Stuart Ellis-Gorman

@drcrossbows.bsky.social

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Medieval historian, crossbows and the Hundred Years War. Author of The Medieval Crossbow (2022) and Castillon (2025). Freelance writer/editor/proofreader, occasional game designer. Reviewer of books and games. Website: www.stuartellisgorman.com

My hand holding a copy of the tiny box containing the game Ju Say O
General Orders: Sengoku Jidai, a little hex map covered in wooden disks, boats, and catapults. We're playing the asymmetrical back of the board which is the better side in my opinion
My tiny side table with two boards for Infernal Machine (the Mission map for Charleston harbor and a display of my death trap of a submarine). Next to that is my dice tower. On the right side is El Salvador from The Guerrilla Generation. In between are decks of cards for Infernal Machine and the play aids for both games.
General Orders by Osprey Games. It's a small board covered in hexagons with wooden colored disks and cylinders as playing pieces.
Hanwha Eagles home stadium, Eagles vs Bears and Bears are pitching. Photo is from 10 rows back, between home plate and first base.
Photo of the board game Iwari in the middle of a game.
The Harbinger Assassination Oxford blocks kit (which is about the assassination of Japan's first prime minister by a Korean independence activitist at Harbin train station) assembled on my table, except that for some reason An Jung-geun is using a bazooka instead of a pistol to kill Ito Hirobumi.
Life size Unicorn Gundam in Tokyo. It's a sunny day and there's a pretty big crowd watching it transform into Destroy Mode.
Photo of Daejeon Hanwha Eagles stadium, Eagles are pitching. The view is from above first base.
Photo of displays showing Eagles win while teams line up to bow to fans at Hanwha Eagles stadium. View from right field.
View of Hanwha stadium from right field
View of Hanwha Eagles ballpark in Daejeon South Korea from left field
A copy of Dungeon Inc by Ben Felten and Mission Booklet #1 for same, both published by the Merry Mushmen
A shelf of secondhand books labelled "A poorly defined section on US Wars and defense issues"
Stefan meme saying "The Whistler films have got everything: spooky shadows, 60 minute runtime, an ominous narrator framing device, Richard Dix..."
The box for the game Swing&Roll sitting on my desk between my mouse and keyboard.
Ryu Hyun Jin mid pitch to a packed Hanwha Stadium. Hanwha is playing KT Wiz
A diagram of nine game boxes. From top left to right: Warcraft II, Baldur's Gate, Super Mario World, Final Fantasy II (IV), Ogre Battle 64, Bloodborne, Legend of Zelda Links Awakening, Civilization II, Diablo II.
Screenshot of the map from Sicily II at the start of Turn 3. The allies have landed at the bottom of the map and are slowly pushing north and west, but there's a lot of island still to take.
Photo of the beach in Gangneung South Korea. The sea is a lovely greenish blue, the sand a brilliant yellow. My partner and daughter are in the far distance.
Two pictures of a board game that looks like parcheesi but the board is the shape of a Nazi Iron Cross. The game's box is also in frame, and the cover just has a Nazi Iron Cross on it.
A photo of my arm with my sleeve rolled up. My first tattoo, an outline of a d12 with blue swirly patterns, has been joined by a new tattoo: kumdori, the mascot of Daejeon city, is a lil yellow alien guy with a star antenna and he's holding a baseball in one hand and some bread in the other.
A game of The Gang, which uses poker cards and chips to create a coop experience, in progress.
Screenshot of the map of the Battle of Chancellorsville from the Vassal module for Give Us Victories. The Union is threatening the Confederate position and has successfully taken Chancellorsville but suffered enormous losses in doing so. The map shows the area around Chancellorsville in beautiful hex and counter style.
A big bowl of Korean ramyeon noodles with teok (rice cakes) and a big slice of cheese. There is a plate of mandu and a beer nearby. In the background there is a large bowl of udon.
A picture of my hand holding a I cant believe it's not Lego kit of a Korean train with Daejeon's expo tower and a giant Kumdori. It's still in the box.
A trio of books photographed in front of my little Christmas tree. The are: Come Down A Lower Place by Yi Seoyung, A Magical Girl Retires by Park Seolyeon, and The Call of The Friend by Choi Jaehoon
An assembled tiny RX-78 Gundam in Hatsune Miku colors sitting on top of some board games. A little Christmas train is next to it and some Dragon Dice in the background.
