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Wednesday, 27 June 2012
Prometheus: Ridley Scott won't have his liver picked for this one
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Just come back from Prometheus on the big screen in 3D. And just as expected it's a visual spectacle. Some images will last me a long ti...
Monday, 25 June 2012
Megagame Operation Goodwood 1944
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Operation Goodwood was one of the attempts to break out from the amphibious bridgehead in Normandy in the early summer of 1944. With the U.S...
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King John and the siege of Rochester Castle
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In March last year my friend Nick and I went to Rochester (UK) and came under the spell of the castle and its siege in 1215. King John took ...
Sunday, 24 June 2012
Stalin's preparations for war in the west, review
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Kampfplatz Deutschland: Stalins Kriegspläne gegen den Westen , by Bogdan Musial This book´s main contribution lies in the daring attempt to ...
Monday, 18 June 2012
Byzantium by Martin Wallace - review
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This was originally more of a description of the game than a review, but still informational as it was just released at that time. It was po...
Sunday, 17 June 2012
A weekend's worth of gaming including Guards!Guards!
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On Thursday I visited a game shop in Utrecht, which I hadn’t been before: Subcultures. I was really impressed! Apart from some Warhammer stu...
Friday, 15 June 2012
The Hero of Waterloo? part I
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Lately, I've been reading several books on the Waterloo campaign as a friend of mine is doing a biography of Dutch king William II, who ...
Thursday, 14 June 2012
Projects Big and Small
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I will be pursuing a number of projects this year and the next, to bring some focus in my efforts, because often I'm all over the place....
Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords, or the origins of Anglo-Saxon kingship
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"Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!" Monty Python I picked up The Saxon And ...
Tuesday, 12 June 2012
Minor Project: Dark Ages Skirmishing
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There's two interesting new skirmish rulesets out (or on the verge of coming out) set in the Dark Ages: SAGA by Studio Tomahawk/Gripping...
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