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I deliberately avoided the Lace Wars volumes, painting lace is a pain so my motto is don't play any conflicts named after what you hate doing. But oh so tempting, and I do seem to have a League of Augsburg army accidentally acquired.

goat major wrote: ↑Fri Oct 15, 2021 2:21 pm They are lovely books congrats. the 2nd hand shop in york had them in last week but the price was higher than my impulse wallet was wanting to go…

Incidentally how much were they? Was it the shop on Walmgate?

DougM wrote: ↑Fri Oct 15, 2021 7:17 pm I deliberately avoided the Lace Wars volumes, painting lace is a pain so my motto is don't play any conflicts named after what you hate doing. But oh so tempting, and I do seem to have a League of Augsburg army accidentally acquired.

WSS has lovely simple uniforms and no lace.

I have just swapped a spare copy of lace wars 2 for pro painting.

tim.w wrote: ↑Fri Oct 15, 2021 8:59 pm

goat major wrote: ↑Fri Oct 15, 2021 2:21 pm They are lovely books congrats. the 2nd hand shop in york had them in last week but the price was higher than my impulse wallet was wanting to go…

Incidentally how much were they? Was it the shop on Walmgate?

Yeh that one. £35 for the pair I think ?

FreddBloggs wrote: ↑Fri Oct 15, 2021 9:26 pm

DougM wrote: ↑Fri Oct 15, 2021 7:17 pm I deliberately avoided the Lace Wars volumes, painting lace is a pain so my motto is don't play any conflicts named after what you hate doing. But oh so tempting, and I do seem to have a League of Augsburg army accidentally acquired.

WSS has lovely simple uniforms and no lace.

I have just swapped a spare copy of lace wars 2 for pro painting.

I have a ton of WSS in 6mm... its a great scale for the period.

Heeeheee excellent.

More like trying to buy, I thought I might do Kingdom of Italy as an opponent for my Austrians, and a quick Google shows there's a book in the Helion series 'The Army of the Kingdom of Italy, 1805-1814' perfect thinks I. Except that I can find that for pre-order on Casemate, but not anywhere on the Helion site itself. Not in forthcomng... how odd.

Everywhere seems to have it as coming soon.

Not according to Helion, the publisher. Nowhere to be found on their site. Very odd, as I would have pre-ordered.

Doug - The History Bookman (ex-Rawkins) line had a book on the Italian army of this period. Unfortunately, since the death of Rawkins fils late last year, nothing more has been heard from his family - other than a cryptic and unhelpful (no links for further communication) note from his daughter that the business "would continue" and the website has been taken down.