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The ArmChair General: When the Navy Walked - Hurricon 2012

The ArmChair General: When the Navy Walked - Hurricon 2012: ArmChair General, When the Navy Walked, at Hurricon 2012 Rob and I went to Hurricon this past weekend and had a good show.   Our demos ...

The Burning Sands of Syrtis Major: Royal Mounted Gashant Corps

The Burning Sands of Syrtis Major: Royal Mounted Gashant Corps: Inspired as I was by an article in Transactions of the Royal Martian Geographic Society, Volume 1 ,  I decided to paint up a company of gas...

A fist full of Plastic: Lucky Products AWI Troops - Recent Reinforcements

A fist full of Plastic: Lucky Products AWI Troops - Recent Reinforcements: Recently an online auction site based in NZ, had some of the Lucky Products AWI troops for sale. They were offered in two separate lots, one...

WTNW Draft Anticipated November

Rob Adams posted a new message:

Guys,

Shawn and I were able to touch base and go over a few things and I anticipate that I will have the first draft by November. I am anticipating it as follows:

· WTNW Overview

· The Battle of Crispo (Written by Miklos, a Crispian native on the defense)

· WTNW Setting

· Letters from the Front (A means for adding first person realism to the setting material. This will be interspersed throughout the main setting document)

· New Rules (Tech Levels, Sabotage Deck, FOW (Breakdowns), Steampunk objectives, etc)

· WTNW Countries/Nationalities (Orbats, Tactics)

o Brittan

o Confederate States of America

o Chinese

o Dervish

o France

o Germany

o Italy

o Republic of Texas

o Republic of California

o Spain

o Sudanese (Pathans)

o Turk

o United States of America

o Zulu (and other African Tribes)

o Zanzibar

· So you Wanna Be A Steampunk Eh? (Rules for making your own steamtech)

· Scenarios

· FOW Cards

· Sabotage Deck

GASLIGHT Thursday

This game was actually last Thursday, but as mentioned before, there was a lot going on last weekend. The day before RECRUITS is always hit or miss. Some guys can't get a kitchen pass for Thursday AND all weekend. But, it turned out 7 could. GASLIGHT always brings 'em out.

http://basementgenerals.blogspot.com/

Thought Of The Day

Daddy's Little Men: German WW1 East Africa Army Complete

Daddy's Little Men: German WW1 East Africa Army Complete: Well that took forever! Between buying the figures from multiple manufacturers, modding them and struggling with the painting this project t...

Daddy's Little Men: Battle of Tanga Day One

Daddy's Little Men: Battle of Tanga Day One: Last night Jon made the drive up to my house to give "Things Are A Bit 'Ard" a try. It's a set of variant rules from the Too Fat Lardies ...

The Lines Of Wellington

Last summer, the cinema world lost the great, prolific and distinctive filmmaker Raul Ruiz. Probably best known to contemporary audiences for "The Mysteries Of Lisbon," the Cannes winner has in the middle of preparations for his next film, "The Lines Of Wellington," which was set to center around the Battle Of Bussaco in 1810 and the French invasion of Portugal. Well, fans will be relieved to know the movie is still happening.

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/raul-ruizs-widow-takes-over-his-film-the-lines-of-wellington-starring-john-malkovich-catherine-deneuve-isabelle-huppert

John Carter Trailer 2012 -- Official Movie Trailer | HD

Good By To And Old Friend

I came home from work this morning and found our 12 year old
female miniature dachshund Baby had passed away in her sleep
right in her favorite sleeping spot by my chair. She had been ill
for a short time but, it did not seem to be that serious,
and I had thought she would recover but, alas no...

She was a big part of our family and will be sorely missed...

One More Gaming Project: GASLIGHT at Historicon 2002: Ten Years Ago This Mo...

One More Gaming Project: GASLIGHT at Historicon 2002: Ten Years Ago This Mo...: I thought with Historicon 2012 behind us now, it might be fun to travel back in time to the early days of GASLIGHT as it was ten years ago a...

One More Gaming Project: Historicon 2012 AAR: Mars by GASLIGHT Extravaganza...

One More Gaming Project: Historicon 2012 AAR: Mars by GASLIGHT Extravaganza...: Saturday morning, Buck and I ran our big 21 player Mars by GASLIGHT Extravaganza.   This was a mash-up game of many different Mars backgroun...

Super Galactic Dreadnought: New name, same games: GuadaComaCon

Super Galactic Dreadnought: New name, same games: GuadaComaCon: South Texas Mini Con now has a new name. One hex = 500 feet Taking inspiration from the two rivers that converge in our host city of New ...

Super Galactic Dreadnought: South Texas Mini-Con has a website

Super Galactic Dreadnought: South Texas Mini-Con has a website: That's right, the South Texas Mini-Con now has a website of its very own.  It's still pretty much a skeleton right now, but save it in your...

Happy Independence Day

Frank Chadwick's Space:1889: Sneak Peek at the German Space: 1889 RPG

Frank Chadwick's Space:1889: Sneak Peek at the German Space: 1889 RPG: Big news! Uhrwerk Verlag has some sample art up on the upcoming German Space: 1889 role-playing game along with an overview -- in Ger...

