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Offline Petracelli

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« on: January 07, 2012, 11:13:59 PM »
Gents

Have been a member of the forum but not got round to posting before.

Will be posting more regularly and thought I'd share my blog.

Cheers

Phil

www.itkeepsmeoutofmywifesway.blogspot.com

Offline fastolfrus

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Re: Newbie
« Reply #1 on: January 08, 2012, 12:23:55 PM »
Welcome aboard.

I noticed the bit on your blog about the 4 year old.
We run a school club and would recomend starting him off with PBI from Peter Pig(fair enough our youngest player so far was a 10 year old, but we have to cope with 10 or 20 players at a time).
It's played on a squared board, so no problems/arguments with measuring, and no arguments about cover, if there is cover in the square your figures are in it.
It uses "stands" of figures, but you can use any basing style so long as you can recognise if a stand is a command stand, an mg stand, or just a rifle stand. Or you can use single based figures.

There is a slimmed down free starter version :
http://www.peterpig.co.uk/PBIQS.pdf
Gary, Glynis, and Alasdair (there are three of us, but we are too mean to have more than one login)

Offline Calimero

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Re: Newbie
« Reply #2 on: January 08, 2012, 01:11:48 PM »

Welcome to LAF 8)

Nice blog BTW
A CANADIAN local hobby store with a small selection of historical wargames miniatures (mainly from Warlords). They also have a great selection of paint and hobby accessories from Vallejo, Army painter, AK Interactive, Green Stuff World and more.; https://www.kingdomtitans.ca/us/

Offline Helen

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Re: Newbie
« Reply #3 on: January 08, 2012, 06:48:29 PM »
Welcome Phil. please enjoy your time here on the LAF.

Helen
Best wishes,
Helen
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well (V van Gogh)

Offline Petracelli

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Re: Newbie
« Reply #4 on: January 08, 2012, 07:39:08 PM »
Thanks for the welcome and the tip on hoping to encourage my son into being a wargamer, have already got him painting soldiers!

Glad you like the blog and thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Phil

Offline Petracelli

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Re: Newbie
« Reply #5 on: October 13, 2012, 07:07:12 PM »
Hi

Just an update to this am looking for an opponent in my local area of Bishop's Stortford. My main period is 20mm WW2 but happy to play most historical periods.

Cheers

Phil

 

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