The Loose Association of Wargamers

After our fortnight in Mauritius, we were forced to journey home via Dubai.
In order to avoid sitting in a hotel for too long, we undertook a day on quad bikes in their desert (a blast, BTW).

Wargaming content: the desert isn't flat! My Sudan gaming mat is a beautifully realised but flat surface and absolutely is not accurate. The wind moves small and large dunes around to create an almost maze-like terrain that affords much cover, ambush points and a confusion of direction (trust me- the quad journey needed a guide or I'd still be out there looking for a sherbet bar).

Even sitting on a quad, marvelling at nature's wonders I was thinking about how to create this for a wargame. I'm thinking that carved , textured & painted pieces of MD foam, placed randomly, might help my Sudan gaming approach greater realism.

donald

NB Australian deserts- I've seen a few. These *do* seem to be featureless & fairly flat plains.

Sand seas are very different from veldt/plains/Steppe.

You understand why regulars found them hard, slow to traverse and hostile. Not least as the moment you leave any major path, the minor ones are their one day, covered up the next.

Having spent a lot of time at sea it is modelled very differently than the real thing.
I suppose so is all our wargaming stuff its a compromise between practicality and art.
What if our toy soldiers died for real, could we handle the grief. Let alone the widow pension pay-outs.

Willz.

And the endless courts-martial and public enquiries......

Does anyone make lawyers and grieving widows in 28mm?

ochoin wrote: ↑Sat Mar 19, 2022 11:05 pm NB Australian deserts- I've seen a few. These *do* seem to be featureless & fairly flat....

Pretty much all based on the Pavlova from my recollections.

What a terrible thought.

Imagine if EBs cavalry held him culpable....

But, did anybody really fight on the duney bits though?

Ample photographs, from the Sudan for example, of armies marching, encampment, and fighting... on flat bits.

BaronVonWreckedoften wrote: ↑Sun Mar 20, 2022 5:49 pm And the endless courts-martial and public enquiries......

The Baron already has a Suite at the Hague then?

Norman D. Landings wrote: ↑Sun Mar 20, 2022 9:30 pm But, did anybody really fight on the duney bits though?

Ample photographs, from the Sudan for example, of armies marching, encampment, and fighting... on flat bits.

I'm not thinking of re-creating the set on the movie 'Dune' but some shifting sands (barchans) on a rocky base:

https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/7116 ... ne-morocco
I think Wolsely's camel force crossed dunes at times.

donald

As for the comments confusing desert & dessert......I weep for the British education system.