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Wargaming => Age of Gunpowder => Topic started by: Cyrano on February 08, 2019, 03:25:04 PM
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Who??!??
This guy:
Or this guy:
(https://i.imgur.com/y276YTt.jpg)
Live three lifetimes and you likely won't do half the lunatic things that Frederick Gustavus Burnaby did.
He was, posthumously, everything an ACD should admire. Including the ability to carry ponies down stairs -- but that's another story.
This Saturday at 1900 CST, I will be teaching Osprey Publishing's The Men Who Would Be Kings colonial rules in preparation for a more dramatic retelling of the battle of Abu Klea at which the great Burnaby fell.
I would like to know how many can make it? I think -- stress think -- we can handle up to six with me as referee.
REMEMBER BURNABY!
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Burnaby Jones?
I loved Buddy Ebsen.
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Lots of dramatic two-shots of leaping between buildings.
Ah, my youth.
But, no. Not him
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I just googled him - how very interesting!
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And, Bob, you're MUCH closer. I visited his monument -- which is rather nondescript -- after my last trip to the Bullring.
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What is sad, is that I don't remember the monument, and yet Birmingham is the city of my birth.
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I'm in.
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Probably there!
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Sorry can't make it tonight after all. :Loser:
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I'm in.
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Thirty-five lashes for the Canadian for his sudden disappearance.
Thanks to those who did show 'round.
I officially like "TMWHBK" and am looking forward to staging Abu Klea.
REMEMBER BURNABY!
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I liked this a lot. It moved a lot quicker.
One suggestion though. Perhaps we can try setting up teams and hidden zones. We were able to see each other the whole time. This allowed things to get a little gamey with the points. JP was able to move his units down the side without scouting because he knew no one was there. Likewise, I was able to move men to stop/slow him down because I knew where they were and going, without actually having to see them first. I also didn't have to worry much about the enemy in front of me, because I knew what they had left.
I think replaying that scenario again with teams and hidden zones would have been a lot more interesting.
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True, but not really being the boardgame then!
Now, if Cyrano could have two instances of TTS running simultaneously (on two Steam accounts presumably), then he could manage and update two different boards, porting one team's moves over to the other board when visible sight has been established...
>:D
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True, but not really being the boardgame then!
Now, if Cyrano could have two instances of TTS running simultaneously (on two Steam accounts presumably), then he could manage and update two different boards, porting one team's moves over to the other board when visible sight has been established...
>:D
Dammit, Pratt, as if I am not sufficiently frustrated trying to figure out how to run a straight KS in this environment! :D.
As to the remarks: first, yes, these are the better rules. I like CA, but these really flow nicely and feel right.
Saturday's game will be the Battle of Abu Klea and won't benefit much from secret deployments for reasons that a viewing of the "Four Feathers" (please only watch the older version) will make clear.
That said, I screwed up two rules that would have made a difference.
The first I spotted in game, namely that troops "hugging the wall" will retreat off the board if given the opportunity to do so. This would have gone badly for the Mahdists but, as I said at the time, it would have been entirely unreasonable to punish Jason for a rule he didn't know.
The other I've only discerned by a, what, fourth, close reading of the rule. When units take casualties they are required to take a pinning test. This is a 2d6 minus the number of casualties sustained in the attack that caused the test. If the result is less than the unit's leadership, the unit receives a pinned marker. So far so good. When, however, the Rally phase comes around, the unit must attempt to Rally. This is a 2d6 less the number of pinned markers the unit has -- not, as we did -- the number of casualties sustained. This makes units much more durable. So durable, in fact, that there's an optional rule to take total casualties into account which I think is essential. As a result, Velker's camels would have been in much longer and Jason's hordes would not have thinned out quite so quickly.
Still, I am really looking forward to Abu Klea.
And I think I will put together a really big Isandlwana.
REMEMBER BURNABY!
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ZULU DAAAWWWNNN!
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ZULU DAAAWWWNNN!
I did not think you'd be against it.
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(http://i.imgur.com/Ces9Ch4.png) (https://imgur.com/Ces9Ch4)
IMGUR is a very, very weird place.
I posted this solely for the purpose of getting this put up here and within minutes I had over 100 views and FOUR down votes.
Who hates Burnaby? WHO??!!??
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Burnaby the Scrivener?
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Burnaby the Scrivener?
He prefers not to fight.
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:ROFL:
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Your derision of the good Colonel notwithstanding -- names have been taken -- the game will go up at 1900 CST tomorrow!
And, while I realize such things can be hard to know with certainty, who THINKS they can play?
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I'm out. Tomorrow is our "Valentine's" dinner.... 8)
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I'm out. Tomorrow is our "Valentine's" dinner.... 8)
You and Burnaby?
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I think I'm taking my son to a concert (local person, so up in the air).
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While it's possible I'll be there at 7pm, more likely I'll be recovering from having the nieces visit tomorrow afternoon until after dinner. Which is great! -- but by then I'll be doing my best to get away from other talking humans.
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I'm out. Last home game for out boys BB team.
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Given the lack of players, "REMEMBER BURNABY - The Battle of Abu Klea" is POSTPONED.
One does not CANCEL the Colonel.
Hope to see some folks next week.!
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:Loser:
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What, what?
You playin?
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(http://aarcentral.com/emoti/hide3.gif)
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‘Swat I thought...
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Technically I was available at 7pm, but realistically I was niece'd out. ::) :oh:
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Velker is in pocket this Saturday, so the game is ON.
Who else is in?
REMEMBER BURNABY!
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I'm in.
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Should be able to be there!
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Update: weather has been making my internet connection grousy for the past few days, and lots of storms will be passing through today. I have no idea whether the weather will let me get on much tonight at all. :(
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I'm in also.
Avenge Burnaby
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Going to be late. Dinner is taking way too long.
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I'm in also.
Avenge Burnaby
There's the spirit!
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I'm in also.
Avenge Burnaby
There's the spirit!
Is this thing happening? I need something to watch tonight.
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I'm in also.
Avenge Burnaby
There's the spirit!
Is this thing happening? I need something to watch tonight.
You're all caught up on Star Trek Discovery?
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I'm in also.
Avenge Burnaby
There's the spirit!
Is this thing happening? I need something to watch tonight.
You're all caught up on Star Trek Discovery?
Nope. Screw watching you bozos.
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I'm in also.
Avenge Burnaby
There's the spirit!
Is this thing happening? I need something to watch tonight.
You're all caught up on Star Trek Discovery?
Nope. Screw watching you bozos.
:(
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Hey now!
It happened and was good fun I think...
My favorite part was Tuna’s passionate desire to fire his artillery. It’s now a Matter of record.
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Hey now!
It happened and was good fun I think...
My favorite part was Tuna’s passionate desire to fire his artillery. It’s. Matter of record.
Fun times, thanks for hosting once again!. I think the Dicebot Gods were on me n OJ's side quite a lot!.. Especially my first Artillery volley against those buggers!