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[Luthaaren Von Tegale]

"Battle! Practical Wargaming" by Charles Grant - Its OOP published in 1970 but I got a copy through Dave Ryan at Caliver Books.  This is Mr Grant's set of WWII rules in which he explains how he comes up with the rules and sets out his force organisation.

Now if you like lots of vehicle specs etc then these are not the rules for you. I'm planning on using them as a basis for my "40K/Weird War Two" type games as the weapons etc are pretty generic.
One thing I particularly enjoyed was his use of fictional nations - which basically let him use whatever vehicles he wanted - so Russian infantry in German halftracks supported by jeeps, T34/85s & artillery towed by US trucks!

Not something you see everyday.

        vT

[Aaron]

My wife gave me "Seven Men of Gascony" and "Girty" for Valentine's Day! I've been wanting to read both for a while. Hopefully they don't launch me onto any new projects.

[Wolf 359]

Roman Roads in Britain - Completed, Revised 1-Volume edition, by Ivan D. Margary!! Mint, unread condition!! Worth every penny I spent.
  Romans on the Rhine, by Paul MacKendrick. A great book on Roman Archaeology in Germany. This book was first published in 1970, and some of this history will have to be re-written now that it has been revealed that new archaeolgical evidence proves the Romans were several hundred miles further into Germany than previously thought after the Battle of Teutoborg Forest in 9 C.E.
  I'm always happy to find out-of-print books I read when I was younger to add to my collection.

[Helen]

My wife gave me "Seven Men of Gascony" and "Girty" for Valentine's Day! I've been wanting to read both for a while. Hopefully they don't launch me onto any new projects.

Seven Men of Gascony is a great read, you will enjoy.

Helen

[paul c]

Roy Hattersley's "Borrowed Time" - a history of Britain between WW1 and WW2 - so I've got a bit of the real historical background to my 1938 stuff. Big Martin


I've just read that, too. But RH isn't always accurate. Somewhere he says that the Jewish gang leader Jack Spot became a "leader of the East End dockers"; Roy is confusing Jack Spot with Jack Dash. The latter's autobiography, "Morning Brothers" is a good read, if you ever see it.

Just started "God's Fury, England's Fire" about an earlier real British Civil War..

[Argonor]

I'm reading a Captain Alatriste book: The Cavallier with the Yellow... something (El caballero del jubón amarillo).

Got it from work, should have been thrown out....

[Plynkes]

I believe the English word is doublet. Like what they wear in Shakespeare plays.

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jub%C3%B3n

[Argonor]

I believe the English word is doublet. Like what they wear in Shakespeare plays.

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jub%C3%B3n

I think you're right - the doublet is a clothing-piece (Danish: vams, which is the word used in the Danish tranlation of the title) as opposed to the Danish 'køllert' which is a leather-armour-thingy for the torso, meant for wearing under a cuirass, but often worn alone for protection. Is that called a 'hauberk' in English?

[Plynkes]

I believe a hauberk is a mail shirt. As far as under-armour that can be worn on its own, there's gambeson and aketon, but I think those were padded linen rather than leather.

[Argonor]

Somebody should write a militaria-dictionary 

[Aaron]

I'm reading a Captain Alatriste book: The Cavallier with the Yellow... something (El caballero del jubón amarillo).

Got it from work, should have been thrown out....

Lucky b@st@rd! They have still only translated the first few into English and my tourist's Spanish is not up to it I am afraid.

I think the English translation of jubon is jupon.
Ju`pon´
n. 1. 
 1. A sleeveless jacket worn over the armor in the 14th century. It fitted closely, and descended below the hips.
 2. A petticoat.

(from dictionary.com)

[Plynkes]

Postie just gave me this, courtesy of Jens...



Thought I'd better contribute something to the upkeep of Chris and Björn's luxury game designer's villa in the Seychelles. 

Looking interesting at first glance. Some Great War vehicle stats and points values included I see. Good, good...

[Helen]

HOW ODESSA BECAME RED: THE BATTLES OF THE                        FRENCH AND GREEK INTERVENTION IN THE UKRAINE, 1919
 
by Mark Plant, Tom Hillman & Alexis Mehtidis

A fascinating, specialist guide for wargamers and military historians providing detailed organization, orders of battle, maps, and accounts of the operations of French, Greek, Romanian, Polish, Czech and German interventionist forces in the Ukraine. Also provides full details of the Red Army as well as each aspect of the campaigns. Co-authored by Alexis Mehtidis.

Russian Civil War Game Guide No. 1.

 

[Col.Stone]

Ospreys book on BMP's, should be inspiring for my modelling

[Bako]

World War Z and the Robots of Dawn (got tRoD a couple of weeks ago but it's recent addition to my personal library so I'm not complaining). Now I just need the first two books of the series.