Posted by
Mike on August 16, 2008
In the American Civil War being in combat was sometimes referred to as ‘Seeing the Elephant’. The reason given was that battle, like an Elephant, was hard to describe, but you knew it when you saw it.
I thought I knew an Elephant too. As an illustrator, they’d come up from time to time, I had a favourite reference book or two and I could nick a pose from a photograph when I needed it. When the New Vanguard title ‘War Elephants’ appeared on my radar though, I knew it was time to up my elephantine game....
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Posted by
Richard on August 08, 2008
Next week Phil and I will be packing our bags for the largest gathering of Field of Glory players to date at Britcon in Manchester.
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Posted by
Richard on July 09, 2008
Those of you who have been to Historicon for the past three years will already have a t-shirt with Osprey artwork sitting in their drawer for very special occasion. But for those of you who haven’t we have been talking to Legacy of Valor, the collectibles people, about a new special clothing line. They have sent over some samples which several people in the office got very excited over...
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Posted by
Phil on July 07, 2008
Recently, with one of my typical flights of fancy, I started to ponder on some of the military sayings and quotes that have achieved fame throughout history. My personal favourites are:
"The sun will never set on the British Empire – God does not trust the English in the dark" – Anon
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Posted by
Mike on June 19, 2008
To celebrate the fact that the Osprey Blog is now a year old, we are running The Osprey Blog Birthday Competition where one lucky reader can win a book from every month that the Blog has been running...
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Posted by
John on June 06, 2008
A colleague recently encouraged me to read the Sci Fi classic Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein. I've not read a whole lot of Sci Fi, but I enjoy it when I allow for the indulgence and this was no exception. The plotline is a bit slow, with several long passages about the necessity of self-sacrifice in a civil, democratic society, but these were not unpleasurable and I very much appreciated the force of Heinlein's argument...
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Posted by
Phil on May 10, 2008
Nearly everybody will have played the Top Trumps card game at some point in their lives, pitting sportscars, comic book characters or birds of prey against each other by comparing a series of fundamental, arbitrary (and occasionally pointless) categories, such as 'top speed', 'height' or the ever-dangerous 'fear factor'...
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Posted by
Mike on May 04, 2008
I recently mentioned that at the London Book Fair this year three of the blogging team would be wearing a suit of armour. We each took it in turns. Phil took Monday, Richard the Tuesday and I took the Wednesday...
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Posted by
Joe on April 17, 2008
Released late last year, Triumph and Tragedy is a simple set of rules for fighting skirmish battles in the “pulp era”, the years between the two world wars. Unlike several other rules sets covering this period, T&T focuses on actual battles between military or at least paramilitary forces, with rules for all kinds of heavy weapons, tanks, and aircraft....
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Posted by
Joe on April 16, 2008
The books are all stacked in the staff room. The shipment of FOG 2: Storm of Arrows reprints arrived this morning. The Angus McBride Poster has been rolled and stored safely. It is almost time for Salute, the wargamer’s shopping paradise...
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