""Increase your Stifle™ count' challenge...contest" Topic

Up in the rarefied precincts of The Lounge, I have been challenged by one to "say something controversial". He had just caught up with me at 171. (I am down from 175.) We are tied. I am not at liberty to say who it was, but if he is Man enough to step forward, that is fine with me. I am sure he does not have the guts.
So, I am throwing this out as a Challenge.
What can you say on TMP that will earn you a few more?
Rules? Are you kidding?
Well, only one. (Oh, maybe two. Or three.)
I ABSOLUTELY FORBID you to create new accounts for the sole purpose of stifling yourself. (Besides, I have done it already, and may forget my password to log back in as "John the OFM".

So, on this thread, say something controversial, but CREATIVE, in wargaming terms. Something that you know the easily offended will have a cow over.
Dissing newly dead people is just too easy. So is bitching about stifles, or defending hub to hub tanks.
Giving away SPOILERS is also out. We already knows that everybody you like in Game of Thrones dies a horrible death. That's too easy also.
Try something new.

ALSO. Don't stifle someone just to stifle. Read all the entries first, and select just one.
If you enter the conquest, make a note of how many you start with. Keep track. You are on your hono(u)r here.
Play nice.

Here is mine.
"Everybody that plays brigade or division level Napoleonic games are really just playing a glorified boardgame. If you can't shake out skirmishers, or form square, why bother?"

The war of Jenkin's Ear is a vastly overpopulated sector of the miniature figures market.

I find Tango01's hyperactive posting to be mildly irritating.
That should get me a few.
And I have 15 stifles as of 09:21 PST 09/04/2013

Playing fantasy or Syfi games is a waste of time. This includes Flames of War.

People who think orcs are green have algae for brains. Oh and 40k is not a number or part of the alphabet. Fear my hub to hub armor assault! One more thing, the way you play are you sure you know how to roll dice?

Playing ahistorical match ups in ancients is the same as fantasy gaming.

I might have to jump into the fray, I have a few stifles, and allot of gumption. Maybe first one to 300 wins?

BTW it's too safe to just use this thread, we need to spread the goodness to the rest of TMP!

12 stifles here…here we go. Flames of War players are just 40k players that didn't fail history. And both are just too out of shape to be LARPers

I woud like to leaf a silly comment relating to one of the'se posts …but the're all stifl'ed?

I have increasered mfo eht nhoj by one .Has not been on for a couple of years .

Well, it is a known fact that groups of mounted Zulus were seen in the 1879 Zulu war (largest group was 14) It is also known that the Zulus captured two cannons from the British. With this in mind I will be fielding a Zulu cavalry unit with artillery support to attack the British Dragoon Guards and I fully expect them to win. I'll call the game Flames of Zulu Wars.

Games Workshop have only brought good to the war-gaming fraternity . Their realistic pricing structure and their continual development of highly informative codex's can only do the 'the hobby' good in the long run

Their forward thinking in trademarking and putting out cease and desist orders , is thankfully stopping lesser companies and forums from using names that have been intelligently nurtured into forming a coherent universe over a period of years and allowing the next generations of hobbyists to play the finest wargames ever made

Stifling is for the weak flowers on TMP unable to deal with comments that challenge or don't agree with theirs.

FOW is a fantasy game.

GW prices are reasonable.

Big Mean Elf was just a normal guy who was misunderstood.

The OFM is really a forum 'bot designed to increase site traffic.

Bricole?

> Playing ahistorical match ups in ancients is the same as fantasy gaming.

I thought it was required?

> Flames of War players are just 40k players that didn't fail history.

The didn't?

And my own contribution, CWC and it's ilk, are not realistic. Playing them is about as much fun as watching a Pauly Shore movie.

Big Mean Elf help me, bro!!!

Shrug.

Warmachine players are just compensating…

Damon.

I don't wanna play!

Benjamin Butler is hands down the best commander during the American Civil War.

Re-enactors are really just LARPing.

Robert E. Lee was only second rate.

(ducks…)

All Horse & Musket era games would be greatly enhanced by having a 6 yearly cycle of codices released with the rules and oob for each army. That change each edition. And a new cycle should be started just before the final couple of books in each cycle ever get released, like Codex: 1815 Prussian or Army Book: Union. And the special characters like Lee or Ney should vastly overpower whole units of mortals. Er, foot. *That's* how to get people in to historical gaming. Otherwise the hobby will die. Fact.

