tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690131777600341387.post5081146156286110379..comments2024-02-26T02:53:48.184+00:00Comments on Winter of '79: Winter of 1839Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13835446049246785287noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690131777600341387.post-76610640158309837422011-10-31T12:11:07.728+00:002011-10-31T12:11:07.728+00:00its a pity that we didnt take to the streets again...its a pity that we didnt take to the streets against thatchergeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01258332886749996888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690131777600341387.post-51290268254582087432011-08-12T00:58:36.199+01:002011-08-12T00:58:36.199+01:00I love the Idea.. You can also work in Irish Fenia...I love the Idea.. You can also work in Irish Fenian Renegades who after 1866 attempted to sieze arsenals, Attacked police vans to rescure captured comrades, prison breaks, as well as bombings and assasinations..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690131777600341387.post-81162857408588079362011-08-11T03:26:44.735+01:002011-08-11T03:26:44.735+01:00My name is Eli and I approve of this concept!
I&#...My name is Eli and I approve of this concept!<br /><br />I've been tempted to do something similar in Old New York :)<br /><br />-EliEli Arndthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10445801567500822187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690131777600341387.post-51905722447488457972011-08-11T02:31:40.057+01:002011-08-11T02:31:40.057+01:00Mark nothing wrong with a Victorian civil war! Hav...Mark nothing wrong with a Victorian civil war! Have a look at the Gripping Beast's "Chaps on the Hunt."<br /><br />http://www.grippingbeast.com/product.php?ItemID=2169<br /><br />It wouldn't be a Victorian Civil War without some angry gameskeepers!Frankiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07568012968403638737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690131777600341387.post-86241177058453428372011-08-10T23:46:10.693+01:002011-08-10T23:46:10.693+01:00Mark - you might like this: http://www.blease.pwp....Mark - you might like this: http://www.blease.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/WG.gangland.scn.1831.htmlStevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15785517757211882618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690131777600341387.post-71881674168055652302011-08-10T20:07:38.762+01:002011-08-10T20:07:38.762+01:00Well, i think there are two ways to approach it - ...Well, i think there are two ways to approach it - a) look for historical fault lines - chartism, 1848, post Albert mourning as above, even the marriage to Albert "Is England to be ruled from Belgium and Coburg via the marriage bed?" or b) go pulp - tongs, anarchists, dr moriarty etc etc. i'm typing this wearing round the house issue DPM so you can guess where my loyalties lie.....MasterChefnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690131777600341387.post-9966622582096865102011-08-10T17:44:50.001+01:002011-08-10T17:44:50.001+01:00Just to add that my favourite TV show as a kid was...Just to add that my favourite TV show as a kid was Whiplash - http://youtu.be/FWyrUa65nRc - set in Australia in the 1840s/50s and the first skirmish game I read in Featherstone's Wargamers' Newsletter was a mail coach hold up set in early Victorian Australia. <br /><br />Cheers<br />MarkMarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13835446049246785287noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690131777600341387.post-35313313009196693892011-08-10T17:26:25.542+01:002011-08-10T17:26:25.542+01:00Heh, this could be fun, Working-class Republicans ...Heh, this could be fun, Working-class Republicans fighting Gentleman Royalists in a British 1839 version of Europe's 1848. Just throw in a little steampunk and this would be perfect!Omer Golan-Joelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09242085820257230639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690131777600341387.post-33886556233127225832011-08-10T17:17:26.869+01:002011-08-10T17:17:26.869+01:00Look forward to seeing that myself Steve! Sounds a...Look forward to seeing that myself Steve! Sounds a riot! I know Maff will love the idea too.<br /><br />Cheers<br />MarkMarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13835446049246785287noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690131777600341387.post-82626233646441829212011-08-10T17:14:07.479+01:002011-08-10T17:14:07.479+01:00Alan - I'll ask the webmaster to fast track it...Alan - I'll ask the webmaster to fast track it for inclusion on the SFSFW website. Everry time I drive down the A37 the ideas come flooding in. Jesse Jones gang from The Valleys, the Wells Fargo from Bristol to Wells, sheep rustling!<br /><br />Mark - funny you should say that about VSF, I am rebooting Aeronef to have it start in time for the ACW and Land Ironclads has the famous Charge of the Mechanised Brigade in it for this very reason...Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15785517757211882618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690131777600341387.post-63887960142237908252011-08-10T15:19:27.359+01:002011-08-10T15:19:27.359+01:00Interesting potentialities here...
Where can I acc...Interesting potentialities here...<br />Where can I access Steve's story?<br />Altough heavily into vbcw I fear the germs of another idea brewing due to your post & comments- grrrrrr!<br />Alantradgardmastarehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13116967655904601740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690131777600341387.post-44764468935291792262011-08-10T13:02:49.402+01:002011-08-10T13:02:49.402+01:00Nothing wrong with being a Modern gamer!
I like m...Nothing wrong with being a Modern gamer!<br /><br />I like me Zulu, Boer, Sudan and NW Frontier soldiery but it's sort of been done to death. I always preferred the idea of the Indian Mutiny period for Victorian Sci Fi.<br /><br />There's just something about the "rawness" of the early Victorian period that appeals in a manner that the more industrialised, 'Jewel in the Crown' period doesn't. <br /><br />Im not going to be strictly historically accurate in dress so something that looks close enough will do. And to my limited Wiki knowledge, the conflict in New Zealand began around 1840 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagstaff_War) which makes the Empress Minis armed civvies more or less spot on. <br /><br />Cheers<br />MarkMarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13835446049246785287noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690131777600341387.post-1345397132647988032011-08-10T12:45:02.208+01:002011-08-10T12:45:02.208+01:00The Maori Wars (or Land Wars) here weren't unt...The Maori Wars (or Land Wars) here weren't until the 1860's and 1870's. I don't know how much effect that had on equipment/mens fashions/facial hair though (being one of the tragic "modern era" guys in your post)... :-)ModernKiwihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06931428734518973684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690131777600341387.post-19873942576771914062011-08-10T11:03:47.344+01:002011-08-10T11:03:47.344+01:00Oi! Mark! Git outta my head willya?!! :-)
http:...Oi! Mark! Git outta my head willya?!! :-)<br /><br />http://axisofnaughtiness.blogspot.com/2011/07/march-of-progress.html<br /><br />I went for mid-Victorian era - 1870+, with Queen Victoria's withdrawl following Prince Albert's death as the tipping point. In real life it led to a very strong republican movement and had the queen failed to fulfil her duties of state, it could well have led to a constitutional crisis. I've not taken it any further than that original post, being wrapped up in the steampunk "Invasion of England 188x", but it's something I'm tempted to come back to if the Kaiser & Tsar get booted off our green and pleasant land too quickly.<br /><br />I do like your grittier, earlier Chartist revolt idea though. The early-Victoriana period has a flavour that's distinct from the later "Imperial Adventures" style. All Dark Satanic Mills and oppression of the working classes, much closer in tone to Winter of '79.<br /><br />Good to see you've got some of the old spark back and looking forward to seeing where you go with this.Dr Vesuviushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05255420207375021875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690131777600341387.post-50571680011414195282011-08-10T10:46:06.807+01:002011-08-10T10:46:06.807+01:00Inspired by a Kim Newman short story I did write a...Inspired by a Kim Newman short story I did write an article for Ragnarok entitled 'The Wild Wild West Country' that had in its background a Victorian Civil War (and using Home Service redcoats for the south and Khaki Boer War troops for the North). Lots of West West puns and very, very silly...Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15785517757211882618noreply@blogger.com