Fantasy Flight Games’ X-Wing miniatures game has attracted a large following within a short time. This has, of course, led to plenty of coverage on the world wide web, too. This page lists sites and forums I have stumbled across.
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At Crisis 2012 in Antwerp, Rutger and I ran a Cold War participation game called Red Storm Rising. A small American force, part of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, was tasked with stopping a larger Soviet force. We played with a modified version of ...
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While things geared up in the 18th century, the 19th century was the century of profound changes and inventions. Trains, practical electricity, the telegraph and telephone, and, late in the 19th century, the car and airplane, form the base for our modern connected world. Another invention of the time, directly […]
In its 30+ year career with the US Air Force, the F-4 Phantom II wore several distinctive paint schemes, unlike its Navy brothers. They started out in the same scheme, though – Gull gray and white: This scheme was still in use during the first months of the Vietnam War, […]
To me, the F-4 Phantom II is the greatest jet fighter, and possibly the greatest combat aircraft, ever. A development period of just a few years (compare that to current project such as the Eurofighter, F-22, or JSF) yielded an aircraft that, from its first flight in 1958, set new […]
Wenn ich es über Spirou & Fantasio habe, bezieht sich das auf die durch Franquin gezeichneten Bände. Die späteren Abenteuer sind meiner Meinung nach weder zeichnerisch noch erzähltechnisch auf einer Höhe mit den Arbeiten von Franquin. Franquins Spirou-Werk lässt sich in mehrere Phasen einteilen. Anfänglich ähnelte sein Stil dem seiner […]
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 […]
