tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45911863264136079782024-03-05T19:52:15.315+00:00Happy ValleyGaryAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06963552380378929829noreply@blogger.comBlogger181125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4591186326413607978.post-32414392073070682742021-04-10T17:18:00.004+01:002021-04-10T23:59:43.444+01:00A few more Prussians to be going on with.<p>
</p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Well,
as anyone reading this will have probably noticed, I'm behind
schedule again. Lots of real world things going on to cause
distractions like having to fit a new door and repair the frame of my
neighbour's allotment shed (he's 90 and I'm not). All exciting stuff. Anyway, a couple of photos
of two other 'Prussian' submissions to the Painting Challenge
and I'll follow up with the blurb on the Prussian Army of around 1806
in another post.</span></span></span></p><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
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</span></span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Out
of interest, the standards are being carried in the incorrect
positions, which is ridiculous as I know where they should be
located, but stupidity played a hand here. Anyway, as Eltjo Verweij
pointed out in a comment on the blog entry:</span></span></span></p><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
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</span></span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">“<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">The
Avancierfahne (white one for the first battalion, also known as
Leibfahne) was carried in the front rank. The Retirierfahne, or
Regimentsfahne (the coloured flag) was carried in the third rank. So
the first battalion carried a white flag and a coloured flag, the
second battalion carried two coloured flags, in both cases assisted
by NCOs with half-pike.”</span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9WoDGsdS0-oTWjtzehd-S0Gor2dFNPav6P-VOa230qJnrRG_QeJgQ7cYG05atKn_lb7XQeXFHp0f1gD2I62tgXIKV7TcNSIL5ICYa8tBn-AbF0Brj8cdxaKBem4Iih9zL59k3aFBb1A/s1659/Prussian+IR+No.11+Schoning+1806+A.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1659" data-original-width="1654" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9WoDGsdS0-oTWjtzehd-S0Gor2dFNPav6P-VOa230qJnrRG_QeJgQ7cYG05atKn_lb7XQeXFHp0f1gD2I62tgXIKV7TcNSIL5ICYa8tBn-AbF0Brj8cdxaKBem4Iih9zL59k3aFBb1A/w399-h400/Prussian+IR+No.11+Schoning+1806+A.jpg" width="399" /></a></span></div><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span><p></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"> IR No.11 Schoning</span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilizuUxV-NBmb_PaEdn-KF2sqVL1DNk6DI9K76jM8AqX5s9mmt7ACYBBLkFWfyMFtp8TMpkxtmdTk5h9XJ6aegqkNBNlFx_Q7XpX0pe19m5bwMyzqe1HGjhkPBycZm7rKnmu5kMIMSOQ/s2721/Prussian+IR+No.35+Prinz+Heinrich.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1155" data-original-width="2721" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilizuUxV-NBmb_PaEdn-KF2sqVL1DNk6DI9K76jM8AqX5s9mmt7ACYBBLkFWfyMFtp8TMpkxtmdTk5h9XJ6aegqkNBNlFx_Q7XpX0pe19m5bwMyzqe1HGjhkPBycZm7rKnmu5kMIMSOQ/w640-h272/Prussian+IR+No.35+Prinz+Heinrich.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span><p></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"> IR No.35 Prinz Heinrich</span>
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GaryAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06963552380378929829noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4591186326413607978.post-28115823790232919852021-01-24T06:07:00.008+00:002021-01-24T18:09:50.207+00:00It's mostly been home schooling and lockdowns . . . .<p>
</p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The
best laid plans and all that. What I'd intended to do and what's
transpired aren't a very good match at all, but let's hope I can get
some headway.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">
</span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The
main thrust for the past few weeks (excluding Christmas etc.) has
been to get my 1806 Prussians finished. There's lots of work to do to
get the 'model' division finished, but I've enrolled in the </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://thepaintingchallenge.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">The Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge (thepaintingchallenge.blogspot.com)</a> to give me added
incentive. It's an annual 'competition' organised by Curtis Campbell
in which people compete against themselves to achieve a points target
they've set. Painted and based figures each attract a certain points
value and participants nave between 21<sup>st</sup> December ad 21<sup>st</sup>
March (Winter and Spring Equinoxes) to pant stuff and accumulate
points. I'd like to say it's great fun, but it can be hard work
depending o what real life has in store. There are various challenges
between participants and also an integrated challenge scheme in which
people can progress as they complete them. Actually, it is an
incentive to get moving and there are some really nice figures and
scenery etc. submitted, along with lots of good hints and tips.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">
</span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Anyway,
I've posted below the latest two Prussian regiments (one of which
was done for the Challenge):</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">
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</span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">IR13
Arnim</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">
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</span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">IR40
Schimonsky</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"> <br /></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">They're
both AB 18 mm units based for either Shako II or General D'Armee,
both of which sets of rules are quite elastic as regards to basing.
You could also use them for other sets – I've <span style="font-family: arial;">also used March
Attack and Le Feu Sacre in the past.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Why
pick an army which has become notorious among wargamers as anything
but a killer? The original batch of figures were to form the Hesse
D'Armstadt contingent of Massena's corps in the 1809 Danube Campaign, but
I baulked at the thought of having to paint all that button lace and
substituted them for Bavarians (and Confederation troops too, but
that's yet another story). Smart move eh?</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">
</span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Not
that smart, because I didn't like the idea of these castings hanging
around doing nothing. I have no idea why that got under my skin
because I've got plenty of figures hanging round doing nothing at
that doesn't bother me at all. However, I thought a small Early
Napoleonic Prussian force would come in handy to support my Early
Russians (who are yet to be painted and are hanging around doing
nothing). So, I began to accumulate figures one way or another and a
good time later, began to paint them.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">
</span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Ironically,
the more involved I got with the research, the more interested I
became and the more I wanted to know about how the army functioned
and why it had picked up such a bad press. In the end I've become a
bit of an apologist for the poor lads, particularly in the Jena Campaign, and I don't think they get
enough recognition. Naturally, now the Perry Twins have started a
range of them, they'll grow in popularity, but I intend use
subsequent posts to give an outline of the army and maybe a rundown
on their uniforms etc. Still, more of that anon.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">
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GaryAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06963552380378929829noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4591186326413607978.post-54686191524124815952020-10-15T22:52:00.000+01:002020-10-15T22:52:48.178+01:00<p>
</p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes,
it's been a long two years and much has happened. Not much to laugh
about and a fair bit you'd want to forget, but that's life. Anyway,
this is a stop gap post to keep the channels open as it were.</span></span></p><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">
</span><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A
few photos of stuff I've accumulated with little direction and even
less motivation. However, things will eventually slow down and I'll
get back to boring people and making outrageous statements. In the
meantime, have a viddy (A Clockwork Orange – Anthony
Burgess/Stanley Kubrick).</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yes, nice
to see you too. Where have I been? Nowhere really, but I've been
reading and ruminating and the like. Been cautious about what to get
involved with and I've avoided any strenuous physical activity like
painting figures and making terrain bits and, God forbid, actually
gaming. I can't tell an absolute lie because I have been dabbling
with new rule sets, but nothing too dramatic. OK, I do a little
painting too, but nothing too demanding.</span></span></span></div>
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past year or so, or maybe longer, I've bought a few sets of rules for
various periods. Some, I thought were necessary updates for existing
sets I own/use and others were spur of the moment buys which have
joined the 'Hmmmm' pile which is the collection of rule books you
thought were going to lead you to wargaming utopia; those which
seemed to offer a new approach; those which seduced you with a
properly orchestrated propaganda campaign, those dripping with eye
candy; those accompanied by a new range of figures which generated a
wave of mass hysteria; those which claim to be updates or new
editions, but which aren't really; those new editions which are such
a radical change they bear little resemblance to the original; those
for historical periods you really want to wargame, but you haven't
got the time or money yet; those which you've always coveted, but
have no practical way of using: the qualifications for this pile are
endless.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Necessary
new editions included the brigade level Fire & Fury II which
tidied up the original set and provided a replacement for my now
tatty old version. These rules have a good few critics, but I've
been a fan since I got the original edition years ago and I just
like'em. I also bought the new version of Beneath the Lily Banners
which is still a good set of rules, but seems to be slipping into the
pit of 'more money spinning supplements'. We're covered for King
James' Irish Wars, but the really meaty stuff in Europe has to wait
for supplements. Well, we'll see.</span></span></span></div>
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event of the Autumn is the release of Black Powder II, which you don't
really need unless you're a big fan and want to follow the thread. I
watched Rick Priestly's interview about the new set and he was very
honest. He explained what the changes were and how he went about
incorporating them into the rules. So, anyone with a modicum of
common dog can get stuck in and update their own set, especially as the
original PDF was offered free a few weeks ago on the Warlord Games
website. Given the pedigree of this outfit, I'm amazed at the open
approach and a sales pitch based on the premise that you don't really
need them to continue playing and use the supplements. Good on them,
I say.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">An
example of what I think of as the more common approach is the saga of
the Konigkrieg rules which were originally a really nice set of rules
dating back to the 70's, originally published in the UK by Freikorps
and later by Outland Games. Nice, simple, but subtle set of rules
which were among the last of the stapled photocopy/printed style.
