Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories Fantasy Cafe Lynn’s Book Blog Sitrep Hex and Violence Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerThis is basically three works under one cover, as the sections on the three most well-known Confederate Ranger leaders are all independent of each other. There’s no general section on rangers, or their employment by less-successful leaders to tie things[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It is difficult for a general history to maintain a central thesis and remain informative, and be entertaining. One of Catton’s gifts is that he does it quite well here. Terrible Swift Sword picks up in the immediate aftermath of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a 1925 book. I got it for cheap at one point through Diversion Books, but it’s available through Project Gutenberg as well. In fact, the latter appears to be in better shape, with proper linking to footnotes, which[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s hard to say there’s too many books about Abraham Lincoln, but there certainly are an awful lot of them. Doris Kearns Goodwin manages a slight of hand to emerge from the pack by spreading her net to the four[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you read up on the start of the Civil War, you will doubtless come across the fact that Lincoln ended up sneaking into Washington DC before his inauguration. This is after he is presented evidence that an attempt will[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Bruce Catton’s centennial history of the ACW makes certain to go into some background. The opening act is the Democratic National Convention in 1860. Place: Charleston, South Carolina. Favored Candidate: Stephen Douglas. However, there’s a wing of the party that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Fletcher Pratt is known to the SF&F community as the coauthor of the “Harold Shea” series (he did others, both with L. Sprague deCamp and alone, but those left a lasting impression). He is also known to wargamers as running[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After trying A Most Dangerous Time, Mark and I turned our attention to the recent Rebel Fury from GMT. We picked the Wilderness scenario, since that’s always been an interesting battle, and I’ve tended to gravitate to it for the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mark’s suggestion for our next Sunday game was more GCACW, and after looking over various suggestions, I picked a scenario from the recent reprint of On To Richmond, dealing with part of the Seven Days’ Battles. This one deals with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While I was down visiting my parents, I did a lot of gaming with my Dad. As has been usual with us lately, most of that was in Stellaris (we got some testing of the new 3.6 patch in), but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…