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As I work through the campaign ideas. I am trying to work in supply as an influencing factor without having to do too much recording of information.
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Wednesday, 11 March 2020
Airfix guides arrive in the post
Today some Airfix guides arrived in the post...
The guide "8th Army in the Desert" by John Sanders and "Afrika Korps" by Bruce Quarrie will be quickly read as I am planning my next campaign where I can use my 1/300 scale WW2 Allied, German and Italian armies. They were completed more than 12 months ago and have been on and off the tabletop a few times since completion. I have been using the Tank on Tank boardgame rules with adjustments for the smaller caliber guns and less well armoured tanks.
As I work through the campaign ideas. I am trying to work in supply as an influencing factor without having to do too much recording of information.
As I work through the campaign ideas. I am trying to work in supply as an influencing factor without having to do too much recording of information.
Nice collection - I have fond memories of reading the Phil Barker book.
ReplyDeleteThe Ancient Wargaming seems at a glance to provide a good overview as I contemplate a future project.
DeleteAh, the Afrika Korps book brings back many, many happy memories.
ReplyDeleteA neat and tidy book with all the basics.
DeleteNo matter how good wargaming is now and the amazing stuff we can get, I doubt anything will ever reach the raw excitement levels that I had as a teenager with these books and their ilk, starting that voyage of discovery!
ReplyDeleteAs a youth I always enjoyed looking at the photographs of wargaming figures in use in these books.
DeleteI still have the Ancients book. They were all good primers for the hobby.
ReplyDeleteI am pondering getting into Ancients.
DeleteLooking forward to possibly raiding your N Africa campaign for ideas I can use with my small 1/200 collection - late period / Tunisia, i.e. with Tigers, French and Americans!
ReplyDeleteGetting close to completing a draft of the campaign.
DeleteAcquired all three a few years back. Read the Ancients one as a kid but not TV e other two. Lovely books.
ReplyDeleteI am looking forward to reading them.
DeleteClassic wargames books for gentlemen of *ahem* a certain level of seniority :-)
ReplyDeleteKind regards, Chris.
I have well and truely hit that level of seniority, but am still giving denial a go.
DeleteNice find
ReplyDeleteI am very pleased to have picked them up.
DeleteI used to have a copy of all three of those books. Now I have none of them. I am not a very smart person.
ReplyDeleteI have done the same with other books. It is always frustrating.
DeleteThe purple primer, such a good read.
ReplyDeleteGood to hear. Looking forward to some quiet time to read.
DeleteSomething very satisfying about older Publications...the World was a far different place than it is now. I wouldn't mind having back some of the old AIRFIX Catalogs I use to have back in the day- my older Brother use to nick my stuff and sell it off to pay for his gambling habits...I could never work it out. Cheers. KEV.
ReplyDeleteI suspect my liking for these older books has a good dollop of nostalgia thrown in.
DeleteFine books all! I regularly revisit all three.
ReplyDeleteI like the information contained within which is always straightforward.
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