Mark Many thanks. Foreign language books can be a problem through ILL, so I may have to try the British Library, or possibly the NAM will have it, given the...
Botch
mike.blake3@...
Apr 1, 2005 8:55 am
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Hi, After watching "The Searchers" on DVD last week I got interested in doing some Skirmish gaming with Comanches verses Texas Rangers as there are a couple of...
Indeed they did, my Grandfather fought there - but they did it in Palestine, in open desert, NOT X feet in depth of cratered mud on the Western Front. While...
Apologies for a commercial but Don has written to me about some `Colonial' figures he wants to dispose of which may be of interest to group members. They are...
... WWI. That's the thing - see the way I use cavalry in Colonia! is to either get people there quick to hold a spot (dragoons) or to charge some key unit...
I have set up a Yahoo! group site for my Damned Human Race rules at: http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/DamnedHumanRace/ My Colonia! rules are a variant of...
All perfectly true, Ski, we're talking in the same direction. Dragoons, I think, are/were a great idea, particularly for Colonial warfare - which American...
THIS IS AN AUTO-SEND MESSAGE. YOU HAVE NOT DONE ANYTHING WRONG!! Greetings, ColonialWars strips off attachments. If you want to send & receive attachments,...
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Apr 1, 2005 1:39 pm
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Dear Mike, Not answering the commercial but its' subject; I had no idea Don F was still around, let alone gaming. He was the "Guru" who set me off gaming in my...
which American General of the ACW said "Get there fustest with the mostest Forrest is reported to have said this. But as a well educated man, it is doubted by...
I have been reading about the Boer War for a poosible forthcoming battlefiels tour. Several accounts mentio that British cavalry charges were effective...
Ian I certainly will - it did that for a lot of us, me included!. He's 86 and not actively gaming anymore, but still the raconteur! And thank you for the kind...
Botch
mike.blake3@...
Apr 1, 2005 2:51 pm
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Sorry, Allen, all I could remember was it was just before WW2 and that Italy used it as a testbed for their new kit as did the Germans in Spain. A particularly...
Hi In my life, I have lived both in Southern Utah, Northern Arizona, and the Staked Plains and in So.Texas. Grin. John Wayne movies often give me headaches...
Hi Ian I tend to be more charitable on the "fought the last war" idea. I mean, when my wife saw "Glory" with me, she could not understand the carnage, the...
... I don't agree with this. While cavalry may well have been obsolete in the TRENCHES it was still a viable force in pursuit, containing attacks and acting...
Hi, I know what you mean. Growing up in central Kansas, we always got a laugh out of the mountains near "Gunsmoke's" Dodge City. It turns out many of the...
While I was on a roll, I finished another battle report from our Zulu War campaign. We will have another game tomorrow, so there is more to come! You can find...
... "Git thar fustest with the mostest" Nathan Bedford Forrest, Gen. CSA He has a whole bunch of famous grammar letters, some leave you wondering what the heck...
... I think that I can safely ask you to give him a "Hail and Thank You" from all of us as he has in some shape or manner effected a part of each of us. ...
Anyway, while cavalry charges were "obsolete" by WW1, I am sorry, Rocky, but didn't you read my post ? What else to call the action of August 8th, 1918 than a...
What about Cheobartarevsky in 1942? Italian Cavalry with -sabers- running down a Russian rifle regiment? -Alex "It is better to die on your feet than to live...
Don does occasionally drop in at HMGS cons, stateside, or he did in years past. I believe that he was also a subscriber or reader with MWAN until that ...
Actually... Lancers (I believe they were Canadian) made a successful charge on the Western Front in 1918. I believe someone else has mentioned this. Perhaps ...
The gasoline engine made cavalry obsolete, not the machine gun. Granted that cavalry charging MGs and shrapnel firing breech loading artillery frontally is a...
I think we can safely say that, except for unusual or special circumstances, cavalry charges were not effective after the Great War and mostly ineffective on...
Hi All I think the frontal cavalry charge had become an anachronism long before mechanisation. Vehicular transport saw the end of horsed cavalry even in a...
Hi All Does anyone know of an Internet source for British colours (ie the flags) around the time of the Zulu Wars ? I only want reference pictures, not...
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