10 Desert Island Books
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Re: 10 Desert Island Books
I think the book pre-dates the Airfix 54mm kit figures, as we had it at school in the early 1970s. Not sure that Historex would have made something as inaccurate as a French cuirassier slashing, rather than giving point.
Kein Plan überlebt den ersten Kontakt mit den Würfeln. (No plan survives the first contact with the dice.)
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Re: 10 Desert Island Books
Good point Baron
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Components.
Kein Plan überlebt den ersten Kontakt mit den Würfeln. (No plan survives the first contact with the dice.)
Baron Mannshed von Wreckedoften, First Sea Lord of the Bavarian Admiralty.
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Re: 10 Desert Island Books
I really want this now.Ilkley Old School wrote: ↑Thu Apr 09, 2020 8:05 am 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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Whenever you see a book you like on eBay, check it out on Abebooks as well
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Book 5 - Funken Napoleonics in French.
I bought my copies at the small Wargame shop in Kingston upon Thames. Reading them stretched my school boy French to the limit. They are still a key source if info for my classic Napoleonics.
I bought my copies at the small Wargame shop in Kingston upon Thames. Reading them stretched my school boy French to the limit. They are still a key source if info for my classic Napoleonics.
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I got lucky, I got the lace wars books when I was 17 from a toy shop.... never been happier!
Re: 10 Desert Island Books
Tim,
European Weapons and Warfare..........£25 softback from Warlord Games. Not as classy as the original hardback, but still good.
Iain
European Weapons and Warfare..........£25 softback from Warlord Games. Not as classy as the original hardback, but still good.
Iain