"Welcome to the Swashbuckling Board" Topic

As voted by the members of TMP, here is a brand-new board for discussing swashbuckling and wargaming from the Renaissance through to the Napoleonic period.

So we couldn't combine the Pirates board with this, then?

All for…

Yaaarrrrr

Redundant Pirates Board

Redundant Pirates Board

Yes and no. I wouldn't look for Three Musketeers under the Pirates board but I would under a Pirates/Swashbucking board!

Jason
Stafford, VA

Hang 'em from the plank, sez eye !

Well, shiver me timbers.

Oops, wrong board.

So, are swashes anything like bricoles, and do you buckle them down or up, and to the right or to the left?

Yeah, they should be combined.

…one.

Redundant Pirates Board

Yes and no. I wouldn't look for Three Musketeers under the Pirates board but I would under a Pirates/Swashbucking board!wink

Cross-posting is precisely allowed for such cases!

And Zorro is Pirates in what way?

Gracias,

Glenn

Cross-posting is precisely allowed for such cases!

Why?

I thought the new board proponents' point in having a separate board was to have a separate board. If all these new boards get created to be their own unique snowflakes, covering their own topics, then I don't think any topic on them should be cross-posted to any other board.

Why not just rename the Pirates the Pirates & Swashbuckling board? All this anal-retentive categorizing has gotten very annoying. Even my bosses aren't this retentive--and that is saying something.

Plot: lost.

I think Dear Editor revels in the controv that follows the introduction of a new board, and the page hits it generates

And one…

Redundant Pirates Board

Redundant Pirates, Walk The Plank!

…for all.

Arrrrrrhhhhhhhh, Wolshanza, Make em walk the yard arm sez I.

Arrrh Shivver me timber Jim bo, pass me another cutlas boy.

Arrrh Shivver me timber Jim bo, pass me another cutlas boy.

You're not a real pirate, are you?

Z

Sheriff of Rottingham: So it's come to this, has it? A fight to the death, mano a mano, man to man, just you and me… and my *guards*!

I believe I have explored all the facets of this genre.

another cutlas boy

Are these anything like a cabin boy?

I think we need a Robin Hood board….

Cowboys and Ninjas first, Doug.

'Swashbuckling' does not make 'Pirates' redundant, because Pirate games are NOT a subset of Swashbuckling games: they do have specific features. For instance, I doubt players of 'Flashing Blades' or Zorro games are deeply interested in ship model-making and naval actions. Besides, the time frame is not the same: while 'pirates' can at most include Jean Lafitte, 'swashbuckling' according to some encompasses 'The prisoner of Zenda'. TMP link

Thus the two genres are overlapping, but only for a part; and other overlappings exist, such as 'pirates' and 'Renaissance' or '18th C.' battle reports, if the 'pirates' game involves a protracted land battle with, say, a Spanish garrison. Such do not make the 'Pirates' board redundant, but justify -indeed require- a cross-posting. In the same way, a swashbuckling 'Ruritanian' adventure can be cross-posted on a 19th C. messages board.

Each board corresponds to a distinct set, in the same way as 'Hearts' and 'Queens' represent different sets; *if* a new topic belongs to the intersection of the two sets ('Queen of Hearts' fashion), cross-post.

Once upon a time in an analogy of The Geometry Page, there was a Quadrilateral board,

and then someone said – I want a board for Squares on TGP..

And a majority of the Rectangles and Others said, all you Squares are Rectangles and part of the Quadrilaterals,

but there were 30 Squares and they got their board…

Then the Rhombuses said we are Rhombus and deserve a board,

And the Squares were confused because they were Rhombuses too…

But the Rhombuses just had a slightly different angle on what they did on TGP, so maybe they had a point??

and 30 Rhombuses formed a Rhombus Board…

Some Rectangles rejoiced because they were always right, but not so with the Rhombuses.

And then Parallelograms said we are a special kind of Rhombus and the Rhombuses said What??,

and 40 Parallelograms formed a separate board…

And the Parallelograms, a Rhombus, sometimes a Square, originally of the Quadrilateral Board (now left only to Rectangles and the neglected Trapezoids), did state:

"Parallelogram discussions should equally be cross-posted on a Quadrilateral Board or the Square Board because they too are quadrilaterals and sometimes square"

And yet those Parallelograms would also say:

"General Quadrilateral discussion, or Rhombus discussion, or Square discussion is not applicable on the Parallelogram Board, because that's specifically for discussing Parallelograms and why we want to be separate."

And the old Quadrilaterals, simply happy to have 4 sides, did lament because things had been better on TGP before.

LOL !!!!!!

Perhaps the "old Quadrilaterals" are blinded by nostalgia?

Gracias,

Glenn

I haven't been called a quadrilateral in years….

So are they known as grogquads?

Quads are noisy but go almost everywhere…
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You're a poet Goldwyrm. I really mean this.

Being a neglected Trapezoid, that is…

Why am I reminded of Humph explaining concisely the concept of 'One Song to the Tune of Another'?

Yawn