As promised, a few pictures of my predominately ESLOTerrain (there are some Terrain Guy pieces as well). What you see is about one fourth of all the pieces, there are a lot more walls, fields, hills, trees, roads, stream, and base pieces to add.
To me, the green really gives me (in my feeble mind) what Ireland looks like (in terms of greenery). Perhaps some of the Irish visitors to the blog can confirm!
I'll let the pictures do the talking for now...
Reminds me of home, nice work.
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ReplyDeleteThe firs in this picture would have been planted. Naturally occurring trees are more like the Elm, Beech, Oak etc Ireland is said to be the least forested country in Europe . It would have been more like the ‘bocage’ countryside of Normandy without the sunken roads. Small fields, stone ditches on poorer land and straggly bush and occasionally tree topped boundary with a sheugh ( drainage ditch) dug on either or both sides on other land. Most roads had a sheugh if the surrounding land was wet but they were often overgrown. Sheugh is the more northern part of Ireland name for this type of ditch, mainly in Ulster.
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Good example of a sheugh. Ignore the wire fence.
http://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/72/15/1721597_fd953a6b.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Ballydoolagh_Townland_-_geograph.org.uk_-_940701.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Hedge,_Corranarry_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1180940.jpg
http://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/87/95/1879580_67127b1f.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Sheugh_and_footbridge%2C_Banbridge_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1588406.jpg/639px-Sheugh_and_footbridge%2C_Banbridge_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1588406.jpg
Stone walls
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Found this. Recommended by others !
'' Raids and rallies'' by Ernie O' Malley , almost each chapter is in effect a wargames scenario with a map - a wonderful book and a must for anyone wanting to game this period ...
the '' battles'' covered are
the sack of hollyford barracks
drangan barracks
rearcross barracks
rineen
scramogue
tourmakeady
modreeny
carrowkennedy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_O%27Malley
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Raids-Rallies-Ernie-OMalley/dp/1901737284
Thanks, Anon! I have the Raids and Rallies book now on my Amazon wishlist. Just got the Osprey "The War for Ireland 1913-1923" in the mail today, and really getting some feel for the period, particularly the background and how all the various conflicts (Easter Rising, War of Independence, and Civil War) all tie together.
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