Saturday 15tth July 2017 - WDW
Black Powder - ACW
Age of Eagles - Napoleonic - Hohenlinden
Monday 24th July 2017 - WDW
Bolt Action - WW2 - Japanese v Americans
Space Ship Battle - Tim's Rules - searching for pirates in an asteroid belt - encounter another fleet.
Heroes of Normandie - WW2 - boardgame / tile game
DBM - Marian Roman v Pyrrhic - terrain deployment gave the enemy two steep hills in the centre - this severely cramped my style!
My left wing consisted of two commands - cavalry & light horse plus a 'pip sink' (sorry - strategic stike and reconaissance). I was able to clear the slight opposition but couldn't get between the steep hills and our central command.
At close of play a Pyrrhic command was one element away from breaking. Our central command was also in trouble. Yet another draw!!!!
Thursday 27th July 2017
"Conquistadors" by Michael Wood - "The Spanish Explorers and the Discovery of the New World." The story certainly shows what an appalling bunch the Renaissance Spanish were - exploitative, perfidious, land-grabbing and cruel. They destroyed whole civilisations and peoples. Capitalism in the raw.
The last section "El Dorado" concerns not conquest but exploration. The struggles and privations of the journey are well illustrated comparing the modern trek against the historical. Herein also lies a problem - it is sometimes hard to tell when the author is in the present or the past. On tv different voices are often used so it is obvious, to the viewer, which is which. In print the reader has no such auditory clues.
Nevertheless the book is well worth reading if, perhaps, a little lightweight.
"Monsters Inside" features my favourite Doctor of the modern ers (I may have said that before). Only about 30 pages in so a review might be a tad premature!
Plenty more books in the stack plus some academic papers - will it ever end? Well if I hold on long enough somebody else will be reading them to me - I hope the nurse is cute!
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