Sunday, 25 May 2025

Boot Sales and Battle Reports


The story of the WW1 German commerce raider and minelayer the Moewe (Seagull). 

Laurel and I headed out this morning to our local boot sale and I managed to pick up a copy of the above for the princely sum of £1!

I have owned this in paperback but it disintegrated a few years ago. It is a magnificent read and if WW1 commerce raiding minelayers are your thing then is book is a treat. 

Relying largely on stealth for protection the Moewe could not outrun or outfight a warship she would be likely to encounter and so ploughed a lonely furrow across the sea, capturing and sinking stray merchantmen and laying mines were least expected.

Cracking subject for a mini campaign methinks!

In Other News….

The battle report for Developing The Portable Ironclads Wargame: The American Civil War has been drafted. I now need to add a selection of appropriate pictures to the text and then send it over to the editor-in-chief for his perusal.

It was great fun to write!


2 comments:

MSFoy said...

You sold your boots...?

David Crook said...

Hello there MSFoy,

No boots were sold - aside from the obligatory pair of Wellies I do not own any others to sell! ;-)

Hope all is well in Chateau Foy.

All the best,

DC

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