Campaign Delay / Reading Matters

Despite my best intentions (paving the way to Hell) I didn’t start the Po valley campaign whilst the Margravina was away visiting her ancestral lands. By the Friday I needed a bit of downtime after a busy week. Saturday was taken up with a trek to Cheltenham to see the Mighty Mariners extend their winning streak, and then Tuesday evening saw a similar trip to Colchester with a similar outcome. Both tiring trips by car. Especially the first one as it involved driving back across country in the dark, through narrow, pot-holed lanes, and a long tailback when traffic heading eastwards met a lorry coming the other way with no room to pass.

I fleshed the campaign map out. Still have a few towns to name.

I haven’t been totally inactive on the hobby front though. Santa bought me a few books and I’ve gradually been working my way through them.

Been thinking about getting this for a while. Currently onto the last couple of chapters. Bit of myth busting in it.

Contents for the above.

This was enjoyable. Almost tempted me into a campaign

Couple of booklet sized publications in the waiting pile.

Last but not least, I bought myself this when I discovered the disappearance of an Italian website that had much of this information, and more.

Some of the militia units look interesting, and were pretty effective in some cases. If you fancy a walk on the wild side of the 18th century, some small wars action in the Alps could be engaging.

Lots of lovely plates like this.