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[Helen]

WW1 Eastern Front should pick up in interest when this book comes out:

"The Brusilov Offensive" by Timothy Dowling

"In the summer of 1915, the Central Powers launched an offensive on the Eastern Front that they hoped would decide the war. It did not, of course. In June 1916, an Allied army under the command of Aleksei A. Brusilov decimated the Central Powers' gains of 1915. Brusilov's success brought Romania into the war, extinguished the offensive ability of the Habsburg armies, and forced Austria-Hungary into military dependence on and political subservience to Germany. The results were astonishing in military terms, but the political consequences were perhaps even more significant. More than any other action, the Brusilov Offensive brought the Habsburg Empire to the brink of a separate peace, while creating conditions for revolution within the Russian Imperial Army. Timothy C. Dowling tells the story of this important but little-known battle in the military and political history of the Eastern Front."

http://www.amazon.com/Brusilov-Offensive-Twentieth-Century-Battles/dp/0253351308/ref=wl_it_dp?ie=UTF8&coliid=I18H1364B1JET4&colid=1238ZTUELQTYS

Does anyone make WW1 Romanians in 25mm?  I suspect that French will be a close aproximation

Thankyou Stecal

I'm not aware of any manufacturer who have 28 mm WW1 Rumanians. You are quite correct a little later on in the conflict they were equipped with French equipment, but you just can't go past their large pointy hats

[NurgleHH]

Robb Broom has mentioned on the WAB forums that their long term plan is to bring out books that will cover Gallipoli/Middle East, Eastern Front, Balkans, Russian Civil War and even the Russo-Japanese War.

As long as WWI gamers keep supporting these rules there is a lot to look forward to over the next few years.

I'm sorry for getting sarcastically, but I think it will never come... Still waiting fo the second Alexander-Book, Samurai-Book and Crusade-Book (WAB). I only belief it, when they put some real previews on the website, not only Cover...

[Poliorketes]

Ordered the brusilov-Book, thanks for the tip! Seems to be the first book on the topic for 30 years.

[Arlequín]

Robb Broom has mentioned on the WAB forums that their long term plan is to bring out books that will cover Gallipoli/Middle East, Eastern Front, Balkans, Russian Civil War and even the Russo-Japanese War.

As long as WWI gamers keep supporting these rules there is a lot to look forward to over the next few years.

I'm sorry for getting sarcastically, but I think it will never come... Still waiting fo the second Alexander-Book, Samurai-Book and Crusade-Book (WAB). I only belief it, when they put some real previews on the website, not only Cover...

As much as I like the WAB family of games, supplements do seem to trickle out too slowly or a couple at once. I wonder if it is policy or the case of the commissioned authors dragging their feet?

This would mean that the obscure subjects written by fanatics would appear more timely than the more popular stuff written by plodders (no offence intended to anyone).

This might explain why WAB WW2 has never appeared....

Despite this I can't say I've never not enjoyed a book from them, who can resist looking at page after page of well painted models. I carry them home in Brown paper bags so the neighbours think it's porn, wouldn't want them to think I'm weird.... 

[Aaron]

I don't think it is the authors holding thing up. I believe they are sitting on completed works for the Successors and early Republican Rome.

[Arlequín]

I don't think it is the authors holding thing up. I believe they are sitting on completed works for the Successors and early Republican Rome.

Could be... but presuming these are complete, proof read and edited, printing is the only next step. Ok it doesn't make good business sense to throw out a bucket load of stuff at once, let alone allow the friends of WH to have figures etc ready for release, but one book each 6 months wouldn't be unrealistic surely?

My money is still on some guy saying "I'll do this" and like many wargamers, six months down the line he's got interested in something else and the project is semi-abandoned.

Regardless though, I'm awaiting my copy of GW... then I'll convert it for SCW... mhmm maybe I could write the SCW supplement? 

[janner]

WW1 Eastern Front should pick up in interest when this book comes out:

"The Brusilov Offensive" by Timothy Dowling

Yep, it's been on pre-order for a couple of months - you can often pick up an old copy of Sergeyev-Tsensky's novel through Amazon called, funnily enough, Brusilov's Offensive.

As I've being a far bit of research on Brusilov due to the ol' Winter War project I hope that it's a good un.

[Hammers]

I fell in with the crowd and got my copy from Gripping Beast with that little vignette thingy. A question which springs from looking at the book art, in which GW has always excelled:

Those explosion markers featured in many pictures look quite convincing. Anyone know how they are made? They sort of look like a quite agressive form of mould.   

[Ray Earle]

  Apparently they are clump foliage stuck onto a wire frame (in a shish kebab style) and then sprayed/painted grey. I was quite impressed first time I saw them at Partizan.

[Hammers]

Ahhh! There was something familiar about them.

[Darkoath]

Got my copy of the book yesterday... what a beauty!

And the three free figures from Gripping Beast are very nice too!

[TJSKI]

I don't think it is the authors holding thing up. I believe they are sitting on completed works for the Successors and early Republican Rome.

Could be... but presuming these are complete, proof read and edited, printing is the only next step. Ok it doesn't make good business sense to throw out a bucket load of stuff at once, let alone allow the friends of WH to have figures etc ready for release, but one book each 6 months wouldn't be unrealistic surely?

My money is still on some guy saying "I'll do this" and like many wargamers, six months down the line he's got interested in something else and the project is semi-abandoned.

Regardless though, I'm awaiting my copy of GW... then I'll convert it for SCW... mhmm maybe I could write the SCW supplement? 

Hmm, being one guy who has written for WHH I can tell you that there may be a few folks that abandon a project, but thats not the case. Lets take LotHS, I submitted the final manuscript to WHH on 12/15/06, I was told it would be out by summer of 2007. That came & went and the date kept getting pushed back. Heck go back on this forum and you can see my post on the topic.

I do know also that it does take time to get minis painted but thats why I contacted folks like Prof, Dominic, & Tom W here, we had everything all lined up. Gathering terrain does take time as well. But in my case everything was done ahead of time (heck I contacted people myself!). So that was not the reason for the delay.

I think the problem is that Rob Broom is a one man show, he tends to focus on one project at a time, and once that project is complete he moves onto the next one. Now do I blame him for that, no, would I do that if I was in his shoes, I don't think so. But thats just the way things are & thats how he works, like I said, he is a one man show. He has to steal guys from GW proper to get some stuff done like Layout work & photos and such, so it does take time.

So the bottom line is that it does take time for a supplement to come out or a new set of rules to make it to the shelf, there is nothing we can do about it. It can all be very frustrating for an author to wait for his work to be published, but thats just the way it is sometimes.

Tim Kulinski

[Arlequín]

Fair enough Tim, I am quite surprised that is the case though. I would have thought Robb would have more resources at his disposal, so I stand corrected.

[TJSKI]

Fair enough Tim, I am quite surprised that is the case though. I would have thought Robb would have more resources at his disposal, so I stand corrected.

No problem, it surprised me when I started working with him that he had a limited staff of one. People all the time seem to think that WHH has the same resources as the other GW systems, but WHH is more like the Red headed bastard step child to GW, at least thats how I see it.

Tim Kulinski