Bags of character, but not too high on the survivability table unless
you split them up and bunged the pages in plastic wallets. I'm on my
fourth set, the original having gone beyond repair and the two
interim copies having disappeared, one after another. However, in the meantime,
the rules were bought up by an Australian outfit (the rules are,
apparently, popular over there), sexed up with lots of eye candy,
puffed out with lots of examples of play (because we're apparently
thick), bunged in a posh cover and banged out at a healthy (for them)
price. I understand they're now about to publish another revamp which
will involve seven or so volumes. Not for me, thanks.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #76a5af;">Tried to
get a last one in before 2017 ended and the world went to pot again,
but I've managed to keep up my batting average and missed it
completely. Nothing that exciting to report, but I have been quietly
plodding along, knocking out old stuff that should've been finished
(or started) long ago. Still, the real world things that kept me
diverted last year (and before, if I'm honest) have now subsided, but
the leprosy returned during the late summer/autumn (back on the
tablets now, thank God) and that didn't do much for hobby effort or
morale. </span></span></span></div>
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out of the way, it ought to be a Montgomery style advance, but on a
broad front with lots of distractions.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #76a5af;">Since the
previous post, my butterfly approach has served to divert my
attention in all sorts of ways. As a sort of side order while I was
painting other stuff, I decided to start experimenting with colours
and techniques for the landsknechts I've accumulated. I'd like to
have said collected or maybe gathered as part of a project, but
accumulated seems to be nearer the mark. I decided to pick a few
metal ones at random and try colour combinations for the hell of it.
I didn't want to paint up a batch of peacocks and aimed to rein in
the impulse to include every colour I could lay my hands on by
sticking as closely as possible to the colour scheme of the other
figures I was painting at the time, but, as you can see below, I
failed. The three figures are all Foundry and they paint up well
enough, (though I'm not over the moon with them and Young Henry
immediately spotted the one with the squint!) but I think the new
plastic Warlord figures will turn out better. Come to think of it,
many of the other Foundry figures will be easier to paint and look
better. It was just pot luck with the three I grabbed from the pile.</span></span></span></div>
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Watford. He/she very generously gave me some packs of the warlord
metal landsknechts: various personality figures and officers and a
lovely little light gun. I've gleefully nicked the photos below from
the Warlord site and, to be honest, I can't see this lot hanging
around too long before they fall victim to the paint brush. So,
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decent haul of books this Christmas (and my birthday was in November,
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Lamplugh's to finish off and then onto the rest of the horse and the
artillery. Not a big job really, but I'm also grinding out the Arnhem
Paras and Germans which I'm on a promise of a set of games. They
shouldn't take too long either because they're Peter pig and pretty
easy to paint and the German armour (4xStugIIIG's and 4xPzkpfwIVH's)
is already mostly done (and has been for a long time). The paras I've
recently finished as a trial run have turned out quite well and the
tanks look OK for wargames (just the crews to paint and a bit of touching up, but I seem to have lost my knack of applying decals) so it's off with the rest of the set up and on with the
games. Still not entirely sure which rules to use. The Battlegroup
set are very good, but the old, slimmed down Firefly rules are decent
enough too. As the original intention was to use the Firefly set with
multiple figure bases and there's a temptation to actually get some
20mm stuff for the Battlegroup rules, I might do what I usually do
and duplicate things (aaaaarrrrgggghhhh!). Anyway a poor photos of
the 15mm stuff, equally badly painted:</span></span></span></div>
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that's about it for an update to begin 2018. I'll try to make more of
an effort for the coming year, but don't expect podcasts and the
like. There're a few things happening this year which will take up
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GaryAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06963552380378929829noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4591186326413607978.post-63190826113366722662017-08-17T17:00:00.000+01:002017-08-25T07:47:53.787+01:00Back to basics<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western">
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because that (among other things) is what I've been doing. It's a
thankless task as far as I'm concerned, but it's eventually got to be
done, but I do it grudgingly, even though the end result is OK and
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approach because my units have enough trouble moving where I want
them to without the added benefit of acres of undergrowth to distract
them. So, I stick to a few tufts and such and tend to avoid floral
displays akin to the Chelsea Flower Show. Some gamers are masters at
producing attractive and natural looking bases, but I know my limits:
glue the buggers down, hide the base edges couple of tufts to show
willing, then flock 'em and flock off.</span></span></span></div>
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ACW odds that've been knocking around daring me to base them and I'm
part way through some ECW foot regiments which are a pig to do
because of the cluster of figures on each base. However, onwards and
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a while longer than a couple of days since my promised return, but
there's a valid excuse and when I think of it, I'll post it here.
Nevertheless, I have acquired a box of the new <a href="https://store.warlordgames.com/collections/landsknecht" target="_blank">Warlord plastic Landsknechts</a> thanks to a ten quid money off voucher (of which this
damn' laptop managed to lose two over the past couple of months). I
hadn't planned to get these yet, but the money saving was a draw.
They're almost exactly as expected, having been ogling them on their
original site and eyeing the teasers floating round the web. I
haven't any complaints, but anyone thinking of getting some ought to
bear in mind that the free flags on the propaganda sheet enclosed
with them are too small. You can't have landsknechts with teeny weeny
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own Second World War rules, I weakened and bought the new edition of
the <a href="http://theplasticsoldiercompany.co.uk/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=70" target="_blank">Battlegroup rules</a> from the <a href="http://theplasticsoldiercompany.co.uk/" target="_blank">Plastic Soldier Company</a>. They're just
the job and will easily cope with my multi-figure bases. They look to
give a balanced game and can handle either scenarios or points based
games (ugh!). There are several supplements, including a Market
Garden book which is due shortly, and everything looks reasonably
priced even by today's standards. The rules include two QRF sheets
and data cards, all of which have been sensibly bound with perforated
edged by the spine of the book for easy removal. All in all, I'm
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GaryAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06963552380378929829noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4591186326413607978.post-49010729153431053342017-07-21T13:44:00.000+01:002017-07-21T13:44:35.088+01:00Chop and Change<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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anything to show for it. Typically, I've also forgotten to do lots of
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remember a wile ago I mentioned I planned to paint up the Earl of
Derby's regiment of foot and that I'd completed the Marquess of
Winchester's foot? Grand lads, but, just before Winchester's were to
have their colours applied, Chris remembered an old catchphrase of my
Uncle Arthur's about a statue of the “Earl of Derby, mounted”,
loaded with appropriate innuendo. Now it happens that there are quite
a few associations with the Stanley family in this neck of the woods
and something mysterious about some connection with Salford Lads'
Club (no, Morrissey never went near the place save to have his photo
taken for that album cover!) so it seemed appropriate to switch the
designation of Winchester's to Derby's, which I've done and that's
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chap, but a bit of brown nosing apparently went a long way), which
is a Cheshire regiment (and probably North Wales and Staffordshire
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week or two since I last tickled the ivories, due mainly to a stint
of DIY and feeling guilty enough to do good works. Nevertheless,
th'house moves ahead and we're we're on the home straight (gerrit?).
Tony the Kitchen man (or it might have been his mate Dave) was a bit
taken aback when he asked what we're going to do once we're got
everything tickety boo and Chris , in an off handed way, said “We're
going to die.” She's a dry one, that girl. Probably comes from too
long working in mental health . . . .</span></span></span></div>
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bonus for little old me for all the piggin' around with plaster and
paint is I've finally got a man cave. Nothing too ostentatious, but
quite comfortable with enough room for most of my kit and room for a
modest 6'x4' table. It'll no doubt evolve because there's a proviso
that larger games will need to be in the garage which also houses the
scenic stuff and the lead mountain. Still, better than I've ever had
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Henry has declared a limit on access: him, me, his Dad and Uncle
Chris and absolutely no girls, except for Nana and Mum and maybe his
mate Talula (!). I'm working on that one, but he's not six yet, so I
think I've got time.</span></span></span><span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
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up some Confederate cavalry who've been skulking in the painting
queue for a while and, after some experimentation, come down in
favour of Black Powder for the rule set of choice for the 28mm units.
That's for now and may change to Mr Lncoln's War – I'm like that.
