Number 4 from the top is Soviet Marshal Aleksandr Vasilevsky.
Osprey titles.
-
I have about 50 of Osprey’s Men at Arms and Campaign books.
Love the illustrations and they are a good introduction to a subject.
Wondered if anyone liked or collected them. -
@wittmann:
I have about 50 of Osprey’s Men at Arms and Campaign books.
Love the illustrations and they are a good introduction to a subject.
Wondered if anyone liked or collected them.I’ve got about ten or so Osprey books, from various series. Good artwork.
-
I find I can just pick one up and read it all in one go, so is easy ready.
Have 64, just counted. My wife knows she can always buy one and I will read it, whatever the period. Have some Vanguard too. Some I have had since I was 18.
You in Montreal Marc? Not a native French speaker are you?(English too good!) -
I collect them, right now have over a couple hundred, some of the best info around and with color pictures for painting ideas helps too.
-
Scarapis: 200 Wow. Can see why though. If I could paint, would probably have more. (And would have a house full of tanks!)
You must have all periods too. Have you a favourite? -
@wittmann:
You in Montreal Marc? Not a native French speaker are you?(English too good!)
Actually, I am a native French speaker, but I’m fluently bilingual and English is the language I tend to use more frequently even though it’s not my mother tongue. I sometimes jokingly refer to myself as a Franco-Saxon.
-
Franglais… :S
Please take no offense Marc, I respect that you are a master of two languages, but after many encounters with the ‘french’ I have a severe adversion to the invasive species.
Once bitten twice shy.
-
Maybe I should clarify… Quebecois…
That said - I have no idea how AxisPlaya, Septimus, and I became friends. :P
-
Sorry, I didn’t twig, Marc. Thought you had moved there.
Explains why you are so knowledgeable. I am bilingual. Even know French.
Wanted so much to be good at German, just did not happen.
Only clever people can speak two languages! -
@wittmann:
Wanted so much to be good at German, just did not happen.
I’ve taken some introductory German, but never progressed beyond that. I know just enough to pick out a few words here and there from the soundtrack of WWII documentaries and movies if there are no subtitles, and to be able to get the basics of the dialogue if there are English subtitles to which to refer. Which makes it more fun to watch films like The Longest Day, or that YouTube video of Hitler ranting at the lack of tactical bombers in A&A Pacific 1940.
-
I studied it for 4 years to “O” Level, then failed. ( Of course would have got an “A” these days.) I too love seeing Germans played by Germans (not Tom Crude) and picking up the odd word.
-
@wittmann:
Scarapis: 200 Wow. Can see why though. If I could paint, would probably have more. (And would have a house full of tanks!)
You must have all periods too. Have you a favourite?always been a big fan of Ancient Mediterranean civilizations.
-
Mine is WW2 and US Civil War, but I do like all things Carthaginian too. What a mixed and colourful bag Hannibal’s armies were.
-
My wife gave me :Italian Battleships of WW2 this morning.
She said I should be an expert on all Italian things!
I am enjoying it. -
@wittmann:
My wife gave me :Italian Battleships of WW2 this morning.
She said I should be an expert on all Italian things!
I am enjoying it.LOL sooo many ways to respond to that…
-
Should I have said: she was enjoying it?
There is a great picture of the Roma about to be hit by the radio controlled bomb.
Makes me sad, as 1253 lives were lost. To the Germans!
Our former allies!!!
Could instead have gone down fighting Imperialistic Britain for control of the Central Med. -
@wittmann:
There is a great picture of the Roma about to be hit by the radio controlled bomb. Makes me sad, as 1253 lives were lost. To the Germans! Our former allies!!!
The prefatory section of Richard Overy’s book “Why the Allies Won” discusses how the terms “Axis” and “Allies” represent two camps whose composition changed many times during the war, with some countries shifting from one camp to another.
-
I think I am happy with my knowledge of allies and side changes.
Am just a lover of the German war machine. And their officers, evidently! -
I have a game called Barbarossa, which sees Germany lose her allies as Russian territorial gains and German unit losses force them to lose their will to fight alongside her. Unfortunately, it takes longer than 5 Global games put back to back!
Would love an A&A (shorter) one.