| Au pas de Charge | 10 Jan 2019 5:32 p.m. PST |
I usually become some variation of colonel Sanders when I play the CSA. |
| Glengarry5 | 10 Jan 2019 5:48 p.m. PST |
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… :) |
BTCTerrainman  | 10 Jan 2019 5:59 p.m. PST |
Nah, it is not very much fun trying to talk like a Yankee….. |
| Au pas de Charge | 10 Jan 2019 6:04 p.m. PST |
Not even like Thurston Howell III? |
| JCBJCB | 10 Jan 2019 6:35 p.m. PST |
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. |
| BTCTerrainman | 10 Jan 2019 6:35 p.m. PST |
"Not even like Thurston Howell III?" Now that made me laugh!! |
| DJCoaltrain | 10 Jan 2019 6:38 p.m. PST |
I can do a few accents, but I don't. Because – respect. |
| Winston Smith | 10 Jan 2019 6:53 p.m. PST |
I have a natural Yankee accent.
But when I'm a Reb, I sound like Foghorn Leghorn. |
| Au pas de Charge | 10 Jan 2019 8:23 p.m. PST |
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" YouTube link |
| darthfozzywig | 10 Jan 2019 9:06 p.m. PST |
Accents are mandatory in most games. |
| Patrick R | 11 Jan 2019 1:09 a.m. PST |
People tell me I could be mistaken for a native Virginian if I didn't sound like a complete foreigner. |
| advocate | 11 Jan 2019 1:21 a.m. PST |
Mummerset. Or is this about a different civil war… |
| Mr Elmo | 11 Jan 2019 1:45 a.m. PST |
Absolutely. Esteemed gentlemen it is important we fight this war of Northern Agression and protect our beloved State. Is there any sweet tea left? |
| ZULUPAUL | 11 Jan 2019 2:27 a.m. PST |
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| 23rdFusilier | 11 Jan 2019 4:13 a.m. PST |
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| Frederick | 11 Jan 2019 5:15 a.m. PST |
The odd affected phrase but generally no |
| skipper John | 11 Jan 2019 7:18 a.m. PST |
Hehe… living here in Northwest Georgia, we always have Civil War accents! |
| Bill N | 11 Jan 2019 8:11 a.m. PST |
Like John I make battle noises, but usually on solo games. |
 Herkybird | 11 Jan 2019 11:27 a.m. PST |
I do, much to all who hear's dismay! |
| 138SquadronRAF | 11 Jan 2019 11:34 a.m. PST |
Certainly not. I'm English. |
| DJCoaltrain | 11 Jan 2019 11:48 a.m. PST |
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.  |
| Au pas de Charge | 11 Jan 2019 12:28 p.m. PST |
@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" |
| Bob Hume | 11 Jan 2019 1:06 p.m. PST |
No, but we certainly do Monty Python when playing colonials. |
| ScottS | 11 Jan 2019 1:19 p.m. PST |
I have been known to talk like Christopher Walken as noted Civil War hero Col. E. Angus. |
| Trajanus | 11 Jan 2019 2:48 p.m. PST |
Depends how much Bourbon I've had at the time! |
| EJNashIII | 11 Jan 2019 4:33 p.m. PST |
I'm from Maryland. I already sound like either side. |
| ACW Gamer | 12 Jan 2019 6:05 a.m. PST |
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." |
| FlyXwire | 12 Jan 2019 7:07 a.m. PST |
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! |
| Max Schnell | 12 Jan 2019 8:04 a.m. PST |
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. |
| Ed Mohrmann | 12 Jan 2019 7:17 p.m. PST |
Hmmmm….living in rural North Carolina does lend a certain
'air' to one's accent… |
 deadhead | 16 Jan 2019 9:00 a.m. PST |
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.
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| deadhead | 16 Jan 2019 9:01 a.m. PST |
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.
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| Au pas de Charge | 16 Jan 2019 10:44 a.m. PST |
The Rebel Yell sounds like a cat with a chili pepper up its choco hole. YouTube link |
| deadhead | 18 Jan 2019 12:30 p.m. PST |
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! |
| Au pas de Charge | 23 Jan 2019 2:10 p.m. PST |
@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. |
| huevans011 | 23 Jan 2019 3:11 p.m. PST |
Absolutely. And they tell me that my Welsh/Canadian/Virginia accent is pretty spectacular! |
| deadhead | 24 Jan 2019 3:09 a.m. PST |
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! |
| AICUSV | 26 Jan 2019 5:36 p.m. PST |
Here in the US we put up monuments to those who try to over throw the government. |
| Choctaw | 30 May 2019 11:56 a.m. PST |
I'll stay on task unlike some of you. My faux Massachusetts accent is completely ruined by my Texas twang. |
| GROSSMAN | 30 May 2019 12:15 p.m. PST |
No, and I don't feel safe around people who do… |
| arthur1815 | 30 May 2019 12:31 p.m. PST |
AICUSV, so do we in Britain: there's a statue of Oliver Cromwell right outside the Houses of Parliament. |
| Lee494 | 30 May 2019 3:11 p.m. PST |
Yes. Absolutely. I try and talk like an American. Cheers! |
completes his initial Union force in 1:72nd scale.