More Staff for the Duke
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I did say that the Belgians would be up next however, I realised a while
back that I had never finished the personality figures for the British. So
as a ...
At Arm's Length
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Though I write most often about my House of Worms *Empire of the Petal
Throne *campaign – understandable, I suppose, because of its longevity –
it's not t...
ONE LOVELY DRAWING , part 71
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Franklin Booth (1874-1948) learned to draw by studying wood engravings in
magazines while he was growing up on a farm in Indiana. He mistakenly
thought ...
My days in the CDU
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The CDU (Clinical Decision Unit … or as I prefer to think of it, the
Casualty Dump Unit) is part of the hospital’s Accident & Emergency
Department. I was...
More on Wings of War and Glory
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*Rules and the scenario book - I will be collecting a rather better copy of
both shortly - as well some of the Litko flame and fire markers. These are
no...
Fornovo 1495
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I had a most enjoyable Zoom game last night, hosted by Jon Freitag. He was
very patient with a newbie to Basic Impetus like myself and is a most
graciou...
Some projects for the Danish-Prussian war 1864
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Our hobbyfriend Jan Kronisch sent me some photos the units he paints for
the attack on the Trenches at Dueppel 1864. The first painted Danish from
our r...
Valuable Insights into Gettysburg
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When we are confronted by an esteemed scholar, a man with his sensitive
fingers right on the pulse of history, we are obliged to listen. It would
be sac...
Game Slots Available For Saturday's Game
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*Union artillery battery on Cemetery Ridge*
It looks like tickets for my Pickett's Charge games for Thursday and Friday
are sold out, however there ...
Foxholes
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I found a bag of these resin-cast troops in foxholes in a batch of stuff I
was given a couple of years ago. A few weeks ago I decided to try painting
so...
Traffic Chaos on the Autobahn.
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A collection of no less that 5 of the Tantobie Warfare and Tactical Society
met last Saturday at our new venue of Stanley Masonic hall. (Does the
change of...
Creating Skyfire
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A real favourite of mine from the cartoon was Skyfire. He was a huge space
jet and dwarfed every other bot of the time. I didn't think I'd find a good
mo...
We Pause This Blog For
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*Tax Time*! (*Oh joy*)
One last photo from the first playtest. Lessons have been learned and
progress made. Now it's time to figure out what we owe Cae...
Portable Ligny - Looking Back...
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It was whilst reading Marin Rapier's own One Hour Ligny, and how that
Portable Wargame went, that I began to look back at my own version, played
out some...
Easter Big Game - Grave to Nijmegen - Days 3 and 4
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Easter Monday past by very quickly and I failed to take enough pictures of
the action. At last Guards Armoured had arrived but their progress was
slowed by...
An Italian Wars scenario for Pike and Shotte
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What follows is a short report on a recent game at Steve's. It is over
two years since an Italian Wars game featured on the blog, so a
reappearance was...
Happy Easter from the Grand Duchy of Stollen!
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Still limping along here in the Grand Duchy although real life has managed
to elbow it's way to the head of the queue these last few months, getting ...
Battlemasters with Kinchlets
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*"Pay attention Sir Harry, the Hun is here, here and here." - LadyBaby*
Finished up a practice game of the old MB Games/Citadel miniatures game
Battlemast...
Blood on the Sands Custom Dice
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A good mate has made me a few sets of prototype dice for Blood on the
Sands. I'm very keen to try them out when next demoing BotS. Each player
only requ...
Merry Christmas 2023 and Always
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This painting arrived as a Christmas card a few days ago. It is the most
beautiful depiction of love and adoration of Jesus by heavenly angels and
his...
Very Sad News
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I'm very sorry to be making this post but I've just learned that Dale past
away from a heart attack on November 5th.
Most of my relationship with Dale wa...
Happy Birthday Joseph Morschauser III
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Another year is almost in the books and today is Christmas Day… This isn’t
a Christmas story, but it is a story (article) written by a man born in New
York...
Trying Something New
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Based on what I said last time, I’m going to try out something new. Check
out my posts at Medium – one test you can ignore, one discussion of why I
chose t...
Wargaming the interwar period
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*CROSSPOSTED FROM WARGAMING MISCELLANY*
This year’s VCOW (Virtual Conference of Wargamers) took place over the
weekend, and I was able to take part in se...
The Constantinov Regiment
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Whilst I have, for the most part, 'moth-balled' my Classic Wargaming
collection over the past few years, occasionally I get the urge to dip back
into it....
Point Defence part two
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*The other Indian section are becoming more and more pinned down. *
*While the Bengal Lancers come under a withering fire from the central
ruin.*
*To make...
Alas - no more ....
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After a lot of thought I have decided to stop my gaming project in the
Caribbean for the foreseeable future.
The bulk of the completed units will become in...
The Fritz Leiber WIKI - [Currently Reading]
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---------- The Fritz Leiber WIKI Welcome to the Scrolls of Lankhmar. It
contains information on the writings of and also the RPG Guide to Nehwon,
which is ...
