... That's truth you are talking about, not fact. Fact is what actually happened, no matter what is claimed to have happened. Whether or not we know the...
... But Pat's point was that there are no facts _in_history_. The "fact" of the past in your sense is unknowable. What we have instead is evidence. The "fact"...
There were a couple of interesting letters in the last Slingshot about grid-based games, one was from Tony Barr. DBM was mentioned so I'm guessing DBA ia...
Hmmm! Not a solution the UN would approve of I suspect. Luxor ... _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail messages direct to...
From http://www.sas.ac.uk/icls/Roman/britabs.htm " BRITANNIA 32 (2001) Philip Rance: Attacotti, Deisi and Magnus Maximus: the Case for Irish Federates in Late...
... We started with hexes (the 10cm hex boards made by Kallistra) but we are now using 10cm squares - it's reasonably easy to visualise a 1' (30cm) terrain...
Another factor is the number of dependents travelling with the army. More dependents required more food and transports and would compound the supply problem. ...
Doug wrote: There were a couple of interesting letters in the last Slingshot about grid-based games, one was from Tony Barr. DBM was mentioned so I'm guessing...
Hi Tony I'll copy this discussion to Paul Reeve who is currently in hospital after a bit of a relapse following an operation a week or two ago. I have played a...
We are now looking for 2 players to make up a team in the 15mm DBM section at the World Team Championships next week end. A team has dropped out making us...
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Greetings In Armies of the Macedonian and Punic Wars (AMPW) Duncan gives a representation (fig 136) of a 4th century BC light infantryman of which he says...
... The trouble is that as far as I can think of there are no unequivocal illustrations of early light javelinmen in Italy. Gregory Daly's "Cannae" has a new...
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... Of course there are facts in history. That we might not be able to know them does not change this - an e-mail being the only evidence (and it could be a...
Sigh - I really didn't want to get into Philosopy. We can go round in circles all day on this one - I think we both know exactly what we are both talking about...
... My mistake, I assumed you meant history as in reality, not history as in books. squigger My home page - <http://www.hotkey.net.au/~jasonjob> Exterminate!...
... Thanks Tony. I hope he is okay. ... This is pretty much the conclusion I came to, hence my aim to go for the unit per square/hex approach. ... True,...
I meant you have them right there from the advent of horseback riding until the 20th century. Its a comment on the lines of saying Europeans, or Asians. More...
... Guard ... the 'Pat ... channel 4 ! I too have a pet hate in ancient history documentaries. Why on earth do the makers of these programmes think that the...
Oh, that's to try and mask that there are only 3 guys in the shot. No problem with that - when you watch the re-enactors in real life its always quite funny,...