Exiled to St Helena

Started by John Watson, May 15, 2021, 12:45:57 PM

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John Watson

Imagine you have just lost the last battle of a campaign and everyone is sick and tired of your antics. Result: go and spend the rest of your life on St Helena and this time don't even think about coming back.
OK just so you don't get bored you can take the following with you:-
your 5 favourite military themed books (non fiction or fiction)
your 5 favourite war-games forces/armies (specify the ruleset used)
your 5 favourite boardgames (not necessarily war themed)
I'm not including films as they've been done before.

What would you choose?

John

Wardy64


sukhe_bator (Neil)

Books
Armies in the Sand (non fiction) by G Sabini
Blood and Sand (fiction) by Rosemary Sutcliff, about the War in Arabia in 1811-15 and the first Scot ever to become Governor of Medina.
Colonel Alexander Gardner, by Maj. H Pearse (non fiction) about 'Gornar Sahib' and the Sikh kingdom.
Swords for Hire, European Mercenaries in C18 India, by Shelford Bidwell (non fiction) about De Boigne, Perron, Geo. Thomas etc.
and finally
Churchill's Secret War with Lenin, by David Wright (non fiction) the fascination story behind allied intervention in Soviet Russia
Armies
Mongolian Civil War/White Russian 15mm (1920) - 'Triumph of the Will' TwoFatLardies
Feudal Spanish 15mm - DBM
Turko-Egyptian/Wahhabi 15mm - DB* black powder ed.
Haradrim 25mm - Armies of Arcana/Dragon Rampant
ASOIAF The Riverlands 25mm - Lion/Dragon Rampant
Boardgames - I was never much into them...
Samurai (Avalon Hill 1980)
Car Wars (Steve Jackson Games)
Railway Rivals (GW)

Big Mike

Books.
D-Day Spearhead Brigade by C Jary
Plus any of A Beevor's WW2 books

Armies.
PBI; British Airborne or Dutch KNIL
ECW; early war Royalist
Longships; Saxons
MOCB; Australians
Bayonets and Idiology; Assault Guards.

Boardgames.
Command and Colors - Napoleonic
Risk
Settlers
Mine A Million
Scotland Yard

Mike



Sean Clark

This is a mean thing to do John. Quite apart from exile, I have to take an odd number of armies  ;D

Books

The Battle for Spain by Beevor
Landscape Turned Red by Sears (Antietam)
The Second World War by Beevor
Somme - Into the Breach by Montifiore
Vietnam - Hastings

Wargames
I'm going to break the rules. That's why they are there, right?

Vietnam Men of Company B - US and VC
Civil War Battles - Union and Reb (!)
Square Bashing - early war British and German
Bloody Barons - Lancaster and York (!)
Bayonets and Ideology - Anarchists and Nationalists

Boardgames

Also not a great player of boardgames, but...
Car Wars
Dungeon Saga
Hellboy
Kingmaker
Advanced Squad Leader.

I'd have to hope that the exile was for many years if I was to learn to play Advanced Squad Leader.

What a very tough challenge, and sorry for breaking the rules.

John Watson

Books
Afrika Korps by Kenneth Macksey
A Bridge Too Far by Cornelius Ryan
To War With Wellington by Peter Snow
Patton Ordeal and Triumph by Ladislas Farago
1812 by Adam Zamoyski

Games

Flamme Rouge
Pandemic
Lincoln by Martin Wallace
Afrika Korps by Avalon Hill
Snowdonia by Tony Boydell

Armies
Vikings 25mm WRG 6th Edition
Union 15mm CWB
Confederate 15mm CWB
Late War Germans 15mm PBI
Late War British 15mm PBI

John

martin goddard

#6
Thank you for asking me.

The armies are a bit egotistical I know (sorry)  :-[



your 5 favourite military themed books (non fiction or fiction)
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1. Photo history of WW1 by Haythornthwaite. Lots of info and original pictures. Every page is interesting to me.
2. ACW picture book by Don Troiani  Every picture has so much detail worthy of long  viewing

3. Battle by Charles Grant  Blast from the past
4. Encyclopaedia of Military history  by Dupuy and another Dupuy   Most stuff is there along with some great insights. Wonderful.
5. Auxilia of the Roman army by Cheeseman   An odd choice, but really interesting.


your 5 favourite war-games forces/armies (specify the ruleset used)
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1. Viking army for LONGSHIPS
2. PBI LW British army with stiff upper lip officers. Like infantry fights. PBI 2020
3.Pirtae land raid force. I can play this game quickly and can remain sitting. POE land raid
4. Pirate ships for 1/450th Pieces of EIGHT. I like sailing ship fights and the look of them too.
5. Mexican southern rebel army for FM. Because it is my current obsession.


your 5 favourite boardgames (not necessarily war themed)

Not sure




martin :)

Leman (Andy)

Books:
The Gettysburg Companion by Mark Adkin
The Killer Angels
The Art of War in Italy 1494 - 1529 by F L Taylor
The Wars of the Roses by John Gillingham
The Debacle by Emile Zola

Forces and rules:
Wars of the Roses - Bloody Barons 2
Italian Wars - Milan v. Venice - Furioso
ACW - Black Powder
Franco-Prussian - Walter Schnaffs
Belgian/German WWI - Square Bashing

Board Games:
Princes of the Renaissance
Carcassone
Battle of the Little Big Horn
Camelot
Railroader

martin goddard

Andy
is that Battle of the little big horn the one with the plastic figures by Waddington's?
If so, Stewart has a copy and we played it a couple of years ago.
I lost very game.


martin :-[

Sean Clark

Crikey that takes me back. Stewart must bring it along to the Weekender for after the serious gaming.

Leman (Andy)

Yes that's the one. I played it dozens of times in the 60s. The Sioux won every game bar one.