Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Sitrep Hex and Violence Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerThis isn’t quite a history for the War 1812, though it lies behind much of the book. Taylor starts by pointing out that Britain maintained that a subject was created by birth (inside the Empire), and nothing could remove that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Augustan Rome, without Augustus. That is, he is conveniently out of town for the entirety of the novel, which involves portions of Roman high society and government. And we do have a number of historical people here, I think including[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Tom Holland’s third book on the history of Rome picks up with the end of Nero’s reign (65 CE). This is the start of four chapters labeled “War”. Now, there’s various problems, certainly including Nero himself, but there’s no war.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Murray Dahm bucks the general organization of Osprey’s Campaign series with this book on the Battle of Leuctra. Notably, main section does not give one big description of the course of the battle; instead we get a fairly brief version[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Island No. 10 is a campaign you’ll occasionally hear about in the ACW, but not one that ever really gets to be the focus of the action. There’s a few reasons for this, I imagine. It’s in the West. The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The second volume of Osprey’s look at castles of the Teutonic Knights deals with Livonia, and actually covers activities before the Knights got involved. Namely the stone castle of Uexkull is built around 1185 to support the first bishop of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a decent book with good high concept. However, it did not entirely grab me. The major problem is that Sears is trying to keep track of nearly everyone in the Army of the Potomac from brigadier general on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As a crusading force moving into hostile lands, castles were essential for the Teutonic Order’s survival in Prussia. Undeveloped and swampy, there was only a limited amount of stone available, which all went to building foundations. Naturally, early castles were[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, lets just start with the fact that this far from the most engaging book I’ve read. It is by no means poorly-written, and it is well organized and presented. But, I’m no hurry to go through it all again.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This volume is a little different than most Osprey Campaign books, because it’s really about more than one campaign. In some senses it’s even about more than one war. But only in fairly limited senses. Mostly, this is about one[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…