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Mick SayceParticipantBack in the mid-1970’s I painted the whole Napoleonic Prussian Guard of 12 infantry battalions, 4 cavalry regiments and 2 artillery batteries to go with my 2 Armeekorps using the now defunct MiniFigs 5mm blocks. In the intervening period they have been put on the table once but have never fired a shot in anger. Still have them.
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Mick SayceParticipantThe only note I can find is in R. Mantle’s ‘Prussian Reserve Infantry 1813-15’ published by the Napoleonic Association waaaay back in the 1970’s. On p.17 he says that sticks were black and the black fifes were carried in a red case.
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Mick SayceParticipantMick Sayce: Cool! “…begats…”, how biblical! So harken onto me, that you might know that I wait with hands wringing and pursed lip, to see the hosts of Britannia fall upon the German plague and smite them sore. Verily, The Lord did look down upon his prophet Winston of Blenheim and the struggling masses and did see the abomination of war, and The Lord did smile, for it was good! (An Old Testament style Lord, none of that namby-pamby, turn-the-other-cheek stuff from the New Testament!). Cheers and good gaming! Rod Robertson.
Oh yes, it’s a great word; very ‘woody’ sounding as Python used to say. Good post, very fire and brimstone.
That is the beauty of Alternate Reality campaigns -you can do whatever you want and no one can gainsay you. (Another good, old English word, much underused in my opinion), as the only person you have to convince is yourself. Anyway, like a good SciFi film, if it’s done right you can suspend belief and get carried away in the story.
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Mick SayceParticipantThanks Rod. The ‘leap’ I mentioned in my first post is that the Germans didn’t really gain superiority but more likely parity after the Americans had recalled nearly all their aircraft for redeployment in the Far East. The problem with this line of thinking is that you create a ‘feasible’ situation to cover one aspect but this then in turn begats at least two new trains of thought, such as what happened to the British Navy and could the Americans really transport so many of their troops back over the Atlantic. This is way to wargaming campaign madness in this kind of situation so I’ve adopted the concept of ‘the Germans have landed, how is really immaterial to the immediate campaign, so just deal with the situation in front of you’ sort of attitude.
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Mick SayceParticipantGod idea in principle but I bet the purist in you would want all models -I know I would- 250 DFS 230’s would certainly look something but probably only ever get used the once so really a financial non-starter. The idea is definitely worth a think though. Where would you start, somewhere along the western seaboard and then expand or would you already have a foothold and need the para’s to leapfrog forward to the next objective?
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Mick SayceParticipantNice idea about America but I only have five glider models so a lot of doubling up or do one assault at a time.
Like the games and like the forum. When I get more time I’ll have a closer look.
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Mick SayceParticipantAnother nice looking game, keep ’em coming.
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Mick SayceParticipantAnother vote for Haldeman here.
In the 1970’s -my formative years- I was on an SF diet of Harrison, Heinlein, Asimov, Clarke, Doc Smith, van Voight et al. Out of all of them my favourites were -and still are- Harrison and Heinlein.
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Mick SayceParticipant@Mr Fuller, always good to know a fellow Irons man.
Although the two periods you mention don’t really interest me per se, I like the equipment idea even though I have absolutely no use for it. As I mentioned on another post, another What If? could follow the Harry Harrison trilogy of Stars and Stripes books where the ACW petered out early on as both sides got together to bladder the Brits. Jingoistic it maybe but I enjoyed them.
@Thomas, the reality was that actually happened. Chinggis Khan’s grandsons started the rot of the empire when Batu from the Jochid line formed the Golden Horde , Hulegu from the Toluids formed the Ilkhanids, then you had the Chagatids as well as Qubalai Khan (also from the Toluid line) in Mongolia and China. By continuing your thought on the United States of Mongolia it was already there so only a little tweaking would be necessary. Interesting idea.Blog at : http://thewordsofsubedai.blogspot.co.uk/
Mick SayceParticipantUnless you can afford/store/justify boards for various terrain types i.e. Europe, desert, sea, space etc. which I cannot do, for years now everything I paint now goes on bases that are painted to match my boards which are dirt coloured with clumps of grass all over. To my mind it looks better and gives a look of continuity to the whole thing. (Don’t know what I’ll do if I ever take up naval wargaming.)
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Mick SayceParticipantI still have a soft spot for the old WRG 1925-1950 rules. The first edition, not the version that emerged in the late 1980s. I assume they are now PD as Sue Barker has posted the PDF here http://www.wrg.me.uk/WRG.net/History/OLDWRG/WWII.pdf
That particular set gave us hours of fun back in the day. Still got them and if I ever got my 1944 post D-Day German invasion solo campaign going, they will be my rules of choice. In fact, if I get any WWII game going I will use them.
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Mick SayceParticipantCamera seems to work very well. Great pics of some tasty looking games. Good share.
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Mick SayceParticipantLovely looking models there James. I think I’ve got a set of Trireme rules from waaaay back in a filing draw somewhere. No ships though.