The 15mm armies will continue to scrap to Fire & Fury because I'm
quite happy with them.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I'm still
clearing up the ECW backlog (apparently, “The War of the Four
Nations” nowadays). I'm going at a leisurely rate and I'm
concentrating on the King's troops first, basing the core of the
force on foot regiments recruited in North East England (cos I like
it up there and it's got some good units), Cheshire (Chris' home
county) and Lancashire (my home county). Alright, I know this means I
have to include the Early of Derby's regiment and he was something of
an oxygen thief, but anyone brought up in this neck of the woods will
be familiar with the name (and a few others).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The good
news is that Warfare Miniatures have confessed to the imminent
release of some ECW?Thirty Years' War cavalry over the next couple of
months, so that can't be bad. I'm a bit bored with the Perry range
(lack of variety) and the Bicorne figures, although including some
nice sets, are too big for my tastes (until proven otherwise). That
leaves the fairly modest TAG range which are expensive, although
their new subscription scheme looks like it will reduce costs.</span></span></span></div>
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you go. I shan't leave it so long next time and, to be honest, given
Brexit, Trump, a regional mayor not that may people want and a
general election which is turning into a Brian Rix production,
wargaming is a blessed escape. I'll be back – one day.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">(Title is
a track from Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' album, if anybody's interested .
. . . anyone spot another reference?)</span></span></span></div>
GaryAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06963552380378929829noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4591186326413607978.post-38037359914502986512017-02-26T00:15:00.002+00:002017-02-26T12:00:56.585+00:00ITMA<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Struggling manfully to get a post in, but, you know how it is eh?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the meantime, a quote from the film 'T2: Trainspotting', which reflects a lot of what many people call 'life':</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Choose life. Choose Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and hope that someone,
somewhere cares. Choose looking up old flames, wishing you'd done it all
differently. And choose watching history repeat itself. Choose your
future. Choose reality TV, slut shaming, revenge porn. Choose a
zero-hour contract, a two hour journey to work. And choose the same for
your kids, only worse, and smother the pain with an unknown dose of an
unknown drug made in somebody's kitchen. And then... take a deep breath.
You're an addict. So be addicted, just be addicted to something else.
Choose the ones you love. Choose your future. Choose life."</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Renton</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Should be on Radio4's 'Thought for the Day' </span></span></span></div>
GaryAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06963552380378929829noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4591186326413607978.post-46513779462813624832016-12-18T18:34:00.000+00:002016-12-19T14:02:57.188+00:00Painting the Clouds with Sunshine<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">Writing this exactly a week before
Christmas at the time of year you realise the Christmas card list has been subject
to the attentions of the Grim Reaper. To quote </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">Flight Officer David Campbell in ‘The Longest Day’, “I
don’t mind being one of the few; trouble is, we keep getting fewer”.</span></span></span></div>
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element of entertainment too, like seeing who hasn’t sent you a card by a
particular cut-off date and then sending them a card on the last possible
posting date before Christmas, when they have no possibility of send you one in
return. If they had actually intended to send you a card, but got delayed or
distracted (it happens), you have the satisfaction of imagining their guilt and
if they hadn’t intended to send you one, then you have the moral (or game)
advantage for the coming year while you decide on the tactics for
Christmas 2017. Of course, that could be another reason why my
list gets smaller each year . . . </span></span></span></div>
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summary of what I’m working on at the moment. I’ve included below a few photos
of some of the command figures which will make up The Marquis of Winchester’s
Foot:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">They’re all Perry with a few Foundry mixed in and were
originally intended for The King’s Lifeguard of Foot but for two reasons:
everybody’s got that regiment and Charles was a thoroughgoing dunce. However,
I’m a fan of red coats, so I sought out another regiment that would fit the
bill. I already have plans for a couple of such regiments, but, as the pike
figures are particularly well equipped, I thought this unit ought to represent
one formed by someone with access to his own source of arms or wealthy enough
to buy in sufficient arms and armour from the Continent. A certain </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">John
Paulet, 5th Marquess of Winchester fitted the bill nicely, being a particularly
wealthy Royalist supporter who recruited his own foot and horse regiments for <span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">t</span>he King. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">Both units were quite modest, the Horse numbering around
fifty troopers and the Foot only mustering around two hundred (but when has
that ever bothered a wargamer?). However, the really attractive thing for me is
the beautiful irony that neither regiment ever served in the field, both being
engaged in the three sieges of Basing House, Winchester’s home.
Basing House was a thorn in the side of the parliamentary armies </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">as
it commanded the main road from the West Country to London and, to make
matters worse, had a reputation as a refu<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">g</span>e for Royalists and Catholics.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";"> </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">So,
quite a famous unit with a famous patron and, to add to its</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";"> prestige</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">, Basing House
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glance from gamers and seem to have earned the reputation of being quite tame. It’s
probably a good place here to mention that the storm and razing of Basing House
involved a significant number of deaths among the defenders. Although </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">atrocities against civilians during
the Civil Wars weren’t common, aside from the attentions of passing armies, (Ireland was, I think, a different issue) and generally
discouraged by both sides (if you ignore Bolton and a few other places and <span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">t</span>he King's 'Irish' troops might argue differently), the
explanation may be the presence of a number of Catholic priests among the
defenders. Interestingly, it later came as quite a shock to potential victims that
Fairfax’s New Model Army was well disciplined and not given to the behaviour of
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regiment, I thought I might as well k<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">nock</span> off two at once as they were stored in
the same box and I could simply promote another of my ‘red’ regiments. So, the
second lot I’m working on is Sir Thomas Tyldesley’s Foot which was raised in
Lancashire (Hurrah!) and featured in some of the more famous actions of the
Civil War. Oddly enough, one of these was the Storming of Bolton and subsequent
massacre, so maybe I have a natural inclination for that sort of thing. However,
unlike me, Tyldesley was extremely wealthy and raised regiments of horse, foot
and dragoons for the King and began his service at Edgehill, which earned him
his knighthood. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Well
I haven’t been sat with my thumb up my bum and my mind in neutral, see? Between
short periods of DIY and longer periods of waiting for my hands to recover, I’ve
ploughed on with clearing the odds and sods of jobs which have been hanging around
like the smell from yesterday’s kippers.<span>
</span>O.K., most of this has involved basing or rebasing, but it all counts.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">First off is good old Henry Bard's regiment rebased for 'Baroque'. Nothing startling, but it gives a decent enough impression of a pike and shot foot unit uinder these rules. </span></span></span></div>
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two mounted ECW bases are command stands for the Royalist horse which are just flights
of fancy. As usual I’ll have more command stands than anyone would need for an
army ten times the size of the one(s) planned, but I do have a hang up about
this and it’s caused by the almost total lack of command figures in the ‘60s
and ‘70s. There’s a similar case to explain the half hundredweight of flags and
standards I’ve squirrelled away.</span></span></span></div>
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the figures all mainly Perry, but the dramatic cavalry general is really the
Gustavus Adolfus figure from Warlord. I’ve no idea where the dog came from
though.</span></span></span></div>
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and a<span> </span>couple of casualty stands: figures
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next batch are those ‘Boki’ figures I mentioned a while ago. There are actually
a couple more than this, but I couldn’t find them when I came to do the basing.
It’s the cost of continually moving stuff around.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Nipped
to London for the few days in early August and had a great time, despite a mad
rush around museums and such with Young Henry. However, a quick note on Jamie
Oliver’s Italian place near Covent Garden:</span></span></span></div>
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disabled access as far as I could make out.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">We
were shown down three flights of steep stairs to our ‘table’ which consisted of
a couple of salvaged office desks surrounded by an assortment of chairs
obviously rescued from a junk shop.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">They’ve
saved a fortune on decoration. Eating in a cellar had a certain ‘Berlin 1945’
feel to it.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">The
service was absolutely average as was the food which certainly wasn’t reflected
in the ambitious prices.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Back
home, and on an adventure following one of Chris’ craft things, we ended up in a
place called ‘Street Food’. The staff were nice enough people (one was great
company and should’ve joined us!), but they weren’t very good at their jobs –
the service was borderline bloody awful and that’s allowing for the deafening
music and the faulty fire alarm. Asking if everything was alright seven or
eight times didn’t really compensate. It was all very cutting edge, but I’ve
never eaten from a seedling box before. I had a Korean thing and joked that I’ve
never eaten dog before; now I think I may have. The prices were stratospheric. If
you’ve got one of these places near you, give it a swerve.</span></span></span></div>
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note that we do other things than just eat . . . .</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">On
the day when the EU decided to tell Ireland how to manage its own tax gathering
arrangements with Apple, I thought another scheme might show how other foreign
companies manoeuvre without 'special arrangements' and still manage to pay a
host government no tax, its staff the minimum wage and its CEO millions
($8million bonus last year). This is a combined heads up and a bit of a shave
off about corporate greed, a version of which I posted on good old FB. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">A
couple of days ago we had the annual "we're putting our prices up"
email from Vagina Media - let's be ho<span class="textexposedshow">nest and just
say Liberty Global. It's not a massive amount, but their attitude stinks and
their driver is pure rapacity. To be fair, they're going to enhance our package
to include things we don't use, things we don't want and things we haven't got
access to, so it's obviously not all bad.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">I
gave 'em a quick ring and pointed out that my bill was set to increase by 8%
but my income isn’t, so that seems a bit unfair. Now, to be honest, the chap I
spoke to seemed to be a pretty decent sort and it was clear he was a bit
uncomfortable with the overall situation. He must’ve had plenty of calls like
this already. He pointed out that our existing package was going to be enhanced
and reeled off a list of the new benefits. All well and good, but nothing to my
advantage. I almost felt ungrateful when I told him I wasn’t affected by them: </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">the
new programme listings were full of American crap covering very similar topics
to those they already pump out and even things already available on other
channels;</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">we’ve
improved the TV packages to allow viewers to experience the benefits of
watching box sets and record on demand and catch up programmes. - See above;</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">our
broadband is going up to a billion megahertz per nanosecond with afterburners.
