| Mark Plant | 04 Apr 2021 4:39 p.m. PST |
I've added some new stuff to my website: link Mostly some history of various battles and campaigns. |
79thPA  | 04 Apr 2021 5:21 p.m. PST |
Thanks, Mark. Your knowledge of the period, and your willingness to share is appreciated by many. |
| Texaswalker | 05 Apr 2021 7:45 a.m. PST |
Never seen your website before, but I've bookmarked it now, some really great info there, thank you. |
| mghFond | 05 Apr 2021 8:52 a.m. PST |
Always enjoyed that website, good to know there is new stuff for me to look at. Thanks! |
| Mike O | 08 Apr 2021 4:10 a.m. PST |
Great to see your excellent site updated! |
| Hoft1949 | 19 May 2021 8:37 a.m. PST |
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| Mark Plant | 19 May 2021 1:52 p.m. PST |
Sorry, after 15 years with my hosting service I'm having to shift. They got bought out by a media company a couple of years back and their service has turned to %$#@! They are so %$#@ that I am having issues with them transferring my domain name. It can still be found at link for the time being |
| Mike O | 23 May 2021 4:59 p.m. PST |
Hi Mark, Great to see your updates. Here you mention the "M" word but couldn't find much in the new content:
link I won't but just wondered if you had got hold of the Colin Darch book?
colindarch.info/index.php |
| Mark Plant | 23 May 2021 5:12 p.m. PST |
Mike, the Makhno stuff is in the history of the Simferopol Officers Regiment. They were the unit that was rolled over at Peregenovka by Makhno and there is quite a lot of detail about what happened from their side. Since there was no-one to write about the Makhnovist side of that battle it is the best we will get. I'm hesitating whether to the buy the Darch book. I doubt it has anything more on the military side of things compared to his thesis. There's a lot of interest in Makhno, but not much of it is about the military side. |
| Mike O | 23 May 2021 7:41 p.m. PST |
Mark, any chance of providing a direct link to the Simferopol article because I just can't find it but then I'm getting old (aren't we all haha!) I did find this Russian language page on the Simferopol Officers Regiment a while back which I ran through translation sites… link |
| Mark Plant | 23 May 2021 10:25 p.m. PST |
Heh! I uploaded it, but didn't put the link. That is why you couldn't find it. Try this: link It is the same text as that site. |
| Mike O | 23 May 2021 11:27 p.m. PST |
Thanks Mark, I guess there are still site problems as "The Simferopol Officer Regiment's Battles in the Ukraine" article is coming up as unavailable for me currently pygmywars.com/404.html |
| Mark Plant | 24 May 2021 3:02 a.m. PST |
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| Mike O | 24 May 2021 7:32 a.m. PST |
Working good for me now and a great translation – plus so much better than trying to navigate through that Russian site! |
| Alexander Kutepov | 25 May 2021 7:58 p.m. PST |
Let us hope that you will find a more permanent online location for your sight that has much to offer those of us who have an interest in this often forgotten period. |
| Mike O | 05 Jun 2021 2:45 a.m. PST |
There's a lot of interest in Makhno, but not much of it is about the military side. Have you read the stuff put together by Marja Erwin as part of their research for what was originally a revamp of the old 70s "Tatchanka" boardgame but later changed into a whole new game? Some amazing research on the wildy confusing changes in military organisation by all sides: link
link
link Marja also created a Peregenovka scenario for the old Panzerblitz boardgame with a revised set of rules
("InfantrieBlitz") which can be found in one of these threads (unfortunately consimworld is a frustratingly badly
organised site): link
Now I don't play hex-and-counter boargames but some of the research that goes into them is quite outstanding.
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| Mark Plant | 05 Jun 2021 2:10 p.m. PST |
Thanks, Mike. I have linked that research for the new revision of Pygmy Wars – it is good stuff. If there's one area of the RCW that does my head in, it is the Ukraine in 1919. |
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