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death row bruschetta tagliatelle al ragu polenta e brasato pesche all amaretto amaretto peaches 11 fantasy relationship and why isabelle adjani 12 if your life were a movie who would play you harrison ford 13 favorite comic superhero never been into comics but the italian comic strip nick carter was good 14 favorite military quote amateurs study tactics professionals study logistics 15 historical destination to visit one day i d love to visit adowa and rorke s drift in the not so distant future i hope it will be austerlitz but in two weeks it might be rossbach 16 biggest wargaming regret missing a dinner with sam mustafa bob jones and a bunch of friends at historicon 2011 17 favorite fantasy job general manager at the metropolitan opera 18 favorite song top 5 may i list five operas instead rigoletto donna del lago norma lucia di lammermoor rosenkavalier tancredi i cheated again those are six 19 favorite wargaming moment as a teenager fighting a somewhat fictional invansion of poland circa 1930 with germans facing polish and french troops when a rather fortunate artillery blast wiped out the allied hq during a visit of the political authorities to the front lines bringing the 6 month campaign to a sudden end 20 the miserable git question what upsets you in wargaming igo ugo games rules that require 2 000 miniatures per side to fight a medium side battle sequences of play running three pages long long lists of modifiers posted by destofante at 11 57 am 0 comments labels about us daily life friday august 10 2012 cleaning up and updating links old and new during my unfortunately long time away from posting i have continued to take advantage of my blog as a starting point both to visit other blogs thanks to the blog list on the side bar and to enter my favorite wargaming website also lined up on the side bar under wargaming links a little bit further down the page over time though websites come and go and today i realized it was time to look for some updates and do some cleaning up a few links have changed and i took care of them most notably piquet products are now available at http www piquetwargames com alas i also have to deal with the sad disappearances of two of my favorite sites major general tremorden redding has gone for a while but i cannot help myself to erase it from my list as for my memory it is very much unerasable as it was probably the most inspiring website on colonial wargaming that ever showed up on the internet likewise ak 47 ztum setum is gone another truly inspiring website for modern african civil wars in peter pig s ak 47 style a ruleset that came to define a whole genre of miniature gaming in fact these website are gone but not entirely lost as much of their information can still be consulted via the internet archive wayback machine for this reason i will add a special section to the side bar labelled wayback machine and transfer there the links to those lost websites posted by destofante at 9 25 am 1 comments thursday august 9 2012 where is melik as many of you i have a fascination for victorian gunboats i am ashamed to confess that i have yet to deploy one on my gaming table but i have been anticipating that moment for quite literally years a long time ago i bought a colonial gunboat steamer from the old glory shipyard which i have been in the process of building for too many moons now on my shopping list i also have the paper gunboats from the virtual armchair general which in fact i d rather build in balsa wood when their time will come this morning i found myself with a watering mouth by reading some recent posts by bob cordery on the victorian and edwardian royal navy i took his opportunity to revisit the website of the melik society an indefatigable group that promotes the preservation of the historic gunboat melik which followed kitchener to khartoum in 1898 i remeber first visiting this site some years back and falling in love with the mission and the passion of the organization i also remember wondering where is melik today well where is she the website mentions that melik now sits on a sand berth at the blue nile sailing club in khartoum and the information sent me on a virtual tour of the blue nile river banks in the sudanese capital after a thorough exploration of the area by satellite imagery thanks to google earth and some additional verification based on the existing pictures of melik like this one found on flickr i think i have located the gunboat the blue nile sailing club is rather obviously on the blue nile on the left bank immediately before the al mk nemer bridge downtown khartoum in this google earth snapshot i circle the area in red if you want and locate it yourself zooming in further and with some help from the additional sources you can somewhat easily locate the club and the profile of melik mostly hidden by the surrounding vegetation as clearly shown in the flickr picture again i took a snapshot and highlighted with another red circle here so here she is our and kitchener s old good friend melik i am very grateful for the preservation work of the melik society and who knows maybe one day when the political situation will become less tense there will be an opportunioty to travel to khartoum and visit the boat in person for the time being we ll make it with our traveling dreams our toy models google earth and for those really inclined to paper modeling with the beautiful model offered by the paper shipwright posted by destofante at 10 29 am 1 comments labels colonial maps wednesday august 8 2012 roses for the minden regiments it may take a little longer to complete my battle report from historicon but here a fascinating news item that has fascinated me i had an exchange with the british consulate general here in chicago earlier today and the public affairs officer kindly confirmed me of a tradition still alive to this day every year since 1967 six red roses have been anonymously delivered to the british consulate on 1 august anniversary of the battle of minden in 1759 a note that comes with the roses lists the six british regiments that fought in the battle and says they advanced through rose gardens to the battleground and decorated their tricorne hats and grenadier caps with the emblem of england these regiments celebrate minden day still and all wear roses in their caps on this anniversary in memory of their ancestors the identity of the donor remains a mystery it s not me for more information wikipedia has a good entry on the battle isn t it neat roses delivered to the consulate for forty five years needless to say i am now thinking to add the minden six to my syw british regiments posted by destofante at 9 04 am 1 comments labels age of reason syw tuesday july 24 2012 historicon i spent last weekend in fredericksburg va to attend the mothership of all the miniature wargaming conventions historicon i had missed the meeting one year ago so i was somewhat eager to join back the fray and what a great time i had it was real pleasure to meet old friends make new ones playing one game or two and did some financial damage at the vendors hall in wargamers fora there was some apprehension about the new location south of the beltway and away from historicon traditional pennsylvania s grounds well the new location worked very well for me it was an easy flight in and out washington dulles airport and a relatively easy drive from the airport to fredericksburg on friday and back on sunday some