Well, with the fun continuing on all fronts, Ian (from Lead from the Front) suggested that we play What A Tanker via webcam. He set up a Discord server for voice and to stream the tabletop. It worked well, with just some hiccups on the voice side. It was a different perspective for me, being almost top-down, but it worked. Ian ably described the folds in the terrain so I could make somewhat reasonable decisions, It’d been a while since I’d played any form of What A Tanker, even longer since I played the regular version (we normally use our House Rules ), but the rules came back quickly. It was good fun and you can see Ian’s blog post here for pictures and the story of my defeat!
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Vimy Ridge
Today, 103 years ago, my grandfather went over the top four times at Vimy Ridge.
Continue reading “Vimy Ridge”Free for Sale!
When I was small, I used to bug my sisters. I was quite good at it in fact. One of the more innocent things I would do would be to offer things for sale. They would ask the price, and I would respond that it was free. They would point out in the weary way of an older sibling, that if it was for sale, it could not be free.
Yet here we are.
I know it’s been shared before, but several people I’ve talked to in the last few days didn’t know that Osprey Publishing has very kindly offered Free eBooks on their website. You have to act like you’re purchasing and then enter the discount code. Then the items for sale become… wait for it… free!
This link is for week 2 of their offer: https://ospreypublishing.com/blog/Free_eBooks_week_2/
If you visit their blog weekly I’m sure you’ll see the forthcoming weeks as well: https://ospreypublishing.com/blog/
Gunpowder and Magic
While I was in my neglected hobby area yesterday to collect some things to entertain my eldest (who is still quite young) I saw something that gave me pause.
