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01/11/2015 at 05:24 #33599
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ParticipantI’m reading John Mosier’s history of the battles around Verdun and thinking of doing some FOW Great War games starting next year. I almost have the troops to do it.
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01/11/2015 at 08:27 #33603MartinR
ParticipantBasing a game on Mosiers somewhat eccentric insights is going to produce some interesting results. You might find Alistair Hornes elderly but still useful “The Price of Glory” a valuable take on Verdun too.
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Martin
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01/11/2015 at 16:44 #33617kyoteblue
ParticipantI have ” The Price of Glory ” as well. I still am amazed that the Allies won.
01/11/2015 at 21:55 #33628Otto Schmidt
ParticipantDear Kyoteblue
Another useful work is Ian Ousby’s “The Road to Verdun: World War I’s most momentous battle and the Folly of Nationalism.” Anchor Books , NY, 2003, ISBN 0-385-72173-0 Ousby not only looks at the battle, he looks at the consequences of the view of war, and the War, and what the “meaning” of Verdun became in the subsequent war years.
Otto
01/11/2015 at 22:00 #33629kyoteblue
ParticipantI have read that one as well.
02/11/2015 at 23:38 #33723kyoteblue
ParticipantGot some 15mm painted French figures in today, mostly 1914-1916 with a few 1916-1918 mixed in. I’ll need to sort and rebase them.
02/11/2015 at 23:47 #33724Otto Schmidt
ParticipantDear Kyoteblue
I’m curious. Why are you doing Verdun. This is one of the projects that from time to time piqued my interest but It always evaporated when I realized that I probably could do it by just gluing the figures permanently to the board. I assume you’re going to do it in skirmish style. That would make it even more depressing. So what’s your interest in it. I can never see it. Not criticizing, just wondering.
Otto
03/11/2015 at 00:11 #33728kyoteblue
ParticipantPart of it is the 100th anv. of the battle, part my reading about it. That and with FOW engine I can game some of the actions on a 6×4 table in 15mm.
So why not.03/11/2015 at 02:40 #33734Thaddeus Blanchette
ParticipantYou can also do it in 3mm. Much cheaper and smaller.
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03/11/2015 at 02:47 #33736kyoteblue
ParticipantThat is true, but I would have to buy paint and build 3 mm troops and terrain….so……
07/11/2015 at 22:40 #34057kyoteblue
ParticipantSlowly working on the French, and I’m buying some more painted Germans. Ordered some of the TSS/QRF German flamethrowers HMG and 105mm Arty through Scale Creep Miniatures.
09/11/2015 at 23:19 #34130kyoteblue
ParticipantGot a line on some more painted Germans… we shall see.
10/11/2015 at 05:02 #34138kyoteblue
ParticipantJust sent off more money for some painted and based ( For FOW ) French and Germans. This may all come together before the 100th Anniversary !!
10/11/2015 at 07:14 #34140paintpig
ParticipantSounds like a plan Kyote, when your finished mucking around in the west take a look at Palestine, a more mobile war and from experience great fun to game and campaign.
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Slowly Over A Low Flame16/11/2015 at 22:51 #34545kyoteblue
ParticipantI would need to buy painted Turks and Anzac’s to do that… I only have so much money.
17/11/2015 at 17:07 #34587Abwehrschlacht
ParticipantSounds like a good plan, but I agree with MartinR on the Mosier book. I wouldn’t touch his stuff with a bargepole….
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17/11/2015 at 17:24 #34588kyoteblue
ParticipantI’ll post pictures on my Facebook account when I get troops in. Er I’m still a caveman when it comes to some computer stuff…
17/11/2015 at 23:01 #34607kyoteblue
ParticipantTroops arrived today !!! Well enough for a test game in the next day or so. Pics on Facebook. er Jonathan Keepers in Oklahoma USA.
10/12/2015 at 22:38 #35493kyoteblue
ParticipantGot more painted troops based up and I will need to do the German Flame throwers to do Verdun. But I’m on tract for Feb’s 100th Anniversary.
24/02/2016 at 01:21 #38686kyoteblue
ParticipantCouple of days late but the game is set up and I’ll start rolling dice later this evening. I will try to take pics and post them to face book but no promises. It’s going to really suck for the French at first..
24/02/2016 at 22:31 #38717Mishima
ParticipantLook forward to it.
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