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Mick SayceParticipantMy interest in WWI used to be limited to the Western Front but now I’m leaning more towards the EF using the rather nice looking Pendraken 10 mm chaps. At the moment it’s just one of many projects I’d like to do.
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Mick SayceParticipantRather nice looking Harry Tate you have made there.
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Mick SayceParticipantNice looking little model. Are you going to make a civilian version without the pintle mount?
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Mick SayceParticipantBottled it on the flags, eh? When I painted my Medieval Polish 25mm (one of the two 25mm armies I possess, the other being Mongols), I vowed I would never paint 25mm heraldry again. So far so good, but I’ve done it in 10mm instead! Still a lot easier though.
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Mick SayceParticipantGets my vote for solo play as well. The NHS mad houses are already filled to capacity without us wargamers adding to the numbers. Besides, would that count as self inflicted?
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Mick SayceParticipantTeutoberger Wald had a few trees scattered about if memory serves. ; )
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Mick SayceParticipantDon’t do 25mm but very nice painting and good animation.
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Mick SayceParticipantThanks Mick. It’s a shame it all ended so badly. They’ll be no more visits by me, or my collections, to that show.
Read all about that. Their loss.
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Mick SayceParticipantMy gut feeling on the Mongols is that they would stop eventually, for much the same reason they did historically: The big man dies and they have to go back to figure out who the next one will be.I don’t do much medieval gaming but it’d be a fun exercise in any event no doubt. Remind of me playing Crusader Kings 2 on the computer. The what-if I might do in the future is a tongue-in-cheek 2nd american civil war. Communist northerners versus Theocratic southerners. Not very serious at all but I don’t know if I’ll ever get around to it.
Yes, that would be my take on it as well, it would only be the time of his death that would change things.
Don’t know whether you know that about the ACW, Harry Harrison, the Sci-Fi author wrote a trilogy of books about England getting involved in the ACW and getting invaded because of it. A fun read and has interesting possibilities. The book titles all start with Stars and Stripes…
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Mick SayceParticipantPersonally, I would take out The Thing from your list. Saw it with Kurt Russell when it first came out and thought the effects were so good that they scared the bejasus out of me. Never seen it since.
But what about Star Wars?
Apart from that your list says it all.
Inspirational literature:
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman. One of my all time favourites. Gutted when it fell apart.
The Lensmen Series. I never tired of his repetitious use of the phrase ‘coruscating incandescence’ throughout the seven books. Doc Smith hit all the right notes for a youngling. Bit dated now, though.
Robert Heinlein did some good stuff as well.
Comical aside: In the film Reign of Fire, it’s mentioned that the survivors from London made their way to the mountains of Norfolk. When it came out a representative from the Norfolk Tourist Board was interviewed on the telly box. He was asked about that and he said that he had lived in Norfolk all his life but so far, had never seen a mountain in the county. However, if tourists wanted to try their luck at finding one they were very welcome.
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Mick SayceParticipantFollowed this from start to finish on your blog. Nice to see the show photos.
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Mick SayceParticipantBaron Fain, Memoirs of the Invasion of France 1814, Trotman Books, 1991 is quite interesting. It says on the cover that it was ‘Written at the Command of the Emperor’.
Lorraine Petre, F., Napoleon at Bay 1814, Arms and Armour Press, 1977. His whole series of Napoleonic Campaign books are very informative.
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Mick SayceParticipantP.S. the flag tip is GENIUS!
I don’t game in 25mm but I’ve passed that tip onto a few people myself.
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Mick SayceParticipantSeen those pics before but still inspirational if only for the nice bright colours. Good stuff, James.
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Mick SayceParticipantBack in the 70s, “Operation Warboard” was written by Gavin Lyall the thriller writer. It would be interesting to find out how much his wargaming experience informed his action scenes.
Although I haven’t read any of his thrillers, I have a copy of that book on my shelves. he wrote it with his son Bernard.
Gavin and Bernard Lyall, Operation Warboard, A. & C. Black (1st Ed.), Pan Books (2nd Ed.), 1976.
ISBN 0 330 25547 9
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Mick SayceParticipantNicely done, the heraldry is particularly effective.
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Mick SayceParticipantThanks for the comments lads, all feedback is appreciated.
I would also include the Dark Ages here mainly because although historically, it is classed as a distinctly separate period, to my mind it leans more towards inclusion with Medieval rather than Ancient. After all, WRG didn’t write history, they just conveniently categorised it for us to fit in with their rules.
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Mick SayceParticipantHi, just found this on Fbook so I thought I’d join.
My main interest in this period is the wars of Chinggis Khan and his immediate successors, in particular the European Campaign. Most of my wargaming in this period is in 10mm and I have Mongols, Chinese, Khwaizmians and Polish. I also have a blog at:
http://thewordsofsubedai.blogspot.co.uk/
which is occasionally updated as and when I remember.
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