May I first wish you all a very Happy New Year and all
the very best for 2014.
I have added
another two books to my collection and I would like to thank my family for the
great presents this year.
First was the
Charles Stewart Grant’s book, “Programmed Wargames Scenarios”. It’s
the second book to Scenarios for Wargames which I received last year as a
present but this one has more punch to the battles/scenario’s i.e. campaigns for
Solo and mulitiplayer wargamers.
The book
covers two parts, the first part has 10 attack and defence scenario’s and in
part two we have 8 confrontations and all for different periods.
The second
book which I had was the “Uniforms of
Waterloo” by Philip Haythornwaite.
This starts with a quick summery of the famous battle and then goes into the
three armies at Waterloo with lovely colour plates of the uniforms. I know that
a lot of Napoleonic wargamers like this book but after a quick flick through,
Phil does say that this is what he thinks that the Regiments were wearing on
that day and I see that he has the French cavalry Carabiniers down with white
coats? But again he said that the French uniforms are more difficult to say
what they were wearing as Napoleon had little time to change all of the units uniforms
in time for the campaign.
So we start a
New Year and I hope that I will get my Painting hat on and paint more than I
ever have over the last five years. So keep an eye out as 2015 is now not that
far away.
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