10 Desert Island Books

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Day 2 - Bruce Catton - American Civil War. My first proper military history book.

My Airfix armies had a reason to fight using the basic rules from Charge.

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12/6 = 2, doesn't it?
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Etranger wrote: Thu Apr 09, 2020 12:05 am Leaving aside the usual suspects listed above, of which I have a far smattering; Gavin Lyall's Operation Warboard would be on my list.
If you can find an alternative to the machine gun grid, still an excellent set of ww2 rules.
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Book One - Charge. The best book ever written. And it still smell great.
Book Two - 1815: The Armies at Waterloo, Ugo Pericoli. A truly awesome book.
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Book One - Charge. The best book ever written. And it still smells great.
Book Two - 1815: The Armies at Waterloo, Ugo Pericoli. A truly awesome book.

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Essex Boy wrote: Thu Apr 09, 2020 10:17 am Book One - Charge. The best book ever written. And it still smell great.
Book Two - 1815: The Armies at Waterloo, Ugo Pericoli. A truly awesome book.
I will have to add the Pericoli book to my book list.
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Book 3 - American Heritage Pictorial Atlas of United States.

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Not much of a cover but inside it has battlemaps by David Greenspan. You can spend hours wistfully looking at them. Here are few examples.

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I remember those perspective views from a history of the Civil war. I always wanted to fight the battles with 1 6mm figure per man in the picture.
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That’s the book! Don’t remember the cover but those maps! I’d pore over it in the school library every chance I got.
Even now I’d fancy having a go at building a game like that last image.
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Wasn’t it live action history for you at the time John? :lol:
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