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Rd 1. Jumping Right In!

Bolt Action for a new starter Name: Ty Length playing Wargames: On and off for 20 years, mostly as a hobbyist and painting minis. Game systems: Being a painter predominantly I have played games occasionally but mostly Lord of The Rings and now Bolt Action. Favourite part of the hobby: Directly, the Painting. But IContinue reading “Rd 1. Jumping Right In!”

Chapter 4: The recollections of Mr John Ryder of the Sussex Echo.

Soldiers, and Brother Soldiers, doubly dear,The time will come we meet no longer here;No more is heard the thund’ring cannon’s roar;Calpe is silent; Echo says no more;No more terrific to Iberia now,Yet scournful frowns with dark unalter’d brow;Her harden’d front at rest from fruitless rage,Whilst Hist’ry plants her in the choicest page. Capt. Joseph BadworthHalf-PayTheContinue reading “Chapter 4: The recollections of Mr John Ryder of the Sussex Echo.”

Chapter 3: The recollections of Mr John Ryder of the Sussex Echo.

Here, mighty Nature!—in this school sublimeI weigh the hopes and fears of suffering Spain:For her consult the auguries of time,And through the human heart explore my way, And look and listen,—gathering where I may Triumph, and thoughts no bondage can restrain. William Wordsworth 1808 Composed while the author was engaged in writinga tract, occasioned byContinue reading “Chapter 3: The recollections of Mr John Ryder of the Sussex Echo.”

Chapter 2: The recollections of Mr John Ryder of the Sussex Echo.

O thou seducer of the human mind,Thou bane of millions, and thou bliss of none,Ambition! restless tyrant of mankind,No knee bend I before thy bloodstain’d throne. “Leo” The Gentleman’s Magazine, LXXVII (March 1807), p. 25 Ah sleep, once a thing I fought to stave off as a young man as “Life’s to short to wasteContinue reading “Chapter 2: The recollections of Mr John Ryder of the Sussex Echo.”

The Pilgrims Trail

Author – Dale Small (British) 2nd Lieutenant Rhys Owain started over at the disheveled figure in the corner of the barn. It was still early in the morning and he could see the first changes in light through the cracks in the shoddy walls. The cold seemed to seep into the very core of hisContinue reading “The Pilgrims Trail”

Chapter 1: The recollections of Mr John Ryder of the Sussex Echo.

Author – Ben Ebrahim “Hail! — all hail! The Patriot’s grave, Valor’s venerable bed! Hail! The memory of the brave, Hail! The spirits of the dead!”Montgomery My time in Spain began attached to a small force under the command of one Henry Blount of the 95th Rifles. A new experimental skirmish force using the nowContinue reading “Chapter 1: The recollections of Mr John Ryder of the Sussex Echo.”