Thank's. How was the info in MAotS. Osprey's are like Playboy for the historically oriented but I actually do read it for the articles!
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Thank's. How was the info in MAotS. Osprey's are like Playboy for the historically oriented but I actually do read it for the articles!
Well, I'll read it later, probably saturday or sunday, so I can't really say ~D
Well, The "Vikings", "Normans", and "Parthian and Sassanid Persians" are all great! The Parthian and Sassanid book in particular has some of the most spectacularly great references for Asian and Middle Eastern Dark Age cavalry I've seen!
The Vikings is awesome, but the plates aren't too much like some that just scream "Hey, look at me ALL OF THE TIME". The Normans doesn't have any of those, either, but both are a treat to look at! The writing is great, too, of course. I've jumped into a section of the Vikings already, as well as the first section of Parthian and Sassanid Persians...
I recommend all three to anyone! Some of Mcbride's best, in my opinion.
-Gregory-
Is there any way to order Montvert Publication ? I think they released 2 books about Ptolemaic and Seleucid armies that could be helpful for my Warhammer ancient battles armies.
I find McBride's work in Rome's Enemies (3): Parthian & Sassanid Persians quite bad, really. There is no life in his art, they all look like immobile statues, not like real, live people that once walked this earth. McBride can do a lot better than that. The information contained in the book is really, really good, however, and kudos go out to Peter Wilcox for such a good text!
I've ordered the Vikings, and am eagerly awaiting it. I love the vikings, and want to know more about them. I'm also going to buy Viking Hersir later, since the artwork of the Warrior series is much more lifelike than those of some Men-at-arms books. :yes:
~Wiz
Wizard,
I agree with you about the lifelike style not being incorperated in the art in "Parthian & Sassanid Persians", but I actually like that style. Being a reeactor, I focus greatly on the arms and armor, and the background will often distract my eyes or hide detail of these items from me.
The same goes for "Ancient Armies of the Middle East", which uses the same art. I like it a lot, because of that. Most of the art could use backgrounds, though. Just not so full of stuff that it makes me lose my attention, as it often does!
-Gregory-
Those two books, illustrated by McBride are extremely rare. I want to get them to complete my Angus collection, but I can't find them anywhere!Quote:
Is there any way to order Montvert Publication ? I think they released 2 books about Ptolemaic and Seleucid armies that could be helpful for my Warhammer ancient battles armies.
I found some Montvert Publication books on amazon.fr, but they cost 100 € (!!!), and they don't have Seleucid and Ptolemaic armies anyway.
Don't you think the two double plates, that of the last stand longboat battle in Vikings and the Hastings plate in The Normans stand out? Hell i can look at thsoe pictures all the time! ~DQuote:
The Vikings is awesome, but the plates aren't too much like some that just scream "Hey, look at me ALL OF THE TIME". The Normans doesn't have any of those, either, but both are a treat to look at!
/me just ordered Seleucid and Ptolemaic reformed armies v2 ~D
May I ask where you found them, Meneldil?
-Gregory-
Just got a good book on the Samurai...man Osprey makes the best military books ever...Sun Tzu Would be so jealous.
BTW Greg where you been lately man? Thought about coming back and leading our history forums?
Try PM'ing me again Meneldil.
Hello,Quote:
Originally Posted by Mount Suribachi
I know what you mean. Sometimes after I buy the book - it goes straight to my library shelf and I never read it again.
However, I have the pleasure to say that I bought another bunch of books by Osprey. I read a few - but the one that seems very readable is
Kate Gillver's Caesar's Gallic Wars (OSPREY ESSENTIAL HISTORIES)
She writes very well. I found her work very enjoyable to read.
Osprey is having a 10% sale on one of McBride's books - "warlords and warriors" - does anyone have a copy and what do they think of it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Gregorius0202
BTW, has anyone read the Essential Histories: Revolutionary Wars, and EH: Napoleon(1) ? Are the 2 books any good?
Thinking of Christmas time!
Hey Crimson,
I own "Warlords and Warriors". It's a compilation of some of Mcbride's most popular Osprey plates with detailed descriptions for each, that in many cases echo the original texts on them in their appropriate titles. In order, I'll try to list the books they come from... Each is a random plate from these books, half of full page... Here's the BOOKS they come from (not the plate titles themselves, so I won't give it away!)