traffic on i 95 on friday but i still made the 55 miles or so in about 1h 15min i stayed at a best western about 10min drive from the fredericksburg expo site of the convention the hotel was simple clean functional and 75 per night the drive to the expo was a short trip across a busy mall area which incidentally offers many diverse dining options the expo itself is a large and functional structure with plenty of space for game tables and an adequate dealers hall food options on site were fine what you would expect in a convention center many people loved the opportunity to walk to a wegmans across the street from the expo i didn t but apparently the large store had much to offer for food and drinks some people complained about the noise and din in the large gaming space it was a mild annoyance but not a major problem for me the only complain would be the bathrooms too few and not serviced during the day so that by night time they were in precarious conditions this is something that can be fixed next year attendance was good in my opinion but it is hard to gauge it in a very different space if you have eight cramped rooms with six games each you have a very busy convention if you have 60 games in one large space that can accommodate for 100 of them you are showing 25 more games and yet the space may feel somewhat less busy than in the former case it will be interesting to hear the report on attendance by hmgs east by what i heard vendors were generally happy about sales and traffic and i have yet to hear one comment by anyone dealers or players who suffered a completely negative experience grades on tmp range from a to b with mine at a a in my opinion there was a good variety of games with a little bit for every taste from the large organized tournaments for ancient and fow not my cup of tea to medieval napoleonics colonial extravaganzas and so on up to wwii post war and contemporary force on force games both naval and aerial games were also well represented and easy to locate here s some pictures from random tables that caught my eye as for my frolicking i did some shopping but i successfully resisted any major splurge i bought some jr miniatures buildings 15mm from the prussia range that will look very nice around saxe pape i bought a few bags of 15mm blue moon minis from the dark africa range i brought home mark fastoso s scenario booklet for the boxer rebellion seymour s relief expedition i bought trees and palms and the pontoon bridge by paper terrain plus two other nice bridges that will come handy in the future that s pretty much it to be fully honest conventions aren t anymore great shopping attractions if you are mostly in 15mm as i am minifigs was never big at shows and the american branch of operations is now gone essex has a distributor who doesn t take anything past marlburians to the convention qrf wasn t available i even forgot who was their historicon seller in the past old glory 15 stopped attending a couple of years ago the only reliable option remains peter pig thanks to the participation of brookhurst hobby from california on net at least for me historicon is less and less about buying figures as for the games the one i fully participated and enjoyed was a tanga esque pick up battle courtesy of a bunch of good friends rob c fred a tim c iain b since i have good pictures from that evening i will write a more complete aar on that affairs in the coming days for the time being here a few shots to whet your appetite all in all historicon was a great experience as usual a wonderful opportunity to meet friends and a fantastic way to rekindle my love affair with the hobby posted by destofante at 3 26 pm 3 comments labels conventions thursday july 19 2012 count down to historicon and some previews on saxe pape if all goes well tomorrow by this time in the morning i will be at historicon in fredericksburg va having missed the show one year ago i am really looking forward to reconnect with friends do some shopping and hopefully join a few games as my usual i am showing up at the convention without much of a plan i have no pressing need to purchase miniatures or rules and one of my favorite hobby bookstore on military matters is not going to attend this year thus i think i may be aiming to some terrain pieces or other target of opportunities a dangerous spot to be as there is nothing like a wargamer abandoning himself to impulse shopping in the meanwhile i spent the last couple of days doing some work on my revamped imagination i set up a specific blog shhh it s still a secret but you can look at the layout and an introductory post right here at the chronicles of saxe pape by the way when the time will come for the official launch could anyone suggest how to have saxe pape included in the emperor vs elector blog at the moment i am doing some background work of the personalities of my imaginations comprehensive of family trees and individual attributes i became a little apprehensive about finding proper names but as usual wikipedia proved to be an invaluable resource would you have imagined that somebody make the efforts to provide a comprehensive list of hessian consorts with a little of research on the history of minor german principalities and their ruling families it is really not that difficult to come up with many splendid ideas for an imagination going forward my plan is to review and post the introduction and historical background on saxe pape to complete the work on personalities and ruling families in saxe pape and post brief introductions about the leading characters to finish and post the official map of alte saxe to take pictures pictures pictures for the blogs don t we all love eye candies and last but not least to complete the painting of enough miniatures to fight a first battle sometimes before the end of the summer with those thoughts off to historicon if computer connection will allow i wouldn t mind to post from the convention but do not hold your breath if i fail to return to these columns until sunday posted by destofante at 9 33 am 3 comments labels conventions saxe pape tuesday july 17 2012 cosmetic change and blue moon fort zinderneuf maybe i am getting old maybe my sight is weakening but as i returned to this blog yesterday i felt dissatisfied with its look light characters over dark background do not make it anymore for me i find the combination very tiresome on my eyes hence the decision to switch to black and dark grey for the text and off white for the background any better it seems so to me but i will take your recommendations if you feel strongly one way or another on wargaming matters perfectly timed for release at historicon blue moon is now offering a french foreign legion range which includes an impressive fort zinderneuf link we should congratulate blue moon for a very active expansion of their 15mm ranges too many to mention here but three muskeeters and dark africa stand out as interesting niches that were missing at this scale many of their packages can also be useful to add color and character to other periods i am thinking of the fiw awi civilian sets as for myself i think the dark africa range is something i will consider in the near future to add to my colonial collections and a fort zinderneuf has been in my wishlist for quite some time now as i have in a box somewhere a small collection of ffl and arabs figures from stone mountain maybe as i will take a break from the placid 18th century german countryside i will finally get into som...