The Ragged Soldier

Wallenstein's armies were better dressed and possibly more uniformed..than those of Tilly ( a believer in "a ragged soldier and a bright musket" ) - George Gush, 'Renaissance Armies'

Sunday, 26 July 2020

Emerging from the Chemical Bath..

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In addition to figures I bought from the late  Eric Knowles collection ( and indeed the reason I was interested to buy them ),  I have my sm...
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Wednesday, 15 July 2020

Air Support from Aldi, and painting Austrians slowly

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  The Portable Air Force Opportunities for real gaming or planning have been a bit scarce recently - 'time and space, time and space.....
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Saturday, 4 July 2020

Fnurban #3 : Sudbury and the Star-Spangled Banner

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The original Star-Spangled Banner           “Oh! say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light,           What so proudly we hailed at the tw...
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Sunday, 28 June 2020

The attack on Monte Lucedelsole : as it happened

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We last saw the fight for Monte Lucedelsole  just beginning, with Colonel Badger's force appearing by road from the South, and running i...
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Thursday, 25 June 2020

The Attack on Monte Lucedelsole : opening shots

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Having put together some basic WW2 forces to contest some mostly imaginary parts of sunny Italy, 1943-44, I thought I'd give 'Badger...
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Thursday, 18 June 2020

Further Frederician ( and Maurician ) Reading

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' War is a science replete with shadows in whose obscurity one cannot move with an assured step...  All sciences have principles and rul...
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Sunday, 7 June 2020

Where Next with the Seven Years War ? Rules and Regulations part 2

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" I didn't have time to write a short letter; so I wrote a long one instead " - Mark Twain *. Last time I looked at some older...
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