April 23, 2008
Just finished a good read: “The Trojan War a New History” by Barry Strauss (ISBN-10 0-7432-6442-8). It’s not a dry history book as the author make the protagonists really come alive. The background of the Trojan War is explained, and a lot of the “nuts and bolts” of the ancient Near East are explored. Watch the movie, then read this!
April 13, 2008
Mike Demana won the Open event. Diceman (!) won the Book IV event. Dave Zecchini won the “Best Painted Army” award. Legions Hobbies also extended 20% off on everything to all attendees, so everyone got loot!
Pics here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23711033@N05/sets/72157604505125802/
April 6, 2008
New pics are up of my Italian Condotta army. These are Mirliton figs painted by Fernando…enjoy!
http://dba.spearhead1944.com/ItCondotta/ItCondotta.htm
March 26, 2008
We will get our new Belgian Tervuren puppy around the second week of April! “Daren” is a Canadian import—will he bark with an accent?
March 11, 2008
Spencer Ginder put these photos up on the web of Larry Chaban and I (Team Stooge) playing <and narrowly winning> versus Spencer and Will Michael (Team CanAm) in the Doubles event.
http://s228.photobucket.com/albums/ee299/gindejs/Cold%20Wars%202008/BBDBA%20CW2008/
Thanks, Spencer!
March 10, 2008
A photo album with captions can be viewed here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23711033@N05/sets/72157604091152571/
March 7, 2008
From the lobby of the Lancaster Host: Twenty players showed up for this running of Horde Wars the day before the convention begins! First place went to John Manning playing Neo-Assyrians with 2 hordes. Second was Jonathan Bostwick with Italian Lombard. John Loy got the “balls” award for killing an element in each of his three games with a horde.
pics will follow.
March 6, 2008
Ok gang, it’s the nite before Cold Wars! Did I pack everything? (Last con I forgot our triple army for teams!) Hopefully I’ll be able to blog from the site with updated results for the events. Larry Chaban and I are running the first event…Horde Wars at Cold War Thursday nite. Hopefully I’ll post some pics too. See ya in Lancaster!!
February 20, 2008
Newest pictures addition to the website is II/79b Chinese Southern Dynasty. You can see them here:
February 17, 2008
At the regular Friday nite game session this week, Keith ran a small Zulu Wars game using The Flame and the Sword rules. I, of course was the lone “plucky British Sawjeant” who was tasked with defending the farmhouse and well from those evil savages. Noted Anglophile that I am meant this was a no-brainer, and the other guys (Neal, Larry, and Keith) began honing their assegais to razor sharpness. At first attempt to shoot, I was slightly out of range (24″ in these rules), but Larry C. taunted me with a special rule for this time only..the “you couldn’t hit an elephant at this range” rule: if I rolled boxcars I could kill/wound one of his Zulus. Of COURSE I rolled two sixes with my brand spankin new .577/450 Martini-Henry!! 
The rest of the game went as normal, though…not enough shots from the Brits to stop the orcs (uh..Zulus) from the human wave attack. Sjt. Baier is defeated!
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Mike Demana is crowned!