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.uhrwerk-verlag.de/&ei=MdzWT9b0KcGU2AXW672KDw&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CHEQ7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3DUhrwerk%2BVerlag%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4RNRN_enUS435US436%26prmd%3Dimvns

One More Gaming Project: GASLIGHT at Origins 2012

One More Gaming Project: GASLIGHT at Origins 2012: This past weekend, Buck Surdu, Dave Wood, Greg Priebe, and I, traveled out to Columbus, Ohio for the Origins convention.  Out goal was to sh...

Trooping the Colour 2011 - part 3 of 3

Trooping the Colour 2011 - part 2 of 3

Trooping the Colour 2011 - part 1 of 3

Long live the Queen!

Tumbleweed

The latest in American mechanical wonderment!http://www.rafm.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=RAF&Product_Code=RAF07032&Category_Code=GRAV

Letting Le Cateau Out Of The Bag



Le Cateau, 1914 was played using Richard Brooks' Op14 rules and was run by Martin using his 15mm toys (and my aeroplanes). Martin has very kindly made available the briefings which I reproduce in part below. He ran the BEF while I donned the Von Kluck's spiky helmet.

After the battle of Mons on 23rd August the BEF fell back with Von Klucks 1st Army in hot pursuit. On the 25th the BEF was forced to split its march around the Forest of Mormal on the Sambre. Von Kluck's advance guards fought a series of actions with BEF rearguards but the exhausted British could retreat no further and decided to stand and fight

http://megablitzandmore.blogspot.com/2012/05/letting-le-cateau-out-of-bag.html

One More Gaming Project: First Red Martian Unit Finished

One More Gaming Project: First Red Martian Unit Finished: This week I finished my first unit of ten Red Martians and an overall commander for the big 20 player GASLIGHT game Buck Surdu and I are ru...

Fjodin's 15mm World: Irregular Miniatures 15mm Maasai

Fjodin's 15mm World: Irregular Miniatures 15mm Maasai: 15mm Maasai from Irregular Miniatures . These figures have only one pose, but plenty of variants. Maasai with mustache, necklace and b...

Daddy's Little Men: Battle of Tanga Day One

Daddy's Little Men: Battle of Tanga Day One: Last night Jon made the drive up to my house to give "Things Are A Bit 'Ard" a try. It's a set of variant rules from the Too Fat Lardies S...

Saving the Battleship Texas

Rotcod Armoured Siege Tower

http://concepttanks.blogspot.com/

Itinerant Hobbyist: Pre-Game Pics of Jerry's CDTOB WWI Board

Itinerant Hobbyist: Pre-Game Pics of Jerry's CDTOB WWI Board: Jerry is getting ready for another Command Decision WWI game in 15mm. He's been spending a lot of time on these great looking boards. Jerr...

JOHN CARTER Trailer 2012 Movie - Official [HD]

British Defeat at Isandlwana

The Lads

Paul´s Bods: Zulus (HaT)

Paul´s Bods: Zulus (HaT): "The sentries report Zulus to the south west. ...eight of them". Well, There´s only the 8 poses in the set as seen here   Not historically...

Fjodin's 15mm World: British infantry colour test

Fjodin's 15mm World: British infantry colour test: Just painted two identical British infantryman miniatures in classical red and khaki uniform.  These minis are only one pose from Peter ...

The Battle of El Obeid, Sudan, 1883

General Kitchener takes Omdurman, Sudan, 1898

Khartoum assaulted and taken, Sudan, 1885

Horse Soldier Horse Soldier

Battling the beastly Boers - FLW game report - Part 1

On Friday I was privileged to play FLW with the game's author, Paul Wright in his well-manicured garden. After my arrival at noon, we set out some terrain (all from Paul's collection) and agreed forces. I had taken the Forbodian Army, while mine host selected (from the many options open to him) a Boer-type force - 'Army Orange'. King Boris had at his disposal three infantry battalions and a cavalry regiment, along with three gun batteries - 1 each of light, medium and heavy. The Boers (who were apparently all on holiday in neighbouring Ruritania...) fielded three smaller infantry..
http://megablitzandmore.blogspot.com/2012/03/battling-beastly-boers-flw-game-report.html

Frank Chadwick's Space:1889: Better Pictures From Cold Wars

Frank Chadwick's Space:1889: Better Pictures From Cold Wars: I apparently made a mistake uploading the pictures in the previous post. I (ahem) uploaded the thumbnails instead of the actual pictures. (I...

Tanks!

This page is a great source of inspiration!
http://mailer.fsu.edu/~akirk/tanks/

Lion Of The Desert (Full Movie)

The Lighthorsemen - Battle of Beersheba Part 2 - The Charge

Zulu Dawn Battle 1/3

Khartoum.......British Troops do battle with Fanatics

"Over the Hills and Far Away" - English Trad. Folk Tune - Arr. John Tams

20mm Nostalgic Revival: Donald Featherstone

20mm Nostalgic Revival: Donald Featherstone: The Father of UK Wargaming is 94 years young around this time, many congrats to him, his books got me started way back in the mists of t...

