Happy Holidays!

From all of us to all of you, our very best this holiday season! 

Why We Do It......

I must admit I half expected to see tentacles coming out of her book ....:-)  

Happy Thanks Giving

Thanksgiving Day 2018 will bring the coldest conditions of the autumn so far; it will flat out be blustery and frigid. Expect northwest winds to average 15-20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph ...

So stay inside and enjoy the feast.....

Veterans/Remembrance Day

The Eleventh Hour,The  Eleventh Day, The Eleventh Month,
known here in the States as Veterans, Day and as Remembrance
Day to the rest of the English speaking world. Most young
Americans have no idea that this day was ment to comemorate
the end of the Great War, or as it's commonly known World War I
We are now at the 100th anniversary of  the First World War. To
all those who served in the past and to those who serve today, we
extend or heart felt gratitude.

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To some I personal knew who served in the next great world war:
Tribute To My Grandfather (Written Several Years Ago)

Heinz Muller

My grandfather was my maternal grandmother's second husband, and therefore

of no blood relation to me however, I knew no other grandfather growing up. Both

my biological grandfathers lived until I reached adulthood but, I saw them not often

because of the distance of where they lived.

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Papa Henni, as I knew him had one of the most interesting of lives, born in Germany

and growing up there after WWI in a small farm village in East Prussia, it was easier
to get to his uncle's fields by cutting through Poland! it even resulted in him getting
shot at by Polish boarder guards a few times. Because of where and when he grew
up he developed a great facility for language, he grew up speaking German, Polish,
Russian, Slovak, and later learned English and Japanese.He in early teens was an
ardent anti-nazi, he told me of putting sand down the gas tanks of army trucks! He
then would put it like this; "I was asked to politely leave at the business end of a

Kar98!" Not surprising given another of his stories where he tells of his village where
half the houses are flying the flag of the Weimar Republic the other half the nazi flag,
his house had the old Imperial battle flag because his uncle Willy was convinced that
the Kaiser would return! So perhaps it was no shock that My grandfather would go
against the authorities...

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In 1936 he came to the states with his father and later followed by his uncle Willy,
He became an American citizen in 1940 and after Pearl Harbor joined the US Army
and went to Training in Mississippi, where he also taught German to Officers
heading to Europe. He as A German was sent to the Pacific theater. His first stop
was for several months in Schofield BKS Hi, where he stayed in the same building
that I was assigned to many years later, I Quad. His tails of training there came
home to me many times as I marched over the same ground that he did many
years before me .

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He went on to the Pacific theater where in one story he was watching a PBY being
worked on and a naval officer asked him "Sergeant do you like what you see, my
Grandfather replied as he said (like an idiot) Yes Sir" He was then asked could he
fire a 50 cal Machine -gun he replied "Yes sir , on the ground" the officer said it
shouldn't mater...The next thing he knew he was in the right bubble manning the
50 cal flying out over the islands in a PBY. He didn't go too much into detail about
that other than saying he gunned allot of tomato gardens, later learned that was
slang for any Japanese installation.The next stories he told me involved running into
various islanders that were fluent in German! In the first story he is walking along
this recently occupied island and hears someone singing "Watch On The Rhine"
a very patriotic German song being done in flawless German, he walks up and
finds this little old man cutting vegetables who as it turned out used to work in the
German governors mansion. In the next story he and another German American
GI are at this elaborate ceremony where the chief is in the full black top hat and
tails but spats and no shoes. My grandfather speaking in German to his friend
said you think they could have got him some shoes...Then thinking nothing about
it is approached by the same Chief who proceeds in perfect German to apologias
for his lack of proper attire etc...My grandfather said he felt about 2 inches tall at
that point, lol.

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The next things he really went into were how he learned Japanese from a Buddhist
monk while on occupation duty in Japan. I guess the reason I thought of all these
things was I turn 53 tomorrow 11 Jan, and was going back over the many things I
learned from this very interesting man, and how it was really him that caused me
to make a career in the army.Sadly Papa Henni passed away just before Germany
was reunified and didn't live to see that, I'm sure he would had allot of interesting
things to say. The other reason that brought all this to mind was my friend Tim was
showing some of his Japanese aircraft models and my mind sort of went back to
these thoughts. There are so many other stories that I half remember now and so
many other life lessons he taught me, that of all the people I've met in my life he I
miss the most.....

Two Marshals: Isandlwana in the Sudan using BBB

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BBC TV Empire

It freaked out an entire generation of radio listeners in 1938. It invaded the stage in Jeff Wayne’s 1978 musical. It rose up again in Steven Spielberg’s 2005 version. And now, War Of The Worlds is getting a fresh adaptation on the BBC, bringing a new take on the classic H.G. Wells sci-fi story. This time the period setting remains (though we’re talking the Edwardian era, rather than Victorian Britain), with a leading heroine inspired by the suffragettes in Eleanor Tomlinson's Amy. Empire has an exclusive new image, as seen in the Review of the Year issue – on sale now.

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All Quiet on the Martian Front: The Battle of Piccadilly Gulch, Texas.

