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Shahbahraz wrote: ↑Thu Mar 25, 2021 12:06 pm
When you say the Caliver ones are these the little booklets released for DBR? They are actually very good and have a ton of scenarios in them.

Doug, if that was a reference to my post, these are the Caliver ones I was referencing:

https://www.caliverbooks.com/Partizan%2 ... _fhs.shtml

Extremely useful, in fact I’ve cheerfully used them for other periods.

Thanks for that - these are the ones i have had for a while.
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/126 ... -1642-1643
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/126 ... -1644-1645
Lots of good scenarios.

Got the whole set of those, and all the army lists - lovely little booklets.

And of course, I got distracted from my Malaya Brits, and so the workbench has a BTD M/C Combo and single motorcycle, some wounded Highlander shock markers, WW" British AT crew and engineers, and a French Schneider P16 Half Track.

The latter was a woeful resin & metal casting I picked up on impulse from Colonel Bills, a serious work of filling air bubbles, filing and cutting and creating locating lugs where there aren't any .. arrrrgghhh! If it wasn't such a brilliantly bonkers looking piece of kit, I might have binned it.

Got to be worth it though for such a masterpiece of bizarre but lovely French design

levied troop wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 8:07 am

Shahbahraz wrote: ↑Thu Mar 25, 2021 12:06 pm
When you say the Caliver ones are these the little booklets released for DBR? They are actually very good and have a ton of scenarios in them.

Doug, if that was a reference to my post, these are the Caliver ones I was referencing:

https://www.caliverbooks.com/Partizan%2 ... _fhs.shtml

Extremely useful, in fact I’ve cheerfully used them for other periods.

Umm several of the booklets have the same title but different authors, are there effectively 2 series of them?

I suspect the Caliver ones are much later publications,. so perhaps they drew on the DBC booklets for inspiration?

I think the originals were published by Keep Wargaming (the Baileys) in Devizes - that's who I got all mine from.

FreddBloggs wrote: ↑Sat Mar 27, 2021 8:23 am Umm several of the booklets have the same title but different authors, are there effectively 2 series of them?

The first 4 volumes have two different authors but the same layout and approach. There’s a fifth book there I hadn’t seen before, the Campaign Scenarios book, but it doesn’t seem to duplicate battles from the previous volumes, just focus on the West Country campaign. What I like about them, apart from the pretty drawings of the proposed terrain, is that they are mostly smaller and less well-known engagements.
I do have the DBR book, De Bellis Civile, and it’s fine for what it is but I find the terrain maps uninspiring and the army orbats more limited - primarily because it’s aimed solely at DBR whereas the Caliver Press books are rules -neutral. They are worth a flip-through the next time you get a chance at a show.

Given that I have all the 6mm infantry I need for ECW in my own new range, ECW is on my buying radar.