Specific interest question.

[Schwallanscher]

don't know, was just sth to hurt some brit

round based or not?

 

[Waterloo50]

don't know, was just sth to hurt some brit

round based or not?

Dunkerque is a totally new game design, based on Dana Lombardy's original 1972 Dunkerque: 1940 game, which featured big hexes, large counters with no combat factors and hidden movement, and a unit comparison table instead of dice for combat resolution. This division-level game explores possibilities in the 1940 campaign in France, including: Could German panzers cut off and destroy the British Expeditionary Force? Were the extended panzer columns vulnerable to an Allied counter stroke?

While the game's core content is strongly derived from Dunkerque 1940, the game system and visual approach are totally new. This new graphic approach ties in with 3D components and revised game mechanics to provide a robust, realistic, yet streamlined game.

 

[Schwallanscher]

it was just a shot into the blue (maybe that's into the dark in english)

 

[Waterloo50]

it was just a shot into the blue (maybe that's into the dark in english)

I guessed as much, Dunkirk, that's where the BEF escaped and later came back stronger than ever, the very same force that helped to defeat Germany I believe, is that what you were referring to.

 

[Schwallanscher]

well, there's a reason you guys invented the word 'spin', isn't it?

 

[Yankeedave]

That's a great question. I have only been doing this for about 2 yrs,4 mos. I can't really say that I'm dedicated to a specific subject yet. So much of what I see and read is still new to me.

I'm surprised. I thought i was longer. I too learn something new here every day.

 

[Yankeedave]

Edit. bdtex i thought it was many more years. look forward to them future posts.

 

[Pat Young]

I have studied the Civil War since I was a boy. I blog on modern immigration for a Long Island news site. In 2010 I decided to combine my interests and I have been researching immigrants in the Civil War Era ever since.

 

[Pat Young]

I have studied the Civil War since I was a boy. I blog on modern immigration for a Long Island news site. In 2010 I decided to combine my interests and I have been researching immigrants in the Civil War Era ever since.

My secret is that I spend 20 hours per week on it.

 

[Yankeedave]

Work under the table.

 

[Billy Yank]

I'm a Gettysburg nut. Found that one question led to another and another, i.e., started picking-up biographies on Hancock, Sickles, Longstreet, Hood. Then started researching individual units in the battle, 1st. Minnesota, Iron Brigade, etc. After that I studied artillery projectiles and their effects. In awhile, began studying certain specific parts of the battle: Culp's Hill, McPherson's Ridge, The Railroad Cut, Wheatfield, Devil's Den, Little Round Top, Pickett's Charge, the Angle, etc. It just keeps growing and growing.

Someone once quoted as saying: "To understand every note in a symphony is to better comprehend its effect."

 

[Waterloo50]

My secret is that I spend 20 hours per week on it.

You do realise that's over a thousand hours of study per year, I guess you must have a real passion for your chosen subject, not to mention an enormous amount of dedication and self discipline.

 

[Pat Young]

You do realise that's over a thousand hours of study per year, I guess you must have a real passion for your chosen subject, not to mention an enormous amount of dedication and self discipline.

Yup. I decided that if I was going to write about immigrants in the war I had to see if I could read about for three hours each day for two months. I thought I would lose interest after a few weeks. I didn't.

 

[Waterloo50]

Yup. I decided that if I was going to write about immigrants in the war I had to see if I could read about for three hours each day for two months. I thought I would lose interest after a few weeks. I didn't.

To carry out in-depth research and write about the research is not easy. I remember working on my dissertation, the amount of hours that I had to put in was incredible, not to mention the fact that I had to give a talk to my peers, tutors and the ethics committee. I admire anyone that chooses to study and speak publicly about their work/research. I guess that research is far easier to do when its fuelled by a deep interest and a passion.

 

[damYankee]

I blame my grandparents and my great grandparents, I had no children my age to play with when I grew up, so I hung out with them.
The stories they told me about growing up in the late 1800s were the bait, meeting my great grandfather when I was 5 set the hook! He was born in 1870, his father served in the 4th Iowa Cav. He grew up in post war Iowa, traveled to San Francisco when he was 17 on stage coach and rail, worked for the United Fruit Company served in the Spanish American War, became a reporter and witnessed The Great War as a reporter abandoned the family to follow his calling as a reporter, returning at age 85.
He told me about being fired from one newspaper in 1911, for writing a story headlined, "Man will walk on the moon in our life time", he died in his sleep four months after the first man walked on the moon.
That is a life well lived. That era has always intrigued me.
The other curse he gave me was his love of books.

 

[Schwallanscher]

He told me about being fired from one newspaper in 1911, for writing a story headlined, "Man will walk on the moon in our life time", he died in his sleep four months after the first man walked on the moon.

what a story. you should turn your place up side down in search for a letter telling him why he's fired. then it is a real story*

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* making headlines, that is

 

[Stony]

I became interested in the civil war just 4 years ago when I researched my family tree and found a ton of people that fought. I then reenacted for 3 years. I have learned a lot on this board and I really enjoy the trivia game.

 

[Waterloo50]

"Man will walk on the moon in our life time", he died in his sleep four months after the first man walked on the moon.

He obviously had a very short sighted and narrow minded editor, plenty of news papers where making predictions of the future back in 1911,
Here's one such article, I thought it was pretty accurate really.

 

[civilwarincolor]

He obviously had a very short sighted and narrow minded editor, plenty of news papers where making predictions of the future back in 1911,
Here's one such article, I thought it was pretty accurate really.

Fascinating to read these and how many are fairly accurate.

I looked up the author and this link says the article was written in 1900 (not 1911) and mentions each prediction and how accurate/wrong it was.

 

[James N.]

Last year I got to pull the lanyard (#4 man) on a repro ordnance rifle although nobody at demos ever fires live rounds or uses anything close to a full charge of powder so it's far from what the real thing would have been like. Some day I hope to attend an event where live rounds with full loads are shot (there are videos on YouTube). Unfortunately, I don't live in a region where there's much Civil War interest.

I've served in every position on a gun and as gunner on a friend's reproduction ten-pounder Parrott (rifled, like they should be) aimed at targets 1 - 2 miles away on the artillery range at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, during one of their meets.