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Blind Old Hag  | 18 Feb 2009 12:40 p.m. PST |
I've started a new blog to document the course of my new gaming projects here matt-hmms.blogspot.com I haven't gotten the layout quite right yet but there is some content with more to come. I hope you like it |
| Blind Old Hag | 18 Feb 2009 12:48 p.m. PST |
Speaking of layout, does any experienced blogger know how to arrage the posts in descending order? Or should I keep the newest posts at the top? |
| chuck05 | 18 Feb 2009 1:23 p.m. PST |
You live in Ozaukee too? What else do you game? |
| Blind Old Hag | 18 Feb 2009 1:29 p.m. PST |
It's me… matt. See you on the 28th Sorry, I never told you my TMP monicker. |
 Editor in Chief Bill  | 18 Feb 2009 1:34 p.m. PST |
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| Blind Old Hag | 18 Feb 2009 1:50 p.m. PST |
Hey…that's cool. Yes same one! I don't see it in Hobby News though. NM I see it now. Thanks! |
| French Wargame Holidays | 19 Feb 2009 3:36 a.m. PST |
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| abdul666lw | 22 Feb 2009 6:36 a.m. PST |
Hi Matt,
I really enjoy and appreciate the tone and intent of your new blog. Now, in order to combine the two fields of inspiration behind the two portraits on the left of your blog, what about playing a 'Colonial' campaign in a Lace Wars setting?
'Fictitious' of course -there were 'historical' ones, but quite limited- but 'alternate' History and Imagi-Nations are part and parcel of the 'Old School' tradition of 'tricorn' wargaming since 'Charge!' and 'The War Game'?
Imagine Catherin II sent General Pettygroff to Zululand…
generalpettygree.blogspot.com
(From the newly conquered Pacific shore? Then during the Russo-Japanese war of 1905 the Russians sent their Baltic fleet to the Pacific – to be destroyed at Tsushima, after sinking British fisherboats 'mistaken in the fog for Japanese torpedo boats' ['1905-pattern Japanese torpedo boats off Dogger Bank in the North Sea'! No wonder the first mutiny was in the Navy…]: a Lace Wars Russian expedition to South Africa could equally be sent from the Baltic…) Indeed I feel that two wargaming subgenres 'normally' associated with Victorian times -'Colonial' and 'Steampunk / VSF'- can equally well be set by the mid-18th C. If you already have a 'tricorn' army you just have to build a Zulu, Sudanese, Guinean or Indo-Chinese force to start 'colonizing'. Looking forward to enjoying the developments of your projects and blog,
best regards,
Jean-Louis
aka Louys de Monte-Cristo
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| abdul666lw | 23 Feb 2009 11:51 p.m. PST |
And once you took the plunge into 'alternate' History, what about those lovely Zulus Amazons TMP link ? Those of Obelisk Miniatures appear specially good-looking: link
(on the other hand the Dixon 'Amazons of Dahomey' look like female Orcs). In a similar vein a TMP member (Critter 1, I believe) endvisages a 'rogue Jacobite settlement', maybe not far from the Chefferie of Bongolesia?
After reading reviews of Stirling's 'Dominion of Draka' I toyed with the idea of Huguenot refugees link overwhelming the Dutchs in South Africa and finally founding the Republique de Bonne-Esperance: link |
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