"Numquam Amavit Omnino"
A list of blog topics I was going to write up, but I'm NOT going to write now because I don't have time.
1.) Agnes Sorel and What We Can Learn about 15th Century Competition. ~ Proto-feminism or simply boobs FTW?
2.) Red Madder Dyes and Why the Roman Legions Were Actually Pink (plus West's "Death of General Wolfe.") ~ Rethink what you think things looked like.
3.) Wisconsin Rep. Mike Gallagher's Sino-American Wargame He Keeps Making People Play. ~ "Taiwan Tabletop Exercise (TTX)." Wargames are important practical tools. China war bad and scary.
4.) How GMT's "This Accursed Civil War" Map of Naseby is Very Wrong. ~ It's wrong. Sulby Hedges shaped wrong and field 200-300 yards too wide East to West.
5.) How Chris Peers's "Death in the Dark Continent" Got it Right. ~ Solid game. Even solider reference. On the shelf alongside Pakenham.
6.) Why You Can't Do Much Better than "De Bellis Antiquitatis." ~ Really and truly, you probably just can't.
7.) Why Spike Jones is an Underappreciated Genius and You Should Love Him. ~ Hilarious, ubiquitous and of high quality.
8.) My Favorite Depictions of George IV in Film & Television. ~ Jim Howick's my current favorite.
9.) Albrecht Altdorfer & Early Modern Design. ~ He did it first and better. Except maybe see C. Corot.
10.) A Review of "The Faithful Executioner." ~ A fantastic book.
11.) Depictions of Speed of Foot in Gaming Compared to Real Life: An Informal Survey of Several Popular Systems. ~ Basically 1mph for masses of troops in battle array, moving and maintaining formations. Frequent stops by section to dress lines. Slow.
12.) The Real Reason Shakespeare is Stylistically Inconsistent. ~ No scoring or special effects. Or even sets really. Language alone cues audience on pace, tone and intensity of a given scene.
13.) In Praise of Ronald Lacey. ~ Best bad guys.
14.) Words and Ideas that Don't Exist in English: l'histoire des mentalités & Tagesmarsch ~ As utilitarian as it is, English is at times deficient in its Artfulness.