At 52 (as I write this) I am of the era where Airfix was the first name on anyone’s lips. There was Frog, Revell and others of course but Airfix holds that nostalgia. I’m not against that nostalgia, I wallow in it myself: I remember the Saturday morning newsagent/Woolworths kit purchase to have produced a gappy, fingerprinted droopy winged plane by Saturday evening. All kits were the same, we had no other option: that’s how kits were http://www.airfix.com/uk-en/forum/nostalgia-vs-practicality
Have you ever wanted to replicate the incredible feats of swordsmanship you see in movies like 47 Ronin and 13 Assassins? Stand surrounded by half a dozen angry Ashigaru and then, in a single fluid motion, strike them all down?
Bring forth fiery darts from heaven and hurl them at your enemies? Face demons from the pits of hell? Disarm and hammer an arrogant Samurai lord into the dust with your bare hands?
You can do this and much more if you play Daishō, skirmish wargaming in mythical Nippon.
This game allows players to field forces of five to fifteen miniatures in a game you can easily complete in an evening on a space only a yard square. The rules are short and simple to learn – few players need to refer to them after their second or third game.
https://daishogame.wordpress.com/
Ps Note to self find that copy of The Samurai: A Military History by Stephen Turnbull
Great Blog IMHO http://jpchapleau.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=over+the+wire
Matt Black’s great idea for a 15mm Mercenary Herman Heavy Tank based on a 20mm Sherman http://mattblackgodsworld.blogspot.com/2014/08/15mm-mercenary-herman-heavy-tank.html?spref=tw
Mattblackgod’s world: 15mm Sci-Fi WIP
http://mattblackgodsworld.blogspot.com/2014/05/15mm-sci-fi-wip.html?spref=tw
The PDF newsletter/magazine is now available as a FREE download to anyone and everyone. Containing info on Gangs for Across the Dead Earth, a scenario, battle report and interview with artist Filip Dudek – why not take this opportunity to find out more about Across the Dead Earth – or just enjoy the gorgeous artwork!
The legendary Craig Cartmell, author of hugely successful and enjoyable Victorian Sci-Fi game In Her Majesty’s Name, shares his thoughts on Across the Dead Earth http://inhermajestysname.wordpress.com/2014/11/02/across-the-dead-earth-2/
When King George V died in early1936 he was succeeded by his playboy eldest son Edward, who became King Edward VIII. In real life he abdicated that December, so he could marry Wallis Simpson. In this alternative timeline he refused to abdicate, and in May 1937 he married her. This flew in the face of advice from both church and state, and the stand-off between the king and Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin only came to an end in 1937, when the government resigned. Parliament was eventually dissolved – ripped apart by the ensuing constitutional crisis. Edward was an admirer of Herr Hitler and other extreme right-wingers, and so in January 1938 he invited Oswald Mosley of the British Union of Fascists to become his Prime Minister. For many this was a step too far. Opposition formed around the Anglican League – a confederation of churchmen, disgruntled parliamentarians and left-of-centre political groups. When striking and rioting ensued the king ordered the army to restore order, assisted by Moseley’s Facist auxiliaries. The Anglican League took up arms to defend itself, as did a whole assortment of politically-inspired militias, local defence volunteers and other militant groups. The Scots (or most of them) seceded from the Union, and formed their own Republic. Similar nationalist stirrings were taking place in Wales, Cornwall and Northern Ireland. By the spring of 1938 the British people found themselves at war with each other – the first time the country had degenerated into Civil War for 300 years http://www.edinburghwargames.com/VBCW.htm
“In the mists down Knightsbridge a procession of some kind was moving steadily across the road. Ghostlike, blurred by distance and the fog, they appeared to be military gurneys, the squat treaded monsters of the Crimean war. Fog muffled a heavy chugging and the faint repeated clank of jointed iron. One after another they passed. Each gurney hauled a linked articulated caisson. These wains appeared to be canvas-shrouded cannon, with men, footsoldiers in canvas coloured drab, clustered atop the cannons like barnacles, with a sea-urchin bristle of bayonetted rifles.”
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