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Post subject: Warhammer 40K versus Gaunt's Ghosts  Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 6:15 am |
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I've become entrenched in non-ficion historical books over the years. Plus cosidering I've only read about 1/3 of my large library, I've got a lot of reading to do ... 
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Post subject: Warhammer 40K versus Gaunt's Ghosts Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 8:37 am |
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I always think of 'Gaunts Ghosts' as being very similiar to Bernard Cornwells 'Sharp' (A series set in the Penninsular War for those that don't know that was made into an entertaining TV series) only set in the future instead.
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Post subject: Warhammer 40K versus Gaunt's Ghosts Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 1:40 pm |
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Has anyone read both Sharpe and Gaunt's Ghosts? are they comparible in quality? I remember reading a couple of Cornwell's Sharpe books and I was mighty impressed.
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Post subject: Warhammer 40K versus Gaunt's Ghosts Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 1:58 pm |
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Hi!
Well, I've been living under the same rock as Legion4 and never have read Hammers slammers books.
They have come highly recommended from multiple sources so its time I pick them up and gave them a read.
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Post subject: Warhammer 40K versus Gaunt's Ghosts Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 4:00 pm |
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The Sharpe's TV shows are excellent ! I've never read the books but I've them advertised. I even remember in a old W/D, someone showing off their IG unit - the 95th Rifles ! I also remember seeing the "Slammer" first book on sale at a book store back in '80-'81, and thought it was very interesting then. However, I belonged to the "Battling Cads" of the 101 at the time and was preoccupied ...  I also have an excellent modeling & gaming site on Hammer's Slammers if anyone is interested ? 
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Post subject: Warhammer 40K versus Gaunt's Ghosts Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 6:13 pm |
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Post subject: Warhammer 40K versus Gaunt's Ghosts Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 8:07 pm |
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| Quote (Jimbo @ 09 2003 Sep.,18:13) | | The TV series (available on DVD) is also recommended. |
Though the explosive 'solid' cannonballs are funny! 
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Post subject: Warhammer 40K versus Gaunt's Ghosts Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 8:46 pm |
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JH,
Though the explosive 'solid' cannonballs are funny! |
Wasn't it around this time that the British invented shrapnel?
Shrapnel was the name of a British soldier, right?
Shalom,
Maksim-Smelchak.
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Post subject: Warhammer 40K versus Gaunt's Ghosts Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 8:59 pm |
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| Quote (MaksimSmelchak @ 09 2003 Sep.,20:46) | Wasn't it around this time that the British invented shrapnel?
Shrapnel was the name of a British soldier, right?
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Yep, a colonel if I remember righly. But I think they were just cheap special effects!
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Post subject: Warhammer 40K versus Gaunt's Ghosts Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 9:36 pm |
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Henry Shrapnell invented the shrapnel case in 1784.
Cheap special effects they were but it's probably a lot safer than having actual canon balls ripping apart the ranks (I wouldn't even know how to recreate that convincingly).
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Post subject: Warhammer 40K versus Gaunt's Ghosts Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 9:42 pm |
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Just get a line of people attatched to a blue bungi cord (edited out afterwards of course) and get them to run away from where it is secured until they are in line in the unit. Then at the right moment just tell them all to let go.....kerboing!
Well, maybed not. 
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Post subject: Warhammer 40K versus Gaunt's Ghosts Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 9:43 pm |
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| Quote (Haarken @ 09 2003 Sep.,21:36) | | (I wouldn't even know how to recreate that convincingly). |
Easy. Line up a group of unsuspecting actors, get them to sign contracts with a *lot* of small print and fire 
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Post subject: Warhammer 40K versus Gaunt's Ghosts Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 10:22 pm |
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| Quote (Jackhammer @ 09 2003 Sep.,21:43) | | Quote (Haarken @ 09 2003 Sep.,21:36) | | (I wouldn't even know how to recreate that convincingly). |
Easy. Line up a group of unsuspecting actors, get them to sign contracts with a *lot* of small print and fire |
lol
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Post subject: Warhammer 40K versus Gaunt's Ghosts Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 11:17 pm |
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| Quote (Haarken @ 09 2003 Sep.,21:36) | | Cheap special effects they were but it's probably a lot safer than having actual canon balls ripping apart the ranks (I wouldn't even know how to recreate that convincingly). |
The Patriot does a pretty convincing job and the special features on the DVD show you how they did it.
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Post subject: Warhammer 40K versus Gaunt's Ghosts Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 11:21 pm |
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| Quote (MaksimSmelchak @ 09 2003 Sep.,20:46) | | Wasn't it around this time that the British invented shrapnel? |
and rocket artillery
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forgot to mention that the Chinese invented rockets, but the British implemented Rocket artillery at the same time as they implemented shrapnel
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