Korean war update from Rumour Control

[FierceKitty]

I tend not to be interested in wars that occurred within my lifetime because they are too immediate and we are often surrounded by the hideous aftermath among family, friends and nation. As strange as it may seem the ACW is included in this category (for me at least).

You must be a geen-yu-eyn Sutth'n gennelm'n, right? It'll never be over for real Dixies.

[Sunray]

I can't really add to this (but...)
I tend not to be interested in wars that occurred within my lifetime because they are too immediate and we are often surrounded by the hideous aftermath among family, friends and nation. As strange as it may seem the ACW is included in this category (for me at least).

Warfare on the fringe of the ECW was particularly brutal but at least has a near 400 year separation. As a wargaming period it offers the problems that interest me the most: an often improvised army, usually very asymmetric battles, and a very interesting (and often clever) use of combined arms. Additionally it is set in one of the great transition periods in the history and development of warfare.

Korea seems to offer many of the same problems as above and this is why I was considering it. Likely I'll stay in the seventeenth century. I barely have a handle on it without starting at zero with a new period.

I get that.   I will never game Bosnia 1990s or N Ireland for much the same reasons.   The legendry solo war gamer Lionel Tarr,  would not game with British figures, so spent this games on the Eastern Front.  (Red Flags and Iron Crosses).     Most of my gaming is about fictional countries, which is why I really loved Peter Pig AK47 as a concept (not the rules). 

When the long awaited Korean figures finally arrive, I may well run a few fictional scenarios- like pitching a Comet against a T34.   

[d_Guy]

 
Actually not a "Forget, Hell!" guy - rather the opposite. Much of my antipathy comes from where I grew up and now live - surrounded by battlefields, monuments, cemeteries, and other lingering remnants. Mainly it comes from my two loving Grandmothers (one Virginian, one Pennsylvanian) having a yelling match when I was about four precipitated by an older cousin putting a confederate kepi on my head.

It is strange the things we remember.

[d_Guy]

Thanks Sunray,
Posted over you again!

Congrats, BTW, you are now a full bird 

[Sunray]

No worries.  Some years ago I was Scholar in Residence at a Tennessee university.  The east of the state was pro Union and the west was Bedford Forrest country.   The scars of the bellum run deep.

[FierceKitty]

Actually not a "Forget, Hell!" guy - rather the opposite. Much of my antipathy comes from where I grew up and now live - surrounded by battlefields, monuments, cemeteries, and other lingering remnants. Mainly it comes from my two loving Grandmothers (one Virginian, one Pennsylvanian) having a yelling match when I was about four precipitated by an older cousin putting a confederate kepi on my head.

It is strange the things we remember.

Sounds like a scene with cinematic potential.

[d_Guy]

 
Thurber would need to write the screenplay.

[Sunray]

Thurber would need to write the screenplay.

Sounds like a lost work by Harper Lee...

[Techno]

Congrats, BTW, you are now a full bird 

Congrats from me too, James ! 

Cheers - Phil

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

And me

[Sunray]

Congrats from me too, James ! 

Cheers - Phil

Thanks gentlemen. The sad news in the Pendragen universe is that I lose my battalion and my 'Sunray' callsign,  get a boring desk job,  and just before the Korean hostilities. (Which are due to kick off as soon as the figures arrive).   

[d_Guy]

  I never thought of that! 

I trying for a brigade by year's end 

[Sunray]

I never thought of that! 

I trying for a brigade by year's end 

Ah, another convert for the Korean game.  The Commonwealth Brigade perhaps ?   It will be Techno's best work.

[Techno]

They'll be a bit rushed if I make them that quickly. 

Cheers - Phil

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Phil - after your last post it had to be said :-

WORK FASTERRRRRRRRR

IanS

[Sunray]

Right, all those wanting Korean war figures.  Fall in, form an orderly queue.   You want me to go first ?   Ok, where's that list from Leon......

KO1 (KPA advancing with SMG)  x 5
KO2 (KPA advancing with rifle) x 5
KO3 (KPA with LMG advancing) x 2
KO4 (KPA officers)                    x1
KO 5 (HMG teams x3)               x2
KO 6 (Mortar team x3)              x2  

Right, now for South Koreans, the 41 Commandos  and the Americans.....WTF !  Canada Goose  The Pendraken Site has been hacked again!!  

Some people will go to great lengths to find Leon's Korean War list. Pendraken need that counter espionage range Leon. 

[fsn]

Ah! But ...



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[Sunray]

Ah! But ...



or
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Ah yes, from memory the top figures are the winter range K26 onwards - the bottom figure is K01- summer dress. 

[fsn]

Excellent!

Will there be a Chinese command group or separate officers and buglers?

[d_Guy]

There needs also to be running dogs.