Season's Greetings/Felices Fiestas

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Season's Greetings/Felices Fiestas

Thery are coming (Thargoids in Elite: Dangerous)

First contact with the Thargoids in Elite: Dangerous



They are back. Run for your life!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU AND YOURS....

and

HAPPY WARGAMING!

When the future reaches us

A certain melancholy pervades us unwittingly. Today, 14 February 2016 (Valentine) is the inception date of Pris Stratton (NEXUS-6 N6FAB21416)

This is not the only replicant to be made during 2016. Roy Batti (NEXUS-6 N6MAA10816) was incepted on 6 January.

As we await the filming of Blade Runner II, we can only say that it is 2016 and the cars do not fly!

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Merry Christmas from ALKAID

To you and yours
and
Happy Wargaming!

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CEED (Curious Encounters in Elite Dangerous)

See yourself

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"Striker" in Elite!!!

Well, this Commander is not Stryker (from Hinton Hunt Vintage blog fame) but almost .....

Soon, the end of the combat of Dessau!

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Spain 1 - Netherlands 5

Yo can see a close view of the defensive line of the Spanish national team, during its match against the Netherlands at the FIFA World Cup 2014.
Ramos (Real Madrid) and Piqué (Barça) are waiting for the goalkeeper (Casillas of Real Madrid)

The next thing is to win against Chile and Australia: not easy task!

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Hala Madrid!

HALA MADRID!

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How difficult is to find a ford?

During the Bunzlau scenario, the Karpov's Cossacks were trying to find a ford upstream the watermill. If they had found it, they could have crossed the river Bober outflanking the French defense.
Although the capabilities of irregular cavalry units in Lasalle are quite limited (despite my home rule), the presence of this force in the area had surely hampered the French defense of the bridge and would have contributed, in combination with the frontal attack of Prussian infantry, to the Allied victory.
To find a ford, the Cossacks were to be in contact with the river for a full turn without doing anything else, and roll a die. A result equal or greater than 4 would mean that a ford had been found, and the Cossacks could have passed the river the next turn. However, they were seeking for a ford for 6 consecutive turns with negative results!
The chances of such an event can be found by means of statistics. The problem is based on the binomial distribution, B(n,p), that gives the probability of the number of successes in a sequence of n independent yes/no experiments, each of which yields success with probability p. In our case, n=6 and p=0,5 (a ford is found by rolling 4, 5 or 6 with 1D6). Using the adequate formula, the probability to achieve 6 failures in 6 successive rolls can be calculated as 0,5^6 = 0,015625 = 1,56%.
The Cossacks were really unlucky!

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Happy New Year!

Happy New Wargaming Year to Everybody!

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The Crobern diorama book. A Christmas present

You can see above the book "Cröbern 1813 The Battle of the Nations in Miniature" by Wolfgang Meyer describing the making of his fabulous and amazing Cröbern diorama.
The book can be purchased on-line (in German and English versions) in the e-shop of his site, along with other items (DVD's, cartoons) related with the diorama.
Don't forget to visit the Geschichte in miniaturen web page with dioramas for Crobern, Mockern and Ahuenhain, as well as his old web site Croebern 1813.

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Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas for you and yours!

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Summertime is here!

At last, the summer and the heat has arrived to Spain!  Enjoy this Roxette's old song

It's July (not June) but the sun is late this year!

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Baruk Khazad! Khazad ai-menu!

Titan's features

On November 13 the International Astronomical Union (IAU) approved the name Mount Doom for a peak on Saturn’s moon Titan.  According to the Tolkien's Lord of the Rings series, this mountain lies at the heart of Mordor and is the only site where the One Ring can be unmade. Titan is like a geek heaven, with place names coming from both J. R. R. Tolkien’s mythos and Frank Herbert’s Dune series.
All mountains on Titan are named for fictional peaks in Tolkien’s books. In addition to Mount Doom, there is Mount Erebor, the Lonely Mountain, where Bilbo and company travel to fight the dragon Smaug in The Hobbit and also the Misty Mountains which house the Dwarven city of Khazad-dum and the mines of Moria, where the dwarves dug too deep, unleashing the Balrog that kills Gandalf (well, almost killed him).

The plains of Titan are named from planets in Frank Herbert’s Dune series such as Arrakis Planitia, named for the planet where Paul Atreides becomes Muad’Dib and learns to ride the mighty sandworms. The Chusuk plain and Sikun labyrinth are also named for planets in the Dune series.
There are many other features in the Solar system that do not follow the habitual mithology nomenclature. You can see the current list of categories in the IAU's web site.
Note. As many of you will know, the post title is the Khuzdul battle cry of the Dwarves and its translation is Axes of the Dwarves! The Dwarves are upon you!

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How people in science see each other

A bit old (August 2011) but some of you will see some truth in it (I do!)

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