PREPARING FOR A WARGAME

( WITH THE HELP OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE )

In peace there’s nothing so becomes a wargamer

as modest stillness and humility;

But when the blast of war blows in our ears,

then imitate the action of the tiger;

Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,

disguise fair nature with hard favour’d rage.

Then lend the eye a terrible aspect,

let it pry through the portage of the head

like a brass cannon; let the brow o’whelm it

as fearfully as does a galled rock.

Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide;

hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit

to his full height. On, on, you noble wargamer

whose blood is that of fathers who wrote the rules !

Fathers who, like so many Alexanders,

have at these Conventions from morn ‘till even fought,

and pocketed their dice for lack of argument.

Dishonour not your mothers, for did they not sit

whilst those whom you call fathers painted their armies ?

Feel superior to players with troops in other scales,

and teach them how to wargame. And you, good players,

whose hands were made for wargaming, show us here

the mettle of your army; let us swear

that they are worthy of your painting, which I doubt not;

For there are none of them so mean and base

that hath not noble lustre in your eyes.

I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,

straining upon the start. The game’s afoot !

Rattle your dice ! And upon the charge

cry ‘God for Scruby! Featherstone! and HG Wells!’

Kaiser Wilhelm II: A Place in the Sun, 1901

 
Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany:
Speech to the North German Regatta Association, 1901


In spite of the fact that we have no such fleet as we should have,
we have conquered for ourselves a place in the sun. It will now
be my task to see to it that this place in the sun shall remain our
undisputed possession, in order that the sun's rays may fall
fruitfully upon our activity and trade in foreign parts, that our
industry and agriculture may develop within the state and our
sailing sports upon the water, for our future lies upon  the water.
The more Germans go out upon the waters, whether it be in races
or regattas, whether it be in journeys across the ocean, or in the
service of the battle flag, so much the better it will be for us.  For
when the German has once learned to direct his glance upon what
is distant and great, the pettiness which surrounds him in daily life
on all sides will disappear. Whoever wishes to have this larger and
freer outlook can find no better place than one of the Hanseatic
cities....we are now making efforts to do what, in the old time, the
Hanseatic cities could not  accomplish, because they lacked the
vivifying and protecting power of the empire. May it be the function
of my Hansa during many years of peace to protect and advance
commerce and trade! As head of the Empire I therefore rejoice over
every citizen, whether from Hamburg, Bremen, or Lübeck, who goes
forth with this large outlook and seeks new points where we can drive
in the nail on which to hang our armor. Therefore, I believe that I
express the feeling of all your hearts when I recognize gratefully that
the director of this company who has placed at our disposal the
wonderful ship which bears my daughter's name has gone forth as a
courageous servant of the Hansa, in order to make for us friendly
conquests whose fruits will be gathered by our descendants!

1911

http://www.giantrobot.com/martin/review-of-jackie-chans-100th-movie-1911-revolution/attachment/1911-jackie1-650/

1911 The Revolution - Jackie Chan movie trailer

Monty's War Gaming: Interlude, just for a laugh...

Monty's War Gaming: Interlude, just for a laugh...: Saw this on FB and it gave me a chuckle... That's it for now, Monty

Too Good Not To Share!!! Well Done Monty!

DBC British vs Afghans "Punch up in the Valley"

http://mrfarrow2udba1519k.blogspot.com/2012/02/dbc-british-vs-afghans-punch-up-in.html

Tiger Miniatures

Not our scale but splendid figures none the less and a first class
painting reference!

http://www.tigerminiatures.co.uk/page5.htm

Campaigns Of General William Augustus Pettygree

Another fine colonial blog!

http://generalpettygree.blogspot.com/

Maiwand Day

A truly splendid colonial blog that we highly recommend!

http://maiwandday.blogspot.com/

The trench - the end

The final scene of the movie "the Trench"

All The King's Men (1999) - Final Scene

The Sandringham company vanishes into the mist as they engage the Turks in 1915.

Confederate Submarine Revealed

The Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley sits in a conservation tank
after a steel truss that had surrounded it was removed on Thursday,
Jan. 12, 2012 at a conservation lab in North Charleston, S.C. Scientists
say removing the truss allows the first clear view of the sub since it
sank in 1864 off the South Carolina coast.

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/confederate-submarine-revealed-1326407618-slideshow/confederate-submarine-h-l-hunley-sits-conservation-tank-photo-183814293.html

Complete Civil War Submarine Unveiled

A member of the conservation crew walks beside the Civil War
submarine H.L. Hunley at Clemson University's Warren Lasch
Conservation Center in North Charleston,
South Carolina January 12, 2012.  
http://news.yahoo.com/complete-civil-war-submarine-unveiled-first-time-172212730.html

Happy Birthday To Our Founder!

All our best wishes on your birthday tomorrow!