The Ancient Warrior plates-
"Ancient Armies of the Middle East"
"New Kingdom Egypt"
"The Ancient Assyrians"
"The Thracians 700 BC-AD 46"
"The Scythians 700-300 BC"
"The Ancient Greeks"
Rome and her Enemies-
"Republican Roman Army 200-104 BC"
"Enemies of Rome (2) Gallic and British Celts"
"Enemies of Rome (5) The Desert Frontier"
"Gladiators 100 BC- AD 200"
The Dark Ages-
"Germanic Warrior 236-568 AD"
"Arthur and the Anglo-Saxon Wars"
"Attila and the Nomad Hordes"
"Romano-Byzantine Armies 4th-9th Centuries"
"Armies of Medieval Russia 750-1250"
"The Vikings"
"The Normans"
Medieval Conquest-
"French Medieval Armies 1000-1300"
"El Cid and the Reconquista 1050-1492"
"Saladin and the Saracens"
"The Mongols"
"Samurai"
"The Mamluks 1250-1517"
"French Armies of the Hundred Years War"
"The Age of Tamerlane"
"Knights at Tournament"
Warlords and Rebels-
"Granada 1492"
"Aztec, Miztec, and Zapotec Armies"
"German Medieval Armies 1300-1500"
"The Border Reivers"
"Elizabethan Sea Dogs 1550-1605"
"Samurai 1150-1600"
"Bucaneers 1620-1700"
"The English Civil War"
Exploration and Invasion-
"The Conquistadores"
"Pirates 1660-1730"
"Highland Clansman 1689-1746"
"Privateers and Pirates 1730-1830"
"The Zulus"
"The Zulu War"
"The Alamo 1836"
"Women in WWII"
And that's it, my friend! Whoo, that took me twenty minutes to write out... You'd better get that book, now!
Haha.
Cheers!
-Gregory-
Hey there - it seems to be pretty good then.
Thanks for telling me more about it - I'll go order it now. With some luck, it will come by Christmas time.
So, it basically takes little snipits of his other books and combines em all into one? I think I may order this book....Any other good Osprey books out there I should know about?
Hi,
I'm stuck at the moment in Singapore due to work stuff.
There are a few book shops here which stock Osprey books - a little high. Example, I have a copy of Menatarms121: Armies of the Carthaginian Wars. Its retailing here for (converted) US$17.20 or UK9pounds. So its a few dollars higher than the US copy but ... hmmm... nearly the same price for a Brit copy.
http://www.ospreypublishing.com/titl...ser=ESS~per=40
But I dun really like to mailorder. So I'll stick to going to the bookshop. Unfortunately, a lot of the books are soiled and dogeared by careless readers.
I'm a sucker for the mint feel and look of books - I also collect comics. And I get a kick out of seeing a mint glossy copy of my favourite book. "It smells like... victory." Don't it??? lol!
Anyhow, since my brief stay here in sunny Singapore- I amassed quite a bit of a collection. Here they are -
>>>>
Book 15 Waterloo 1815. Geoffrey Wooten - its a little bit confusing for some reason...
(sidenote- my god, and to think that after 100 years the French and British are fighting in Europe against the Germans and with planes and tanks...)
Book16 Kursk 1943. Mark Healy - excellent work - well written... good number of war photographs and illustrated well too - but dunno who the artist is.
Book36 Cannae 216BC Mark Healy - again, well written... goes to show that winning wars isn't all about winning battles. Illustrated by McBride... only quarrel I have with this book is that it contains a few too many old black and white photos of landscapes and museum artifects - where RGB color photos would have been better.
Book118-Yom Kippur War(1) by Simon Dunstan - illustrated by Howard Gerrard.
****Essential Histories*********
Book 1 - The Crusades - David Nicolle
(sidenote- after purchasing the book I walked over to a Muslim coffee house to sit down for awhile. Noone was looking at me - but I had really bad vibes just reading the book)
Book43- Caesar's Gallic Wars - Kate Gilliver
Very, very readable. Gilliver's prose flows like butter. Highly recommended. Also a good number of color plates and helpful illustrations.
+++++++Men at arms series+++++++++++++++
Book 109 - Ancient Armies of the Middle East (TerrenceWise and Angus McBride). Umm... McBride's drawings here - have a certain "staged" look. Could be more livelier. Otherwise OK!!!
Book 121 - Armies of the Carthaginian Wars - Terrence Wise and illustrated by Richard Hook. I like Hook's attention to detail - and esp. his choice of coloring which makes his works have more vividness.
@@@@@@@Warrior Series@@@@@@@@@
Book 48 - English Medieval Knight. Can't help thinking of Monty Python's works when I look at the cover. Graham Turner's illustrations also look a bit dull.
^^^^^^^^^^Fortress Series^^^^^^^^^^^
Japanese Pacific Island Defenses
Japanese Castles 1540-1640
(((((((((((((((((((New Vanguard))))))))))))))))))
Modern Israeli Tanks and Infantry Carriers 1985-2004. The drawings by Tony Bryan are exceptional. Well worth getting!
I also have another large collection of books by Osprey and other Publishing houses. But alas, no here with me - they are back home in Melbourne.
Anybody read, seen or heard good things about this book?
"War In Japan 1467-1615"
(Essential Histories 46)
http://www.ospreypublishing.com/titl...=S4809~ser=ESS
I am really considering ordering this book, but I would love to hear what others have to say about it before I do.