Oh, and if you play confederate, you may as well just invade Poland. We know your type.

I am going to 'start us'ing apo'strophes' before and/or after every 's'…

Painting mini's is like playing dressup with dolls.

I hate you all.

8 stifles…… That rhymes with trifle…s.

Yum!

I got 19 and I ain't said a word!

Robert E Lee wasn't second rate – he was third division at best.

Napoleon lost.

Patton wasn't fit to be Montgomory's cook.

I have 171 stifles, the same as the OFM and – I can assure you, I am all man

1/72 scale plastics are every bit as good as any metal you could put on the table, and in some cases better!

Steve, well played, totally outside the box

Steve W
Games Workshop have only brought good to the war-gaming fraternity . Their realistic pricing structure and their continual development of highly informative codex's can only do the 'the hobby' good in the long run

Their forward thinking in trademarking and putting out cease and desist orders , is thankfully stopping lesser companies and forums from using names that have been intelligently nurtured into forming a coherent universe over a period of years and allowing the next generations of hobbyists to play the finest wargames ever made

Golf clap

The Editor
Robert E. Lee was only second rate.

(ducks…)

Bzzzzt! Disqualified. Sorry you can't play. If anyone stifles you they are locked from the whole site

1/72 scale plastics are every bit as good as any metal you could put on the table, and in some cases better!

Tut !

It's supposed to be something controversial, not one of the axioms of wargaming !

Oh, – of course.

The Perry's are human and fallible?

Panzers can be painted any shade provided it looks pretty and has been used by Hollywood?

WRG 7th was Phil Barker's greatest achievement?

Patton: "It's not the winning, it's taking part that counts"

"GW prices are reasonable."

Damn, beat me to it.

I think Kickstarter should be used by all big miniature companies to sell and promote their product instead of giving small businesses the chance to realize their dream projects!

I think 3mm skirmish gaming is gonna be big in 2013, and everyone who think otherwise is a moron!

People who spend hours painting their miniatuers are dumb, it's far better to just glue them to a cheap cardboard square and play with them on a bare table with some books as hills!

The German army list in FoW needs more elite units!

Wargaming conventions should have a quarter of the main hall exclusively for hygiene product manufacturers!

Codexes should come out in shorter intervalls, ideally 6 months, it keeps fresh and they should make half your lead army obsolete so you have a reason to buy cool new minis!

All wargamers should be prohibited from using any miniatures that were not made specifically for the game that is being played!

Napoleonics are just a Clone Wars prequel.

Historical gaming is overwrought, over-rated and a medium for empty debate.
Weird War variations and what-if campaigns are flexible, more imaginative and more artistic.

NOW IF THAT DOESN"T DO IT, WHAT WILL?????!!!!!

I'm waiting…

I cannot get interested in this contest.

I know it is after Labor Day, but I refuse to change my Bricoles from salmon pink to coral pink!

Napoleon was a tyrannical, murderous war-criminal but only an average general who was fortunate to face mainly below average generals and armies throughout his career – until the last battle when he was thrashed by the superior generalship of Wellington (with a modicum of Prussian support).

Doug

6mm is a scale for people who are rubbish at painting.

3mm is a scale for really lazy people.

28mm WW2 figures look straight out of a comic book.

Ancients is the most boring historical period to wargame.

Phil Yates for Pope.

Wargames conventions contain the biggest collection of out of condition men called Dave in the world.

What the wargaming hobby really needs are more army veterans to come along and tell life-long civillians how it should be done.

Squabbling over rules adds to the ambience of any wargame.

At this moment in time, I have been stifled 3 times.

Let me just break this down for you based on my years of research:

Fantasy "gaming" doesn't even belong here. It belongs in Baltimore. I was told this by an important person in the industry. Bill may disagree but I don't care since his opinion infringes on my right to post. Even though this is HIS website, it's obvious he is a communist gun-loving hamster-sniffer.

I don't attend conventions because, having a hot wife, it creeps me out how excessively long the gazes of the average gamer lock onto her…shivers

I wasn't going to bite knowing any postings here will add to stifle counts, until I found I'm up a few more. I couldn't tell you for what if you put a gun to my head.

Every gamer who says „Panzers" instead of „Panzer" (no plural „s") is not worth leading a german army in to battle.

This contest is a great idea, but in the stifle department, (he says modestly) some of us just don't even have to try…

What did he say….?

There is a huge difference between claiming the opposite of reality and stating a painful truth. This thread is disappointing.