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BanzaiCat

Bawb was responsible for the 'eye for an eye' law. So you're claiming to be the great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather of modern law, then?

I mean, I wasn't there, who am I to dispute it? ;)

bob48

'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers'

'Clip those corners'

Recombobulate the discombobulators!

BanzaiCat

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Sorry Bawb. I'll buy you two pints instead of one when I see ya.

bayonetbrant

Quote from: Banzai_Cat on November 19, 2016, 01:06:25 PMSorry Bawb. I'll buy you two pints instead of one when I see ya.

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bob48

#649
Nah, I though B_C was going to be posted to Sconny Botland?
'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers'

'Clip those corners'

Recombobulate the discombobulators!

BanzaiCat

#650
I'm still waiting on that, though the way things have been going (you're going to Dubai for two wee...wait, no you're not, oh wait, you're going to Belgium for two day- oh, wait, no, Dubai, yes, for sure no- no, sorry, Belgium, for su- no, we'll not need you for this, thanks though), I'm not holding my breath anymore. The head of learning globally just showed us an org chart that shows someone sitting in Scotland that's an ID, but things at this place change on a dime. I'm hoping to go, but if I do it'll very likely just be a short time. They'll only need someone to set up a new hire from the locals. Though anything my company promises me these days, I'm pretty much taking with a grain of salt. I didn't know about our offsite until the week before, and you hear all kinds of rumors, so I just keep my head down and try to get through the fifteen million minutiae I need to get done daily for all my global projects...blah blah whine whine.

Pinetree

Gen. Montgomery: "Your men don't salute much."
Gen. Freyberg: "Well, if you wave at them they'll usually wave back."

Nefaro

That has to be the smallest wargame scenario I've ever seen, at that scale.

Crossroads

Quote from: Nefaro on November 21, 2016, 07:58:10 AM
That has to be the smallest wargame scenario I've ever seen, at that scale.

How neat!  :knuppel2: O0 ;D
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Nefaro

Bonus points for trimming that corner bush.   O0

bob48

I've been looking at MMP's 'The Mighty Endeavour' in their SCS. Anyone played it?

I also really like the look of Legion Wargames 'Dien Bien Phu', but can't see that any of the UK retailers have it in stock :-((
'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers'

'Clip those corners'

Recombobulate the discombobulators!

Pinetree

Quote from: Nefaro on November 21, 2016, 07:58:10 AM
That has to be the smallest wargame scenario I've ever seen, at that scale.
There's one that's smaller, Tea Time, it's only 9 hexes.
Gen. Montgomery: "Your men don't salute much."
Gen. Freyberg: "Well, if you wave at them they'll usually wave back."

BanzaiCat

#657
Quote from: bob48 on November 21, 2016, 05:03:55 PM
I also really like the look of Legion Wargames 'Dien Bien Phu', but can't see that any of the UK retailers have it in stock :-((

You got me to look at that, bob...I don't like the counters at first glance but the map is gorgeous. There's also something about the battle that's very intriguing. I remember spending a lot of time playing 'Conflict in Vietnam' on my grandfather's Apple IIc (when he was being nice, anyway) when I was a teen, and that battle was my favorite scenario.

Here's a gameplay vid - and coincidentally, the player here is doing the Dien Bien Phu scenario. I know it's not a boardgame but man, those graphics though. I loved this game and the two others in the series, Crusade in Europe and Decision in the Desert. Great, great games at the time!



Stinks that the UK still doesn't have decent wargaming outlets for board games - at least, that are reasonably priced. :(

bob48

I've been interested in the French-Indochina war for ages, and have read quite a bit about it, but games on the subject are few and far between. I definitely like the looks of this one, and they also do another one from the period, 'Tonkin'.
'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers'

'Clip those corners'

Recombobulate the discombobulators!

Nefaro

My nephew, playing the Tokugawa faction, was trouncing me at our first game of Sekigahara: The Unification Of Japan this afternoon in the game cave.

Very enjoyable card-driven block game that isn't too rules heavy.  The first session went even better than I expected, and the crafty kid caught on very quickly.   :bd: