Halifax or Bust

Thursday 25th July 2019 - Halifax Modeller's World

Three purchases:

PSR has yet to review this box.  There are too many 'modern' weapons on display to use them in the colonial period but WW1 in Mesopotamia is a definite maybe.  Can't help feeling that they must have dismounted to shoot, unlike the Hollywood depictions.  Still....they may come into use at some later date.

 Napoleonic Early-Mid French Marching - HaT 8296
http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=2089

Although these troops are only in a marching pose I can see them being of use fighting skirmishes in Egypt or Haiti. 

English Pirates - Orion 72001
http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=283

 DBA-RRR 1.42 Buccaneer - a short, limited and generic list
 In the Files section of  Yahoo Group DBRlist (not DBR_List) is a much more comprehensive (Alternative) Buccaneer list covering English, Dutch & French privateers.
 It should be easy enough to convert.

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Saturday 27th July 2019 - Gt. Houghton

(1)  We started off playing the colonial version of DBN.  This time it was Mahdists v British/Egyptian.  In a game of pure skill I annihilated the imperialist scum.

Three games of DBA v3 followed:

(2)  3.53 East Franks v 3.76 Konstantinian Byzantine - a 4:2 win
(3)  2.66 Early Vandal v 2.64a Middle Imperial Roman - a 5:1 win
(4)  2.11 Gallic v 2.33 Polybian Roman - a 6:2 win

In each of these games my fat was in the fire at one point or another but my superb skills got me out of trouble every time.  These victories had nothing to do with Ian's uncanny ability to throw ones at vital times; the charmed life of certain surrounded elements (including a general) or my, far more than average, 6:1 results.

Sometimes life is just like that!