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[1080P Full Movie] "The War of Loong" here

War And Civilization (7 of 8) War Machines

Great martian war

On the eve of the one hundredth anniversary of the beginning of WWI, this mockumentary - employing "archival footage", and interviews with "historians", "researchers" and those directly involved - tells of the Great Martian War (1913-1917), which supplants what looked to have been an imminent great war between Germany and the rest of Europe. The Germans asked their adversaries for help when the Martians invaded Earth via a remote field in southern Germany. The Martians went on the attack first in Germany, then moved west throughout the rest of continental Europe, with the ultimate threat of crossing the channel into Britain. The Martians also took their fight into the waters around Europe. They employed animal-like machines in their battles, the human race which coined the respective machines as "herons", "lice" and "spiders" most closely resembling such animals, each which had their own seeming purpose in the war. The presentation of the ebbs and flows in the human defensive against the Martians discuss what, in hindsight, looked often to be the Martians' luring humans into a longer term goal. Ultimately, the war officially ended when human discovered what was an Achilles heel in the Martian offensive, but ultimately not without great consequence to the human race. Researchers in present day still study the war, with one such researcher, Lawrence Mark, examining the recently found diary of Canadian First Nations soldier Gus Lafonde by his great-granddaughter, Kim Lafonde, most specifically with regard to some Martian code which Mark, in using the code to decipher Martian writing from the time, posits that the Martians had a greater plan than what was initially thought.

Sgt. Guinness: Kaiser's Revenge - Morocco 25 March 1903

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Wargaming for Grown-ups: Rebased at Tel-el-Kebir. Sort of.

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Battle Scenes Russian Civil War

Charge of the Don Cossacks

FUBAR Wargames

The FUBAR Wargames blog is dedicated to publishing free, simple, brief and clear rules for wargames.

Many of the sets featured here are the products of a collaboration between Craig Cartmell and a group of stalwart and imaginative wargamers who are called collectively The Forge of War Development Group.

The group’s golden rule is credit where credit is due. Thus each person who contributes to a game is credited for that contribution in the ruleset.

Craig has been designing and publishing free sets of rules for over twenty years, and gaming for a lot longer than that. Recently he hit pay dirt co-authoring the In Her Majesty’s Name series of wargames rules for Osprey with his old friend Charles Murton. This led him to not working on FUBAR and other projects, something that will now change with the creation of this blog.

Craig Cartmell, is a little strange and likes to talk about himself in the third person.

FUBAR Home Page

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Captain Darling's Miniatures Emporium

Captain Darling's extraordinary exploits and fearless feats of daring do during the Victorian Era of colonial expansion are legendary! This blog interweaves his fantastic tales of adventure in an alternate late Victorian history with 28mm table top gaming

Captain Darling's Miniatures Emporium

Russo Japanese War 1904

Happy 4th Of July From FT Hood!

Battle of Gaza (Ottoman Empire WW I)

an obvious clipped together job but, not bad....

Romanian War of Independence, During Russo-Turkish War

Nice study of Romanian uniforms , their tactics however were somewhat
American Civil War! Thank god the Turks Didn't have Machineguns!

Battle of Grivitsa (1877) - Romania vs Ottoman Empire

Nice study of Romanian uniforms , their tactics however were somewhat
American Civil War! Thank god the Turks Didn't have Machineguns!

Italian Tanks In The Desert

Brazos Evil Empire: Far Alamo

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Madasahatta Campaign

Eric Knowles was one of the pioneers of British wargaming, and his recent death marks the passing of one more member of that small group that made British wargaming what it is today. This book is dedicated to his memory, and particularly the Madasahatta Campaign, the long-running First World War Colonial wargame campaign that he ran

Madasahatta Campaign

100 Years of the Chinese Military Uniform in 10 minutes

1864 - Battle of Dybbøl Two Steps from Hell

Danish victory at Mysunde 1864.

Mars in the Movies: A History . . . Now With Endless Possibilities: Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars (Mars Attacks the Worl...

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The Gentle Art Of Wargaming

An alternative title for this thread could easily have been "Barsoom or Not to Barsoom... that is the question?" Effectively, I hummed and hawed whether to include the Edgar Rice Burroughs world into my game; but in the end, I found a happy compromise... which you`ll get to see later on (once the actual campaign game gets underway).

The Gentle Art Of Wargaming

Vimy Ridge Heaven to Hell - Full Documentary

The Battle of Passchendaele (100th Anniversary of The Great War Document...

Total War The Battle of Verdun 1916 Documentary

Breathing Fire: Secret Weapon Of The Somme - Part 2 (Battle Of The Somme...

Breathing Fire: Secret Weapon Of The Somme - Part 1 (Battle Of The Somme...

Instruments of Death: Season 1, Episode 4 - The Somme 1916

Mars in the Movies: A History . . . Now With Endless Possibilities: The Great Martian War: 1913–1917 (2013)

Mars in the Movies: A History . . . Now With Endless Possibilities: The Great Martian War: 1913–1917 (2013): What an audacious, perfectly clever, and perfectly realized project. Waves and waves of Martians! The beast King Kong in R...

Biggles Adventures in Time 1986

Sky Pirates 1986

The Great Martian War 1913

All Quiet on the Martian Front: The Battle for Bruce Mines (established 1846)

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Sir Cecil John Rhodes

15mm Space 1889 Fliers by The Occasional Ambush

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15mm-space-1889-fliers

Decisive Weapons S01 E04 Cold Steel The Bayonet At The Battle Of...

Austro-Hungarian Infantry Weapons 1867 to 1918 ( including WW1 Weapons )

Austro-Hungarian Tanks & Military Vehicles 1904 to 1918 ( WW1 )

World War I - Italian Tanks & Armored Cars

Russian Armored Cars of World War 1

15mm Wargaming for Fun and Sanity: RS Mercenaries on Mars 4 Headed of at the Pass

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15mm Wargaming for Fun and Sanity: FL Mercenaries on Mars 3 Town Panning

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15mm Wargaming for Fun and Sanity: RS Mercenaries on Mars 2 The Black God Raid

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15mm Wargaming for Fun and Sanity: FL Mercenaries of Mars 1 World of Hurt.

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