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Popski's Private Army
dafrca
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 2:42 pm 
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Has there ever been a thread that stayed on topic after three pages?

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 2:53 pm 
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Quote (Tas @ 21 2005 July,06:30)
Of course not everyone LEARNS from thsoe experiences...or they get so old they forget what the lesson was! :D

I heard an essay just yesterday regarding that issue.  There was a line that I particularly appreciated.  It was from the author, a woman, addressed to younger women and had a very poetic turn of phrase to end the essay:

...when you are older,
and ready for scars
and knowledge.


Maybe it's just the former English Lit major in me,  :blush: but I hope you guys enjoy it, too.

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 3:57 pm 
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Quote (dafrca @ 22 2005 July,14:42)
Has there ever been a thread that stayed on topic after three pages?

dafrca

Thats why I tend to read just about all of the threads, regardless of the topic. You never know where a thread may end up! ?:-:

EDIT: I just noticed I was promoted! Hooray!




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PostPosted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 10:45 pm 
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EDIT: I just noticed I was promoted! Hooray!

Congrats Sergeant  :;):

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 12:19 am 
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Well done Sgt!

I was promoted last week too, but preferred my old Title.  I guess "Admiral" had a nice ring about it for me... :laugh:

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 12:29 am 
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Thanks dafrca and Tas! :) It feels good to work my way up through the ranks! :cool:

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 4:50 am 
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Congrads on all promos ! :D   I think my next rank is "Retired" ! :p

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dafrca
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 6:00 am 
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I was promoted last week too, but preferred my old Title. ?I guess "Admiral" had a nice ring about it for me... :laugh:

Oh come now, like I would know how to be the Master of the Fleet?  ???

We needed a Navy Man to become a Master of the Fleet.  :laugh:

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 6:15 am 
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Oh Ok then, if you insist...I suppose its only a minor upgrade from my honourary "Master of Ships" title :D

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dafrca
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 6:55 am 
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There, see how much better the fleet is running already... :;):

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 9:09 am 
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However, I have a grave and deep concern ?

There is a forum demon that hunts me, really I am not crazy, just ask PG or Neal Hunt, they know

It has stalked me ever since I started working on Epic-A way way back when :L

The first time it was kind, sorta just a warning shot across my bow, as it were, and the number of the beast then was 759 :(

The second time the beast ?toyed with me and let me get the holy number up to over 800 before the next shot came :(

Then it was cruel, the beast ?had made me believe it had gone, it let me bring the holy number up to 1200, but alas it hadn't gone, and as sure as the sun will rise the shot came in straight and true. :(

I am not kidding, every time I get my post count up near, or just over, 1,000 the forum I am on either folds up or changes and I gotta start back at zero again

In an attempt to sooth the beast in the SG forum I have started to count backwards as the forum counter moves forward, hopefully this will confuse the beast.

I can only hope he hasn't followed me here into this sanctuary, *looks left and right and then makes the holy sign of the emoticon*

Jaldon :O




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PostPosted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 3:54 pm 
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Don't worry "J", you got a long way to go to hit a Grand or more !  I'm over 6 Grand !  I'm very verbose !  :laugh:

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 9:09 am 
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First of all, sorry to dig up an old topic. And doubly sorry to do it just to echo just about everybody else by saying I really like your post and agree with nearly everything.

Do you mind if I save this pearl of your wisdom to be quoted later somewhere?

However, I think the one point below should be clarified somewhat.


So for a wargame to reflect the real world it has to function so that a single turn occurs in the same, or less, amount of real time then what is being represented by the game on the table. If it does then the gaming generals have to make the same snap decisions that the real commanders have too, and this allows both sides to actually perform maneuvers.


Real general's troops in RealWurld™ can move by themselves, simultaneously and even make some decisions by themselves while a mini wargamer has to physically push his troops around and make all the decisions for them. The larger the game the longer this takes.

So, for the abovementioned reason it's not the TURN which should take that little time but the decision making time, i.e. the time to give orders.  That should indeed be far more limited to allow for somewhat "realistic" simulation of the stress combat situation brings on the commanders. :)

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 9:28 am 
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The larger the game, the more friends you have playing the game, the more bodies to push minis arond with, the more sharp the jokes, the more fun had.

Actually if the number of minis reaches the point that the players cannot carry out the turn in the time frame alotted for a single turn, then the battle your playing is too big and you need more friends involved.

Using 15mm figs me and my friend Burke tried to play the Battle of Gettysburg on a 5'x15' table using a Brigade scale set of rules. Now the rules themselves worked well, and we had, had loads of fun fighting smaller battles, but this monster took too long to play out a turn, and we were spending less time enjoying the game.

Mid way through the second days battle we backed everything up to the first day, declared a "Weekend Wargame", called our gaming friends, and then with six players (three on a side) we fought the whole thing over two days and had a great time.

Sorry to disagree, but I still stand on my original point, and if you are playing too large of a battle then you players to move it along then you are not having as much fun as you would if you weren't.

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 5:14 pm 
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Hi Guys,

You ought to check out "Piquet," a rule set designed to simulate the fog of war and imperection of battlefield observation.

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