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Showing posts with label Rome. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rome. Show all posts
Saturday, 16 July 2022

Summer Read: SPQR by Mary Beard

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My latest summer read (or rather listen to, at odd moments of the day such as dog walking and driving in the car) was Mary Beard's SPQR ...
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Monday, 21 February 2022

Looking back at Connections UK 2019 Sabin - Punic War

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While on the subject of things dating back to 2019, I found a couple of photos from the first day of Connections UK 2019 which as I remember...
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Monday, 29 April 2019

Command and Colours: Ancients

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It came to pass, perhaps old hat to everybody else but I have never played it and it seems to be a stalwart of the wargaming community. In f...
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Tuesday, 5 June 2018

Early Imperial Romans WIP Update

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Early Imperial Romans don't look Roman until you give them their shields (see below, the first stage): The plan is to paint up thes...
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Sunday, 15 April 2018

Gone to the Wall .. Hadrian's that is ;)

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Back from a family holiday up North to "The Wall" (but not that of Game of Thrones ilk with the army of the dead behind it) but th...
Saturday, 26 July 2014

DBMM v2 Battle (3): Rome versus Three Kingdoms Chinese (again)

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The broken Roman Barbarians were herded like sheep to their slaughter, in their defense they fought on making sure it was not a bloodless vi...
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Friday, 25 July 2014

DBMM 200 v2 Battle (2): Rome versus Three Kingdoms Chinese (again)

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Still trying to perform a "miracle maneuver" my inner cavalry formed a column to get them away from fighting an infantry battle (w...
Thursday, 24 July 2014

DBMM 200 v2 Battle (1): Rome versus Three Kingdoms Chinese (again)

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Time passed and there was another chance to fight Middle Imperial Rome in DBMM. My Three Kingdom Chinese army once again lined up but this t...
Wednesday, 19 March 2014

Greeks and Romans ... tell me who were these Romans?

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Whenever one reads about the Greeks (lumping Alexander and the Successors all in as one) there always seems to be a few chapters "compa...
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Thursday, 6 March 2014

DBMM Magnesia: Part 3 (The Final Cuts are the Deepest)

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Things that decide battles ... The Roman left flank "although although known as lost" put up a fierce rearguard action. In fact ...
Wednesday, 5 March 2014

DBMM Magnesia: Part 2 (The Deadly Danger of the Short Stabbing Blade)

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The Seleucid general meets his doom. In ways in which I cannot fathom the legion just has to beat (not double) a pike on "their attacki...
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Tuesday, 4 March 2014

DBMM First Battle of Magnesia: Part 1 (Into the Maelstrom)

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Two months into the year (2014) and I finally got an opportunity to play a wargame, A re-fight he First Battle of Magnesia to be precise, Re...
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Friday, 28 February 2014

Rome Total War (The Original One)the DBA Way

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Other things I have been doing: Although computers are my trade I don't get the spare time amongst my other hobbies to sit down and im...
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Friday, 29 November 2013

The Circus Maximus Project: A game or more of a "Frame of Mind?"

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Do you covert the laurel wreath? Will you risk all in search of glory at the games? Not even put off by those horrific crash scenes in Ben H...
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Wednesday, 27 October 2010

End of Ancients Campaign

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Started way back at the beginning of the year the DBMM Ancients Campaign has been officially wound up. The Spanish Ulcer proudly taking its ...
Monday, 19 April 2010

Ancient Campaign Update: Politics and Greek Opportunism

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Rome survives. Offerings of thanksgiving plume their way up to the heavens, the endurance and fortitude of the citizens of Rome conquers (on...
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