OMFG!!!!! Concord has posted sample pics of the just released Age of the Crusades book, and needless to say it looks to be Angus McBride's magnum opus! All bow to his genius!
http://www.concord-publications.com/6007/6007cover.jpg
http://www.concord-publications.com/6007/6007-01.jpg
http://www.concord-publications.com/6007/6007-02.jpg
http://www.concord-publications.com/6007/6007-03.jpg
http://www.concord-publications.com/6007/6007-04.jpg
I can't believe he did the lone Berserker at Stamford Bridge....amazing! And just think - there's another 16 we haven't seen yet!
Still I seem to like the battle scenes by Christa Hook and Gerry Embleton better... they 's more gritty, more real, more down to the core...
McBride is very good, but it just seems that when a myriad of movement and chaos is demanded for a piece, Gerry Embleton and Christa Hook just deliver better... check the plate of the Battle of Strasbourg by Gerry Embleton... amazing plate! It really captures the spirit of a battle like that as I imagine it.
Don't get me wrong -- McBride is great, but Christa Hook and Gerry Embleton just manage to capture that gritty character of battle better than he does, it seems... Christa Hook even better than Gerry Embleton, simply because it seems that her artwork has that little touch of extra care. Still, the plates in The Sarmatians are very, very well done by Embleton.
Anyways, on to the subject. What is an artwork with Landsknechts on it doing in something on the Crusades? The Landsknechts fought against the Ottomans, but ya can't be seein' that as Crusades, I'd imagine...
~Wiz
You're joking right? Apart from the front plate, my cat's coughed up better looking stuff that that!Quote:
Still, the plates in The Sarmatians are very, very well done by Embleton.
Well its the "Age" of the Crusades, basically spanning the entire Medieval era starting at the Magyars and ending with the siege of Malta. The Siege of Vienna is included in this period.Quote:
Anyways, on to the subject. What is an artwork with Landsknechts on it doing in something on the Crusades? The Landsknechts fought against the Ottomans, but ya can't be seein' that as Crusades, I'd imagine...
BKB you are spot on about the plates, "age of the crusades" means the era in which they took place in, so the plates should not just be confined to pictures of the crusades.
Also, tbh, I dont think Gerry Embleton would be missed in the osprey world if anything happened to him.
The Sarmatians were ok... to many none battle scenes.
For Xmas I got the Mounted Archers and the Scythians. Very good both, but the Scythians didn't show enough light cavalry archers... I mean come on! Armoured troops are pretty, but they don't help me much in reaserching Europa Barborarum... The Mounted archers was excellent, though I missed the two extra plates.
I'm afraid that those "Age of Crusades" plates don't appeal to me. They look way too cartoony, in comparison to most of Mcbride's stuff... I'm afraid I just can't handle them that much:\
As to the two-page plates in "The Vikings" and "The Normans", BKB, I can't look at both of those all day because I've had them in "Warlords and Warriors" for much to long to be interested anymore!
I don't care for either Embelton or Hook, but prefer Graham Turner next, to Mcbride. Spectacular stuff he puts out. He doesn't stray from historical accuracy, as Mcbride does, just to capture the eye of the onlooker, either.
-Gregory-
Turner... what stuff does he do? I agree, the historical accuracy of McBrides plates sometimes are troubling, and a pain in the butt for reaserching, but it usaully isn't that bad.
Hmmm.. haven't seen any artwork of Turner as of now... could you direct me to some of the titles he's participated in, if you will?
~Wiz
The two that I have that he's done (I think these are the only two) are "English Medieval Knight 1200-1300", and "English Medieval Knight 1400-1500". There's one in between, (i.e. EMK 1300-1400) but I don't have that yet. I'd suggest picking one up. The illustrations on 1400-1500 are the better of the two I have, for sure. He has these plates in it... It's from the Warrior Series:
Plate A: Half-page of Agincourt, depicting dismounted French Knights.
Plate B: Knight, Circa 1425
Plate C: "Confrontation on the Road" Circa May 22, 1448
Plate D: A King's Court, Circa 1465
Plate E: Italian Armour, Circa 1450
Plate F: English Armour, 1450-1500
Plate G: Equipped Man-at-arms, 1450-1500
Plate H: Tournament Armour
Plate I: Battle of Wakefield, Circa December 31, 1460
Plate J: "The Consequences of Defeat"
So, it's got 10 plates, which is good for Warrior Series... Mcbride only does 8 for his, I think, for the most part. They're also all very good with lots of variety. The "EMK 1200-1300" only has 8 plates. I need to purchase the 1300-1400 book, now!
Here are Amazon links to all three, in order:
1200-1300-
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...glance&s=books
1300-1400-
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...glance&s=books
1400-1500-
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...glance&s=books
And, suprise, suprise... A website that hosts prints of some of Graham's work! May you all drool soundly tonight...
http://www.studio88.co.uk/
-Gregory-
Contacted Osprey and found out that Angus McBride will only be illustrating one book for them this year:
Elite 130: The Mycenaeans
Disappointing.