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Retired (actual) professor of history. History purist/puritan. Page for my wargaming interests. I try not to do politics or academia/academic history here (for which see realhistoryguy.bsky.social). #actuallyAutistic

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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 28d

Mine was Bruce Quarrie's Airfix Napoleonic Wargaming book/rules.

Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · 28d

Thought I recognised it. I read all of the Howard Conan stories when I was in my early teens.

Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · Sep 20

Howard?

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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · Sep 8

Blimey. I might still have my copy of that, bought in the early ’80s

Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · Jul 20

Is this from a Pyrenean/Alpine fortress?

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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · Jul 16

It was a different book. It’s hilarious.
This is the museum website

www.framleyexaminer.com/museum/

About Framley Museum: Home

www.framleyexaminer.com

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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · Jul 16

I loved it. Did you ever look at their Framley Museum page and, later, book?

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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · Jul 14

Framley Examiner?

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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · May 31

This is the way with TMWWBK

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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · May 31

…and it was joined by @realhistoryguy.bsky.social’s ‘Worlds of Arthur’ which, among a few choice works, represents the pinnacle of sensible exploration when it comes to much-discussed ‘Dark Ages’

Another book which I truly couldn’t do without. Formative, seminal, etc.

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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · Apr 22

I remember Terry Wise’s Airfix Guide to ACW wargaming was accompanied by several pics of a refight of Murfreesboro

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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · Apr 3

Italian keyboard knows both are (sadly) accepted.🙁

Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · Apr 3

iPhone spellchecker agrees.

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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · Apr 3

When did condottiere become condottiero? I don’t approve of this messing around with declensions.

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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · Mar 29

Do any Americans at all understand the meaning of the word ‘Marxist’?

Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · Mar 26

You should revisit it?

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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · Mar 26

Yes. I am obviously very well aware of that.

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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · Mar 25

Interesting

Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · Mar 25

I wasn’t criticising its use on the cover: I was saying it is an interesting painting, historiographically, given what I was talking about in the thread.
Also - I have had complete control over most of my book covers.

Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · Mar 25

He doesn’t actually tell us very much about what Huns looked like.

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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · Mar 25

Do we know what they looked like, and if so on what basis?

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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · Mar 25

looked like nonetheless. (If you see the distinction I am making.)

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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · Mar 25

Yes I know. What I meant there was the usual reconstruction of C5th ‘Goths’ on the basis of the material from the Balkans/Danubian areas. You and I both know that that stuff is unlikely to be diagnostically Gothic but it’s a reasonable stab at what Goths (and others from the region) might have…

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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · Mar 25

I don’t know. Beck is ok about getting translations.

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Guy H’s Games page @guyhgamer.bsky.social · Mar 25

What’s interesting, by the way, about the picture that Mischa and/or his publisher has chosen for the cover is that it’s one of a number of historical paintings of Huns from about the time of the Boxer Rebellion/Russo-Japanese War/emergence of the Japanese Empire that depict in pretty lurid terms…

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