"Celebrity Opponent" Topic

Which celebrity do you most wish you could engage on the wargames tabletop?

Selma Hayek.

Oh, wait . . . did you mean in a GAME?

Megan Fox is keen to try out the Flames of War Desert Rats I painted for her.

Vin Diesel, David Weber, or Sean Connery…in that order. :)

Jessica Alba, Scarlett Johanson, or Jessica Biel…in any order. ;-)

Can't really think of one. He (or she) would have to be an intellectually interesting person with a good sense of humor who enjoyed gaming. Who that would be, I don't really care.

Now, if we were just sitting around discussing their life's work, I'd be interested in a few writers, a director or two, experienced military, astronauts, physicists, that sort of thing. Most pure "celebrities" (actors, etc.) wouldn't make my list.

Robin Williams

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. if he wasn't dead.

People who rate as "celebrities" in the current popular view don't really make my list. I'd be interested in playing a game of WAB (involving Romans, of course) with Adrian Goldsworthy, or a game of Stargrunt II with Joe Haldeman, something like that.

Dave

Don Featherstone of course. The Perry brothers, or Barker. Even OFM! (He's a celebrity in his own mind) 8^)
Churchill was a gamer.

By the way, did everybody see the poll suggestion? No excuses this time.

Have to agree with irishserb and say Robin Williams.

Even before opening up and seeing the responses i already said Robin Williams. Seems to understand he has an extensive Ork 40K army. The game would take damn forever cause ya know you cant keep him attentive on one thing for too long but would be a blast.

Hey John, did ya show Megan how the best way to move 'the little men" around on the table? :-)

Grimm

General David Petraeus would be interesting. HG Wells would be fun if still around.

Thanks,

John

Penelope Cruz.

Patrick McNee and Diana Rigg.

I'd likely have to prop them both up, but I'd even let them win.

Donald Kagan in a hoplite battle.

Mel Gibson in English vs Scots.

John Wayne playing the Alamo if we are counting deceased celebs.

Shirley Manson.

Megan Fox and Jessica Biel in a 3 way strip WAB game.
Every time a unit routes, the owning player has to lose an item of clothing.
I'll be the one in full artic weather gear

Natalie Portman, or more seriously Stephen Fry

I'd throw down a game of BGWWII with Harold Coyle. Soot me a e-mail Harold, brian@whattheminiatures.com.

Brian

"or Barker"

I've had that particular pleasure a few times.

What do we mean by 'celebrity'? If wargamers, then I'd have loved to have played 'Battle' with Charles Grant.

If you mean film/music stars then I guess Micheal Caine 'driver, advance' or Clint 'do you feel lucky'. I wonder if Robert Plant is a wargamer? He'd be wanting to use his Hammer of the Gods all the time. Johnny Rotten so we could have a cheap holiday in other peoples misery.

What do we mean by 'celebrity'?

Some living person that everyone has heard of.

Colin Powell in a game of NATO vs WARSAW late 1980's equipment.

"everyone"

Is that the *gamer* everyone or the great unwashed everyone? I suppose historians would not count, only people liable to show up on Hollywood Squares or Celebrity Apprentice?

There are lots of historians I'd like to game with. Christopher Duffy included game rules in Fire and Stone, so he might be up for a game.

Anyway, Paul Gross (Due South, Passchendaele) is one of the few celebrities (by a normal definition) who seems to give a damn about military history, so he might actually enjoy a game.

Living, then I change my answer again to Edward Norton.

Jennifer Tilley

Can I play with Keira Knoghtley please!

Oh. MotttheHoople. No you do not want Stephen Fry. He will have out-thought you by the end of turn one, leading to your annihilation….

Quite a number of them.

Chief Urko would be cool, but he'd probably smash everything if he lost.

I'd love to have an ancients game with Adrian Goldsworthy. Something Colonial with Don Featherstone and something SYW with Charles Grant. I'd also like to have the Perry Brothers and Stuart Asquith along for any of these events.

And I'd like to play doctor with Nigella Lawson or Catherine Zeta-Jones….

Ric Flair.
Each time he made a good move, just to hear the "Wooooo." Dramatic tension would present itself if he lost badly. He might go nuts an slam you across the table.

Erica Campbell. There it is. Playing my pulp game. That would rule. Rule forever. And ever.

or

Flo from the Progressive commercial doing some Chaos in Carpaithia games.

or

Johny Depp, Kiera Knightly, Orlando Bloom, Jeffery Rush givin' it a go at a pirates game. That would be a hoot! I would love to get a game of that in.

One can dream…

Is that the *gamer* everyone or the great unwashed everyone?

Wait, wait, wait. Are you implying the gamer masses are themselves washed?

-Will

Hi all,

Adrian Goldsworthy plays at the Penarth club in South Wales, and does have very nice Ancients collections. (Against which I think I've never won, and rarely in Napoleonics, though honours are more even in WW2 and ECW!). He usually gives a lecture at the Crusade show in January too.

I seem to remember hearing that Edward Woodwood played, and Tory politician William Hague.

Definitely think that playing Brian Blessed in Mediaeval skirmish would be a blast!!

Kylie Minogue, And a tag team With Stronty, and SUE Kes with Neo as my partner, with weaver as her sub.

Let's see here:

Generals Norman Schwartzkopf, Colin Powell, and Peter Pace. Hal Moore would be fun too.

One name I'm surprised nobody has mention is R. Lee Ermey. He'd be a hoot.

Dick Cheney
Marie Osmond

I see I wasn't the only one to think of strip Warhammer!

Both Robin Williams and Billy Crystsl have 40k armies, and played each other. That's a game I'd like to watch.

Hmmm. From the ostensibly non-gaming world -- Jim Butcher, Penn Jillette, Quentin Tarantino.

Gaming celebrity types -- Kevin Wilson (FFG), Steve Jackson (well, again; got to play in games with him 15 years ago), Chris Pramas.

Donald Trump (I actually dreamed he was playing in a campaign game of mine…)

> Dick Cheney
> Marie Osmond

I would love to know the reason. Interesting choices…