Intelligence In The Land of Player Skill
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Gamers often discuss the idea of "player skill" vs "character skill" in
games. That is: my wizard can speak Elvish--that's character skill--but my
wizard...
Basing East Tradgardlanders
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Spurred on by an enthusiastic email from Brian C earlier in the week l
went back and based more of the East Tradgardland forces. I left aside the
painti...
Kings German Legion Infantry - rebased
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The first batch of my Napoleonic British infantry to be replaced was my
Kings German Legion Infantry Brigade. In addition to rebasing I also added
in the m...
sha-Arthan Appendix N (Part II)
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In Part I of this post, I shared the four *authors* whose stories and
settings have most influenced my development of *Secrets of sha-Arthan. *In
this pa...
Shambattle - the hex version
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I discover that I can not be relied upon to follow through on my
undertaking. Late last year I played out an exciting *Shambattle* action on
my square g...
A Round Tuit
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How is it that every year I seem to forget how much work goes into
preparing even a simple convention game if it's about to make its public
debut.
*"G...
Autobot Slammer
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After creating Blitzwing I started to look up Autobot tanks. I came across
Slammer, a bot I'd never heard of before. I liked his blocky design so
decided...
Play Test #4 - Pickett's Charge Scenario
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*Click on the pictures to enlarge*
*or Double **Click to make them humongous*
Yesterday we conducted our fourth play test of the rules for my Pickett'...
Flat Top and The Avalon Hill General
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*I had forgotten how much I used to enjoy reading the Avalon Hill General
‘back in the day’.*
With grateful thanks to Ed who kindly pointed me to the cor...
WHAT ALICE MOLLON UNDERSTANDS ABOUT INK
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There's a long tradition of wars with-- and about-- ink:
* (The Ink Battle by Utagawa Kuniyoshi 1843)*
Ink has left a trail of rivalry, braggadocio, hostil...
Batavian uprising
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Patrick created a new diorama for the museum projects of Mules of Marius.
If you want to rent a diorama for an exhibition, they are your men.
More...
WSS: Sieges? - Shopping List for Starters
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I still have a couple of units to paint, but the completion of the Hessian
Horse marks the Official Unofficial End of Phase One-B of my WSS Project.
Nex...
French Fusiliers on Parade
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This is the cover of Miniature Warfare, Volume 1, Number 11 from December
1968. When I first clapped eyes on it as a twelve year old I was determined
to ...
WMMS 2024
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A very pleasant day for our trip down the M6. For once the traffic was
light and we were able to make good time. The car park was all but full
when w...
SA-10 ‘Grumble’ (s300)
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Models of big missile launchers are always good for a laugh, so it was easy
to persuade myself to get this lot painted. They are 1/285 scale models
made ...
As I was saying. . .
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*Two quick progress shots of the first half and a bit more of the 28mm
Eureka Saxon cuirassiers. Still lots to do, but they are beginning to look
lik...
Catching Up On My Reading- no 20
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Those of you who read my ramblings more or less regularly will know of my
interest in the military history of the Indian sub-continent. So it will
come ...
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...
There is no combination of the above words that can fail to please me.
I am an old school sort at heart, I like serried ranks of uniformed men, the elegant ballet of horse, foot and guns. I'm very much of the opinion that once cavalry stop playing a key battlefield role, all the heart has gone out of the business.
And then I see something like this and it reminds me that H.G. Wells used to fire lead shot at his beautifully painted figures and that a little sound and fury is no bad thing. For those of you who cannot watch this footage, it is three minutes and forty seconds of pure joy - remote control zeppelin busting. Make time.
That's a cool video - the guys's on my son's robotics team have seen it and are planning (after the season) to strip our 'bot down for parts to try and build something similar. I think it's a good thing, especially since there are two teenagers, my son and one his teammates who are, as we speak, trying to figure out lift ratios for the motors/props to figure out the max payload. That's two teens doing math voluntarily at 8:40am local time.
Now if I can only convince the while to let me get some Hydrogen to fill the target balloons - what could go wrong?
That's a cool video - the guys's on my son's robotics team have seen it and are planning (after the season) to strip our 'bot down for parts to try and build something similar. I think it's a good thing, especially since there are two teenagers, my son and one his teammates who are, as we speak, trying to figure out lift ratios for the motors/props to figure out the max payload. That's two teens doing math voluntarily at 8:40am local time.
ReplyDeleteNow if I can only convince the while to let me get some Hydrogen to fill the target balloons - what could go wrong?
Wow! Many thanks for posting this- awesome. I have heard of 1/25 r/c tanks firing at each other but have never seen it either...
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Insane! I love it! =)
ReplyDeleteWildly cool video indeed. Very neat!
ReplyDelete-- Jeff