Henry Hyde has a well-deserved reputation for the maps he has produced for the magazines he edited (BATTLEGAMES and MINIATURE WARGAMES WITH BATTLEGAMES) as well as for other publications such as the Spanish Civil War supplement for the BLITZKRIEG COMMANDER. He has now brought fifty-two of these maps together into a single volume under the title BATTLE MAPS FOR MINIATURE WARGAMES.

The book is split into the following sections:

• Map Index
• Introduction
• The Maps and Notes

1. Threeman’s Farm: WWII
2. Chamla Valley
3. Save Lady Jane from McSiggins
4. Can I be your Condottiere?
5. Trapped in the Birdcage, Salonika 1915-17
6. Getting Away With It
7. Bridgehead Breakout
8. Wildfire in the Wilderness
9. Twixt Crescent and Cross
10. Plattville Valley brought up to date
11. Fighting Withdrawal
12. Night Raid on Gravelines
13. Salamanca’s Siren Call
14. Opening Hell’s Highway
15. A Dashing Rescue
16. Granddad’s Battle, Lingevres 1944
17. Apocryphal Well Revisited
18. The Bridges at Monocacy
19. Paddling in the Piave
20. Problems in the Peloponnese
21. By Any Means
22. Diamonds Are Forever
23. Yakhroma 1941
24. Wilson’s Creek 1861
25. Mongol Campaign in Syria: Ayn Jalut 1260
26. Muster Mayhem
27. Arsuf 1191
28. The Blue Danube
29. Command Challenge: Matatitze
30. Manzikert 1071
31. At the Sharp End
32. The Well of Tarka
33. The Next River!
34. The Defence of Twin Peaks
35. Stop Thief!
36. Seven Years in Silesia
37. Hold the Line! Defence in Depth (Pitzer’s Ridge 1777)
38. Insurgency
39. The Assault on the Aragon Front
40. The Fight in the North – Gipuzkoa
41. Pontoon
42. Wildfire in The Wilderness (2)
43. A River Crossing Mini-Campaign
44. Battle of the Caucasus Mountains 1221
45. Twixt Crescent and Cross (2)
46. Escaping Cromwell
47. Variations on a Theme of Teugn-Hausen
48. The Package
49. Turning the Flank
50. Win More Wargames 3: a Tougher Nut to Crack
51. Command Challenge: Three Fords, Three Ways
52. 6mm and the Bigger Picture

You will note that two of the maps featured on the list have the same name. This is not a mistake as one map is drawn to show a larger area than the other. This means that one map is ideal for a larger battle and the other is ideal for something closer to a skirmish. For example, 9 is a map of the centre of a town whereas 45 shows the terrain on the approaches to a castle.

It is interesting to note that the maps can be used together to form a large campaign map, and in the section about using maps for simple campaigns, Henry gives an example where thirteen of the maps (18, 20, 19, 49, 46, 43, 51, 10, 24, 36, 15, 4, and 29) fit together to create a campaign map.

As someone who is often looking for suitable maps for wargames, this book is a great resource, and I can see loads of wargamers wanting to add it to their bookshelves. I took it to my local gaming club, and everyone who looked at this book wanted more details about where they could get a copy.

BATTLE MAPS FOR MINIATURE WARGAMES​ was created by Henry Hyde and published by Gladius Publications in 2026 (ISBN 979 8 2446 9883 1). The paperback edition can be purchased from Amazon for £22.50 and a PDF edition can be purchased from Wargame Vault for £15.00. Purchasers can also buy a PDF of just the maps (and Henry’s other books) from payhip.com/gladiuspublications.

I ordered my copy of this book before I discovered that Henry Hyde had actually dedicated this book to me! This is both very humbling and slightly embarassing … but as I found out on my 76th birthday, it was also a wonderful and totally unexpected present!