T his weekend, the question of what, precisely, constitutes an "imagination" came up in an online forum of which I am a part. To be fair, the issue originates from further afield in a Facebook group that I am not a member of, but I weighed in with my own view. The following was in response to the question posed yesterday (Sunday) morning by an exasperated member of my own rather more gentlemanly town square, who had been met with a strident response to information he shared about his (admirable) hobby activities on said FB group. Here is, more or less, what I wrote: To my mind, the concept of imagi-nation(s) is a broad one. It can range from historical refights or what-if scenarios/battles/campaigns between armies of a particular era, to completely made up combatants operating in a quasi-historical setting, to the rather generic red and blue forces of the Prussian Kriegspiel that examine a particular tactical problem, task, or exercise. ...
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I was fortunate to be able to spend a couple of hours at the Warfare wargames show in Reading, UK on saturday morning. For once I did not buy a single figure but stocked up with paints and lots of splendid flags for my SYW armies.
My main purchase were 2 SYW books and the BAR rules. The books were Prussia's Glory by Duffy on Rossbach and Leuthen but the highlight was a large book in German by Dorn and Englemann called Fredericks battles. Contained in this are about 20 fantastic full page plates depicting the various battles and crammed with uniforms etc. My daughter is studying german at the moment so I commandeered her dictionary to try and decifer some of the text. A little expensive but I had been told to go and buy some Christmas presents so there it is.
Regards,
Guy
Thanks for those comments. I will have a fresh look at it to try and spot these faults. I think the translation could take some time. The first word in the title could we thought be translated as either battles or slaughter. We settled on the first.
Finished reading the BAR rules last night and set up a couple of regiments to try out the various aspects such as firing and manoevering. V enjoyable. I will try them out with a brigade sized force at the weekend.
Regards,
Guy
I was definately very tired of 'green' and its variations by the time I was done with my 5 Russian Dragoon Regiments last year.
I note, for myself at least, that when I am tired of painting I start to 'blink' really fast a few times. Once I do that two or three times in a row I know that it is time to stop painting (no matter how far from complete I am) otherwise I will be very 'squinty' for the next day.
I can definately relate to the 'snowblind' idea.
-- Jeff