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Saturday, September 28, 2024
Before There were Featherstone, Grant, and Lawford & Young.....
Born and raised in the suburbs of Montreal 7 decades ago. Began playing with toy soldiers at 5 years. Started painting & converting at about 12 yrs and wargaming about 15 yrs. Never really stopped.
5 years in the Black Watch of Canada Cadets, 5 years at the Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean followed by 4 in the navy. 25 years with CPC in IT simultaneous with 23 years running a boarding kennel. Inherited my love of toy soldiers from my mother's father. Married with a pack of litle Italian Greyhounds and a cat. Prematurely retired and enjoying leisure to game, maintaining our 170 yr old farmhouse and just living.
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Good old HG !
ReplyDeleteWell, Well, Wells!
DeleteGood old H G indeed!
ReplyDeleteAlan Tradgardland
Got the hardcover reprint in the same mail order package as Charge! in '72. Never really recovered!
DeleteGood old HG - but crikey! Those spring loaded cannon with original metal shells (and later air rifles? ) might explain some of the round injury holes to old vintage figures (and missing heads etc) when I come to repair damaged job lots of figures.
ReplyDeleteI think the early ones had wooden dowels but in the 20-1st century, my guns are solid plastic so I have to use dice.
DeleteIs there anything to be said for using toothpicks, which would be far more yielding to paintwork?
ReplyDeleteIf I were using spring-fired toy guns, which I'm not, experience says toothpicks usually don't have the mass to knock over figures, even plastic ones (esp on big bases).
DeleteRoss Mac,
ReplyDeleteThis is a great ‘go to’ scenario, especially for play testing rules.
All the best,
Bob
It ended up pretty cramped with terrain, lots of cover, especially on my 5'x5' table.
DeleteHooks Farm is a classic scenario. When I was reading his autobiography and looking at HGWells ‘ childhood area in Bromley it looked to me as if Hooks Farm or Hook might even be based on a real place near Bromley
ReplyDeletehttps://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2021/02/28/the-real-hooks-farm-on-old-maps/
It would not surprise me.
DeleteHmmm.....I think I've seen this scenario before....once or twice.
ReplyDeleteLooking to see how it plays out on your table, sans flying projectiles, of course.
Eric
Of course. Esp if any children over the age of 65 are involved.
DeleteAnother Classic!
ReplyDeleteThe Grand Daddy of them.
DeleteA classic scenario…
ReplyDeleteAll the best. Aly
I almost wished I had a Boater hat.
DeleteAbout 60 years or so ago I lost a battle with my next door neighbour in one of my first wargames firing spring loaded cannon. He had old lead figures, mine were new-fangled plastic that fell over far too easily...
ReplyDeleteThat's the importance of wealth in childhood wargames!
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