Wargaming In History Volume 8: The Austro-Prussian War Of 1866: The Opening Battles
Drewienkiewicz, J & Brentnall, A
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In this volume, the authors provide a detailed and highly informed history of the opening battles, with the usual overwhelmingly impressive wargames, covering Gitschin, Trautenau, Nachod and Skalitz. These are fought with Fire & Fury rules, carefully amended (with suitable authority!) for the armaments of the period. These amendments are included, as well as orders of battle, wargaming orders of battle, studies of the battlefields today, and if that doesn't overwhelm you, another crop of superb uniform plates by Bob Marrion.
This one has been mentioned elsewhere on the Forum, but I thought it was worth giving our very own Mollinary a bit of a plug seeing as he co-wrote it! We'll be picking up a copy at Salute, and hopefully we can talk him into signing it for us!
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And some pics of the Pendraken goodies contained within:
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Looks nice!
Must remember to bring enough cash for a copy.
Obviously the "must-have" item of the show! :)
Greetings
I've already ordered mine.
Regards
Edward
Mollinary sent me some pics from the book, so I've just added them to the top post.
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Great pictures
The only sad thing is that the second photo down shows the only non Pendraken figure unit in the book - a Perrin figures Prussian Guard cavalry brigade! In my defence, it should be replaced the "proper" figures by the end of the year. For the truly observant among you, the white stuff on the ground in the photo of an Austrian Brigade at game strength is real snow - we had to go outside to get the light, and the British weather triumphed. These are all "posed" photos to serve particular purposes in parts of the book, the vast majority of pictures in the book are, in fact, pictures taken during the re-fight of the battle described in the text. They are, therefore more like the few Jicin photos I put up some months ago when we started out on this project. Many thanks to Leon for putting the photos up, and for the plug in the newsletter (psst, the cheque is in the post! ;) ;)).
Mollinary
I notice the epic size cliff in rear of the first phot. I know the valleys in Bohemia caused manoeuvre problems, but they look awesome in that pic. :o
Quote from: mollinary on 09 April 2013, 07:37:27 AM
The only sad thing is that the second photo down shows the only non Pendraken figure unit in the book - a Perrin figures Prussian Guard cavalry brigade! In my defence, it should be replaced the "proper" figures by the end of the year. For the truly observant among you, the white stuff on the ground in the photo of an Austrian Brigade at game strength is real snow - we had to go outside to get the light, and the British weather triumphed. These are all "posed" photos to serve particular purposes in parts of the book, the vast majority of pictures in the book are, in fact, pictures taken during the re-fight of the battle described in the text. They are, therefore more like the few Jicin photos I put up some months ago when we started out on this project. Many thanks to Leon for putting the photos up, and for the plug in the newsletter (psst, the cheque is in the post! ;) ;)).
Mollinary
You exposed good sculpted terrain to
snow! For shame! :o :o :o :o
Quote from: Dave Fielder on 09 April 2013, 08:09:36 AM
I notice the epic size cliff in rear of the first phot. I know the valleys in Bohemia caused manoeuvre problems, but they look awesome in that pic. :o
Awesome indeed! I wondered about that myself, but our magic camera man Adam Poole, insisted it worked better for these photos taken outside if he didn't have a brick wall as background. :-\ :-\ That particular photo shows my Saxons, set out as a corps for the Real Time Wargames rules "Trapped like a Fox".
Quote from: mollinary on 09 April 2013, 08:39:03 AM
Awesome indeed! I wondered about that myself, but our magic camera man Adam Poole, insisted it worked better for these photos taken outside if he didn't have a brick wall as background. :-\ :-\ That particular photo shows my Saxons, set out as a corps for the Real Time Wargames rules "Trapped like a Fox".
Very nice Andrew, I look forward to seeing the book, congratulations.
Thanks Cam, much appreciated. I hope you will enjoy it - who knows, if enough people buy it Richard Brown, our publisher, may allow us to take it onto Koniggratz in a new volume. If so, watch out, I'll be after that copy of Heidrich's book on the Swiepwald! Sorry we won't see you at SALUTE. :'( :'( :'(
Mollinary
will this be available through any other route than caliver books?
Hi Nosher,
I have answered this over on the other thread where you asked it, but I think it will be helpful to repeat the answer on this thread, the title of which is, perhaps, rather clearer. The answer is a very clear yes. The book is published by Ken Trotman books, run by Richard Brown, and they will be the first to have copies available for order, and they will have them on their stand at SALUTE. I believe they will also be available in the USA from OMM. Happy to answer any other questions you may have.
Mollinary
Cheers Mollinary
will keep an eye out for the Trotman stand ;)
Call in at our Nachod game, Nosher, and we'll give you directions! :D :D :D
Mollinary
Lovely Hussars Andrew, and I see you've painted them with Werndl SSBL carbines in the saddle holster, nice touch ;D
Ah Cam, the ability of the human mind to invent what it wants to see, and convince itself that it actually exists - dream on, oh Caledonian one!
Never mind, I hear there will be a cure for your mild affliction available relatively soon. Keep taking the tablets! ;) ;) :D
Mollinary
Quote from: mollinary on 09 April 2013, 07:23:47 PM
Ah Cam, the ability of the human mind to invent what it wants to see, and convince itself that it actually exists - dream on, oh Caledonian one!
Never mind, I hear there will be a cure for your mild affliction available relatively soon. Keep taking the tablets! ;) ;) :D
Mollinary
Dieu Merci, its Grouchy!
Quote from: mollinary on 09 April 2013, 06:48:47 PM
Call in at our Nachod game, Nosher, and we'll give you directions! :D :D :D
Mollinary
Look forward to it:-)
Quote from: Nosher on 09 April 2013, 08:18:54 PM
Look forward to it:-)
Me too! It is a great opportunity to meet people who are currenly only names on the web. I really enjoy the exchanges on the Pendraken forum, and the chance to put a face to a name is not to be missed. This SALUTE will be a truly new experience for me, putting on a game at the major show in the UK for the first time (apologies to all the other excellent shows, but this is still clearly the biggest), and being a published author for the first time at last. I am just beginning to get excited at the prospect, so heaven knows what state I'll be in ten days time! See you all there.
Mollinary