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You are stuck alone on a Desert Island and you are allowed to take one book, one set of rules and figures for one period.

Mine choices are:-

Book: Charge or how to play Wargames
Rules: Piquet - as they are great for solo play
Period: My 20mm classic Napoleonics

I would also need unlimited stocks Whittakers Gin, Tonic Water and Ice.
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Book The ascent of man by Jacob Bronowski
Rules: my Wellingtonics rules
Period OTS Wellingtonics.
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Book: The world's biggest porn compendium.
Rules : I will write my own.
Period : WW2 air, sea and land, all theatres. The toys will fill a shipping container.
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I am talking about the entire 20 years of Wellingtonic wars from Russia to the Great lakes and down to North Africa at 1:10.
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Book. chandlers campaigns of napoleon, or if allowed series, jonathan sumptions 100 years war 5 volume set (close run thing with shelby footes acw trilogy.)

Rules. Dunno, not found the set I want yet, so probably pad and paper.

Figures. Complete range for the European wars of 1700 to 1725.
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Book: A hardback copy of an oversized book on Venetian Art, mainly for it's use to swat seabirds and squish scorpions etc...
Rules: Any solo boardgame
Figures: The biggest MDF boat model I can find, 1:1 ?
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Ark?
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Book: Charge
Rules: Rank and File
Figures: My 20mm LoA/WSS stuff
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Book: the first four volumes of Scenarios for British Grenadier
Rules: British Grenadier
Figures: unlimited Perry AWI, painted by Steve May.
Kein Plan überlebt den ersten Kontakt mit den Würfeln. (No plan survives the first contact with the dice.)
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Books: Sumption's 5 vol work on the 100 Years War (after Fred's finished with them)
Rules: Lion Rampant
Figures: all my medievals.

That's quite a big box and I'm not taking the bible or Shakespeare so underneath it I'll smuggle:

Books: Christopher Duffy - The '45
Rules: CoC
Figures: all my 1940 forces in 20mm so they'll fit unobtrusively under the medievals

And because I refuse to be ruled by arbitrary boundaries and because the BBC know what's good for them:
Books: Livingstone and Witzel - The Road to Crecy
Rules: Fire and Fury
Figures: all Neanderthal's ACW 15mm (I don't have enough).

And my luxury will be a 12x6 table. And a comfortable king-sized bed. And a pipeline to the Isle of Islay.
I get lockdown, but I get up again.
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