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, 13 November 2022

Fnurban #18 : Knit Your Own Remembrance

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Today has of course been Remembrance Sunday : my very minor contribution to that was to ensure that the village church clock was keeping goo...
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Thursday, 3 November 2022

After Kirchendorf : thoughts on 'In Deo Veritas'

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As promised, in this post I will give my impressions of the In Deo Veritas Pike and Shot period rules for  'big battles' following ...
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Tuesday, 25 October 2022

SELWG 2022 : A Good Day

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The other Sunday I had the pleasure of attending SELWG 2022, at the Lea Valley Athletics Centre in Norrh-East London. As you can see, it...
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Tuesday, 18 October 2022

In Deo Veritas : battle of 'Kirchendorf'

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  A couple of posts ago I set out the likely forces and terrain for a Thirty Years' War battle, trying out Philip Garton's In Deo V...
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Sunday, 2 October 2022

Fnurban #17 : Free Rules and well-stocked Magazines

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This week I picked up the latest issue ( no. 418, October 2022 ) of Wargames Illustrated magazine, and found an interesting suprise: it fea...
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Wednesday, 21 September 2022

Trailing the Pike, at last

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Before I was so easily distracted by the Eighteenth Century,  I had always meant to resume wargaming with the 'Pike and Shot' era,  ...
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Tuesday, 30 August 2022

100 Up, and Where Next?

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As The Ragged Soldier marches onward, a small milestone has appeared by the roadside : this is my 100th blog post. I'm rather pleasantly...
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