Wednesday 17 February 2016

The Great Northern War Compendium

I became aware of the project to put this 2 volume set of books on the Great Northern War together last year, and signed up for an alert when it was eventually published. I knew it would probably be quite expensive, but I really love this period and information in English is limited, to say the least.
The pictures on the facebook page are absolutely stunning.
So I hoped that when it came out I would have access to the funds necessary to purchase it. Well, it is out in a few days and Caliver Books have a limited number that they are taking orders for. The price tag is £110, plus p&p which comes out at about $300 NZD, but if I miss out on these books I'll kick myself, so this is where the next lot of commission money is going. I've put my name on Dave Ryan's list and I'm really hoping I'll get a set. I'll have to put back the plan to purchase some more bits and pieces for the Indo-Pakistan War, but they will still be there in a few months time.

 I've also been looking at getting some figures for the New Zealand Musket Wars from Empress and Eureka's upcoming precolonial Maori range. The plan at the moment is to use them with the Muskets and Tomahawks rules. I'm still going down that track, but maybe a bit later on in the year now.

Fingers crossed that in a couple of weeks time I can post a review of the GNW compendium.

Nate

6 comments:

  1. I'm with you on this. It's a really good looking set of works and seems to tick all the boxes. But £110!! Then I thought if I don't get it now it'll probably become one of those works that I'm forever trying to chase down second hand.

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    1. When she heard the price my wife suggested that I'd probably find them half price somewhere second hand. I told her I highly doubted that. These are keepers, just from looking at the illustrations!

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  2. Very nice! If I had an interest in the period, I would snap a set up too.

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  3. I hope the book meets your expectations! When I received my copy, it totally blew me away. I contributed two articles to the books (The Uproar at Bender, Casting Charles XII) but I never thought it would turn out as great as it did.

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    1. Hi Michael. I saw your video review on facebook, which only made me even more keen to get my hands on it. Thanks for all the hard work that you and everyone else put in and hopefully by the end of the month it will be in my hands and I can do a review on the blog.

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    2. Hi Nate. I had to laugh at the sinking Vasa picture referencing the book deliveries. It felt like forever waiting for my copy.
      Kudos to you for some great GNW One Hour rules! I'm working on two giant forces in 6mm and it is a very slow process. These rules should allow me to play games with limited units as I build up.

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