A Tale of Two Battles - Part the Second
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After the battle recorded in the previous post, I felt I had unfinished
business with Paul and his Russians, so I challenged him to a game the
followin...
Problems with Jackson Gamers Web Site
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We are having problems accessing and updating the Jackson Gamers web site.
Evidently the main page has been "stolen" by a French language pharmacy
site. ...
Hot Reception
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Gun and crew by Hinchliffe (SYW range)Christmas is an anxious time if
you're Hessian - but this year we're ready for you Mr Washington!
Battlegroup Tobruk Goes Strong into the Desert
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Pavlov's dogs, famously, were conditioned to salivate when hearing a bell
which they associated with food. I have been similarly conditioned to
associate...
Happy Winter Solstice!
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I decided I might as well face the truth, that this blog and project is
pretty much over and done. It was fun while it lasted, but my gaming
interests lie ...
Sky Pirates of Venus - Teaser
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Sky Pirates have been the scourge of the Worm Empire of Venus for years,
and the Great Worm has had enough! He sends a team of four crack worm
commandos to...
Stephen King’s Threshold
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“There is probably no dedicated fantasy fan in America who doesn’t have at
least one of those distinctive black-bound volumes upon his or her shelf .
. ....
High time...
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It is high time I posted here again. The project has stalled. Last night I
decided to have a read of book 2 after many years away from it. It begins
so wel...
La Passeggiata
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Artist: ItalianTitle: La *Passeggiata*
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Deadbeat Advertiser?!?!?!?
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I just noticed that I have been listed as a deadbeat advertiser at The
Miniatures Page. I asked Mr Armintrout over 12 months ago to cease the
advertising d...
Memories, Tangents and the Power of the Pastoral
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*Charles Stadden 30mm BEF released fifty(ish) years ago*
It occurs to me that wargaming the Great War is not going to be a straight
forward thing.
L...
Second World War comparisons on "World War 20mm"
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Piers Brand has recently posted a side by side shot of several figures
painted in his inimitable style. They represent a number of different 20mm
metal ma...
Byzarbia at Ayton Game.
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Once again it's been a while, though in my defence I plead that I have been
busy painting figures for our second Ayton Weekend Game, even forgoing two
of o...
Buy my e-book and save the police (again!)
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*Wasting Police Time** is now available on Kindle.
You don't need a Kindle itself to read it - you can download an 'app' onto
your iPad/laptop/whatever.
U...
10 of the most beautiful things I've ever seen
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1. The sun setting over a still sea, woven to silk, and the swimmers,
silhouttetted wading back to the shore like merman returning to land.
2. My br...
Why the WAR OF 1812?
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I just received two of the more recent Osprey Men-at Arms books on the War
of 1812 in the mail the other day (not really that recent - 1998 and
2000...but...
Though unfortunately I've read rules by the Two Fat Lardies rather than played them - I have been favourably impressed by their presentation and general ethos.
In addition, the Lardies have a very active Yahoo group and are always willing to engage with their audience. The latest development in this very commendable approach is Lard-o-vision, the first in a series of Youtube tutorials on how to play their games. The first game covered is Sharpe Practice, a large scale skirmish game for up to a hundred figures a side based on adventure fiction set during the 19th century - Forester, Cornwell et al.
In my humble opinion, the nicest most enthusiastic people you could ever want to meet, but the poorest rule writers I have ever come across.... both the WWII and ACW sets that I won defied transfer to the tabletop - DG & I (with 40+ years of wargaming between us) simply couldn't understand what some of the rules were trying to say...
I'm at a loss as clearly other people don't have the problem.....!
The rules do sound interesting (from this and from postings I've seen of people's games). I like the "large skirmish" idea. If they ever do a version for Colonials I'll be tempted to at least take a look.
One complaint about the videos - I had to crank up my volume to hear what Mr. Clark was saying, but then the music was way too loud. Anyway, nice way to demonstrate rules.
I found some parts of the book a bit puzzling at first, being unfamiliar with what is in effect a TFL sub-culture, and wasn't quite sure how it would all pan out on the table.
However after watching the very welcome videos I feel I've got the idea now and that there's a lot of potential.
In my humble opinion, the nicest most enthusiastic people you could ever want to meet, but the poorest rule writers I have ever come across.... both the WWII and ACW sets that I won defied transfer to the tabletop - DG & I (with 40+ years of wargaming between us) simply couldn't understand what some of the rules were trying to say...
ReplyDeleteI'm at a loss as clearly other people don't have the problem.....!
The rules do sound interesting (from this and from postings I've seen of people's games). I like the "large skirmish" idea. If they ever do a version for Colonials I'll be tempted to at least take a look.
ReplyDeleteOne complaint about the videos - I had to crank up my volume to hear what Mr. Clark was saying, but then the music was way too loud.
Anyway, nice way to demonstrate rules.
I found some parts of the book a bit puzzling at first, being unfamiliar with what is in effect a TFL sub-culture, and wasn't quite sure how it would all pan out on the table.
ReplyDeleteHowever after watching the very welcome videos I feel I've got the idea now and that there's a lot of potential.