Incorperating the content of Ca-ira blog

The last blogpost was about French Revolutionary books.
The reason is, that the content of the Ca-Ira blog will be incorporated into this blog so the coming week(s) more French Revolutionary pictures, descriptions etc will appear.

We hope also to have more other info added, so please stay tuned. 

Ca Ira and Duc de Gueldres

Maybe You have noticed some new items in the header above.
"Ca Ira" was or is still an existing blog about the French Revolutionary period 1792-1797 but the information of "Ca Ira" will be published here on the Alde Garde blog and "Ca-Ira" will be terminated once all the info is put on this blog.

Peter is very interested in the 80 years war, so various info about that period will be published under those headings. 

Other headers will also include the ancient, medieval, renaissance and probably Dutch related ww2 info. 


Our website, www.aldegarde.nl is still under reconstruction although you can look there for older material.

As the year ends

Well, you know, that when the year ends, the Alde Grade has it's problems. No internal conflict in the club (I have more weight then Peter so I always can persuade him) but we have to decide what to do for the next year Crisis.
Crisis, you ask? It's in November next year. Well yes, it is.
But we are only two, so we have to plan far ahead to get something ready for the next year's Crisis as we want a "new" game in Antwerp and our time for wargaming, including painting/making terrain etc is restricted.

So what will it be. We have two options: the around 1500 period in the Netherlands (Gueldress against the  Hapsburg forces) or the French Revolution.
In fact we decided that the 1500 period will be it. Not decided on rules yet (although WAB looks the best deal as we used it already for our earlier demo and we have problems in learning new rules (our name Alde Garde (or old guard) isn't just fun but refers to our age (over 110 together now). Figure scale will be 25/28mm. At least, we can paint Landsknechten, late Medieval knights etc.

The French Revolution will be our next project for 2013, at least we think about it but 2013 is also the 200th birthday of the 1813 campaign; I (Jan) loves to do the battle of Liebertwolkwitz; alll those cavalry. So you never know.

We got our website (www.alde garde.nl) also working again at last, so you will see some amendments in the near future. Peter will add info about the 1672-1700 period and Jan will add to his ongoing French Revolution information. Also some internal website work will be done.
Also I have added some info on the other blog about the FR: www.ca-ira.blogspot.com

Time, that's the problem

As wargaming is just only part (although an important part) of our living; other things has taken a lot of time. This is the reason that our blog wasn't updated for some time. Hopefuly this can be corrected in the following weeks.

First tryout

To be honest, I have no idea how to begin the blog.
It was just that I was reading some blogs of other people because I could't sleeep after picking up my youngest son from the Düsseldorf airport after a diving vacation in Egypt.

So I thought, why shouldn't the Alde Garde have a blog. We have a website (http://www.aldegarde.nl/) so you are welcome there to see what we do about our hobby and the information we are gathering about the periods we wargame. But this blog will, at least I think, be more about the various things that are happening on this moment.
I think that Peter, the other member of the Alde Garde, will add his thoughts too.