Happy Sunday Backstagers, CoGs and OTTers!
Does anyone know why my profile pic has suddenly changed?

Some places are better preserved than others for battlefields. It would definitely be an emotional experience to see places that were remembered but despite the best database there are locales which only live on in the hearts and minds of those who were there.

Not exactly a ‘battleground’, but visiting Concentrationcamp Vught was an interesting experience. Seeing what a replica of one of the barracks in real life and hearing the stories from that place … let’s just say that afterwards you’re going to need some time to recover. Overloon museum. Build on the battlegrounds in 1946. Probably the first dedicated WW2 museum. Not much left to see of the original site itself (pretty much the entire village got destroyed) except a tiny bunker with a plaque that mentioned who had died there (I think they were from the original 1940 invasion and not… Read more »

John’s point about emotions I agree with. Visiting Rorkes Drift helped with creating a more accurate gaming board after looking at the topography of the slight ridge they built the defences on. But it was isandlwana that really got me. The Zulu guide was great and the piles of white stones indicating the graves of British soldiers who were buried where they died clearly shows the many last stands. Made me think that there must have been a point in the battle where each red coated soldier must have realised they were all going to die. Far more emotional than… Read more »

Been around a lot of WW1 Western Front but still lots to get yo. Verdun is still on the bucket list

@johnlyons Your right about France. It does change from town to town The first time we went to Villers-Bretonneux we wanted to go to the museum but being a Monday it was closed. Went to a chemist to get Paracetamol and asked about the museum and when the assistant realising my wife was from Australia she ran off and got the mayor to open the museum up for us

I think John hit it on the head when he said they were more a destination of the soul rather than geography. When I was a child I went to Culladon, and it meant sod all to me. It was just a field. The history and the battle meant nothing to me, and thus this damp field in Scotland meant nothing as well. Stanford Bridge on the other hand really resonated as I loved viking even back then, and I could picture it in my mind. Years ago, I worked on a project surveying Towton, which was an emitional roller… Read more »

Interesting discussion, the issue in the UK about preservation, is we have so many places and items of historical interest, that only a certain amount of things can be preserved. Interest in battlefields is also a bit of a niche interest in the UK, most people would prefer to look around a house of historical interest then walk around an empty field.

The boobies bit was hilarious, but come on they are figures… Would you cover up an ancient greek statue 🤦🏻‍♂️

Happy Sunday.
That historical map would make a good Map Men episode.
Also Ben’s NSFW project is pretty tame compared to what we sometimes see in house of water (#besthouse), lol.

Happy Sunday! Of notable battlefields, I’ve visited Normandy and Monte Cassino. Normany was very much the emotional experience John also described. We weren’t there for any specific anniversary, yet it’s entirely possible to immerse yourself into it. I read lot of books and articles and connected the places to the events, many of the small and big museums really give the individual person perspective how it would have been there during and after the landings. Monte Cassino was a great experience as well. We had a small group tour with an Italian historian taking us to key locations. If somebody’s… Read more »

00:00 Sunday. I found a tick in my hobby space! Flocking fucks. 00:30 MAY! 4TH! soon! 03:00 No summer! No! Bad summer! 04:15 Hitting b*tches in France? You naughty man! 07:15 Battlefield tours is a nice idea but Disneyland Paris Star Wars stuff doesn’t really count or work. Does it? XD 30:30 So it’s not just the British Museum nicking stuff it’s @brennon family too? XD 32:00 Battlefield-curious sounds… naughty. 35:45 quick peek: nothing happened in my region ever. All very quiet. Nothing to see, please move along. 37:45 booking? I’ll be happily sitting at home. 39:20 BOOOOBIES! 43:30 semen… Read more »

I’ve done a lot of Canadian battlefield tours, both in Canada, and in Europe. Almost all of them have been self-supported, meaning I plan them and research them, and see what I want. My most adventurous was following the D-Day Juno Beach to Falaise route of ‘B’ Sqn, The Fort Garry Horse, in fall of 2016. 100km on foot, 25km a day. That was awesome. At Juno, when a French group realized I was a former serving member of the Regiment, they opened Canada House for me! It’s usually closed. I left regimental tunic buttons along the route of my… Read more »

Happy Sunday…..

@avernos Not to worry re samurai starter no cat out of the bag about that Samurai starter with Helion rules from Wargames Atlantic, it was mentioned many moons ago by Pauli Kidd who wrote the Helion Bushidan Rules.

Was mid last year and it was a month or two after Bushidan release that she mentioned it on her Youtube channel, she does lots of indie reviews of stuff I occassionaly dabble into to.

Youtube channel is Lace and Steel named after the RPG written also by Pauli Kidd back in the 1980s!

Sun’s out, plums out!