New Top 10 Requests for 2015!

[FierceKitty]

Mmmm. Including some extracted from enemies and worn as battlefield accessories.

[fsn]

As usual, I shall have to be the voice of reason in this. I seem to fall between the two camps anyway.

I would humbly suggest that your baggage train (camp followers etc) have their uses. One of my favourite scenarios is to have a unit guard a backwater bridge and direct traffic over it. At some point the enemy is going to intervene and there are literally hours of fun as the nervous guards wonder if the oncoming vehicle is a friendly Panther or an accursed Ami M10. This scenario works well if the bridge gets clogged with supply waggons or ambulances or some such. They also make excellent objectives/distractions for marauding Hunnic cavalry or as a resupply for the beleaguered castle.  Was it Hougamont that was saved by some daft sod trundling an ammo waggon through half the French army?

So, I can see the point of baggage waggons, and ditto camp followers & pontoons.  By extension, I can also see the point of other encampment accessories, though they are not to my taste. I do draw the line at a marching band. Smacks of "toy soldiers" to me.

[Fenton]

I think there are enough rulesets out there that have baggage camps etc as part of the army lists so something to make them more fun and nice to look at rather than the usual tent just plonked down would be nice

[Leman]

I thought a war GAME was all about toy soldiers. Certainly don't want the real thing clumping through my house. If I'd wanted the real thing I'd have joined the army, but as the old ditty says - I don't want a bayonet up my a*******, I don't want my b******** shot away. give me toy soldiers any day of the week.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Where in Cheshunt  Hertsblue?
Spent most of last term covering a class up at Little Springs!

[Dunnadd]

A few point of order Mr Chairman?

Please could you explain how "Fantasy Bears" are a range, and "werewolves" merely Items? Surely that shows an intolerable pro-ursine, anti-lupine bias? And please don't tell me that werewolves would be just a single figure. There are many kinds of werewolf (from the Chaney to the Cullen) and they have a number of different attributes which could be modelled by someone with the exquisite skills and many arms of our Techno.

Seconded. Plus you could have werewolves in chainmail with shields and a mixture of swords and spears, which could double as gnolls.

Actually, I've just realised there are Centurions on the horizon, so I don't really care. 

Traitor! enjoy your thirty pieces of motorised armour 

[Luddite]

Gnolls are a great idea!

In fact, loking back to the D&D aesthetic for inspiration on a lot of ranges would be a good idea.

[FierceKitty]

Wot dis chainmail?

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Not again! 

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Just ignore the wimp - let keep mewing outside the door.

IanS 

NO AZTECS

[FierceKitty]

Mark of the anorak - shout nonsense until people get tired of being the still small voice of reason. If anyone disagrees when you claim a victory, resume shouting.

[WeeWars]

Wot dis chainmail?

Chainmail is a medieval miniature wargame created by Gary Gygax and Jeff Perren.

[FierceKitty]

Would that the term might be restricted to its legitimate lexical limits, then.

[Ithoriel]

Chainmail ... as opposed to plate mail, scale mail, splint mail, banded mail, etc. Didn't they teach you D&D at school FK? You were robbed of an education!

[FierceKitty]

Deplorably close to the truth. Education was aimed rather at trying to turn me into a good little white suprematist.