Dislikes

[Sandinista]

Or give them the Falschirmjagers comment from Normandy  about how the SS only know how to do two things - die, or run away.

Cheers
Ian

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Guards and other supposedly "elite" units, in any army, and ALL FOREIGNERS.

IanS 

[Leman]

Tanks, bloody boring tin boxes. Might see a bit of use in the RCW, but otherwise, no!

[petercooman]

I must say we never use the veteran, SS etc .. stats in BKC. only thing that sees use are regular army and fortress troops. Has something to do with having trouble remembering wich base is what though 

[Jim Ando]

Hi

Ancients, naval games, 28mm, anyone using the whole French imperial guard, games workshop apart from space hulk, ww1 games (too harrowing). Can't think of any more at the more.

Jim

Oh yes and SAFC even if the Toon  manage beat them today.

[FierceKitty]

Gamers who assume troops in colourful uniforms or ordered lines were therefore somehow mentally defective.

[Leman]

Why is WWI more harrowing than any other war? At Towton more  Britons were killed on British soil than on the first day of the Somme. At Flodden almost the whole of the Scottish ruling elite was wiped out leaving Scotland in a far greater mess than after WWI. I dislike the way the anti-war sentiments of the 60s have coloured the view of WWI as opposed to any other war. It was a war fuelled by national jingoistic pride and very much of its time. It was also the first war in which the British used conscription and most soldiers were not professionals. They were also able to express their thoughts in writing to a greater degree than previously. Somehow I doubt those thoughts were any different from soldiers' thoughts throughout history. All wars are harrowing resulting in massacres, destruction of families, unfulfilled human promise etc. Unfortunately they are also part of the human condition - greed, protecting the area around you, competition for resources, the quest for adventure, cultural psyche and so on.  

[Leman]

I'm with FK on this one. Colourful uniforms were a way of avoiding friendly fire situations at a time when ranges were relatively short. Close ranks was a way of ensuring the maximum delivery of firepower at a time when firearms were relatively inaccurate.

[FierceKitty]

Oh, and gamers who treat all Japanese combat as basically skirmishes between supermen, always with a cherry-tree blossoming in the background, and fewer than twenty figures on the table, always with a bald, unarmoured archer using a bow at two foot range, six naginatas but no pikes, and a geisha right next to the action.

[FierceKitty]

Americans who don't realise that there was a civil war in Britain, with rather important results.

[FierceKitty]

Rules that leave one side in a cavalry melee wiped out, and the other reduced to 10% of its starting numbers.

[FierceKitty]

Reports that always treat Muslim armies as the bad guys.

[FierceKitty]

Gratuitous family values scenes in movies, when we're waiting for the nudity and violence to get going.

[Ithoriel]

1. People who keep banging on about their own pet projects

2. The fact Pendraken STILL don't make a Soviet 203mm tracked howitzer or a Soviet 3-men-in-a-trench model  

[fsn]

Americans who don't realise that there was a civil war in Britain, with rather important results.

Several!