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by Norman D. Landings
Mon Sep 25, 2017 12:42 am
Forum: Wargames Wittering
Topic: Imaginations
Replies: 43
Views: 28347

Re: Imaginations

I should, you know. And Redoubt do these: http://www.redoubtenterprises.com/shop/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=847&category_id=adf310a883c5c374ede61b2f31019c47 Can you even imagine? Your opponent's light horse trots up - LAUNCHES WRIST-MOUNTED ROCKETS AT YOU - then about turns and scampers m...
by Norman D. Landings
Sun Sep 24, 2017 10:06 pm
Forum: Wargames Wittering
Topic: Anyone trying out new rules?
Replies: 29
Views: 18812

Re: Anyone trying out new rules?

We're tweaking the club's 7YW rules.
We want to get them smoothed out for our upcoming Imagi-Nations campaign:

http://herkybird.tynesidewargames.co.uk/
by Norman D. Landings
Sun Sep 24, 2017 10:03 pm
Forum: Wargames Wittering
Topic: Imaginations
Replies: 43
Views: 28347

Re: Imaginations

It currently consists of Balkanish regular infantry, Turkishish Janissary 'guard', Arabicish camel-gunners, Turkishish elephant-drawn heavy artillery, Cossackish irregular light infantry, & Arabicish light cavalry lancers. The toys are there to add Arabicish irregular foot and 'imitation-Europea...
by Norman D. Landings
Sun Sep 24, 2017 9:53 pm
Forum: Wargames Wittering
Topic: Oops!
Replies: 5
Views: 4839

Re: Oops!

Lies, plural. The Soviet Union and subsequent Russian regimes have retconned the story of the AK's invention several times. In WWII, when they were looking for 'Heroes of the Soviet Union', they held Mikhail K. up as an exemplar. Post war, when it didn't pay to be too prominent or popular, they rewr...
by Norman D. Landings
Sun Sep 24, 2017 9:37 pm
Forum: Wargames Wittering
Topic: Can it be to big and is ours?
Replies: 26
Views: 17571

Re: Can it be to big and is ours?

Big, you say? You don't know big until you've seen Cacadores render an entire division impotent and immobile by trying to fit everything through a single road through a small village. At once. Apart from being hilarious, this illustrates one significant point about 'big' games: stuff like that actua...
by Norman D. Landings
Sun Sep 24, 2017 9:22 pm
Forum: Wargames Wittering
Topic: Imaginations
Replies: 43
Views: 28347

Re: Imaginations

I do it out of sheer contrariness. I'd always turned my nose up at 'conventional' Imagi-nations. Generic, wholly interchangeable Euro-tricorn-musket types. Where's the imagination in that? Oh, you painted their coats lavender? OMG it's like Picasso and Umberto Eco had a baby! (See? I was properly sn...
by Norman D. Landings
Wed Sep 20, 2017 7:27 am
Forum: Wargames Wittering
Topic: New Forum
Replies: 7
Views: 5679

Re: New Forum

Norman D. Landings wrote: Mon Sep 18, 2017 8:59 am Even though 'e's 'orrible....?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z4AHIB8ruJk
by Norman D. Landings
Mon Sep 18, 2017 8:59 am
Forum: Wargames Wittering
Topic: New Forum
Replies: 7
Views: 5679

Re: New Forum

Even though 'e's 'orrible....?