The ongoing adventures of a boy who never grew out of making and playing with plastic model kits (and even some metal ones too). Also a wargamer in search of the perfect set of wargaming rules for WWII Land and 20th Century Naval campaigns.
Monday, 6 November 2023
Cold War Era - CNN was prepared for "The End of The World"
Saturday, 20 February 2021
VCOW2021: Errata to the Early Edition - Roche's Pandemic Blues
Mea culpa: In my haste to list the VCOW2021 games I participated in, I made the dreadful oversight of not mentioning Jim Roche's fantastic sing-a-long session where he presented a historical look back at pandemic's through the ages .. accompanied to appropriate music of the ages. I had not previously been to one of Jim's session's at CoW but will be front row for all future sessions!
Music can capture the meaning of an event as equally as wargame can simulate the gunfire, here is a couple of versions of Bruce Springstein (studio and live) singing Mrs McGrady to see what I mean:
Wednesday, 2 October 2019
Classical Gas Acoustic Version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHje3Fh4GJo
Monday, 22 January 2018
Al Stewart - Roads to Moscow (WWII Themed Song for the upcoming Chain of Command Stalingrad Campaign)
https://play.google.com/music/preview/Tho6f6g4o2qliloydh6gcacpysa?lyrics=1&utm_source=google&utm_medium=search&utm_campaign=lyrics&pcampaignid=kp-songlyrics
You Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKE4Y1Us46o
I particularly like this verse from the middle of the song ..
... Two broken Tigers on fire in the night. Flicker their souls to the wind. We wait in the lines for the final approach to begin. It's been almost four years that I've carried a gun. At home it will almost be spring. The flames of the Tigers are lighting the road to Berlin. Ah, quickly we move through the ruins that bow to the ground. The old men and children they send out to face us, they can't slow us down. And all that I ever. Was able to see. The eyes of the city are opening. Now it's the end of the dream ...While I am talking about WWII Eastern Front you have got to check out Service Rations Distribution posts on his Kursk and Stalingrad games:
Kursk
Stalingrad
Bagration
General WW2 Stuff from SRB
Re: Song - I am just showing my age! It also demonstrates the power of the Internet and Google's search engine as I could not remember the title of the song. So I type in "Al Stewart General Guderian". Al Stewart is fair enough but the reference to General Guderian comes from a line in another verse, but it came back with a decent match.
