A large part of Spain's Gold Reserve (which remained in Republican controlled Spain after the Rising) was transferred to Russia. This was to pay for Russian "aid".
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Tuesday, 25 October 2016
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Ollie: Progress Report - Managed to do some assembly this morning and painting this afternoon. Tomorrow I'll add the shields and cases of feathered javelins and 2 crew. Not bad ...
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Stora Kronan vs Sophia Amalia - Last week I was looking at an AAR on the League of Augsburg blog featuring a hypothetical battle set in 1676, during the Scanian War, between two of the ...
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Playtest with a Board Gamer - For my birthday the eldest daughter and her husband came to see us at the weekend. My son-in-law loves boards games even more than I do, and as I think "...
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Good Old Fashioned Dungron Hack: D&D 5th Edition - Mixing the old with the new. Fifth Edition D&D Rules (relatively new), with Games Workshop Figures and Warlord Games (monsters) and forty year old adventur...
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Ticking Over (Sort of) - *No details, no clues but part of the smorgasbord of randomness circulating in the cavernous expanse of my imagination* The past couple of weeks have f...
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New Semi Round Cavalry - One of the more interesting additions: a Mameluke. Perhaps Napoleon's faithful servant Rostum? A mixed lot. Unsure of what these figures represent. The ...
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Balanced Wargame Armies - My 1813 campaign is designed to produce interesting battles to wargame. My wife Jan and I wargame all of the battles, and have done so for many years. ...
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The Last of the Hellenic Fleet - I have finally finished a little project begin about 8 months back - a sister ship for the Hellenic Ironclad Coastal Battleship *Hydra*. This one will b...
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Pirate Ship Playset Joy Ahoy – cross posted! - Out of scale crew and stylised pirate play set joy alert – Ahoy there, Ship Mates! Re-Crewed on a smaller scale by my mystery 15mm Chinese pirates … Crossp...2 days ago
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Western desert game, Horse and Musket rules, and samurai painting - I initially through I would be playing a ancient naval game this weekend to start for the 2nd Punic War campaign, but I still seem to be stuck in the Wes...
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About Me
- Robert (Bob) Cordery
- I have been wargaming for as long as I can remember. One of the first toys that I was bought was a wooden fort that was garrisoned by assorted lead soldiers ... and I have never looked back! The first wargames book I bought was CHARGE! (although I had taken out [and repeatedly read] Donald Featherstone's WAR GAMES book beforehand [and many thanks to John Curry for republishing it!]). My first 20mm figures were the good old Airfix Guards Infantry and Band (in shocking pink!), soon followed by others as they were released, and by 1968, when I bought my first metal Hinton Hunt 20mm figures, I had a large collection of World War II figures, tanks, guns, and aircraft. I was a founder member of WARGAME DEVELOPMENTS and have been the treasurer and membership secretary ever since. I have also organised – along with Tim Gow - the annual conference (COW – Conference of Wargamers) for the past ten years. My main interests are wargaming any wars from 1850 onwards, although I have a special interest in Colonial, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II wargaming. I also have a special interest in wargames that use square or hex grids for movement and weapon ranges.
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