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Royal Artillery in the Low Countries, 1748

Artist: Attributed to David Morier (Swiss-born British, c. 1705-c. 1770)

Date: c. 1748-1770

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dust Tactics: Heavy Panzer Walker by Fantasy Flight Games

Dust Tactics is a dieselpunk war simulation game played with miniature models.  Players take on the roles of Axis or allied forces and play a gritty retro-future war.  The Heavy Panzer Walker is a formidable piece of customizible artillery.

If you’re interested in Dust Tactics, you can visit the official web site at:

https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/products/dust-tactics

Danish gunners in action during the Second Schleswig War.

This coming weekend, the events at Corfe Castle continue with a visit from the Artillery.  They do come from a Parliamentarian regiment, and so (unfortunately) rather than applauding the brave attempts of Lady Bankes to protect her home and household, the weekend will include an officer of the ordnance talking about “the amount of powder used to reduce this nest of malignants” (his words, not…