Yet another attempt to Restart

I have not posted in two and a half months.  I am not dead.  I have intended to post, but, being gone for a week on a camping trip with no internet access, and then another two weeks was not helpful.  Now, I am back home, and intend to post at least once a month.  I am now in school again, so that may not work out.

Anyway, I have been working on painting up my ratman army, and have at least 1 unit of Beastmen and 1 of Ratman hordes done if I remember correctly.  Unfortunatly, these days, I have little time to work on them, and, when I get out the paints and set up my station, I have to take it down many weekends, and Wednesdays, so work only occurs when I really am motivated.  I dont have any pictures at this time, but will try to get some up by the weekend (or on it).

Also, this summer I have played alot of moderated games on AH.com.  I guess this is because I actually have time to devote to it (more than 5 minutes), so I am able to create updates that actually fit in, not two sentences about an important country, covering 5 years of time.  In the first game I played, I played as "The Union of the Fourteen Countys", a Boer republic based out of Michigan and the Wisconsin coast.  Basically, in that world, it was decided that there were Dutch colonys up the Delaware River, (known as the Hudson in TTL).  When Spanish forces conquered it, eventually, many of the "Amerikaners", as they were known, fled west, into the Ohioland.  At the time the game started, in 1820, they had fled to Michigan.  Since we were in areas claimed by the Basque Republic (yes, there was a Basque state in New England), we came up with a deal to move to the Ozarks to assisst the Basques in gaining control of the west.  Unfortunatly, this area was dominated by the New Caledonians, crazy militaristic Scots based out of Texas, and Pennsylvania, theocratic militarists based out of Virginia.  Unfortunatly, my people thought the ruling council was in the Basque sphere, so they headed into the Missouriland and set up a new Town, Fort Niuewland north of OTL St. Louis.  I decided to play as them, and so began play as the Niuewland Republic, and set up town guards and even began construction on a new capitol, but while I was gone for a week, the game died.  It was pretty cool because I had the Roosevelts, van Halens, and de Walles, and if the game had gotten into the early 1900s, I was planning on having a Theodoor Roosevelt as a major military leader, and later on maybe a President Eduard van Halen.

Amerikaner Flag

A map of the Amerikaner movements.

Also, this summer, I did a good bit of reading.  Some of the books I read are (and know that I write them out, I cant remember most of them):

• The Man with the Iron Heart  I liked it, but at some points, it was just kind of boring, and at others, really strange that the German partisans never seemed to get caught or make mistakes.
• Dorsai!  Pretty good book of Military Science Fiction, the idea of a dozen human states with their own speciality is intriguing.  I wish there had been more about the with the United Orthodox Church.  The book is quite short.
• Flashman on the March  First one of the books I have read.  I really liked it, though it is really quite vulgar.
• The Guns of August  I actually read this for extra credit for school, but I had it on my shelf and had planned on reading it for a while.
• The Last Kingdom  Part of Richard Cornwells Saxon Tales, it is just good all around, but especially in describing the battle scenes.

I am now reading Flashman and the Tiger as well as Three to Dorsai, which is three of the Dorsai novels in one big book (which still is only a little thicker than Flashman and the Tiger).