Showing posts with label raid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label raid. Show all posts
Saturday, May 11, 2013
Rebel Raiders Rule Book Posted!
Want a closer look at how to play Rebel Raiders on the High Seas? GMT has posted the rule book on its website for my game:
http://www.gmtgames.com/p-238-rebel-raiders-on-the-high-seas.aspx
You can browse the site and read strategy, historical and replay articles and other material, or you can go directly to the Final Rules link:
http://www.gmtgames.com/rebelraiders/RebelRaiders-RULES-FINAL.pdf
Thursday, April 18, 2013
John Wayne in John Ford's The Horse Soldiers
Inspired by my own posting yesterday, late last night I watched The Horse Soldiers - a great John Ford cavalry movie starring John Wayne and William Holden.
Yesterday I noted that "this day" in Rebel Raiders history (April 17) was about Grierson's Raid, a famous incident depicted in the game by The Horse Soldiers card, which as I explained was named so in homage to the great 1959 movie and the historical novel of the same name.
I first saw The Horse Soldiers when it came out in 1959 (I was five). I got the 45 record from the local record shop and learned the theme song (which I still know and, I admit, sang while watching the opening credits last night). I have seen this movie many, many, many times and know the dialogue almost by heart (as I do with most John Wayne films and all of the John Ford cavalry films in which he starred - notably the famous "Cavalry Trilogy" of She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Rio Grande and Fort Apache). I read the novel the summer after my freshman year of college when I worked selling paint at Sears. The movie of course has so many stock characters and little asides and vignettes that are pure John Ford romanticism - but that perhaps is why it still resonates so with me, 54 years after I first saw it...
...and as the song from the movie says, I, too, "would ride right down to hell, and back, for Ulysses Simpson Grant" -- especially if John Wayne was leading.....
Inspired by my own posting yesterday, late last night I watched The Horse Soldiers - a great John Ford cavalry movie starring John Wayne and William Holden.
Yesterday I noted that "this day" in Rebel Raiders history (April 17) was about Grierson's Raid, a famous incident depicted in the game by The Horse Soldiers card, which as I explained was named so in homage to the great 1959 movie and the historical novel of the same name.
I first saw The Horse Soldiers when it came out in 1959 (I was five). I got the 45 record from the local record shop and learned the theme song (which I still know and, I admit, sang while watching the opening credits last night). I have seen this movie many, many, many times and know the dialogue almost by heart (as I do with most John Wayne films and all of the John Ford cavalry films in which he starred - notably the famous "Cavalry Trilogy" of She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Rio Grande and Fort Apache). I read the novel the summer after my freshman year of college when I worked selling paint at Sears. The movie of course has so many stock characters and little asides and vignettes that are pure John Ford romanticism - but that perhaps is why it still resonates so with me, 54 years after I first saw it...
...and as the song from the movie says, I, too, "would ride right down to hell, and back, for Ulysses Simpson Grant" -- especially if John Wayne was leading.....
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