"Do Any of you mimic Civil War accents when you play?" Topic

I usually become some variation of colonel Sanders when I play the CSA.

We started one game that way (at the behest of the Confederate commander) but that soon petered out as we concentrated on playing the game… :)

Nah, it is not very much fun trying to talk like a Yankee…..

Not even like Thurston Howell III?

No, but I absolutely make "battle noises" (shooting, artillery, explosions) when I paint. My Dad used to draw battle scenes with me on large posterboards on Friday nights, and made "sound effects" like that. I guess I took up the habit.

"Not even like Thurston Howell III?"

Now that made me laugh!!

I can do a few accents, but I don't. Because – respect.

I have a natural Yankee accent.
But when I'm a Reb, I sound like Foghorn Leghorn.

I often speak like Mr Bent, Upperclassman at the Academy from the 1980s series "North and South"

"Suh, you are sorriest excuse for a solduh I have evuh seen, suh"

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Accents are mandatory in most games.

People tell me I could be mistaken for a native Virginian if I didn't sound like a complete foreigner.

Mummerset. Or is this about a different civil war…

Absolutely. Esteemed gentlemen it is important we fight this war of Northern Agression and protect our beloved State.

Is there any sweet tea left?

Nope

Nope

The odd affected phrase but generally no

Hehe… living here in Northwest Georgia, we always have Civil War accents!

Like John I make battle noises, but usually on solo games.

I do, much to all who hear's dismay!

Certainly not. I'm English.

I don't have an accent, but if I'm visiting back home for more than three days I sound like a Hillbilly. And, I start talking Cincinnati. Took me years to lose both accents and I don't want either back.

@138SquadronRAF

I am sorry to hear that. Then you have your own issues. :)

Actually when I play the British I tend to talk like Terry-Thomas.

But in ACW games, I like to sing songs like Dixie or When Johnny Comes Marching Home but replacing all the lyrics with "Blah-blahs"

No, but we certainly do Monty Python when playing colonials.

I have been known to talk like Christopher Walken as noted Civil War hero Col. E. Angus.

Depends how much Bourbon I've had at the time!

I'm from Maryland. I already sound like either side.

This reminds me of a comedian's bit about getting your butt kicked "Texas style."

He said when you go to Vermont they don't say "put on this sweater vest and prepare for a thrashing, Vermont style."

All the time – and we figure we can just talk R-E-A-L S-L-O-W too, and come pretty close to them Rebs. ;)

Actually, my wife is from Mississippi, and I used to say she turned one syllable words into two……now after 20 years of marriage, I can't tell the difference anymore!

I do not need to pretend. Born on the outskirts of Philly. One fore father from Switzerland fought for the North, I would disgrace myself trying to do his accent.

Hmmmm….living in rural North Carolina does lend a certain
'air' to one's accent…

Always wondered. What did a Rebel Yell really sound like? I get grief from my sons cos I do this YEEHAW thing, which they insist is nothing like what the few recordings of very elderly veterans suggest.

I would have been in the Irish Brigade anyway and fortunately my job would have been amputations and extraction of chunks of metal.

Always wondered. What did a Rebel Yell really sound like? I get grief from my sons cos I do this YEEHAW thing, which they insist is nothing like what the few recordings of very elderly veterans suggest.

I would have been in the Irish Brigade anyway.

The Rebel Yell sounds like a cat with a chili pepper up its choco hole.

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What an amazing resource this film is.

Now I know why my two younger lads give me grief for my YEE-HAW Rebel yell. My eldest son always knew I was a total loser.

How much respect must you have for any country that allows rebels to associate in groups, over 70 years later, in a uniform that marked what could have been seen as treasonous? OK I know the Southern Cross is now, these days, less PC (more I read about the War Between the States, more I understand that, but it was history….)

Great posting. Now I will stick to Napoleonics!

@deadhead

About treason and the South during the Civil War.

It may help you and all of us to remember that that was their war, not ours.

Absolutely. And they tell me that my Welsh/Canadian/Virginia accent is pretty spectacular!

Sorry I was not clearer.

I meant how much respect I do have for this attitude that allowed folk to once more, decades later, dress as former rebels.

Reading my first message again suggested the reverse as I had asked a rhetorical question!

Here in the US we put up monuments to those who try to over throw the government.

I'll stay on task unlike some of you. My faux Massachusetts accent is completely ruined by my Texas twang.

No, and I don't feel safe around people who do…

AICUSV, so do we in Britain: there's a statue of Oliver Cromwell right outside the Houses of Parliament.

Yes. Absolutely. I try and talk like an American. Cheers!