Quote from: cameronian on 18 May 2015, 02:57:11 PMDid anyone spot the similarity between Mollinary and the Danish officer giving the men a pep talk at the end of episode 2, uncanny resemblance doncha think 

You flatter me, old friend. He is too slim, too spritely, too coherent, and makes far too much sense!   

Mollinary

QuoteAnyone else catch Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrel ?
Thought that was rather 'fun'.

Yep, myself and SWMBO enjoyed it immensely . Nice to have some good telly to watch as the silly season beckons with this and 1864.

Quote from: mollinary on 18 May 2015, 08:01:08 PM
You flatter me, old friend. He is too slim, too spritely, too coherent, and makes far too much sense!   

Mollinary

   

Really enjoyed the first episode. Good to see Rochefort resurrected as another bad(?) guy. The review I read said that the Battle of Waterloo with magic is very stylishly done.

Certainly enjoyed it, good spec effects.

IanS

If anyone was interested in gaming this war, I have Mike Embree's book 'Bismark's First War' which I could let you have for £30 + postage.
It is an excellent book, I just never got round to war gaming the period.

Chad

I have the armies Chad...

No probs mate

Chad

Just got to get the enthusiasm together to be paint them...
Maybe when I get time to finally watch 1864!

As Mollinary would say, are you good enough for the cigar? OK, did anyone spot the musical anachronism in Saturday's episode?

Playing Preussen's Gloria,which was not written until after the FPW,  perhaps?   

Mollinary

Quote from: cameronian on 01 June 2015, 12:32:50 PM
As Mollinary would say, are you good enough for the cigar? OK, did anyone spot the musical anachronism in Saturday's episode?

No.
Did I really see the retreating Danes get through the Prussian lines by hypnosis?  I thought this was a bit silly.

I dont know anything about the period but I am enjoying it

Nope, any other takers?

Well then, I suppose you are referring to the playing of the Koniggratzer Marsch?  But then, what is one minor error among so many? I bet you didn't even notice the succession of howlers committed in the pickelhauben department?   

Mollinary

Correct, give the man a cigar (preferably of the cheap variety  )

Well I am a couple of episodes behind but am enjoying it so far. I am thinking of recreating some of its more idiosyncratic and charming vignettes in 6mm. Someone surely does suitable figures.

Chris

Chris, have a look at Irregular's Piedmontese infantry from their Italian Wars of Liberation range. Here thjey are masquerading as WWI Belgians:

Being in Turkey I cannot watch it on BBC 4:( Weird thing, they let us foreign devils enjoy all the radio stuff, but not the TV stuff. I did watch some of it via Zenmate (shame on me), which I had to get for those phases when the president of this country goes on one of his "no access to facebook-youtube-twitter" etc rampages, but now I cannot proxy being in the UK. Providence is telling me not to commit crimes :p

The metaphysical elements were a bit off, but the battles and the interaction of the modern girl and old man made up for them. Also the actor who plays the metaphysical element guy is a great actor, so meh, I forgive them .

In the pub last night, I learned from a beermat that the Carlsberg brewery was founded in Copenhagen in 1847. So it seems that a year after Danes start drinking a lot of Carlsberg lager, the First Schleswig War breaks out in 1848. I am surprised that no historian of the Schleswig wars has commented on this rather obvious connection. Post hoc ergo propter hoc. Bloody Big Bottles, anyone?

Chris

Bloody Big BATTLES!
https://uk.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/BBB_wargames/info
http://bloodybigbattles.blogspot.co.uk/

PS @Leman: thanks for the tip, but I was thinking of some of the less military, more bucolic interludes. Do Irregular make a 1/300 scale cow?