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[Driscoles]

what ?.... pardon me ....am I ?

[PeteMurray]

Are you working on a new project ?  :wink:

Yes, actually. But there's actually two projects here.

Project 1: T&T is for my own enjoyment. I had already owned some WW1 minis, and hadn't really found a rules set that appealed greatly to me. I'm very pleased with T&T! Better yet, Deathwing also has the rules and some BoB/RCW figures, so there's a very good chance we'll get a game in sometime.

Plus now I have an excuse to get some Germans in Pickelhaubs.

Project 2: I've been contracted to help write a world book for the Quar by Zombiesmith. The technology level of the Quar is about equivalent to the Great War, and they do quite a bit of long and bloody trench warfare. The first book we're going to do is an Osprey-style campaign guide to introduce the way in which the Quar wage war. This is some of my background reading.

The only reason I'm comfortable discussing this book is because (1) the Quar book is still some time off and (2) the Quar had already been publicly pegged at WW1. So these are sort of logical starting points for writing on Western-Front-like settings.

I will state I have purchased four more Ospreys this year and many more books, all of which relate to projects I am actively working on for Rattrap. Mimicking Polynikes in this case is purely coincidental (though annoying him is delightful, as always.)

[Plynkes]

It didn't really annoy me.

I don't have part two of the Trench Warfare set yet, as it happens, so you're beating me there. I'm not quite as interested in the Great War once they stop wearing pointy hats. My brother takes over then, him and Siklee are Stahlhelm nuts, and mock my foolish devotion to the quaint and outmoded Pickelhaube.


And my name isn't Polynikes. Neither here or anywhere else on the web do I go by that name.  

[PeteMurray]

It didn't really annoy me.

Damn and blast.

I don't have part two of the Trench Warfare set yet, as it happens, so you're beating me there.

To be honest, I haven't read either Part 1 or Part 2 yet. I didn't get the books until late Saturday night, and Sunday was so busy that the only reading I did was looking at the pictures in "Fortifications". I took Cambrai on the train this morning, and looked at the pictures. Then I fell asleep because this is what you do on the train on rainy Mondays.

[Plynkes]

Falling asleep on the train can be annoying and expensive. I usually do that when I'm drunk, and end up hundreds of miles from where I'm supposed to be.

[Driscoles]

Plynkes :
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Pete :
I like the quar idea. Interesting site !

[Vanvlak]

Believe it or not, I;d never read Conan Doyle's The Lost World... well, I'm putting that right with a copy I bought yesterday.

[Hammers]

Believe it or not, I;d never read Conan Doyle's The Lost World... well, I'm putting that right with a copy I bought yesterday.

Oh, I remember that one very fondly.It's too bad you ca't reread these stories as their logic seldom holds up to a grown, cynical man's scrutiny.

[Aaron]

I received a bonanza of books for my birthday on Monday. I now have C. Hale Sipe's " The Indian Chiefs of Pennsylvania", Runciman's "The Sicilian Vespers" , "The Battle of Borodino" by Alexander Mikaberidze, and "Moscow: 1812" by Adam Zamoyski. These had all been on my wish list for a while. The problem now is which to read first. The book I pick usually dictates what I paint for the next week or two and since I have had some Conquest figures gathering dust for some time I think I'll go with Sipe and get back to my F&I project for a while.

[PeteMurray]

"Moscow: 1812" by Adam Zamoyski.

While I encourage you to paint your dusty Conquest figures, I have this book and found it quite a good read. Depressing as hell - talk about a war with no winners.

[Aaron]

I've read several good reviews also. I'm really looking forward to it, even if it does drag me into an unfinishable Napoleonic project I have no time for!

[Argonor]

Got Future Wars today. And downloaded all the free rulesets from Two Hour Wargames yesterday (including Santa Claus Wars)....

[unfeasibly]

This one took a bit of tracking down. Had to get this (British published) book via New Jersey. Why does everything seem to come from New Jersey?


Lovely colour plates. Almost every one had me saying "Ooh, he'd be nice to have in 28mm!" including a camel-mounted Tuareg (in case the Unfeasibly chap is reading this), Sanussi tribesman, Egyptians, Yemenis, Ottoman irregulars (and regulars), Sharifian regulars and Lord knows who else.

Simply put, someone turn this book into a range of figures, please.

Camel-mounted Tuareg will be ready towars the end of Jan 08.
Regards
Mark

[Plynkes]

Excellent news.

Right then. Better get and paint the non-camel-mounted ones I bought from you, hadn't I?

[Argonor]

Camel-mounted Tuareg will be ready towars the end of Jan 08.
Regards
Mark

Shall have to go get me some of those - and some on foot...

My shopping list just keeps growing