Barkerese

[FierceKitty]

Just been reading The Armies and Enemies of Imperial Rome. Whoooey, and I thought there was some dismal punctuation on this forum!

[Hertsblue]

Where do you suppose they get it from?

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

But - Mr Barker is technically correct, just unreadable with sentences a complete novel long.

IanS

[Leman]

Hence why I could never deal with DBA until WADBAG produced the unofficial guide.

[burnaby64]

"The Heart & The Rose: The Battle of Linlithgow Bridge 1526" by Jonathan Cooper (Partizan, 2004) has certainly never had a glance from a copy editor. It is painful to read but essential as I am starting a project set in Scotland between 1514 and 1528. I don't know how publishers have the gall to issue this shoddy workmanship.

[Leman]

Have you tried The Great War Explained? It evidently glided straight past the proof reader's office, and it cost £19.95!

[burnaby64]

Have you tried The Great War Explained? It evidently glided straight past the proof reader's office, and it cost £19.95!

Thanks for the warning! I'll give it a miss in that case.

[Leman]

E.g. "Japan.......had beaten Russia decisively in the naval war of 1906." And that's only page 4!

[cameronian]

Wawro misdates Fontenoy on page one of the APW.

[Hertsblue]

Chris Brown in his introduction to Kohima 1944, one of the Battle Story series, describes Kohima as "a Burmese hill town". It is, of course, in the Assam province of India.

[Leman]

Don't you just love experts. I have a regular opponent who would like to beat Wawro to death with a copy of his book on the Franco-Prussian War (1871-1873??).

[mollinary]

Am I your regular (?) opponent, or is there another sentient being in the universe?  We should be told!

Mollinary

[Leman]

No, there is another (Alec Guiness). He's a mate of mine who lives on the Wirral and did a fair bit on the FPW as part of his Military History Degree. His views on Wawro caused much consternation among his lecturers. His rejoinder to this was 'this is my war!'

[Last Hussar]

No, there is another (Alec Guiness). He's a mate of mine who lives on the Wirral ...'

You can tell it is Dour Puritan, by the accuracy of his dice rolling.

Roll a 6 and I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine

Use the errata, Luke.

[Leman]

 

[DanJ]

But - Mr Barker is technically correct, just unreadable with sentences a complete novel long.

Which is actaully a shame because he has done a huge amount for wargaming.

Somewhere in my first edition HoTT there is a sentence which is I believe forty five words long, I actually counted the number of words and highlighted the sentence by entering the word count in the margin of the rule book using an HB pencil produced by a well-known pencil manufacturer; unfortunately I cannot prove this as I have subsequently mislaid that copy of the rules and have not had the courage to buy another, however I am confident that forty five words was the maximum sentence length in that rule set but cannot, with any degree of certainty, express an opinion as to whether or not this number has been exceeded in some other publication authored by the same gentleman; maybe some other member of this forum, more erudite and well versed in matters pertaining to the scholarly output of the Wargames Research Group could enlighten us.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Which is actaully a shame because he has done a huge amount for wargaming.

Somewhere in my first edition HoTT there is a sentence which is I believe forty five words long, I actually counted the number of words and highlighted the sentence by entering the word count in the margin of the rule book using an HB pencil produced by a well-known pencil manufacturer; unfortunately I cannot prove this as I have subsequently mislaid that copy of the rules and have not had the courage to buy another, however I am confident that forty five words was the maximum sentence length in that rule set but cannot, with any degree of certainty, express an opinion as to whether or not this number has been exceeded in some other publication authored by the same gentleman; maybe some other member of this forum, more erudite and well versed in matters pertaining to the scholarly output of the Wargames Research Group could enlighten us.

After that one - OUT OUT OUT.....

IanS 

[Leman]

 

[paulr]

After that one - OUT OUT OUT.....

IanS 

Why? It was something any educated 8 year old could read 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Which is more than anything Barker ever managed...