Dice or No Dice

  S ome years ago I helped my son cut out a couple of paper armies, one for the English Civil War, the other for the Wars of the Roses.  They provided cheap, colourful and lightweight armies that he could take easily to school to fight with friends there and we had a few ECW games ourselves.  For quite a few years they have been gathering dust on a shelf in the gaming shed.  There the pikes and muskets of the Civil War remain, but the bills and bowmen of the Wars of the Roses have been in the field testing out Adrian Nayler's 'Blood Red Roses', as reported a few weeks ago. What I found when moving the paper armies around was that many of the flags and thin ends of weapons had been bent badly and all looked in need of straightening out and repair to damage.  I also found that I would need quite a few more stands to be able to fight the size of battles that Blood Red Roses allows.  This set me thinking about how to make lasting repairs and whether there were different approac