- The broad band upgrade is the same upgrade you’d boasted about last year and
was inflicted on unsuspecting subscribers for free;</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">what
about the sport? - We don’t have the sport channels; </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">what
about the ungraded Vagina Movies? - They’re not free, we still have to pay for
them; </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">maintenance
is free; Sky charge £65 per call out. - <span> </span>You’ve only been round here a couple of times
in the last five years or so and that was for planned maintenance. And it’d be
nice if the last engineer made a return visit to replace the access cover he
left hanging off the wall.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">In
the end, the poor lad could only advise that, as I couldn't reduce the service
any further, I could always bugger off; which is easier said than done as other
ISPs round here are borderline garbage and comms packages likewise (can you
hear this BT?). Of course, we could opt for Sky, but do I really want to
support The Dodgy Digger? No I bloody well don’t!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">So,
as UK inflation has just topped 2.7% and the interest rate is a massive quarter
of a percent, I realised that Liberty Global might be struggling so I had a
shufty at their balance sheet. No they're not. They're raking in a modest $17
billion a year from their European Division alone and their debts and operating
costs are relatively modest which allows them to hoover up any spare cash and
buy another company. Cleverly though, they use Vagina Media's old debts to
avoid paying us any tax and funnel lots of cash through Malta. Their annual
report includes this gem:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">"Since
the formation of Liberty Global over ten years ago, we have delivered 42 straight quarters of growth in subscribers, revenue and operating
cash flow. Looking ahead, we see ample opportunity to deliver even better
results as we embark on our new growth and transformation plan called Liberty
GO, which is expected to accelerate our revenue and operating cash flow growth
over the next three years."</span></span></span></div>
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nothing has happened on the wargaming front since my last raid, it doesn’t mean
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">They’re a nice set of rules and have easy mechanics and I think they’ll give a
pretty good game, but, as they cover a one hundred and fifty year time span,
they’re not that strong on giving the ‘period flavour’ of specific conflicts,
or at least the features of a particular conflict that make a wargamer prefer,
say the Thirty Years’ War to the English Civil War., but that’s not their aim.
If you want to go the whole hog, it’s possible to base everything on 6cm square
bases (three per unit for foot, dragoons and horse and one for guns) which makes
basing simple. They do have specific army lists (ugh!) which go a fair way to
reproducing various armies, but if you’re looking for something to reproduce
your particular take on the Nine Years’ War or the atmosphere of The Last
Valley, then you need to get something more specific. That’s not to say you
can’t make a reasonable go of reproducing a particular conflict and there’s no
such thing as a set of rules you can’t tweak, but it all depends on how much
effort you want to put in and how historically accurate your interpretation of
that period actually is compared with what D&P have produced. Back to my
thoughts on the accuracy or otherwise of a wargamer’s view of an historical
period is. We also have a nasty habit of strict ‘periodisation’ so history is
often thought of as being made up of distinct chunks of time without any
consideration given to the process of military and/or technological evolution
(cue debate about mid to late nineteenth century warfare in Europe and
America).</span></span></span></div>
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facility to build up characteristics of units which gave a reasonable
reproduction of the real thing. They did cause a few headaches with their
mechanics at first and their terminology was a bit idiosyncratic (‘Irregular
soldier skirmishing infantry with jezzail’ and such), but they did give a good
game – and still do for some gamers. By the way there are some derivatives, ‘Elan’
for Napoleonics and ‘Pro Gloria’ for the Seven Years’ War, for example – other rule
sets are available . . . .</span></span></span></div>
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oath not to buy more lead until the current ballast is painted and based or has
found its way to other venues, I succumbed to a few boxes of the new Perry ACW
releases. The temptation just got too much for me, but regrets have I none.
They’re much better cast than has become the norm of late and they contain some
nice characters. Although I got a mixed bunch, they are all destined for the
Confederacy with on ly a few exceptions. The object of the exercise is to
produce some ‘firing line’ regiments composed of a mix of Perry, Foundry and
maybe Redoubt figures with some adapted Empress Miniatures’ Maori War castings
thrown in for good measure. Only a few mind as they’re eye wateringly expensive
– seven quid plus postage for four figures! I’m no skinflint, but I’m unenthusiastic
about trying single handedly to improve their liquidity ratio. <span> </span>However a few of my favourites swiped from the
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bar and the Rabbi says “Damn, I’m in the wrong joke!” I was going to type
“shit”, but I didn’t want to lower the tone.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Anyway, hands are on the up, which is a near miracle, given the
amount of plaster dust and God knows what they’ve been subjected to. All good
then. About time to squeeze in a bit of lead painting when things go quiet –
maybe even today if I’m not seduced by the sun and the birdsong. Out back (as
we refer to the back garden) we have had something of a war between a gang of wood
pigeons and a trio of ‘nice' birds: a blackbird and two robins. The crunch came
last week when the cat from next door but one left one of said wood pigoens in
kit form across the road. They’ve not been close since then, but they do gather
on the roof of the house opposite trying to intimidate that cat. Consequently,
we’re treated to longish periods of birdsong from the blackbird and his great
tit and blue tit support band from around five o’clock. The only negative part
of this is that I wish they’d learn some new numbers as the same song all day,
for days on end gets a bit like the muzac at Tesco’s. If I’m still round in a
couple of million years, maybe they will have.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">From the odd comment dotted here and there around the blog,
some of you may have gleaned that Cloud Base is undergoing some ‘alterations’
as they used to say. Nothing too dramatic, but it’s about time and all that.
The upshot has been (and still is) the need to ditch some of the gash we’ve
accumulated </span></span></span><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">over the years</span></span></span> from a variety of sources. The tally of bin bags
transferred to the tip (not including the skip!) is too depressing to admit
here, but it wasn’t all our stuff guv. A fair percentage of the tally was stuff
that belonged to relatives who’ve since gone west (we’ve got a whole library full of
long stories).</span></span></span></div>
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if there was anything they wanted to keep – at their house(es) - including things
I’ve brought back from abroad and other bits of my junk which might be of use
(no, I’m not sentimental). Unsurprisingly, daughter arrived on cue, ready to
muck in, but her brother was somewhere in the Dark Peak – the acorn never falls
far from the tree. In no time at all, Young Henry had discovered a modest
accumulation of boxes, which contained wargaming stuff and, despite threats from
his mother, turned up a few bits for himself (mostly junk) and, surprise, surprise,
some AB French Napoleonic light infantry <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">that</span> I don’t remember at all. I know where
they ought to have been, had they existed, but I didn’t know they actually did
exist! No big deal really and not particularly well painted (must’ve been a
rush job or just a ‘filler’, I think), but I think they may become one of those
fabled ‘magic’ units that can do no wrong on the wargame table and lead charmed
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free parking. Catering good, but probably taken by surprise by the numbers who
actually turned up – around 900, I understand, but I might be wrong there. I had a good time of it and was
much relieved that it was such a success. I have a soft spot for Partizan as it
saw the birth of the old Wargames Mongrels (many of whom you do know as they’ve
grown to better things and some fame within the hobby) so I was a little
nervous about the effect of the migration to a new venue. I didn’t intend to do
any shopping as such (and didn’t – two bags of bases from Warbases!) and thought
I’d have plenty of time to browse round the games. It didn’t turn out that way
because I seemed to spend all day talking to people I hadn’t seen for ages and
those who I met again at the Bloggers’ Meet - up arranged by Pete Barfield (Panzer
Kaput). To paraphrase Mr Baggins Snr, I
didn’t speak to half of them half as well as I should’ve liked; and I give
credit to more than half of them half as <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">much</span> as they deserve.</span></span></span></div>
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winner was inspired (James Morris’ ‘Verdun’ game). My own favourite was the
Humberside club’s 1666 naval action and I don’t particularly like tabletop
naval games! That’s it from me on the show as there’ve been some good reviews
and reports and, even better, some excellent photographs posted around the ‘net
already.</span></span></span></div>
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done much since the last post. Hands haven’t been behaving. So painting or
anything more delicate than shifting stuff around and little patching jobs have
had to be side lined. Still, onward and upward eh? Thought I’d better produce
some actual evidence of the cause of my grumbling, so here’s a piccie of my
right hand – being right handed, it seemed the obvious choice:</span></span></span><br />
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painting in short, irregular bursts (no change there then) so I’ve added a few
pictures of WIP stuff. No apparent sign of consistency of theme so, on that
front, all things are quite normal. There are a couple of chips here and there, caused by gravity, which need touching up. The first i<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">s</span> the Warlord Games Gustavus
Adolfus figure (now demoted to an ECW Royalist cavalry field officer) waiting for his horse and some glue and the rest are from the
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Going to Partizan this Sunday, if only to see Pete’s new
banner for his VBCW game. I’m not sure it’s entirely <i>his</i> game, but he’s been fingered for it. Have a look too at the
post below about the bloggers’ get together. Further news is that it’ll form up
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got a small amount of painting done last week, which was something of an
achievement, but not the only positive aspect of the past seven days. I also
won a book in Max Foy’s photo quiz and took delivery of the new Black Powder
ACW supplement “Glory Hallelujah!”. So, if you ignore the quote for the
rewiring work, the news of Prince’s death and then the demise of Victoria Wood,
it wasn’t a bad week at all. Actually, it was a pretty shitty week.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">However,
“Glory Halleluja!” is something I’ve been waiting for for what now seems like
ages. I got mine from the Perry Twins because the free figure (vignette) is
better. To be honest, you’d have to know nothing about the ACW or be a real
klutz not to be able to produce your own ACW Black Powder variant, but I’d
always intended to take the BP approach with my 28mm ACW types because of its
flexibility and I’d been impressed with Steve Jones’ “Rebellioin” AWI variant
which is a bit of a scoop, so I decided to let nature take its course and hold
off until the supplement was produced.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">It’s
written by Dr. David James, runs to 180 mostly useful and very easy to read
pages and is filled with photographs for those who struggle with words and put
off actually reading things like this until the very last moment. It breaks
down into unevenly sized sections: introduction and background
information, organisation, weapons and tactics and uniforms summary, standardised
tables of troop types broken down by phases of the war, specialised rules and a
batch of ten scenarios (of which Gettysburg accounts for three). It’s also peppered
with anecdotes and tit bits of information to help with the flavour of the
period.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
uniform information is a bit sketchy, but then this isn’t a uniform book.
