Welcome to my strange alternative world of wargaming with toy soldiers: a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books (HG Wells, Little wars)
Friday 7 June 2013
Down at the Wargaming Club: ACW
Some pics taken down at the Rainham Wargames Club.
General Grant (aka Tim) prepares his army for combat.
The Union Army.
Robert E Lee (aka Graham) peruses reports from his troops. They have captured a stock of essential and rare war material: boots.
The Confederate Army.
The generals prepare for combat. Grant does a bit of marching on the spot while Lee girds his loins (what does that mean?) with a cuppa and a kip.
And so it starts. The Confederates get their wagons to the boot-store barn and set up a defensive line which holds off the attacking Union army until the precious items are spirited away.
The war goes on.
The first picture made me laugh. I was have to say general tim certainly looks the part.
ReplyDeleteA chap should always wear the right hat.
ReplyDeleteI think its analogous to slipping a box in before marching out to the crease, but possibly these days supposed to be taken metaphorically.
ReplyDeleteGafzooks, sir, definitely metaphorical.
DeleteLooking good, well the figures anyway:P
ReplyDeleteAdmittedly the generals are a bit ancient but then, aren't we all.
DeleteWhat a cap can do with a person. Put him on a uniform and he's ready for the remake of Gettysburg! :-)
ReplyDeleteNice looking troops!
Greetings
Peter
http://www.peterscave.blogspot.be/
Clothes maketh the man.
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