| Bashytubits | 29 Sep 2018 10:16 p.m. PST |
When re-enacting a historical conflict are your leaders jovial?
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| Cacique Caribe | 29 Sep 2018 10:25 p.m. PST |
Well, they can even be insane, as long as they're honest about it. Dan
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| Lion in the Stars | 30 Sep 2018 3:51 a.m. PST |
Mad Guru, 'Mad Jack' Churchill… etc. Usually not a lot of RPG-like elements in my games, though. I should fix that with Science Versus Pluck. |
 Extra Crispy  | 30 Sep 2018 8:32 a.m. PST |
No, but all the players are. |
Frederick  | 30 Sep 2018 9:46 a.m. PST |
Sometimes Like my Roman centurions – Poisonous Fungus and Gluteus Maximus |
| Ed Mohrmann | 30 Sep 2018 10:57 a.m. PST |
Not leaders but two of my favorite characters are Recon -
Curzory Peake and Surjin Glantz. Their platoon leader is 2nd Lt Simon Wheteer, of course… |
| Murvihill | 30 Sep 2018 11:20 a.m. PST |
I did paint a British Colonial officer with brown trousers… |
| Narratio | 30 Sep 2018 7:57 p.m. PST |
Every organisation has an element of humour somewhere. One my earliest 1/72 regiments had a Sergeant U.H Grumpf, the Colonel being Hugh G. Wanger. Things like this spark the players imaginations, keep things loose and light hearted, cut down on the bean counting. |
| Benvartok | 01 Oct 2018 11:56 a.m. PST |
Historians are divided on the part Australians played in the First Crusade. I believe there was a significant presence and have represented this with a Kangaroo on my Crusader army baggage base. |
| Nick Stern | 01 Oct 2018 12:33 p.m. PST |
Perhaps I'm overthinking, but I'm divided on this. On one hand, yes, we're playing with toy soldiers. Play and toy being the operative words. On the other hand, I think too much silliness tends to devalue the patriotism and sheer guts that motivated the men (and women) who fought and died so that we could play games based on their actions. |
| ScottS | 02 Oct 2018 9:26 a.m. PST |
I have fielded a "Col. Angus" based on that old SNL sketch. |
| DJCoaltrain | 02 Oct 2018 3:40 p.m. PST |
All the time. In Sharp's Practice my officers are named after officers killed by Indians who served with Custer. |
| von Schwartz | 02 Oct 2018 3:42 p.m. PST |
My 1809 Italians had a Brigadier General that looked a lot like Al Capone, complete with trench coat and Tommy gun. |
| Volleyfire | 04 Oct 2018 9:25 a.m. PST |
For Old West games I usually wheel out my two favourite bluebellies, Sgt Rudy 'Roo' Barbe and Lt Jacques Coustarde, or Rhubarb & Custard as they are known to us Brits. |
| von Schwartz | 04 Oct 2018 12:13 p.m. PST |
Can I get a collective groan for that last comment? |
| Volleyfire | 04 Oct 2018 1:02 p.m. PST |
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| Royal Marine | 04 Oct 2018 3:04 p.m. PST |
I have a soft spot for Major General Panick of the Union Army and also General Lee Baad, a French émigré in the CSA. They were both quite upset once by an NCO Corporal P.U. Nishment |
| von Schwartz | 04 Oct 2018 4:24 p.m. PST |
Since we're talking about names how about one of our local dentists here, he is Dr. Fang, D.D.S. |
| Volleyfire | 05 Oct 2018 3:27 p.m. PST |
I stopped going to my dentist when I discovered he was a Romanian named Vlad. I didn't fancy being impaled. |
| Trajanus | 06 Oct 2018 6:26 a.m. PST |
You mean, let me understand this cause, ya know maybe it's me, I'm a little ****** up maybe, but I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh, I'm here to ******' amuse you? What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny? |
| Murvihill | 06 Oct 2018 10:37 a.m. PST |
Brigadier General Clapsaddle. Walked by his tombstone many a day in Arlington Cemetary. |
| von Schwartz | 06 Oct 2018 6:59 p.m. PST |
Trajanus – heh heh heh heh funny like 5'2" Joe Pesci being a tough guy. I know I know dynamite comes in small packages but really. Every time I think of Joe Pesci the only character that comes to mind is Leo Getz, you know Leo Getz, if you need something Leo Getz, get it heh heh? |
| Zephyr1 | 06 Oct 2018 8:21 p.m. PST |
A cannibal army defeated my clown army & ate it's general. They said he tasted funny…
:-p
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| von Schwartz | 12 Oct 2018 5:17 p.m. PST |
Zephyr1 why don't you go and help volleyfire with his coat and follow him out? |
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