Horse and Musket Gaming

Ruminations on wargaming, especially the Seven Years War, the English Civil War and other 'black powder' periods. Occasional forays into obscure Nordic music and opinionated 'dribble' [sic] on Grimsby Town Football Club.

Tuesday, 31 March 2020

Collections

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A recent post by Bob Cordery about his hat collection got me reminiscing about the collection of hats I had as a small boy. Not unusually f...

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Friday, 27 March 2020

Panic buying paper products

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I need to stock up given the lockdown we’re now enduring. I haven’t even finished the first of the last two such purchases. I’m sorry, but I...

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Wednesday, 18 March 2020

Retail Therapy

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Fresh from the frustration of attempting to buy rice and/or pasta, I returned home to find two books I'd ordered had arrived. Splend...

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Tuesday, 17 March 2020

Timing Error at Nantwich

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Well I replayed Nantwich with the revised dispositions mentioned in the last post*. Having set the game clock to run for 10 turns (each noti...

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Sunday, 15 March 2020

Nantwich Reprised

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Now I've received and read the Barratt book ( The Battle of Nantwich 1644 , John Barratt, Stuart Press 1994) I've decided to revisit...

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Josef Josef

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I have mentioned before my penchant for obscure music in Nordic languages. This originally started as a lazy way of learning Finnish. We all...

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Monday, 2 March 2020

Weaver Winner

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After my last two sojurns into the 18th century at Soor and Kunserdorf I felt the urge to take down my pike and don my morion. 'But what...

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nundanket: Wargamer since early 70s. Did the usual Airfix stuff as a kid. First love was Napoleonics but developed a fascination with the Seven Years War, initially in 25mm then 6mm. Got back into Naps in 6mm and latterly ECW 10mm.

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