Re: OFFICIAL - GZG: TWENTY PACKS of new 15mm releases almost ready!

The difficult bit, Phil, is that Dickson's descriptions of both troops
and hardware are quite sparse as I recall - I've got no clear mental
image of what the ships would look like, let alone things like the
vaguely-referenced tanks (which appear to have energy weaponry, but
that's about it - as I recall these are never even seen by the
protagonists in the books, they are just an unseen threat advancing in
the distance). The device you're referring to is the "Electric Horse", I
think, which is probably one of the best-described bits of tech, as
"like a wheel-less bicycle frame hung between two rotors"…

There are some drawings of Dorsai troops in one of the peripheral books
"Spirit of the Dorsai", which has a lot of rather nice "arty" drawings
in it - they depict the uniforms and other clothing as rather
"retro-60s-futuristic", helmets with bubble visors, very "ray gun"
looking weaponry etc., and I don't know if you would want to consider
those drawings as "canon" or just as some irrelevant fluff to illustrate
the novel….

My feeling for the Dorsai themselves would be that any reasonable
mid-tech troop types not in full combat armour would do, maybe the FSE
(helmeted versions only)….?

Jon (GZG)

On 30 Jan 2017, at 17:07, Phillip Atcliffe <atcliffe@ntlworld.com>
wrote:

> On 30/01/2017 00:34, Jon Tuffley wrote:
>> The Brethren are troops from a strongly religious background,
somewhat inspired by the concept of the "Friendlies", the colonies of
Harmony and Association, in the Dorsai books (which I've recently been
re-reading for the first time in twenty-odd years, very good stuff for
colonial light infantry actions!).
> Does this mean that there's the possibility of some not-Dorsai to
fight the Brethren? <hint, hint...> Though, to be honest, I'm not sure
how you'd tell they were Dorsai (or not <g>) other than by stats. Of
course, some of the vehicles, especially from The Tactics of Mistake --
the helichair or whatever it was called, the underwater dredger and the
like -- could be interesting.
> 
> Phil, who wouldn't mind some Dorsai-style ships as well
>