Saturday, May 25, 2013

War games: never just child's play

A new exhibition at the V&A Museum of Childhood explores the history of playing at war.

The exhibition's earliest exhibit is a simple German board game, based on fox and geese, called the Art of Beseiging, from the start of the 19th century. Children played at war before then, but this period marked a dramatic change. Games have always mirrored technology, and real war was changing fast. Gunpowder weapons had become too powerful for armies to practise on manoeuvres as they once had. Leaders came up with solutions. In 1780, an adjutant to the Duke of Brunswick wanted to create a new version of chess that reflected contemporary battle conditions. His board had 1,617 squares, rather than 64, with varying terrains and many new pieces. This kriegsspiel (literally "war game") was very popular, and over the next decades the Prussian general staff developed their own variants. Superior generalship is widely agreed to have been one of the main reasons for Prussia's defeat of France in 1870-71, and gaming was, by then, a big part of Prussian leadership training.

Paraguayan War Range Preview

First packs ready for casting. Photos on the Kingscarbine Miniatures page.

Friday, May 24, 2013

Shop Now Open


I've set up the Shop page on the blog. This way it's easier for you to order the book. 

Cheers,

Nuno

Sunday, May 05, 2013

Book P&P Update

Hi,


I'll have to update P&P because I've been paying more for postage than I charge and with the PayPal commission it's a substantial loss.

Sorry for the inconvenience. 

The book is £20.00. P&P UK - £2.00Europe - £4.50; Rest of World - £8.00Please send payment and delivery address to PayPal account: kingscarbine@yahoo.co.uk 

Best regards,

Nuno