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Intel Dump / Re: Tuesday Newsday! Weekly dump of wargaming news
« Last post by bayonetbrant on May 14, 2024, 04:01:10 PM »Golden Geeks, Minis Pre-Orders, & more ~ #TuesdayNewsday
Stay in the loop with our comprehensive roundup of hobby (and practitioner!) wargaming headlines every #TuesdayNewsday
https://www.armchairdragoons.com/news/tn051424/
this week's new releases:
Stay in the loop with our comprehensive roundup of hobby (and practitioner!) wargaming headlines every #TuesdayNewsday
https://www.armchairdragoons.com/news/tn051424/
this week's new releases:
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Pre-Gunpowder / Re: Field Of Glory: Kingdoms
« Last post by LetsPlayHistory on May 14, 2024, 03:29:45 PM »Peter and I are currently playing the Iberian scenario in multiplayer. My videos are going to be published from tomorrow onwards. They are in german, but I thought I share the playlist nonetheless.
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Pre-Gunpowder / Re: Field Of Glory: Kingdoms
« Last post by Sir Slash on May 14, 2024, 12:00:30 PM »Hey, none of them fit ME, if you know what I mean.... And by that, I mean they're ALL too small. 
But the game does look great and I'm Wishlisting it right now.
But the game does look great and I'm Wishlisting it right now. 24
Pre-Gunpowder / Re: HISPANIA wargame on Gamefound
« Last post by DracoIdeas on May 14, 2024, 04:14:23 AM »With all the Stretch Goals have been unlocked, we enter the last days of the campaign.
Today we want to talk about Tetrarchia, a game also by Miguel Marqués, in which we must to defend Rome from the barbarians that threaten the Empire from all the cardinal points.
https://gamefound.com/en/projects/draco-ideas/hispania/updates/14
Today we want to talk about Tetrarchia, a game also by Miguel Marqués, in which we must to defend Rome from the barbarians that threaten the Empire from all the cardinal points.
https://gamefound.com/en/projects/draco-ideas/hispania/updates/14
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Pre-Gunpowder / Re: Field Of Glory: Kingdoms
« Last post by Metaldog on May 13, 2024, 11:15:00 PM »Damn right. That's a long time to wear a codpiece that doesn't fit.
That explains your winning personality
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Pre-Gunpowder / Re: Field Of Glory: Kingdoms
« Last post by Sir Slash on May 13, 2024, 10:34:29 PM »Damn right. That's a long time to wear a codpiece that doesn't fit. 
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Pre-Gunpowder / Re: Field Of Glory: Kingdoms
« Last post by Gusington on May 13, 2024, 02:48:14 PM »Nice. Been waiting for this for what feels like 800 years.
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Pre-Gunpowder / Field Of Glory: Kingdoms
« Last post by bayonetbrant on May 13, 2024, 02:00:17 PM »First Impressions of Field Of Glory: Kingdoms
Field Of Glory: Kingdoms is a welcome transport ahead in time for the very well-received, eminently-approachable, extremely intuitive Field Of Glory: Empires wargame series
https://wp.me/pae4WL-9bi
Field Of Glory: Kingdoms is a welcome transport ahead in time for the very well-received, eminently-approachable, extremely intuitive Field Of Glory: Empires wargame series
https://wp.me/pae4WL-9bi
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History and Tall Tales / Re: This Day in History
« Last post by besilarius on May 13, 2024, 10:11:00 AM »1264 Three day battle of Lewes begins: Earl Simon de Montfort of Leicester defeats & captures King Henry III of England
1382 Giovanna I Queen Regnant of Naples, having runthrough five husbands and numerous lovers while ruining her country, murdered at 56
1670 Elector Augustus I of Saxony was born, who was also King Augustus II of Poland and Lithuania, known as “The Strong”, with c. 350 children, including Marshal Saxe
1725 Jacques de Mercoyrol de Beaulieu, later Captain, Regiment de Picardie, Brig. Gen., d. 1817
The unreliability of the old smooth bore musket is notorious. As one British observer once observed, " . . . a soldier must be very unfortunate indeed who shall be wounded by a common musket at 150 yards, provided his antagonist aimed at him."
An excellent demonstration of this fact occurred during one battle in the Seven Years' War (1756-1763). It seems that, having routed the enemy, some French troops were pursuing them off the field, which was rather shrouded in gunsmoke, a commonplace of battles using traditional black powder.
One of the French soldiers, Mercoyrol de Beaulieu, imprudently donned the headdress of a fallen Hessian grenadier. At that, about 50 of de Beauliue's comrades, mistaking him for the enemy in the smoke, opened fire, some of them at perhaps not more than 30 paces. Amazingly, de Beaulieu emerged completely unijured, despite a ball that had passed through his coat and another that had clipped his bayonet.
1780. The city of Charleston, S.C., falls to the British when Continental Gen. Benjamin Lincoln surrenders during the American Revolution. Three Continental Navy frigates (Boston, Providence, and Ranger) are captured; and one American frigate (Queen of France) is sunk to prevent capture.
1797 Mutiny in the British Fleet at the Nore (subdued June 16)
1900 Joseph John Rochefort, U.S. naval officer, cryptanalyst. who broke the Japanese code, d. 1976
1941 Charles Henry George Howard, the Earl of Suffolk, his secretary Eileen Beryl Morden, his chauffeur Fred Hards, and five assistants, defusing a bomb
1382 Giovanna I Queen Regnant of Naples, having runthrough five husbands and numerous lovers while ruining her country, murdered at 56
1670 Elector Augustus I of Saxony was born, who was also King Augustus II of Poland and Lithuania, known as “The Strong”, with c. 350 children, including Marshal Saxe
1725 Jacques de Mercoyrol de Beaulieu, later Captain, Regiment de Picardie, Brig. Gen., d. 1817
The unreliability of the old smooth bore musket is notorious. As one British observer once observed, " . . . a soldier must be very unfortunate indeed who shall be wounded by a common musket at 150 yards, provided his antagonist aimed at him."
An excellent demonstration of this fact occurred during one battle in the Seven Years' War (1756-1763). It seems that, having routed the enemy, some French troops were pursuing them off the field, which was rather shrouded in gunsmoke, a commonplace of battles using traditional black powder.
One of the French soldiers, Mercoyrol de Beaulieu, imprudently donned the headdress of a fallen Hessian grenadier. At that, about 50 of de Beauliue's comrades, mistaking him for the enemy in the smoke, opened fire, some of them at perhaps not more than 30 paces. Amazingly, de Beaulieu emerged completely unijured, despite a ball that had passed through his coat and another that had clipped his bayonet.
1780. The city of Charleston, S.C., falls to the British when Continental Gen. Benjamin Lincoln surrenders during the American Revolution. Three Continental Navy frigates (Boston, Providence, and Ranger) are captured; and one American frigate (Queen of France) is sunk to prevent capture.
1797 Mutiny in the British Fleet at the Nore (subdued June 16)
1900 Joseph John Rochefort, U.S. naval officer, cryptanalyst. who broke the Japanese code, d. 1976
1941 Charles Henry George Howard, the Earl of Suffolk, his secretary Eileen Beryl Morden, his chauffeur Fred Hards, and five assistants, defusing a bomb
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Intel Dump / Re: Wargame Design Studio News Thread + Latest Sale Titles
« Last post by rahamy on May 13, 2024, 09:47:00 AM »New Game of the Week announced, the freshly updated Campaign Leipzig! Read all about it in todays blog post:
https://wargameds.com/blogs/news/game-of-the-week-may-13-19
https://wargameds.com/blogs/news/game-of-the-week-may-13-19