As a supreme grand geste , foreign units have been decorated by grateful allies for meritorious service. Applause frequently rings the excited air of conviviality. At all times, as a backdrop to the battle, appropriate thematic music lends itself to this atmosphere of controlled conflict. Be it pipes and drums, Napoleonic marches, or the sound track from War and Peace . Far from dominating, it becomes stylistically just one more component part of a larger context.
Style make the man.
For the war-gamer, the ''journey through the looking glass'' is not eftortless. As each war-game group has essentially a different view of what is important to a war game, the results, the ingredients, and the rules will vary between them. What should not be missed, though, is the real opponunity present to exploit our imaginations to the fullest with what is in fact and tancy, an exceptionally envigorating hobby. Cavalry regiments are composed of two bases of five men each.