If I was a bit younger and a bit hipper, I would probably recognise The Stylish Blogger award as viral publicity. And it’s been popping up around the blogs I do read, recently … Most of the leads it generates are very good, so you can imagine my surprise when P.B.Eye-Candy got nominated too …
Many thanks to Bob (Wargaming Miscellany), Tim (Megablitz and More) and Treb (Wargaming4Grownups) for their nominations. Apologies for the delay, but I will join in the fun and try to do my bit …
I’m following Tim’s formula for spreading the word. Sort of …
So … thanks as above to those who have nominated me.
A bit more about me: 1/. I started wargaming when I was 9 and a friend discovered ‘Charge!’ at the local library; 2/. I joined the Society of Ancients when I was 14 in 1973 (we now don’t allow ‘under 16s’ for Child Protection Legislation reasons: I would have hated to have been turned away as a precocious teenage wargamer so I don’t really call this progress!); 3/. My first transport was a 250cc motorcycle (which I didn’t always manage to stay on!); 4/. I still like Prog Rock (bring your own CD if I’m giving you a lift and you don’t); 5/. The definition ‘Prog Rock’ includes Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd – so there’s no-one alive who doesn’t like Prog Rock (not a point about me, but probably worth saying); 6/. I specialised in Military History, then shifted to The History of Art (a combination some find odd); 7/. But then as I’ve made my money running a factory that makes Construction Materials the point is academic (but if you want an Art Historian with a Fork Lift Truck licence, you know where to come!); 8/. I’m a Liberal (but not the wishy-washy type that won’t fight for other people’s freedom);
Again, I’m a Liberal so I’m already wondering why you’d want to know all this …
Now the useful bit … Here are the blogs I want to nominate as stylish bloggers …
Will’s Wargames Blog (a great place to keep up with 20mm plastics – especially WW2 … Will has everything, and usually paints it, too!)
Caliban-somewhen (well informed historical wargames from Paul in Glasgow)
Big Red Bat Cave (ancient 28s from a master, well illustrated)
Wargaming Miscellany (from the trials of life to complete wargames rules sets, the Wargaming Miscellany has everything)
Big Lee’s Miniature Adventures (best photographer on the wargames circuit, it’s always worth seeing what Lee has been up up to)
Tim’s Megablitz and More (the title says it all, in addition to the more, Tim’s Megablitz unit galleries are a great inspiration to the Operational Wargamer)
Olicanalad’s Games (James Roach’s beautifully illustrated how to do it and what I’m doing blog)
Wargaming For Grown-Ups (Work, wargames and mowing the lawn from an imaginative and prolific games designer – more than half the 20th century wargames I play come from Trebian’s stable …)..
Whilst we’re doing lists, here are some other blogs I visit: La Journee (High Medieval), Saxon Dog (more top notch figure stuff), Je L’Ay Emprins (Simon Chick’s occasional insights), Planet Ancients (of course), Mr Farrow 2U (copious DBA material), Across the Table (reports from NZ), Battle Game of the Month (I often find something interesting, here). Of course, the essential blogs for earlier periods have to be mine … the persistent Ancients on the Move and the occasional ECW Battles in Miniature. You know it makes sense.
Well this blog is called P.B.Eye-Candy, so I can’t really finish without adding a bit of gratuitous candy from one of me nominees …
We had another go at the SCW rules over at Graham’s on Saturday … the Republicans forced home their attack on an Olive Grove …
In this case, the attack was beaten off, in part due to the stone walls of the olive grove. But the process felt authentic, and there was interest in the narrative as it developed. The leading mechanism is original, so watch out for more …
I can’t believe that so many of your 20th Century games are my designs. I don’t think of myself as a modernist.
By frequency, easily … we do plenty of RCW and SCW (both yours), Occasional PBI (PP with our adaptations), very occasional Megablitz or NQM (TG or CK) … and it’s ages since the last proper AK47.
By period, it’s level … RCW and SCW (both yours), WW2 (PBI, Tim, CK and freestyle), Post War (AK47)
🙂
Phil