However, the ”Rebellion” book did have decent uniform information, so, what’s
good for the goose etc. Fair to say though, that the relative rarity of unit
specific uniforms as the war dragged on lessens the importance of this section and
there’s plenty of information available online.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">So,
is it worth twenty quid? Given the current price range of rules and supplements
these days and the apparent inability of wargamers to manage to digest anything
without any pictures in it, yes, it’s money well spent even if you’re not a
Black Powder fan. The information can be easily translated to other rulesets,
the only reservation being that no units are actually identified in the OOB’s
and the maps aren’t scaled so you need to have a look at a more accurate map of
the actual battlefield for which the scenario is set. However, there’s a half
decent bibliography (you’re not doing a BA thankfully) and the internet simply
oozes with the necessary information. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">While
we’re navigating dangerously close to wargaming for once, I thought I ought to
catch up with the rest of the squadron and post a photo of my painting desk.
Well, I say desk but I actually mean a modest painting station, which is really
one of those overbed tables they use in hospitals on which the nurse puts your
watery food when you’re (usually) too infirm to give a bugger what they feed
you or you’re dying. Oddly enough, it was liberated from a store of redundant
hospital equipment, though I should point out that it had been clinically
cleansed of all bodily fluids. Can’t say the same for it now though. So, here
she is in all her glory: </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Oh
yes, a couple of weeks ago we took Young Henry to the Royal Armouries in Leeds.
He was only still long enough for one photo, so here he is doing what he seems
to like best. Naturally, I got the labouring job . . . .</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now,
while lying awake earlier this morning at stupid o’clock, with my mind ticking
over and drifting along seemingly unrelated paths, I wondered when or why other
people get the urge to post a blog entry. In my case, it seems to be at times
like that, when sleep is evasive, but the mind must have something to do. Not a
conscious drive, but more a consequence of the mind wandering around the
cerebral equivalent of a demilitarized zone. I know many to whom blogging is as
natural as breathing and others who’re dedicated to providing hobby news or
updates on projects or games but there appear to be quite a few who are less
regular in their posting, even though they keep to an overall theme. Then
there’s me who’s been described as being “all over the place”. Well, my blog
and all that . . . .</span></span></span></div>
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cause of my wakefulness is a consequence of being polite and letting myself be
talked into something I didn’t want to do. A week last Saturday night, Chris
and I went to an 80<sup>th</sup> birthday party for a person we barely know,
but whose daughter we do know well. To my mind, this is a pretty flimsy excuse
for subjecting myself to a period of enforced jollity among people I generally
don’t know in a social club which is anything but social and of which I’m not a
member. The thought of sitting for hours nursing a fruit juice of some
description, making polite conversation with strangers while Chris chatted with
her cronies was beyond the pale, so we did the taxi thing so I could imbibe. As
such occasions have a habit of doing, the evening turned out to be better than
expected, helped along by several pints of Guinness and fortified by rum. The
only disappointment was being saddled for a while with the new vicar of – I’d
better not say where – who freeloaded several pints of Guinness from is flock
and consumed a bin lid full of food from the buffet. There was a lot of
Guinness: it was a Catholic club.</span></span></span></div>
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can sense that, by now, you’re wondering where this is going, so I’ll cut to
the chase. Later that evening, when I went outside to phone for a taxi home, it
transpired that my good old beer overcoat is not nearly as effective as it used
to be and I returned to our table with a mild case of hypothermia. By Tuesday
this had developed into a gruff voice and mild cough and has now achieved the
status of a genuine cold – NOT Manflu.<i> </i>When
I can be bothered to speak I do so in a dull baritone accompanied by a hacking
cough and the snot factory is on overtime. This makes sleep difficult at best,
which, in turn, leads to task-unrelated thought and thence to this. So, being
antisocial shouldn’t be viewed as a negative trait.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Each week
there’s challenging post on the <a href="http://ancientrules.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Polemarch</a> blog, which I try not to miss, but
frequently do. It’s usually an evolving topic, <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">though</span> not always, but it is an
addictive read. I want to continue my thoughts on a recent post, but with a slightly different
slant. I’ve used my comment on Polemarch as framework.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The recent
rumblings about the Triples, both pro and con, have shown how the same event
can be the subject of widely divergent views. In some cases, it’s a bit of a
challenge to imagine that all the correspondents are wargamers because their
views have been so different. I’ve touched on this before; that there are
several flavours of wargamer and there’s maybe no such thing as vanilla.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I was going
to start with "As we grow up", but that seems an odd thing to say
when discussing wargamers, so I'll try it another way. When we first start
playing with the toy soldiers we're gifted by indulgent parents or relatives,
we always have 'Goodies' and 'Baddies' and certain figures take on
personalities which we inflict upon them. Later on, if we become infected with
the wargaming bug, we begin a transformation influenced by many things from interest
in history to the influence of our peer group of wargamers and start to develop
our own wargames personality. Now, as we're human beings, the end product is as
varied as in all walks of life and as complex. The gamers among us set off in
pursuit of the killer army, the historians chase the impossible dream of the
perfect simulation, with all varieties of wargamer in between. The wargamer's
development is further influenced by all sorts of drivers such as aesthetics,
competitiveness, personal recognition and the like. If there is an end product
(because many wargamers never cease to evolve), it's got to be unique because
there are always strong influences from outside the hobby - even complete
freedom from these is still an influence. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">So, we’ve got
our wargame being, replete with his/her preferences, likes, dislikes,
prejudices, aspirations During our wargaming lifespan we adapt the mores of our
approach to the hobby, with some gamers becoming able to switch between two or
even three wargame ‘personalities’ depending upon choice or circumstance. It's
not unusual for wargamers to be avid skirmish gamers while, at the same time,
being devoted to map based gaming. In fact, it’s common to see gamers drop from
map based campaign games to tactical level games with figures to fight out
engagements on the table – it’s long been a wargaming tradition. However, even
though we coalesce into groups/tribes, our separate customs include variations
which are more finely tuned to personal taste. This can manifest itself in such
things as house rules, just as English has regional dialects. Psychologically,
we're much more agile than we are in the real world and we can be comfortably
schizophrenic (or maybe it's just me). I’ve periodically gamed with a chap I've
known for about fifty years. When he moves a unit of cuirassiers into the
attack, he's simply moving a chess piece, although he can appreciate the
aesthetic aspect presented by the figures and the board etc. When I do likewise,
my cuirassiers take on a far more exciting character with waving swords,
cheers and thundering hooves. We're using the same rules on the same board and
the same sorts of figures, but I find my 'dialect' far more comfortable than I
do his. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u>The Russians
are coming!</u></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Well, so to
speak. I’ve been sorting out the lead pile and I think I ought to give the
Russians a bit of a start as they’ve been hanging around for a while and the
Austrians are mind numbingly boring to paint. That led to a problem I’ve been
trying to avoid for a while, which is the headgear of the grenadier regiments
around 1805/07. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I specifically
needed clarification for the shakos of the <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">fusilier</span> battalions of Russian
grenadier regiments - did they have the busch or a pompom? The picture began to
clear when I read<span class="uficommentbody"> "Uniforms of the Russian
