GNW rANGE

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Tape, as in 'record on a v-box for later viewing'

[fsn]

My daughter played a VHS tape for my 6 year old grand daughter. Grand daughter couldn't get the concept of "rewind" being required before replay.

How to make a 21 year old feel very, very old. 

[Hertsblue]

Not to mention grandad. 

[fsn]

Gawd! I was trying to explain the concept of telly only broadcasting in certain hours.

Looked at me like I was an alien.


Well, more so than normal.

[FierceKitty]

When I try to explain to my little woman that I didn't even see a telly set until I was 14 or so....

[Hertsblue]

Indeed. There was no TV in South Africa when I was there in the early seventies. Weird! I had to take up wargaming instead.

[Leman]

LEMMY - the FA Cup replaced The Musketeers this week, so you have not missed them. Does your record mechanism have a record whole series function? Best way to avoid missing episodes.

[WeeWars]

Does your record mechanism have a record whole series function? Best way to avoid missing episodes.

My old VCR certainly didn't. 

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Had a VCR till last year, but only to convert tape to DVD....gave it away.

IanS

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

That would explain why the series record function didn't work Friday then! I just thought it was full of the youngest's Pepper Pig episodes!
Only remembered because some mentioned musketeers earlier on the thread!! 

[jambo1]

Got my Prussian Musketeer army pack yesterday and have spent a part of this morning sorting it out. First thing was to get rid of flash on the figures and this was a dawdle! bar a bit of spur on the bottom of some of the bases there was next to nothing to do!!  The figures themselves are lovely little chaps and should  have the makings of a fine army for me and my project. Next thing is to get them primed and ready to paint them up, then the next thing will be BUY MORE!!!!

[Leman]

So which of the C18th scraps are you going for?

[jambo1]

Build up my Prussian army for SYW and then onto the Austrians, The GNW will be another project for another time!! So many projects so little time!!

[paulr]

... So many projects so little time!!

That sounds familiar for some reason 

[Hertsblue]

The order of battle for Rossbach is an interesting one to follow. Only about 30 Prussian battalions in all and you can oppose them with French, Austrians and Imperials.

[Leman]

As far as I can tell Rossbach is the only major historical scrap between French and Prussians in the SYW. As Prussian opponents it makes more sense to use Austrians or Russians.

[jambo1]

It was Austrians I was thinking of going with, maybe Russians but not too sure. Eventually I will probably do Brits, Hanoverians and French,but that is down the road a way yet.

[Hwiccee]

You could consider doing the War of Austrian Succession. The Prussians are fighting the Austrians with French and Bavarian (and other minor German) allies. They also fight with and against the Saxons at different times.

[jambo1]

Never thought about the War of Austrian Succession, nice tip there, i will do a bit of investigating on that.