally good scans, not OCRed yet, but in most cases with great details allowing for a much better analysis of the images. If you find the time, pay them a visit, their website is amazing and the history of fotrifications in the US is undervalued to say the least. From their depository, we’ve added the FMs listed below today – Thank you again for this, CDSG!
This means that we now have 360 of the 527 FMs from the Second World War known to us, which gives us already a pretty good coverage. It looks even better for the prewar-FMs, where we have 48 out of 64, and the missing ones are with two exceptions updates or earlier versions of a manual we already uploaded. Next up: The Cold War manuals. But first, here’s the list of updates:
FM 4-45 Coast Artillery Field Manual. Seacoast Artillery. Service of the Piece. 12 Inch gun, Railway Mound, M1918, Railway Artillery (1940).pdf
FM 4-5 Coast Artillery Field Manual. Seacoast Artillery Organization and Tactics (1940).pdf
FM 4-5 Coast Artillery Tactics (C1) 1944.pdf
FM 4-6 Coast Artillery Field Manual. Seacoast Artillery Tactics and Technique of Controlled Submarine Mines (1943).pdf
FM 4-7 Tactics and Technique of Controlled Submarine Mines, Ground (1945).pdf
FM 4-15 Coast Artillery Field Manual. Seacoast Artillery Fire Control and Position Finding (1943).pdf
FM 4-30 Service of Gun data Computer M1 (1943).pdf
FM 4-32 Service of Base End Data and Gun Data Transmission Systems (1944).pdf
FM 4-41 Coast Artillery Field Manual. Operation and Care of Railway Artillery Equipment (1943).pdf
FM 4-144 Antiaircraft Artillery Field Manual. Service of Radio Set SCR-584 (1943).pdf
FM 4-145 Coast Artillery Field Manual. Antiaircraft Artillery. Radio Set SCR-258 (1942).pdf
FM 4-48 Coast Artillery Field Manual. Service of the the Piece Seacoast Artillery 8-inch Gun, Mark VI, Modification 3A2, On Railway Mount M1A1 (1943).pdf
FM 4-49 Coast Artillery Field Manual. Service of the the Piece Seacoast Artillery 8-inch Gun, Mark VI, Modification 3A2, On Railway Mount M1A1 (1940(.pdf
FM 4-51 Coast Artillery Field Manual. Operation and Care of Railway Artillery Equipment (1943).pdf
FM 4-74 Service of the Piece–6-Inch Gun M1903A2 or M1905A2 on BC M3 and M4 (1944).pdf
FM 4-91 Coast Artillery Service of the Piece–90mm Gun M1 on 90mm Mount M3 (1943).pdf
FM 4-95 Seacoast Artillery Service of Radio Set SCR-296-A (1943(.pdf
FM 4-100 Antiaircraft Artillery Field Manual, Organization and Tactics of Antiaircraft Artillery (1943).pdf
FM 4-101 Antiaircraft Artillery Field Manual. Employment of Antiaircraft Artillery with Armored Forces (1943).pdf
FM 4-102 Employment of Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons (1943).pdf
FM 4-103 Antiaircraft Artillery Field Manual. Employment of Antiaircraft Artillery with Airborne Forces (1943).pdf
FM 4-106 Antiaircraft Artillery Field Manual. Employment of Antiaircraft Searchlights and the AAAIS (1943).pdf
FM 4-110 Coast Artillery Field Manual. Antiaircraft Artillery. Gunnery, Fire Control and Position Finding (1940).pdf
FM 4-112 Coast Artillery Field Manual. Antiaircraft Artillery. Gunnery, Fire Control and Position Finding, Automatic Weapons (1940).pdf
FM 4-121 Antiaircraft Artillery Field Manual. Fire Control, Guns (1943) guns.pdf
FM 4-135 Coast Artillery Field Manual. Antiaircraft Artillery. Marksmanship and Service of the Piece. Antiaircraft Machine Gun (1940).pdf
FM 4-136 Antiaircraft Artillery Field Manual. Service of Directors M4 and M7 (1943).pdf
FM 4-138 Antiaircraft Artillery Field Manual. Service of Directors M9 and M10 (1943).pdf
FM 4-140 Coast Artillery Field Manual. Antiaircraft Artillery. Service of the Piece. 37-mm Antiaircraft Gun (1941).pdf
FM 4-143 Antiaircraft Artillery Field Manual. Service of Height Finder SCR-547 (1943).pdf
FM 4-188 Antiaircraft Artillery Field Manual. Barrage Balloon. Service of the Balloon and Balloon Equipment, Very Low Altitude (1943).pdf
FM 4-196 Antiaircraft Artillery Field Manual. Barrage Balloon Rigging and Fabric Repair (1943).pdf
FM 4-146 Antiaircraft Artillery Field Manual. Service of Radio Set SCR-545 (1943).pdf
FM 4-150 Coast Artillery Field Manual. Examination of Gunners (1940).pdf
FM 4-150 Coast Artillery Field Manual. Examination of Gunners (Change 1) (1940).pdf
FM 4-159 Antiaircraft Artillery Field Manual. Service of the Piece. Multiple Gun Motor Carriage M15 (1943).pdf
FM 4-160 Antiaircraft Artillery Field Manual. Service of the Piece. 40-mm Fire Unit (1943).pdf
FM 4-175 Antiaircraft Artillery Field Manual. Service of the Searchlight (1943).pdf
FM 4-176 Antiaircraft Artillery Field Manual. Service of Radio Set SCR-258 (1943).pdf
FM 4-187 Antiaircraft Artillery Field Manual. Barrage Balloon. Service of the Balloon and Balloon Equipment, Low Altitude (1943).pdf
I recently found some time to work on putting the U.S. Field Manual Collection on a more solid footing, going through the various FM 21-6 (Index of Training Publications) and other lists to see what manuals are still missing, and seeing if they are available online. All this for a bigger update at the end of this month, when I will add roughly 200 new FMs or variants thereof, and correct some spelling errors.
Sometimes, the search for missing FMs ends at the gates of a mailing list who’s owners remain unresponsive. Sometimes, the reply comes quick, and I get more than I asked for. The webmaster of the Coastal Defense Study Group was so kind as to indulge my request for a couple of FMs and instead handed me their whole repository of documents, for which I am deeply thankful. I do not take donations for this website, but if you want to support the amazing work the CDSG does for the military history of the United States, please head over there and have a look!
Alexander Alexandrovich Novikov
Alexander Alexandrovich Novikov, Air Marshal of the Soviet Union, in 1944
Defending Sicily in Second Front
An Europa-map of the island of Sicily, assembled from maps 26 and 27 from Second Front.