At least for now, I think I've pretty much nailed the mast-building issue. I decided to sand the green paint off of the 22ga wire, becuase none of the stores...
Hi Dan, Unfortuantely the mails are coming in from outside the group, so it's Yahoo that is getting hacked. It seems like the best way to handle it at this...
Digest should be OK as the attachments will not attach :-) Also, I think you have the settings for regular messages to strip attachments anyway ... if not, you...
Yes, the admin is set to strip out attachments, but I've never used the Digest feature, so I wasn't sure whether or not it did the same there. So far I've...
Hello everyone, I am new to the list. I am creating my own terrain for trench warfare. I am searching for information on the design of trenches for various...
... for ... Osprey might have some good materials on the trench systems. They Published a book about the evolution of World War One trench warfare. Here's a...
Hi Jean, I do have a scan of a large, old army map showing a trench system in France. This is a drawing of an actual trench network, not an "example" diagram....
It has been a while since I gave a general update on WTJ rules, so it seemed like a good time to post a few "short" notes... (sit down and grab a can). ...
One of the best descriptions of trench systems and their tactical use I have come across is in the rulesset "No Man's Land". It also describes the tactical use...
A new batch of 1/3000 pre-dreadnought castings has arrived and been posted to game shop 1 along with sample photos of each. The list of ships includes...
Hi Jim, And I am still travelling (having been away since 3 March and not back until 28 April at the earliest - in that time doing Korea (3 times), Vietnam ...
Remember the Maine ! Regards, Luc. From: Ian Thompson To: wtj_wargames@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 1:42 PM Subject: RE: [wtj_wargames]...
Hi Ricardo, Good timing! :) I just posted another set of updates for the Battlefleet 1900 3.0 beta version. This one relates mostly to the creation of...
The Maine is already built, but embarrassingly I ran out of stock on that and three other items very quickly. That happened because in the first run of...
Thanks - it has all come flooding back to me again in a sweeping wave of memory :-) Cheers, Thomo the Lost Thomo's new Hole: http://thomo.coldie.net/ Mobile:...
Hi Jim, Its Lee here. I have a few queries regarding the Spanish(surprise surprise) and there place in Republique. Firstly it occurs to me that the Spanish had...
Hi Lee, ... I don't think you would want to give one to each, but maybe to 1/4 or less of the guerilla units, limited to one marker per unit, and even then not...
Has anyone here ever had a chance to use the Newberry Library in Chicago? I hear they have a wonderful Napoleonic collection and was wondering if it was worth...
I looked at their on-line catalog and checked for a few test titles, none of which they seemed to have. However, there is a note that only 20% of the...
I've received a few messages askign about V-Con... This may be a bit premature, but it has to start at some point. Why not now? Help grow the hobby, join...
We tried our the Beta Admirality, and liked it. Especially the British player. My friend n I ran the French, MAN the crew quality is important! I had D...
While you are learning the game, I would recommend using crew grades no more than one level apart. A "D" grade crew is really quite poor. And of course an "A"...
Well hell Jim, that was all very eloquently put.... and thoroughly squished my suggestions. So the results are: Jim - 1 Lee - didnt!!! Good points, thanks for...
One thing we noticed was the difficulty to keep a line with varius ship sizes. Just between "large" (a diffrent term was used in the rules that escapes me...
The reviews are new, not the books. Still, for my $0.02 on these books head over to: www.deepfriedhappymice.com/html/reviews.html The Peninsular War: Aspects...
There is a bit of a story behind this. When I was writing the rules I originally intended to include different station keeping features. There was even a...
I've been running a series of "experiments" to test out some ideas I had for the standard version of Battlefleet 1900. The main decision I've come to relates...