Having failed to find any kind of reviews online that would give me an idea about the changes between editions, I just bit the bullet and purchased the watermarked PDF of the 2.2 edition of Twilight: 2000 from drivethrurpg ( Read more... )

Between the Normandy anniversary happening this week (sadly going by relatively unnoticed as it happened to also be a numerologically curious date) and my grandmother writing me to inform me that her father's memoriablia of his service in the Coast Guard to a museum on the Cape, I've been reading and thinking a lot about Utah Beach these past ( Read more... )

Coworker Y: "So you're random historical trivia guy?"
Me: "[Gallipoli] isn't 'random historical trivia', it's one of the greatest military disasters of the 20th century."

[disclaimer 1: I didn't actually realize today was ANZAC Day until I happened to see it on Y's Dilbert calendar ( Read more... )

And if I might for a moment trumpet! How much better is this amiable
miniature than the Real Thing! ( Read more... )

note: When one's clock radio comes on unexpectedly at 6:45 on a saturday, blasting a Bach violin solo, it is no less alarming if one happens to be awake and painting than it would be if one had been asleep ( Read more... )

(with apologies to iralith who has already suffered my tedium on this topic ( Read more... )

So i'm painting my three Sherman III's for the Italian campaign ( Read more... )

Actually i think i did figure out the tanks, just not anything else ( Read more... )

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Number of people on my friends list who care about Flames of War: 0

anacrucis: "That's it. I'm not going to sweat getting these [British Rifle Company] dudes painted until I at least know whether they're going to be Welsh or New Zealanders."

iralith: "Maybe you could work some kind of half-New Zealand, half-Welsh, half-Drow thing?"