1. Favourite Wargaming period and why?
Ancients. I grow my own woad. 'nuff said.
2. Next period, money no object?
Colonial/VSF
3. Favourite 5 films?
Blade Runner Science fiction that looked like a real world with real problems.
Alien A space freighter that looks like a working ship and not the showroom floor model.
Zulu Guilty pleasure. The Thin Red Line for the win Huzzah!
Stalingrad No heroes just bleak, cold horror.
Went the Day Well
From Wikipedia:
Tom Huddleston of Time Out London termed it "jawdroppingly subversive. Cavalcanti establishes, with loving care and the occasional wry wink, the ultimate bucolic English scene, then takes an almost sadistic delight in tearing it to bloody shreds in an orgy of shockingly blunt, matter-of-fact violence."With a nod to Triumph of the Will This is evil: polished, seductive and dangerously appealing.
4. Favourite 5 TV series?
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Date night fodder when the kids were young.
Firefly Space Westerns Rule!
True Blood A bloody soap opera that often has um "benefits" after the show is over.
Murdoch Mysteries Quiet Canadian detective show with a tinge of steam punk.
Big Bang Theory My people.....
Star Trek (original series) Dinners on TV trays in front of our first BW television. The beginning of geekdom becoming cool.
With a nod to The World at War that I am currently re-watching. A great series from a time when the people who were there were still around to talk about it.
5. Favourite book and author?
Too many. In the "if you had only one book on a desert island" category it would have to be Tolkien and Lord of the Rings for re-readability. Fondest memory would be The Way Things Work A two volume encyclopedia of technology originally in German. It had the basics of pretty much any machine you could name from the zipper to the cathode ray tube.
6. Greatest General? Can’t count yourself!!
Marius. He change a whole society to win a war.
7. Favourite Wargames rules?
DBx: HotT for fast play fantasy, DBA for fast ancients and DBMM for the way the battle slowly slides out of your control.
8. Favourite Sport and team?
None and None
9. If you had a only use once time machine, when and where would you go?
I would go forward 2,000 years to see what is actually important in our own time.
Finding out what happened to Crassus' legion would be another choice.
Sit down and chat with JC - Son of God or just plain nuts?
And of course - Kill Hitler (and Stalin if they were ever in the same room)
10. Last meal on Death Row?
Full on Honzen Ryori with three soups and 11 sides prepared by a top flight chef. Failing that anything I can't cook myself.
11. Fantasy relationship and why?
The missus. Not just a hot chick but my best friend. In terms of a one off - Sarah Bernhardt to see if the reputation had any basis in fact.
12. If your life were a movie, who would play you?
Some no-name actor.
13. Favourite Comic Superhero?
Not a big comics person. Magnus, Robot Fighter
14. Favourite Military quote?
"Because we're here, lad. Nobody else. Just us."
15. Historical destination to visit?
The Maginot line.
16. Biggest Wargaming regret?
Getting rid of my board war gaming collection.
17. Favourite Fantasy job?
Archivist, Library of Alexandria.
18. Favourite Song Top 5?
Hanging Around - The Stranglers
No More heroes - The Stranglers
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
Harry's Game - Clannad
Anything with pipes.
19. Favourite Wargaming Moment?
Double blind with referee Squad Leader night scenario. Pure gaming.
20. The miserable Git question, what upsets you?
Nazis.
Nazi apologists.
Clueless fanboi gamers who wear Hitler Jugend or other T-shirts because they think the SS was just a cool elite unit.
Drivers, cyclists the odd pedestrian.
Fundamentalists of any stripe.
Anti-Science types.
Anti-Vaxers.
Homophobes (I hate that word).
Political fear mongering.
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