Web Pages That Suck

Web Pages That Suck was a useful website back in the day for new WebDevs. Over the past 15 years or so website design practices have gotten so bad that the WPTS team seems to have finally just thrown in the towel. Maybe I should, from time to time, do a "Web Pages That Suck" post on here. It would certainly result in a lot of content as there are a lot of really bad websites and website practices out there.

3D Printing

I've recently joined the ranks of 3D printer owners. My first printer is the Ender-3 V2 from Creality. I chose this particular unit due to it's popularity, which will make problem solving easier.

I've only been printing for a week and I'm already addicted, which became apparent after one of the print bed screws came loose leaving me unable to print until I get a nut and washer to tighten it up. Let this be a lesson to you all; always have a good supply on hand of various types and sizes of screws, nuts, and washers. You may end up with some you'll never use but it's better to have them and not need them than to need them and not have them.

Some RegEx for TextWrangler/BBEdit

 Some helpful RegEx for TextWrangler and BBEdit that I always seem to forget between uses.

Remove Blank Line (enable Grep)

Find: ^\r

Replace:

Remove Trailing Space (enable Grep)

Find: [ \t]+$

Replace:

Replace first space with a pipe (enable Grep)

Find: ^(\S*)\s

Replace: \1|

Replace first hyphen (enable Grep)

Find: ^(\D*\-)

Replace: <replacement pattern>

New book in the collection

 Gabriele Esposito's Armies of the Medieval Italian Wars 1125–1325 (Men-at-Arms 523), illustrated beautifully by Giuseppe Rava, arrived today. This should calm my nerves a bit when it comes to planning out the painting of my Later Communal Italian army.

 

 

Note to Amazon: Please, for the love of all that is good and sacred, start shipping books so that they're better protected against damage!!! I bought this as "new" but it looks like it has seen plenty of action in the past; the cover has a couple of creases, corners bent, scuff marks, etc.

I've settled on a WotR army

 Or have I?

I have been, for some time, mulling over building a Wars of the Roses (WotR) army. The biggest obstacle to getting started has been not being able to decide which side to represent or at least which side to represent first. Delving deeper into one line of my genealogy (mother's side) seemed to have solved the issue for me... or so I thought.

Comparing a database list of those involved in the WotR to my family tree showed a ratio heavily weighted towards the Lancastrians. There it was. The first retinue(s) were finally going to be planned. Then I decided to go looking for flags/banners/pennants and found a link to the archived Grimsby Wargames Society. On the very last sheet of Yorkist flags was the one name I know is legitimately an ancestor (DNA matched distant relatives); Sir William Skipwith (oddly spelled Skypwyth on the flag sheet).

Now, I really wanted to start with Yorkist troops but I can't seem to find any information at the moment regarding Sir William Skipwith and his possible participation in the WotR. Another probable ancestor, Sir Lionel de Welles, at least has some information available. There are also commercially available banner and livery decals for him, which helps in deciding on my first retinue to build and paint. That said, it looks like the Lancastrians are the only real option for me at the moment unless I somehow managed to stumble on information on the Skipwith connection that has so far managed to evade detection.

Field of Glory Books (First Edition)

 For some reason I can never find a complete or detailed list online so I decided to make one myself.

Ancient and Medieval

Field of Glory Wargaming Rules for Ancient and Medieval Tabletop Gaming
Companion 1 Rise of Rome: Republican Rome at War
Companion 2 Storm of Arrows: Late Medieval Europe at War
Companion 3 Immortal Fire: Greek, Persian and Macedonian Wars
Companion 4 Swords and Scimitars: The Crusades
Companion 5 Legions Triumphant: Imperial Rome at War
Companion 6 Eternal Empire: The Ottomans at War
Companion 7 Decline and Fall: Byzantium at War
Companion 8 Wolves from the Sea: The Dark ages
Companion 9 Swifter than Eagles: The Biblical Middle East at War
Companion 10 Oath of Fealty: Feudal Europe at War
Companion 11 Empires of the Dragon: The Far East at War
Companion 12 Blood and Gold: The Americas at War
Companion 13 Lost Scrolls: The Ancient and Medieval World at War

Renaissance

Field of Glory Wargaming Rules for Renaissance Tabletop Gaming
Renaissance Companion 1 Wars of Religion: Western Europe 1610-1690
Renaissance Companion 2 Trade and Treachery: Western Europe 1494-1610
Renaissance Companion 3 Clash of Empires: Eastern Europe 1494-1698
Renaissance Companion 4 Colonies and Conquest: Asia 1494-1698
Renaissance Companion 5
 Duty and Glory: Europe 1660-1698
Renaissance Companion 6 Cities of Gold: Africa and the Americas 1494-1698

Napoleonic

Field of Glory Wargaming Rules for Napoleonic Tabletop Gaming
Triumph of Nations
Emperors and Eagles

The Second WRG Resource Book in my Collection

My second WRG resource book arrived last weekend but I've been doing other stuff and just got around to posting the Earth-shattering news.

Armies of the Dark Ages 600-1066

by Ian Heath