Thorakite -heavy infantry with mail body armour. 10mm figures by Magister Militum.
Monday, 26 May 2008
Friday, 14 March 2008
INTERESTING READS
Sniper on the Eastern Front - The memoirs of Sepp Allerberger by Albrecht Wacker. First hand account by a German sniper of life and death on the Eastern Front during WW2.
Sunday, 24 February 2008
SELECUID PHALANX
The core of the Seleucid army were Hellenistic units, many of which were descendants of Alexanders Makedonian troops. The phalangites were armed with a long pike (the sarissa) up to 21 feet in length and balanced with a heavy bronze butt spike. They wear linen or similar body armour and carry a small shield called a pelta. Officers and front rankers may have wore metal cuirass body armour. Phalangites continued to wear the bronze or iron Macedonian style helmets.
Figures 10mm Magister Militum.
Saturday, 9 February 2008
FRENCH INDIAN WARS
British gunners and canon ford a river.
Silent shapes glide through the trees, Huron and Algonquin Indians prepare an ambush.
British troops engage Compagnies franches.
A recent club game from the French Indian Wars. A British column comprising British regulars and American militia are ambushed by Indians and Compagnies franches. Following the initial surprise the British rallied to see their enemy drift away with the onset of night fall.
Figures 10mm Pendraken.
Thursday, 24 January 2008
SELEUCID CATAPHRACTS
Wednesday, 23 January 2008
AXIS AND ALLIES
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/10093
Thursday, 10 January 2008
IN OUR TIME - POD CASTS
“They swept proudly past, glittering in the morning sun in all the pride and splendour of war... At the distance of 1200 yards the whole line of the enemy belched forth, from thirty iron mouths, a flood of smoke and flame through which hissed the deadly balls. Their flight was marked by instant gaps in our ranks, by dead men and horses, by steeds flying wounded or riderless across the plain”.
This is the Charge of the Light Brigade, an event of no military significance that has become iconic in the British imagination. It helped to provoke the resignation of a Prime Minister, it profoundly changed British attitudes to war and the soldiers who fought in them and it inspired Alfred, Lord Tennyson to sit down and write “All in the Valley of Death rode the six hundred”.
This and other historical subjects including:
THE ART OF WAR
THE SASSANIAN EMPIRE
ALFRED AND THE BATTLE OF EDINGTON
THE JACOBITE REBELLION
THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR
THE BATTLE OF THERMOPYLAE
Are discussed on BBC Radio 4's programme IN OUR TIME. You can listen again to these programmes by going to the link below. Well worth a visit.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_history.shtml

