"Year of the Slack..." Topic
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26 Oct 2020 5:10 p.m. PST
by Editor in Chief Bill
- Changed title from "Year of the Slack ...your Warhamster Cameltoe is showing..." to "Year of the Slack..."
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| Tango01 | 26 Oct 2020 4:03 p.m. PST |
"'Year of the Slack' was intended to be the start of a wonderful series, poking fun by doing every scenario in the Black Powder II rulebook (or Slack Chowder as I know I prefer), even bringing in other Games Workshop analogues like Blitzkrieg Commander. I bought the book at Christmas for this very reason. What went wrong? We played the first WSS scenario, Elxheim, and it was boring, boring, boring. There, I said it. I can't stand these rules. I've said it before, I've waxed lyrical, I tried to give them a chance, and …"
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Extrabio1947  | 26 Oct 2020 4:53 p.m. PST |
I've never played Black Powder. Do dice get a bonus versus infantry in line? |
| von Schwartz | 26 Oct 2020 5:07 p.m. PST |
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| von Schwartz | 26 Oct 2020 5:08 p.m. PST |
But the title of this thread is not only misleading, but very confusing. |
| khanscom | 26 Oct 2020 6:44 p.m. PST |
"But the title of this thread is not only misleading, but very confusing." It made me look! |
| Tango01 | 27 Oct 2020 12:34 p.m. PST |
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| AICUSV | 28 Oct 2020 3:56 p.m. PST |
Oh sure, wait until the day after I finally break down and order a copy of PB. I've been using home grown ones based loosely on Maurice without cards. They work fairly well, still making adjustments. |
| von Schwartz | 28 Oct 2020 4:32 p.m. PST |
He changed the title!!!can you do that? |
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is a big fan of the Age of Sail, and these ships really speak to him - he loves transitional eras, and the Anglo-Dutch Wars was one of those.
