Warmaster Seven Years War

[Dragoon]

Begins with Giotto, ends with Michelangelo. Anything else is trying to hijack mana from the terminology.
I have spoken.

Was that the Italian Wars or Valois Hapsberg Warsand what side wer they on?

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Can of worms this one!
Renaissance 1485 - 1603 - or was on my two university courses. First thing Prof S Pumfrey said was 'Ignore those dates, I just ahd to give something into the departmental secretary so I wasn't stepping on anyone elses course!'
Renaissance Italy is a lot earlier (1300s to Gallileo) than Renaissance Britain (which can be roughly dated to the Tudors), so very much a moveable feast! Basically the dividing line for the end for Prof Punfrey after 1688...
Wiki (which must be right) says: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance

[Dragoon]

Yep - I've got WM variants for:

- Renaissance / ECW
- Marlburian
- AWI
- Napoleonics
- ACW
- FPW

The AWI look good. What magazine where they in?
Where can I get hold of the others, they seem to cover just about everything. (Give or take )

Mike

http://www.rebelpublishing.net/pdfs/Two_for_Tea.pdf
http://www.rebelpublishing.net/pdfs/AWI_Brandywine.pdf
http://www.rebelpublishing.net/pdfs/AWI_Scenarios.pdf

Having said that, 'Maurice' looks good to me for SYW as well - might be worth a look too - here:
http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,4823.0.html
http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,4939.0.html

[Ben Waterhouse]

Those look the bee's knees.

[cameronian]

"We make you the haughty spirit in your chest, for better far is courtesy light"

This is what Google Translator comes up with.....

Restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, gentle courtesy is better by far.

Homer

[FierceKitty]

Sounds like Yoda.  

Chad

Do not underestimate the power of Achilles,  or measure your length on the ground you will....

[cameronian]

Do not underestimate the power of Achilles,  or measure your length on the ground you will....

Almost as good as Tancock's translation of Le Debacle! Its the kind of English up with which we should not put.

[FierceKitty]

I suppose you know Housman's "Fragment of a Greek Tragedy"? http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/jod/texts/housman.html

[Techno]

Good grief....
The stuff you learn here !
Cheers - Phil.

[mollinary]

Fierce Kitty,

Many, many thanks for that link.  Having struggled through Latin at school, and never been allowed to sully Greek with my bovine presence, I was unfamiliar with this, and the achievements of Housman in general. Housman was a name I knew only in the context of pub quizzes, for The Shropshire Lad, and I do not recall a huge emphasis on his having a good sense of humour, but this parody is priceless, particularly the last line!

Happy Easter,

Mollinary

[FierceKitty]

What still alive at twenty-two,
A clean, upstanding chap like you?
Sure, if your throat 'tis hard to slit,
Slit your girl's, and swing for it.

Like enough, you won't be glad,
When they come to hang you, lad:
But bacon's not the only thing
That's cured by hanging from a string.

So, when the spilt ink of the night
Spreads o'er the blotting-pad of light,
Lads whose job is still to do
Shall whet their knives, and think of you.  (Hugh Kingsmill, parodying Housman)

Housman himself said of this parody: "It's the best I have seen, and indeed, the only good one."

[cameronian]

For me Housman is and always will be, a complete enigma. The Shropshire Lad contains some of the most beautiful prose ever written in our language juxtaposed with some of the most arrant doggerel; canto II - Lovliest of trees - magnificent - followed by The Recruit - utter crap - all that 'Ladding', sounds like an old goat, and then 'blue remembered hills' and its back to the sublime. Sometimes I wonder if he had a split personality, or whether two people wrote it not one. Thanks for the link, excellent.

[cameronian]

But bacon's not the only thing
That's cured by hanging from a string.

I missed the above, posts passing in the night and all that; brilliant.

[FierceKitty]

What prose?

[cameronian]

You know what I mean - pedant.