Everybody knows Bourbon Street, the bars, the dives, the haunted places, but New Orleans in the nineteenth century was very much a working city. Not far from the famous (and infamous) French Quarter was the warehouse district. If the goods came upriver from the Gulf or down river from Westport, they were stored in warehouses built within easy reach of the Big Muddy. Cargo legal and smuggled went... [click here for more]
A lot of modern combat occurs in urban areas dominated by slums used as havens by insurgents or cover by enemy forces with no thought for collateral damage. There’s little reason to doubt that the mazes of shacks housing society’s outcasts, dregs, and poor will be the focus of combat operations for a very long time into the future. Shantyown Shops allows you to expand your slums. Shantytown... [click here for more]