30th August: Rapunzel.
In 1862 in Northern Virginia, however, Major General John Pope was about to get his long awaited comeuppance. Lee was ready to take the offensive against the man he had come to despise, for his over confident bombast and disregard and disrespect of Virginia and the men he had come east to command.
Not heeding his subordinates’ requests for caution, Pope tried once again to break Jackson’s battered Corps(one Brigade did break, but others plugged the gap). On the union far left were only two brigades of Infantry and they were to be assailed by ten times their number. Three Southern Divisions, Hood’s, Kemper’s and Jones’ crashed onto the field, making short work of the outnumbered Northern troops.
Pope did well to recognise the danger when it appeared and sent four Brigades from three different Divisions to hold at Henry House Hill on his left. Remember this was ground fought over 13 months ago, by much the same men and officers, although most were now promoted.
This time around there would be no rout. Understandably, there was much jubilation on the side of the Southerners and a great loss of morale on the Northern side. This sense of martial superiority, begun last Summer at 1st Manassas, was to continue and come to a head on the field of Gettysburg another Summer from now.
A&A Sculpt Production Costs
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I was reading a BBC News article on Lego blocks and this sentence caught my attention: “The cost of creating a new Lego brick, mainly setting up moulds and production processes, is usually about $50,000.” It made me wonder (just as a theoretical question, since I doubt that the figures are publicly available anywhere) if that’s similar to what it costs WotC to create a new A&A sculpt. It’s hard to guess: A&A sculpts are smaller than many Lego pieces, but on the other hand Lego bricks have to be made with very precise tolerances (as small as 2 micrometres, apparently) in order for the interlocking parts to fit together properly.
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I can’t wait for the day when 3-D printers are finally priced down to a reasonable consumer level so hobbyists can go nuts making their own sculpts.
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