A list of sentences to remind us of film noirs we saw: It's double because it's a train Orson Welles is Irish for some reason Misty airport shootout The big swede All the money blows away lol "That cat is as dead as a doornail" Peter Lorre is barely in it, annoying neighbor in it too much Wife explodes The box is full of radiation The pickpocket lives in a shack for some reason The guys name is raven, evil old guy, magic trick girl Bogart bullies his friend on a train and then the friend explodes The hitch-hiker is murders Laura is dead but then she isn't He kills TWO PEOPLE ostensibly by accident and is so stupid Mister Teatime is the bad guy Guy breaks out of prison, has two girlfriends, is stupid He solves his own murder Florist takes his rightful place in a gang of thieves Hawaii Tony Curtis is a dick and he tries to break up this couple Petrol station guy has to go find evil girlfriend? There's almost three Mrs Carrolls actually Why pay for Bogart and then not show Bogart? She just wants to run a restaurant and her daughter is the worst Its a heist and the German guy gets caught cause he watches a girl dance for too long Orson Welles is a Nazi for some reason It's about a Maltese Falcon He's warm like a baby spider She Should be in all the movies how can we get her in all the movies? That lady cannot stop lying Bogart is just trying to run a newspaper over here (I'm running out of characters, it goes on like this but you get the idea)
A fully built Master Grade Heavyarms Gundam, posed on my messy sitting room table.
Top half of Master Grade Heavyarms Gundam kit sitting in his box on top of the instruction manual.
My hand holding the starter set for the Gundam Card Game including the Gundam Assemble miniatures set with the Talgeese and two Leos.
A giant statue of the Wing Zero Custom (Endless Waltz) Gunpla kit in Yongsan. Its on a pedestal and lit up with lamps.
Hanwha in the field, not doing great.
View of hanwha ballpark from the right outfield. The view cuts off on the left due to the monster wall. Hanwha are in the field and Kiwoom are batting
Hwang Young Mook at bat for the Eagles. There are Eagles players on second and third.
An orangeish-red scarf that shows Eagles and the Eagles logo (other half says Hanwha) held up in front of the baseball diamond.
Hwang Junseo mid pitch at Hanwha Life Eage Park. There are Samsung Lions runners on first and third.
BGG advert for a Gamefound campaign for a reprint of The Other Side of the Hill, a game where you play the Nazi military high command, advertising it as a Blitz Print with a lightning bolt logo.
Kim Seo-hyun has just pitched and the Landers batter whose name I dont know has swung.
Roh Si-Hwan crossing home plate after his home run that scored us 2 runs.
Photo of Hanwha stadium from above first base. On the big screen is a middle aged-ish Korean man dressed as a Saja Boy from Kpop Demon Hunters
Hanwha Life Stadium from the seats high behind first base. Ryan Weiss is mid pitch, it's the second inning
Photo of Hanwha Eagle Park from row 8 behind first base.
A square of marshmallow around a cube of vanilla ice cream, on a stick. A bite has been taken out of it to show the inside. The marshmallow is a beautiful toasty brown.
A set of Cube4Me trays shown sticking up out of a copy of OCS Burma which is sitting inside a copy of OCS Korea)
Playing at the World 2e volume 2 and Knock #5 on top of a bedsheets.
The five maps that come in DAK laid out end to end on a kitchen floor. They cover the kitchen floor end to end, its honestly absurdly big.
Several board games laid out on a table. The top row, from left to right, are: DAK, Tunisia, Burma, Semper Fi, and Barren Victory. In front of them are Dauphin & l'Epee, Epees Souveraines, and Operational Matters issue 1.
Baseball, Hanwha at bat
A paper cup with two hard boiled eggs and the shell of a third in it. You can see baseball in the background.
Hanwha stadium, viewed from between home plate and first base. Hanwha are pitching against SSG Landers
Looking up at the front of the life size Gundam at Osaka Expo 2025.
The first scenario from Hoplite, I think its the Battle of Ephesus. The map is just a blank hex grid, no terrain. The Greek units in green and purple are being encircled by the Persians in blue.
Screenshot of the OCS Korea map area between Suwon and Pusan. The NK have failed to take Taejeon in the middle, and have not crossed the mountains to reach south-east Korea and the Pusan Perimeter zone.
A game of Molly House in play, its week 4 and community joy is high but the Gossip deck is also very large.
Battle of Ravenna from Arquebus, Men of Iron volume 4. Its set up but has not yet started. The massive French army is threatening a strongly entrenched Spanish position.
The map for OCS Korea, screenshot from Vassal. It shows approximately the region between Seoul and Busan. The North Koreans have stalled outside Taejeon/Daejeon, but have broken through further north and are threatening the middle of the peninsula.
The Agnadello scenario from Arquebus, the fourth entry in the Men of Iron series. The French have blown a pretty big hole in the Venetian lines with their artillery thanks to some amazing early rolls
The board midway through a game of Rose King. It's a 9x9 grid over a rough map of central England covered mostly in discs displaying either the white or red roses of the two factions.