Army during the Napoleonic war Vol. 8 - The Grenadiers” by Aleksandr Vasilevich Viskovatov and Mark
Conrad (Trans). I have the cheaper Kindle version, but the issue of the pompoms
does get a mention and I thought I was on the way, although slightly less than
over confident about it.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="uficommentbody">I’d
put a note on the “Napoleonic Units and their Uniforms” Facebook group, but
noting much happened in the way of responses until I got a reply from none
other than Alexander Mikaberidze, author of a number of books on
the Russian Army and its campaigns during the Napoleonic Wars. <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Speaking</span> Russian,
he had a marginal advantage over me (!) and posted two illustrations from Sergei
Popov’s book on Russian uniforms (nope, can’t find it over here either) so, if anyone’s
in the same boat, I’ve included them below:</span></span></span></span></div>
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regiment (1 grenadier battalion, 2 fusilier battalions). You only need concern
yourselves here with figures 1a, grenadier shako; 2a, fusilier shako (it’s
actually an NCO’s shako; the ‘busch’ should be all black); 16, grenadier
cartridge box and 26, fusilier cartridge box.</span></span></span></span></div>
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regiment (1 grenadier battalion, 2 musketeer battalions). You only need concern
yourselves here with figures 1a, grenadier shako; 5a, musketeer shako; 16,
grenadier cartridge box and 36, musketeer cartridge box.</span></span></span></span></div>
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I was avoiding getting on with some WSS French, I decided to try an experiment
with the new Boki Russian generals, which I did, However, the green is far too
bright and should be very dark, almost black. Nevertheless, I’ve posted a
couple of photos of the trials below, if only to show the Boki riders on two AB
Shetland ponies:</span></span></span></span></div>
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Boki figures probably won’t present much of a threat to AB, but the character
and animation is, I think, better. The faces have expressions and the posture
of the riders is more appealing to me. I have a couple of others underway with
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mr King of "<a href="http://diplomatist2.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Thoughts of a Depressive Diplomatist</a>", a blog of renown, is having a celebratory prize draw for having achieved (now more than) 600 posts. There is a goodly selection of prizes with only a few minor requirements to meet for qualification, so what's not to lose? The draw will be made on 15th March, so get stuck in. Details can be had <a href="http://diplomatist2.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/and-there-are-prizes.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></span></span></div>
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mystery: it’s going to be like last year, but with an extra day. This is a sort
of interruption to ‘normal service’ and also another stop gap post which allows
me both the keep the pot boiling and to revel in smugness. I’m not even going
to bore you with the presents I got for Chrimbo, except to say that they were rather
good, but I will say something about my incoming Secret Santas, both of which
are more than a little useful. I’m calling them both Secret Santas because I
can’t quite remember the actual titles for the two schemes and I got them mixed
up anyway – ask Chris Stoesen . . . .</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Right, the painted Secret Santa (run by Cath and Ian Willey)
was a set of AB French Napoleonic ADC’s which are very useful given my
eventually final decision of the command and control element of the Napoleonic
rules I’m plagiarising – you’ve got to be honest. I’m going to need plenty of
ADC’s and, as sorting out these figures has been known to produce an
uncomfortable feeling in the scrotum, I’m well pleased. I know who the culprit
is and many of you will too as he’s blown his own cover on several groups and
his own blog and he sent me an email to let me know the figures were on their
way! I understand MI6 has asked him not to bother applying for any vacancies.</span></span></span></div>
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blog and is a set of Ebor French WSS figures. Again, I’m just a bit happy as I
like the range and they’re lovely figures anyway. I’ve ‘saved’ a photo from the
Ebor site as a labour saving device.</span></span></span></div>
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me in trouble. I was talking about these two Christmas presents with a cousin
and said I planned to paint up the Ebor figures as a battalion of the Rooth
regiment; some of the famous ‘Wiild Geese’. Now, this cousin isn’t a military
expert, but she’s quite well informed, particularly on family history.
Unfortunately, my family and Chris’ too includes various characters who sport
the surnames O’Brien, Brighty, Dillon, Murphy and Riley. I bet you can see
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regiment, not the rabbit, and her mother’s maiden name.) Great! The fact that
the cut of the uniform most closely resembles the Rooth unit and none of the
others doth butter no parsnips, so I’ve lied like a hairy egg and promised to
add a Dillon battalion to the list. If you see my cousin, don’t say a word.</span></span></span></div>
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thought deserved mention. To be honest, I’d been doing the “Um, ah”
shuffle for a little while about getting
one of them and ended up with both. The first one is actually more of a booklet
produced by the Wargames Illustrated team and is a sort of group effort. It was
flagged up by Lee Abbott, who’s a very good painter and interested in that sort of
thing and that was my prompt. The second book is by Javier Gomez (‘El
Mercenario’) and I was persuaded to buy it by that master of the brush Sir
Sidney Roundwood who wrote a short, illustrated <a href="http://sidneyroundwood.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/roundwood-recommends-number-2-painting.html">review</a>. And now it’s my turn .
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Wargames Illustrated Paints (still available from the mag
stands or from the W.I, webstore); £5.95 at about 67 useful pages (i.e. without
the end papers etc.) which works out at about 9 pence per page. I’ll refer to
this one as ‘WI’.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Painting Wargame Figures; Javier Gomez; Pen<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span>& Sword
Military (30 Mar. 2015); ISBN 1848848226; £16.99 at about 218 useful pages
which works out at about 8 pence per page. I’ll refer to this one as ‘Gomez’ –
well who wouldn’t?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Why the note about the cost per page? Well, they’re two
massively different approaches and styles and it’s about the only way to
measure relative cost given the limitations of a blog. As it is, they’re both
about the same relative value, irrespective of content.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Who would bother to read a book on figures painting? You don’t
have to be a master figure painter to be interested in this sort of book, just
as you don’t have to be a Premiership player to watch a football match. I guess
audience is made up of three groups:</span></span></span></div>
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<li><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">those new to painting,</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">those who want to improve,</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">those who are simply interested in reading about
others’ methods.</span></span></span></li>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now, there must be as many painting styles as there are
figure painters and, usefully, these are examples of very similar methods,
although the Gomez book goes on to mention media other than acryics.
Nevertheless, both books could be described as giving instructions on how to
paint figures (essentially 28mm) in the three layer/shade method and neither
book is going to set you on the path to a Golden Demon Award by next Easter.
However, both books are useful manuals for most skill levels. Consequently, the
books are necessarily formulaic in their approach. They’re not definitive
guides and don’t claim to be although the cover of the WI does boast “Your complete
guide to painting wargames miniatures”: I should cocoa.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hot tip: buy some shares in a certain Spanish paint company
as sales may well rocket about now . . . . .</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Although broadly similar, each book has its strengths. The
WI book has useful sections on the use of decals and figure conversion
techniques and Gomez covers individual colours in detail, along with a large
section on horse colours and types, although some of this is a luxury in that the
section on individual colurs is repetitive<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">:</span> the technique remains the same.
