Ambush Valley and Cold War Gone Hot are the latest additions to the Ambush Alley Games/Osprey line of Force on Force wargaming rules. My wife bought both for me at Crisis 2011 in Antwerp. Ambush Valley is 180 pages in full color. It contains theater-specific rules and six scenarios, but […]
Tom Clancy is of course best known for his Jack Ryan series of novels. He also published a number of non-fiction books describing US military units: Nuclear submarines, Air Force fighter wings, an Armored Cavalry Regiment, a Marine Expeditionary Force, an Airborne division, an aircraft carrier, and Special Forces. I […]
In The Age of Airpower, Martin van Creveld writes about the history and development of airpower. The book is divided into five parts: The beginnings, World War II, the Cold War, smaller wars from 1945 on, and what he calls “war amongst the people”, i.e. counterinsurgency warfare. As such, it […]
Zum Glück wieder ein zweiteiliges Abenteuer – so schloss ich damals meine Rezension von “Das Heiligtum von Gondwana”. Wobei ich das heute relativieren muss, den beim zweiten Lesen ist auch dieses Album, wenn man den Weg als Ziel sieht, durchaus ein würdiger Blake & Mortimer Band. Aber weiter mit den […]
Track planning and articles about track planning usually focus on what could be called the “tactical” aspects, which is mostly the placement of turnouts. In order to create a model railroad that is satisfying to operate, it is just as important to look at a couple of strategic aspects, which […]
[lang_nl]Fender heeft inmiddels een enorm aantal verschillende Stratocaster modellen in zijn aanbod. Deze onderscheiden zich vaak alleen door kleine dingen zoals straal van de toets of de elementen. Dit is een poging om een overzicht van deze kenmerken te maken. Ik heb alleen modellen uit het standaard-gamma opgenomen, geen Custom […]
[lang_nl]Bij het oefenen van gitaarliedjes, vooral solo’s, is alleen naar het liedje luisteren vaak niet genoeg. Je zou waarschijnlijk ook het liedje langzamer willen afspelen, om beter mee te kunnen spelen of uit te kunnen vinden wat er gespeeld wordt; bepaalde delen die je aan het leren bent herhalen; het […]
I photograph in both color and black & white. I do color photography digitally with a Nikon D90, and black & white with film and a Nikon F3. While I’m too lazy to actually develop film myself (and photograph too little on film to make it worthwhile), I do make […]
During the December Ducosim, we played a four-player mini campaign (two battles per player). One of the first battles and the second battle took place in a city. This was the first time we played on my modular 3D terrain, consisting of four styrofoam boards of 60x60cm. Most of the […]
Fender has introduced another Stratocaster model: The Blacktop. Based upon the Mexican Standard series (9.5″ fretboard radius, six-screw vintage tremolo), it features two humbuckers instead of the three single coils. Three colors are available: Black, Candy Apple Red, and Sonic Blue. Both rosewood and maple fretboards are available. The Blacktop […]
The Star Wars universe was somewhat dormant in the early 1990s. It had been eight years since Return of the Jedi, with new material being mostly limited to the source books published by West End Games for the Star Wars roleplaying game. Then, in 1991, came Heir to the Empire, […]
In Street without Joy, Bernard Fall describes and analyses France’s failure in the First Indochina War, focusing on the second half (1950-1954). Based on his personal experiences and thorough research both in French and Vietnamese archives (he met and interviewed Ho Chi Minh during one of his visits to North […]
