The State of My Hobby...

[SV52]

And so here I am over 50 years later still playing with toy soldiers, and with not a single regret!

Terry

Good to hear from another 'silver surfer' 

[FierceKitty]

The 'butterfly effect' seems to have been rampant among forum members over the years.  Compared to some of you guys I dont think I am as muxed ip as I thought I was    Marvellous responses.

How about 'Desert Island Discs' time?

Table and terrain a given.
Blk, Wh, silver, gold. red, blue, green and yellow paints a given along with the usual sundries.

1 Book (history or hobby)
1 Example of electronic medium
6 Armies of your choice

I typed this thinking I had a quick answer, turns out I don't.  This could take some time.

The Military Experience in the Age of Reason  Duffy

Espresso machine, with trimmings (great aid to morale when your centre's disintegrating)

SYW Prussians and Austrians
Republican Roman and Seleucids
Renaissance French and Imperialists

(I'd REALLY miss my Poles, Japanese, Crusades, Sudan campaign, and certain others.)

[Malbork]

I really don't understand all these cries of heresy when anyone mentions anything other than 10mm when talking about wargaming in general. Let's remember where it all started and how it initially developed. I began in 1966 and never saw a 10mm figure before 1992 - that's the best part of thirty years.

Point taken, Leman and Norm. My first 10mm came around 20 years after first unboxing Airfix US Marines and letting the genie out of the bottle.

[SV52]

The Military Experience in the Age of Reason  Duffy

Espresso machine, with trimmings (great aid to morale when your centre's disintegrating)

SYW Prussians and Austrians
Republican Roman and Seleucids
Renaissance French and Imperialists

(I'd REALLY miss my Poles, Japanese, Crusades, Sudan campaign, and certain others.)

Duffy, geez, I'm a great admirer of his work.  This book choice is getting more and more difficult.

Coffee, of course!  Seeds and a 'how to' need to be included.

I need to get off the pot and get my choices down but it's just so difficult "I'll think about that tomorrow...."

[Leman]

The book choice thing is quite difficult. I chose Ascoli's because it is the clearest presentation of a FPW battle I have come across, but I also have some excellent books on Flodden and Gordon Craig's book on Koniggratz which was the first really decent military history book I read.

[SV52]

I just can't make my mind up over fiction, memoires, campaigns, etc, etc, etc.

[SV52]

OK, time to wind this one up I think.

No lists, they all appear on the blogs.

Book: The Steel Bonnets - George MacDonald Fraser
Electronic: Pod cast collection of Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time
Alexander Macedonians and Achaemenid Persians, 1/72
French and German Divisions 1940, 10mm
Spanish and French of the Early Italian Wars, 1/72