What are you currently reading ?

Started by goat major, 03 November 2012, 06:40:05 PM

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Pruneau

I'm 'reading'the e-book of an old manuscript on medicinal use of herbs and trying to convert it to a herbalist ruleset for RuneQuest.  The tome in question is  the Cruijdeboeck from Dodoens , a herb dictionary from a Belgian doctor finished around 1740. Apart from that, it's mainly flipping through rulebooks looking for better ways to write my WW2 rules.
Boardgames: MMP ACW, ASL ᴥ BKC & SSOM - WW2 (In development) ᴥ Flying Lead - Sci-Fi: Shocktroops, Pulp, Spugs ᴥ WH - Greenskins, Dwarfs

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OldenBUA

Quote from: mad lemmey on 17 November 2012, 07:42:43 AM
Nasty!
What a brilliant find though, do you think you would ever play it 'for real' or is it a research piece?

Well, it's more of a 'general interest' piece. Also, you'd need (something like) the original Kriegsspiel rules to actually play a game. This book is more of a guide in participating in those games, not the rules themselves.

Quote from: Pruneau on 17 November 2012, 10:21:53 AM
I'm 'reading'the e-book of an old manuscript on medicinal use of herbs and trying to convert it to a herbalist ruleset for RuneQuest.

That one looks pretty tough going as well! But fascinating, too.
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Hertsblue

Quote from: OldenBUA on 17 November 2012, 10:51:51 AM
Well, it's more of a 'general interest' piece. Also, you'd need (something like) the original Kriegsspiel rules to actually play a game. This book is more of a guide in participating in those games, not the rules themselves.


I bought von Reisswitz's Kriegs Spiel of 1824 back in the early eighties. I don't think I've ever read it right through, let alone played the rules.
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Pruneau

Quote from: OldenBUA on 17 November 2012, 10:51:51 AM


That one looks pretty tough going as well! But fascinating, too.

It's not as hard as it sounds: I'm just on the lookout for authentic ancient looking plant drawings and names, and this book delivers.  From there it's just inventing an effect and pouring it into a rule of some sort.
Boardgames: MMP ACW, ASL ᴥ BKC & SSOM - WW2 (In development) ᴥ Flying Lead - Sci-Fi: Shocktroops, Pulp, Spugs ᴥ WH - Greenskins, Dwarfs

http://hiording.blogspot.com - http://runequestfun.blogspot.com - http://secondsquadonme.blogspot.com

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Chad

Courtesy of the birthday present of an Amazon voucher from my son, I have now got to get my teeth into these:

The Northern Crusades - Eric Christiansen
France at Bay 1870-71 - Douglas Fermer
Marlborough's Wars Vols 1 & 2 - Frank Taylor

Should keep me going for a while!

Chad

mollinary

Wow Chad!  Great choices and a brilliant present.  Has the Frank Taylor been reprinted?  I have an original, and it's one of my favourite books.  Now you've reminded me I must get the Fermer book, I really liked his Sedan. 

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Mollinary

I too enjoyed his Sedan and am looking forward to this.

Had not heard of the Taylor books, but came on them searching Amazon for ways to spend my birthday present. Now in 2 volumes in paperback, about £26 together.

If it's good enough for you then I think I will enjoy them.

Cheers

Chad

Malbork

QuoteCourtesy of the birthday present of an Amazon voucher from my son, I have now got to get my teeth into these:

The Northern Crusades - Eric Christiansen

That's a good one  :)

Alan Palmer's Northern Shores is also worth a look if you're interested in that area/period.

kustenjaeger

Greetings

Re-reading parts of Gill's 'Thunder on the Danube' and Valeriy Zamulin's 'Destroying the Myth' on Kursk.

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I finished reading Christopher Booker's The Seven Basic Plots, which is his life's work, taking 34 years to write. It's excellent.

I then started Warstrider Symbionts by William Keith, which is book four in the series. Rather good mecha series that knocks the spots off pretty much anything published for BattleTech.
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