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Post by menacussecundus on May 15, 2024 16:04:25 GMT
She'd probably make some smart arsed teachery comment like 'well would you put your hand in a fire if he did'? To which the only possible reply would be "Only in quotation marks, Miss".
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Post by menacussecundus on May 15, 2024 7:11:24 GMT
I finished "Blood Ransom" yesterday and then picked up the Osprey book "The Chaco War: South America's Greatest Modern Conflict" which I finished today I am now on Alison Weir's "Isabella She Wolf of France, Queen of England" about Edward II's wife Cheers There was a very good BBC documentary series about 12 years ago presented by Dr Helen Castor which was called "She Wolves: England's early Queens". Episode 2 covered Isabella and Margaret of Anjou. Might be worth a look if you can get access.
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Post by menacussecundus on May 12, 2024 14:20:50 GMT
Again, very nice. Are these QR figures as well malory?
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Post by menacussecundus on May 11, 2024 14:11:22 GMT
Without the picture, I think the answer is probably (b) (The move is legal, but the contact with rear cavalry is ignored. The warband counts as an overlap to the front cavalry, but nothing happens with the rear one.)
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Post by menacussecundus on May 10, 2024 11:10:37 GMT
I hadn't realised there was an earlier battle there. Perhaps I should do a bit of reading too.
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Post by menacussecundus on May 10, 2024 7:19:13 GMT
Super work malory. Not my usual period, but I am very tempted to follow your lead. Welcome to the Forum, by the way.
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Post by menacussecundus on May 7, 2024 16:28:14 GMT
Have just posted pictures on the DBA Faceboook group showing the completed elements. www.facebook.com/groups/382414395294162If people are interested maybe someone cleverer than me (Ken?) could also post them up here for those that don't do FB? They look very good indeed.
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Post by menacussecundus on May 3, 2024 10:25:30 GMT
Any of the messy blobby ones would work, but I think the one on the extreme right looks the best of the bunch. Had you thought of using kapok? I presume that's similar to the material featured in the FOW article on Facebook? Yes that looks as if it gives just the sort of effect I'm after. The cotton wool wasn't really giving the light, airy fluffy effect but tended to clump and solidify if you applied either paint or glue. Cheers Similar, I guess. Kapok is used for stuffing teddy-bears and other soft toys.
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Post by menacussecundus on May 2, 2024 15:52:29 GMT
Pictures now posted on the DBA Facebook page showing my initial attempts at dust clouds. For those that can access this I'd be interested which people think is most representative. Four of the painted figures included for context. Any of the messy blobby ones would work, but I think the one on the extreme right looks the best of the bunch. Had you thought of using kapok?
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Post by menacussecundus on Apr 27, 2024 10:12:27 GMT
A quick and easy way to represent DBA units with a pair of dice:
| 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3sp | 3wb | 2ps | 3kn | 2lh | art | 2 | 4sp | 4wb | 3ax | 4kn | 3cv | wwg | 3 | 8sp | (6wb) | 4ax | 6kn | 6cv | cmd (lit, cwg, or CP) | 4 | 3pk | 3bd | 3bw | lch | 2cm | 5hd | 5 | 4pk | 4bd | 4bw | hch | 3cm | 7hd | 6 | (8pk) | 6bd | 8bw | sch | ele | cfd |
Place each dice pair on a regular rectangular surface (like a domino) to define base widths and distances. Thoughts or comments? My father, who served in the armed forces during and just after the Second World War, used to say that the Army could take the simplest idea and reduce it to its most complicated expression. I would say that this suggestion would match anything the Top Brass could produce after a heavy session in the mess. Certainly, one could use dice to represent the various elements provided one has 48 dice, ideally in four different colours, a dozen of each, to make the two armies, plus another two to roll for PIPs and combat, and sufficient bases of the appropriate size for the element in question. You'd also need to be careful not to knock the dice so that you don't accidentally convert 3Pk to, say, 3Bw and especially careful not to roll one of the element dice for PIPs. Alternatively, one could simply take the bases and write the name of the element they represent on it - or draw a picture of the element in question as someone did recently. (Beautiful drawings, although I can't remember who posted them. My apologies.*) Personally, I prefer to use figures. * Found them. rudi's post of 21st April.
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Post by menacussecundus on Apr 24, 2024 16:44:31 GMT
Having just finished painting and basing the last of the figures I have bought or been given this year, I wasn't able to resist Magister Militum's offer of reduced prices on their remaining stock of Baueda figures.
Five packs of figures plus a tent for just under £21, including p&p, will allow me to assemble the (a) version of the Viking army (III/40). (I also have some spare figures left over from when I built the later (b) version.)
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Post by menacussecundus on Apr 24, 2024 11:23:40 GMT
22 a,b,c,d can all have 4 22a can have five. Cv or Kn General, 1 LH, 1 LCm, 2 javelin Ps and 2 bow Ps, then 1 x 4Bw and 4 x 3 Bw
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Post by menacussecundus on Apr 24, 2024 11:17:17 GMT
The really clever part is finding three other mugs to write most of it.
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Post by menacussecundus on Apr 21, 2024 12:43:18 GMT
Plenty of Lh & Ps . Plenty of easy kills for the Bw in other words. 🙈 The subtleties of DBA, skb777. Do you take mainly Ps and hope your opponent has brought Bw, or do you take mainly LH and hope he hasn't? (Always bearing in mind that you will be using your own army for three games and your opponent's army for the other three.)
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Post by menacussecundus on Apr 21, 2024 11:01:18 GMT
Plenty of Lh & Ps . Plenty of easy kills for the Bw in other words. 🙈 Really? Check the factors and outcomes for Bw v Ps again.
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