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Re: Jock73 here, looking for help.

Postby Big Al » Thu Oct 27, 2011 11:15 pm

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Big Al wrote:Kelly's Heroes is always on! Great, fun film.

No, IronIvan are based in the US and do conventions there. We did a game at Triples a couple of years ago based on the Hallamshires during Epson, it being a local regiment here in Sheffield. A friend also ran a game a few weeks ago for the Society of Twentieth Century Wargamers. I was supposed to help him, but a family crisis stopped me attending. Whether or not there was a write up in their Journal, I couldn't tell you. I'm not a member.
Yes, it's one of the best. Need to start building up a collection of good WW2 films. Most of the good ones seem to be American. The British ones are mostly ruined for me because of the plum accents. Do you know any good British ones without the silly accent or where they are in the minority?

I was looking for battle reports using the DH rules on youtube. Couldn't find anything. Will check and see if I can see anything about the Society of Twentieth Century Wargamers.


I have to agree with you about the films. I think that has more to do with Hollywood. They like to portray us Brits with that sort of accent and they also have a tendency to change history and don't have us doing the things in films that we did in life. However, there are still one or two old ones which are very good.

Have you joined the Yahoo group yet? There is an AAR there that is a word document, giving you a blow by blow account. Join up and follow the link below

http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/iro ... ions/AARs/

There's another here

http://wargamerblue.blogspot.com/2011/0 ... wdown.html

and another here

http://javieratwar.blogspot.com/2011/08 ... -1944.html
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Re: Jock73 here, looking for help.

Postby Vogless » Thu Oct 27, 2011 11:28 pm

Iron Ivan is also on Facebook.

Check out Doctor Mercurys (so?) blog as well!

Sorry for the lack of links, at work on my semismart phone.....
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Re: Jock73 here, looking for help.

Postby Jock73 » Fri Oct 28, 2011 2:14 am

Big Al wrote:
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Big Al wrote:Kelly's Heroes is always on! Great, fun film.

No, IronIvan are based in the US and do conventions there. We did a game at Triples a couple of years ago based on the Hallamshires during Epson, it being a local regiment here in Sheffield. A friend also ran a game a few weeks ago for the Society of Twentieth Century Wargamers. I was supposed to help him, but a family crisis stopped me attending. Whether or not there was a write up in their Journal, I couldn't tell you. I'm not a member.
Yes, it's one of the best. Need to start building up a collection of good WW2 films. Most of the good ones seem to be American. The British ones are mostly ruined for me because of the plum accents. Do you know any good British ones without the silly accent or where they are in the minority?

I was looking for battle reports using the DH rules on youtube. Couldn't find anything. Will check and see if I can see anything about the Society of Twentieth Century Wargamers.


I have to agree with you about the films. I think that has more to do with Hollywood. They like to portray us Brits with that sort of accent and they also have a tendency to change history and don't have us doing the things in films that we did in life. However, there are still one or two old ones which are very good.

Have you joined the Yahoo group yet? There is an AAR there that is a word document, giving you a blow by blow account. Join up and follow the link below

http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/iro ... ions/AARs/

There's another here

http://wargamerblue.blogspot.com/2011/0 ... wdown.html

and another here

http://javieratwar.blogspot.com/2011/08 ... -1944.html

It's not just the American movies messing with history to suit themselves, it's also quite a lot of British films with the stupid posh accent. Even the "working class men" sound weird. It's very distracting.

Yes I joined the group and seem to be able to post, But can't click on any of the members only links on the left of the main page.

Thanks for those links to battle reports. They help me to see how a game works and the pretty pictures of wonderfully painted models help too. :D

Vogless wrote:Iron Ivan is also on Facebook.

Check out Doctor Mercurys (so?) blog as well!

Sorry for the lack of links, at work on my semismart phone.....

Ok, will join Iron Ivan on Facebook. Thanks.

Had a wee look for Doctor Mercury's blog, But can't find it just now. Will do a search tomorrow, when not so tired.

No problem, thank you for the info anyway. :)
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Re: Jock73 here, looking for help.

Postby grant » Fri Oct 28, 2011 2:48 am

Big Al wrote:
Fair comment, Grant and I would have no objection to it. That's because you would be fielding a representation of a specific unit. However, when only fielding a general army you would find that such a vehicle shouldn't be included in numbers. I used the Staghound as an example because the army book lists it as "Rare". Any vehicle listed as such shouldn't be fielded in large numbers because of their rarity. A specific unit being fielded would be an exception.


Oh, I get it; just thought, by strange coincidence, I just happened to know of not one, but two! units that used Staghounds in crazy numbers. So much so, that perhaps no one else could! :lol:
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Re: Jock73 here, looking for help.

Postby Big Al » Fri Oct 28, 2011 7:48 am

Doktor Merkury is what you're looking for
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Postby Vogless » Fri Oct 28, 2011 2:07 pm

Yes! Thanks Al.
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Postby Jock73 » Fri Oct 28, 2011 2:23 pm

Big Al wrote:Doktor Merkury is what you're looking for

Thanks Big Al. Found it no problem. There's a lot of little blogs out there huh?
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Postby Big Al » Fri Oct 28, 2011 4:33 pm

Yes and some have links to others with similar interests.
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Postby Jock73 » Sat Oct 29, 2011 8:30 pm

Big Al wrote:Yes and some have links to others with similar interests.

I noticed that. Very cool and look forward to exploring those links, to see what I can find. :D
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Postby grant » Sun Oct 30, 2011 4:15 pm

Jock73 wrote:
Big Al wrote:Yes and some have links to others with similar interests.

I noticed that. Very cool and look forward to exploring those links, to see what I can find. :D


The Internet really is an adventure sometimes.
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