Both books contain good sections on basing, but the WI includes mention of
painting wood in a variety of conditions, which complements this.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">So which one? As with most things in life, the final choice depends
on personal taste. The content of both is good, but I prefer the WI booklet
because, although it’s not as substantial or glossy as the Gomez book, I find
the content more interesting overall. However, as I said, being filthy rich, I’ve
got both so it doesn’t matter.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I think it’s fair to say that I, and a lot of gamers I know,
use many more methods and techniques than those mentioned in these books, but
I’m a dabbler and I’m easily bored so I play around with paint and figures
probably more than most. If you scan back through the blog entries here, you'll see
several techniques mentioned or described. There isn’t one, single method and
some are more suited to some styles of sculpting than to others.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">On a final note, anyone who recognises the words in the title or can sing the actual song is either a member (or former member) of Her Majesty's Royal Navy or should be thoroughly ashamed of himself (or herself). You surely wouldn't sing it to you mother . . . . </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Been a very mixed November so far (and there isn’t much
further to go). Other than to say that it’s a lovely city, I’m not going to
mention Paris or the other, bigger atrocities in the Middle East and stick
mostly to our little fantasy world of wargaming. Fair to say though, I’ve just been
going through the motions lately.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Early in the month, Young Henry had a burn about knights, so
one quite nice Sunday we set off with the intention of visiting the Royal Armouries
in Leeds and young feller-me-lad here (that’s me) would nip into the Fiasco
show for a quick shufty. My daughter has been steeped in wargaming and its
associated nasty habits all her life, so she had her own plan to cover this. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Got to say that l although the visit to the Armouries was
very good as usual and Henry was captivated, the Fiasco visit was just that – a
fiasco. Although it was held in the same complex as the Armouries, I hadn’t
spotted anything about the show on the way in and, when the time came to get to
the show, I couldn’t find any signage at all. Now, to be fair, it was about an
hour and a half before close of play, but there didn’t appear to have been any
signage. I finally found the show b<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">y</span> asking two obvious punters (you know
what to look for!) who said they’d had the same problem. So far not good.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I simply walked into the show without paying – couldn’t see
anyone to approach and nobody stopped me because nobody was there. Inside it
was pretty demoralising. I’m not sure how many visitors there were, but, a<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">t</span> a
rough guess, I’d say they were outnumbered by the traders by about five or six
to one. I rarely single anyone out for special attention because it’s pot luck
where and when I wash up, but I must say that, although I didn’t announce my
presence with a boson’s call, I was studiously ignored at the Warlord Games
stand and so, as I couldn’t find what I wanted because the figure packs seemed
to have been slung on the displays in any old fashion, I walked – out of the
show as it happens.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now, it takes a whole lot less effort and energy to whinge
about a show than it does to stage one, but this was a bit of a killer. The
place may have been heaving with people earlier on, but, judging by the long
faces around, I doubt it. If Henry had been a bit older and I’d intended to use
the show as an introduction to the hobby, I’d have been more than a little
peeved. Still, I did buy three pots of paint. Think I’ll stick to Vapnartak and
Partizan and maybe the St Helens show.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now, following a prompt from Guy Bowers, I bought a copy of
his ‘Black Ops’ rules. I’m not a big fan of ultra modern games, mainly because
I’m of a sensitive nature and prefer something which I haven’t just seen live
on BBC News 24. As I said to Fran recently, I prefer games where I can pretend
there isn’t any collateral damage with consequent little lead widows and
orphans. (Sissy!) There’re a couple of good reviews of the rules knocking about
already, so we’ll skip that, but my intention is to push them back fifty years
or so and adapt them for Vietnam. This isn’t going to be a major exercise by
any means and should provide some interesting, small scale games. First looks
indicate that it shouldn’t be difficult at all to expand the games up to
platoon size actions and maybe even larger, although that’s where other rules
step in. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">For me, the best part of November so far has been a marked
improvement in the state of my pandies, which means I’m back wielding a paint brush,
although it’s mostly been the 2” variety of late. Yes, we’ve finally made a
start on the changes we’ve wanted to make to the house for a while now. Nothing
dramatic, but it means a complete redecoration with bits of fitting and
plastering in case I get bored. On the plus side of things, I’ll get my own
wargaming space at the end of it all (in about a year, I think!), but it’s a
slow job for one reason or another. A major factor in slowing things up is the
need to move things around from one room to another to free up space to do the
work. It’s a bit like one of those frames </span></span></span><span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">you had as a child</span></span></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">that contained</span> little tiles which you had to move round in sequence to make a picture or a pattern or
words/numbers; a sort of two dimensional Rubik’s Cube. Part of this involves
moving stuff into and out of the loft, which is a sort of black hole (it
features in the new Star Wars film) and there have been occasional mishaps –
mostly to things belonging to me. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">So, remember the Regiment de Maine from almost exactly two
years ago? The overall project had to go on hold for various reasons, but the
two battalions rested in stately majesty on a shelf in the loft waiting for the
resurrection of the WSS project. Well, they rested in stately majesty until
some oaf (O.K., it was me) accidentally repositioned them onto the bedroom
floor via the aluminium loft ladder (seemed like every rung). Gravity is
certainly a constant round here. I was only mildly apoplectic as the damage
didn’t reach the terminal stage for the unit. A couple of figures broken beyond
repair, lots of things bent, plenty of paint chipped off, a dismounted colonel
and no flags. Not too bad really, I suppose. Took about a week to do the repairs and rebasing and here
they are before I put them away PROPERLY:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A while ago, on Tony Howard’s blog, I described a friend
(subsequently christened Jason Bourne - but don't tell him!) who would have been a boon to Shackleton
or MI5 and then there’s Bill who, at 64 (ish), is still heavily involved in
cave and mountain rescue and, last year, went up Everest (though he couldn’t
afford to go right to the summit). So I thought I’d mention Joan. She’s a
little older than me and she spent much of her working life in the theatre (the
bits other than acting – I dunno), during which time she went out with Ian
McShane and Robert Lindsay and has friends with accommodation in various
desirable little places etc., etc. She’s actually a former colleague of my
wife’s and I used to think she was a bit of a name dropper until a few years
ago when I learnt to be less doubtful. About seven years ago, during particularly
bad weather, she has hit by a bus as only Joan can be and suffered a variety of
injuries, some quite serious. She is now disabled, but refuses to roll over even
though she’s been forced to give up work. O.K., that’s really just setting the
scene for what I think is remarkable. </span></span></span></div>
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the Edinburgh Festival when she could and this year she had the burn to go
again. She was sorted with accommodation through friends, but travel was likely
to be a problem. Although quite comfortably off, thank you, she’s never been
one to waste money and as far as Joan’s concerned, train fares are a rip off,
so what to do? Just to complicate things, she’s permanently on crutches
(refuses to use a wheelchair as they’re for old people and the disabled, for
God’s sake!) and, in any case, the alternatives were accompanied by varying
levels of discomfort. So, to cut it short, she made the Manchester to Edinburgh
run, and return, on the back of a friend’s motorbike with another friend and
her crutches in the sidecar and ‘did’ the festival! </span></span></span></div>
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barmy, but, on reflection, I think she’s a trooper. I hope there’s an
inexhaustible supply of people like her because we need’em. Over the years
she’s become a good friend and I think I’m all the richer for it</span></span></span>.</div>
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serves me right for getting cocky. Nevertheless, despite the necessity of bits
of plastering and subsequent painting etc., the appendiges do seem to be making
some improvement. A visit to yet another specialist (very attractive young
Polish woman this time) has resulted in a new treatment regime and a promise
that ”We will become very good friends” – cor! Unfortunately, she was referring
to the management of the ‘condition’ rather than anything else. So, painting is
still a struggle (and typing’s a pig), but, during the interregnum, at least I
got a battalion finished and polished off an ECW Royalist field officer who may
yet find his way into a cavalry unit. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Shame really, as, aside from the assembly line
stuff, I’ve got some more stimulating things ready to roll. I have begun to
suspect that somebody sits there plotting my downfall. There’s going to be a funny side to all this,
but I’m struggling to see it.</span></span></span></span></div>
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And distant memory<br />
Of the day I lost the light<br />
Moving through the night<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">So, thought
I’d do some more book recommendations as the last lot kept the well from drying
up. I do actually spend my time doing more than reading, but I’m sure you’re
not interested in a chronicle of my real world activity.</span></span></span></span></div>
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and the 270<sup>th</sup> of The ’45, so I thought it was an appropriate time to
re-read this one, particularly as Edwin King (Diplomatist Books) laid
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up in conversation at a sort of party, get together thing a few weeks ago (“So,
what have you been reading lately?). It turned out that, while everybody knew
about Bonnie Prince Charlie and even about Flora McThingy’s ferry service, slightly
fewer had hear of The ’45. So much for the SNP’s play on words last year - Ms
Sturgeon would have been spitting blood by this time.</span></span></span></span></div>
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few heroes and plenty of utter swines on all sides. Nobody comes up smelling of
roses; it’s a sort of race to the bottom of human behaviour and I’m not
entirely sure who wins. The Highlanders and who actually supported the Jacobite
cause (often unwillingly) and many innocent civilians are clearly the victims
of the failed rebellion and suffer at the hands of the English soldiers,
Scottish auxiliaries, Highlanders from other clans and even their own lairds. </span></span></span></span></div>
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a standard on Culloden and its background. It contains good information on Life
as a regular soldier and the social structure of the clans. It’s not absolutely
unbiased, but it’s as near as I’ve seen and it’s a difficult period of history
to deal with in any case. It was a brutal time in which life was cheap and got
cheaper the lower down the greasy pole you were.</span></span></span></span></div>
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Anniversary Edition) <b>- Hugh
Sebag-Montefiore </b>(Penguin (30 April 2015<b>); ISBN-10: 0241972264)</b></span></span></span></span></div>
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as this is the 75<sup>th</sup> anniversary edition and it was only about three
quid from Tesco’s, I thought I’d see what it had to offer. Essentially, nothing
much different from the original edition, so, if you’ve got that, stick with
it. This special edition has had the footnotes removed (though they’re all available
online) to make room for more personal accounts and appendices. However, it’s
still a very well written account of the 1940 French campaign up to and
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in Miniature <span class="a-size-large">: Making Realistic and Effective Terrain
for Wargames </span><span class="a-size-large"><span style="font-weight: normal;">– Paul Davies (</span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Pen & Sword Military (28 May 2015); </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">ISBN-10:</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> 1781592748)</span></span></span></span></h1>
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book you read through, but it’s an excellent book and well worth the price. It
contains plenty of hints and tips, basic concepts and more skilled aspects of
terrain construction. At this point I should probably say something like “Carlsberg
don’t produce a book on terrain modelling, but if they did . . . .”</span></span></span></span></h1>
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British Army and the Campaigns of the First Peninsula War, 1702-12 (Century of
the Soldier 1618-1721)</span><span class="a-size-large"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> – Nick Dorrell (</span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Helion & Company (7 May 2015); </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">ISBN-10:</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> 1910294632)</span></span></span></span></h1>
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waiting for! Raced through it – easy to read and a wargamer’s dream of a book.
