https://www.turningpointsimulations.com/Details.cfm?ProdId=20
Looks good
The problem that I have with this series of games is that several of them have a small hex that can make handling counters frustrating. They have some good titles and the whole concept of the series is excellent.
I don't remember the last time I saw a proper, old-school, hex wargame like that, let alone when I played one.
À la recherche du temps perdu* :)
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search_of_Lost_Time
An interesting argument for the importance of the Austro-Prussia war of 1866 :-\
Email from board game company, Sadowa is being shipped.
And I've just come off the Koniggratz thread.
Ordered my copy, will let you know.
Hmmm, very small board, very few counters, £45 plus £11 customs/PO handling, not exactly value, also rules not clearly written, yet to play, update follows.
I flipped thru the rules PDF they have up for download - I'd assumed it would make more sense if you had the physical components with it so you could rifle through them at the same time. I guess not?
Badly written.
Quote from: cameronian on 23 February 2017, 12:22:55 PM
Hmmm, very small board, very few counters, £45 plus £11 customs/PO handling, not exactly value, also rules not clearly written, yet to play, update follows.
But apart from that, how was the play Mrs Cameronian ??? ;D :D ;D
Mollinary
Very droll :P ... BTW where's the book ?
Quote from: cameronian on 23 February 2017, 06:49:32 PM
Very droll :P ... BTW where's the book ?
Good question! Last I heard the printers had problems loading the files (whatever that means). I think it is on the way now, but I think I will only have confidence when I actually see a copy?
Mollinary
It will be ready when it is ready. BTW where is your translation of the Prussian Regt History that you have been whittering about for two years, that needs rather less original thought and research and seems to be taking rather longer?
Not a clue what you're talking about ... unless you mean Heidrich's (who was Austrian) account of the battle in the Svib, which is not, as I'm sure you have already apprehended, a regimental history ... also there's no 'h' in wittering. Just saying.
Isn't there one in Whittard's though? The inconsistencies of a mongrel language put together by successive waves of immigrants. Ironic really!
We're the soggy bit on the end of the continent where everyone eventually washes up and stops :D
And then that mongrel breed went off and mugged most of the rest of the world for cuisine and extra language bits (and vast piles of loot), so it's no surprise English is such a terrible kludge of a tongue, and has never stopped changing and evolving :D
My favourite quote concerning the English Language has to be
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that the English language is as pure as a crib-house whore. It not only borrows words from other languages; it has on occasion chased other languages down dark alley-ways, clubbed them unconscious and rifled their pockets for new vocabulary." - James Nicoll
Noting that Cameronian is uncharacteristically coy about when his translation project might be ready, and presuming that like everything else that side of the border, any setback is blamed on the lack of self-determination, Richard Brown told me yesterday that he has the trial print run in hs hands. He tells me that a few of the pictures need up-pixelling, which has now been done and returned to him. So if you have not yet ordered your copy of Wargaming in History, Volume 12, Koniggratz 1866 from Ken Trotman you may want to do so now.
Wonderful news and certain that my contribution, i.e. the pre publishing glimpse of Heidrich I allowed you - all those piles of cordwood in chequerboard formation - will be generously acknowledged. Such a pleasure corresponding with you John ;)
Quite so. A pile of woodpiles is worth a lot.
Just finished dealing with the handful of typos we found and have sent them all off. We have now run out of excuses for not producing the book, provided of course that the Printer's shop is not hit by an asteroid.
Wrong of asteroid on the tracks?
Seriously, good luck, looking forward to this to follow up the frontier battles book :)