Friday, 27 May 2016

Nostalgia News

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I was painting some figures a few days ago and a friend of mine came around and spotted some 1/300th biplanes in the lead pile. He was far m...
Tuesday, 17 May 2016

Where have I been of late?

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No posts in four months what a disgrace!  Apologies are due from yours truly but in my defence things have been manic at work and Mrs E and ...
Tuesday, 26 January 2016

New tables on the Danube and probably a failed New Years resolution!

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I'm hoping to write more on this blog in 2016, but as its already late January and I haven't posted until now, whether that will be ...
Thursday, 26 November 2015

Europe's Tragedy - A new history of the Thirty Years War

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As readers will have probably worked out for themselves the 17th Century is one of my key areas of interest.  This came about almost by acci...
Saturday, 21 November 2015

The Battle of Whalley - designers notes

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So far we have the details of the terrain and the troops.  In this post I want to look at how to make the game enjoyable without loosing sig...
Monday, 16 November 2015

The battle of Whalley part 3 the troops.

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The forces engaged at Whalley will never be fully known and numbers quoted in the sources vary enormously.  What is clear is that Parliament...
Tuesday, 10 November 2015

The Battle of Whalley 1643 part 2

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A couple of posts back I copied the text of a period account of the Battle of Whalley.  At the time I suggested that I would try putting a g...