The good thing (there’s only one?) is that at last the less popular Iberian
campaign is easily accessible to gamers in a digestible form. It covers
organisation, orders of battle, maps and uniforms as well of a very readable
narrative of the campaign(s). It’s part of the new ‘Century of the Soldier’
series from Pen and Sword and it’s set the bar pretty high for any following
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Death of Grass<span style="font-weight: normal;"> – John Christopher (Penguin
Classics (2 April 2009); </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">ISBN-10:</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">
0141190175)</span></span></span></span></h1>
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long after the war, but years ahead of its time. A virus, which attacks all grass
related plants (so most food crops and consequently livestock etc.) has originated in China and is spreading
across the globe. What can humans do and how can they cope?</span></span></span></span></h1>
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book and it’s steeped in the post war period in both style and content, but it’s
very well written and a real page turner. My copy has already been lost, ‘acquired’
by family vultures and since passed on to God knows where. Typical.</span></span></span></span></h1>
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Summer<span style="font-weight: normal;"> – Ben Aaranovitch (Gollancz (9
July 2015); </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">ISBN-10:</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">
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books a few years ago about a special department in the Metropolitan Police .
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later outside also) where rivers have associated minor gods and magic is a
common basis for crime and sedition. Yes, he’s been reading one of those books
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begin with the first volume. Comedy hovers just beneath the surface of a high
quality text and, if this is your cup of tea, you whip through it in no time.</span></span></span></span></h1>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">No, this isn't a wind-up for curmudgeons, it's the advent of Ian & Cath's 'Secret Santa (buy someone something and make them happy, you tight git!)' campaign. Details <a href="http://walladvantage2.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/its-secret-santa-time-again-secret.html?showComment=1441974598414#c2268892350196632817">here</a>.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">It's an excellently run scheme and it certainly does cheer people up, especially the ones like me who get almost no Christmas presents because they're anti-social sods. I'm in, but don't let that put you off . . . .</span></span></span></div>
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sorting yielded some good reads which have taken up the slack caused by no
painting (to speak of). I haven’t got a loft like the Tardis, but it does hide
a multitude of sins, not least of which is my accumulation of books and such. I
hesitate to describe it as a library because that implies some sort of order
and method, which is the last impression you’d get if you penetrated the area.
I’m similarly gifted in my reading discipline in that now, well separated from
work and academia (don’t get the wrong impression!) I read books in just about
any order I want. Luckily I am faddish so there is often a theme to my reading,
but I am known on occasion to have several books of widely divergent subjects
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highlighted a few books below from the battery of books I’ve read recently which
are well worth a read and a couple which are maybe worth skipping if you haven’t
got long to live. If you don’t like this list, I have others . . . .</span></span></span></div>
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D’Este<b> </b>(Penguin; New Ed edition (29
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Quite a painful read about the
command decisions in the Normandy Campaign and the relationship between
Montgomery and the other Allied commanders. Not just Ike and Bradley, but
Tedder, Conningham, Harris, Churchill and his own divisional and brigade commanders
too. It’s an excellent book and should become a standard text for this
campaign.</span></span></span></div>
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an unbiased and truly warts and all approach which also raises some interesting
questions. I cleared the five hundred-odd pages in less than a week, even
though it’s heavy in detail in places. My only winge is that it could have done
with better maps, but that gets said about almost all military titles.</span></span></span></div>
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reasonable view from the German perspective, but the dearth of German sources
published in English probably exaggerates its worth. Hargreaves has an annoying
habit of translating German words and phrases too literally: Widerstandsnest (WN) is translated as
‘nest of resistance’ rather than simply resistance nest or even strongpoint.
However, it’s much better than Paul Carrel’s ‘Invasion – They’re Coming!’ which
is pretty dire: outdated and badly translated.</span></span></span></div>
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enjoyed both these books, but the Quatre Bras title more. As Field says, the
French lost so there are nowhere nearly as many French sources as British. The
Germans (all types!) and Dutch-Belgians are given a fair crack of the whip,
though I’m sure Herr Hoffschroer would find something to moan about.</span></span></span></div>
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books give an interesting run down on the armies and commanders involved and,
if you’re a fan of the 1815 campaign, both books are worth adding to your
collection. However, the maps are good, so there must be something wrong
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that’s it for the military stuff so those who read nowt else can finish here.
The rest of you, who have an imagination and who obviously appreciate good
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="a-size-large">Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell</span><span class="a-size-large"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> – Susanna Clarke (</span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Bloomsbury Paperbacks; Tie-In edition (9 April 2015); ISBN 10: 1408856883)</span></span></span></span></h1>
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">You’ve seen it on the telly (or maybe you
haven’t), but, as usual, the book is even better. A thousand or so pages of
pseudo Dickensian prose with phoney footnotes about the renaissance of English magic.
If you want a long, amusing and well written book, then this is one for you.
Unfortunately, is contains some howlers and it’s obvious Ms Clarke isn’t
steeped in the period, but it’s only pretend anyway.</span></span></span></span></h1>
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Graveyard Book</b> –
Neil Gaiman (Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Children's edition (5 Oct. 2009);
ISBN 10: 0747594805)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is technically
teenage fiction, but it’s a great read. Essentially, it’s about a boy who is
brought up by a vampire and ghosts in a graveyard. He ended up in this
situation because he escaped the murder of his parents, although the perpetrator
intended to kill the whole family. How to educate the boy and keep him safe
when you yourself have fairly limiting difficulties? Yes, it’s ridiculous, but
it’s also excellent.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Neverwhere</b> – Neil Gaiman (Headline Review (19 Sept. 2005); ISBN 10:
0755322800)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I was set off on a short Neil
Gaiman fest by that last book and this one is a fantasy classic which has been
adapted for TV and radio. A young man accidentally gets involved with the
inhabitants of ‘London Below’, an alternative London whose population lead a
parallel, semi-magical existence. The place throbs with intrigue and there might
even be war. Mssrs Croup and Vandemar are possibly the best and most soulless
villains in literature. Get it read!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Good Omens</b> – Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett (Corgi (11 Dec.
2014); ISBN 10: 0552171891)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">An angel and a demon rubbing
shoulders with the hoy polloy? Even worse, they join forces to save humanity! I’m
not the world’s biggest Terry Pratchett fan – I think he simply got into the
habit of churning out pot boilers even though there are some excellent books in
his (very long) canon. Nevertheless, this is a classic.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I make no apologies for the
inclusion of three Neil Gaiman books. He’s not only a very good writer, but his
ideas and imagination are exceptional. The references for the books are for editions you can buy nowadays.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I’ve unashamedly swiped the idea
of including whimsies and points of interest from a well respected and popular blogger.
It’s not an original idea of mine at all, but it is a very good idea. Just
thought I ought to mention that.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Those of you who actually read
this stuff rather than just looking at the pictures (I know there are some who
do) will maybe have noticed that I begin quite a few paragraphs/sentences with ‘so’.
So, I want to point out that this isn’t the effect of the new fad of beginning every
answer with ‘so’, which is becoming as insufferable as the seemingly
unstoppable march of the upward inflection at the end of every sentence; it’s
just me – done it forever. I fell into a despond the other night when I was
watching a programme on the telly. I realised a succession of academics had
adopted the ‘so’ habit, even quite sensible looking ones who were allowed to
stay up late on a school night. Just shows how BBC2 has slipped over the years.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">By the way, the leprosy appears
to have had something of a shock accidentally administered by a week’s dosage
of antibiotics, intended for something else. The upshot is that whatever was
affecting my hands seems to have been given a thorough hammering by said
medication and the latest in a long line of emollients. Could well be on the
mend at last. Paint brushes this weekend then.</span></span></span></div>
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