ITLSU 1917 Ottoman Cavalry basing

[Leman]

Obviously FK"s never experienced the "joy" in a Welsh mining town when the pit closes. I wonder if, had there been such a thing as a forum in the 30s , there would have been a merry quip about a few more synagogues being smashed up being a good thing.

[FierceKitty]

I was there in Thatchler's Britain, and I've seen worse working in South African squatter camps. I know the score. And as long as they aren't important works of architecture, I'm all for wrecking places of worship, particularly those that routinely mutilate children.

[Leman]

My point is how come having a go at the Welsh and Scots appears to be fair game, whereas you would never contemplate the same sort of remarks about West Indians and Pakistanis, who are just as proud of their cultural heritage.

[FierceKitty]

Wouldn't I just? Ask my Pakistani car-pool partner about my 9/11 jokes.

[WeeWars]

I cut my own bases from 2mm styrene sheet, cheaper and requires less pre-planning  Cutting circles is beyond me

You want one of these:



or some other circle cutter:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=circular+cutter&espv=2&biw=1920&bih=1075&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=Ch-oVMi-Ocn0UsOzg9gO&ved=0CFEQsAQ#imgdii=_

It's what I use to cut the steel sheet I stick to the underside of my round MDF bases.

[WeeWars]

A question on Arabs, while we are talking about them...

From ITLSU, "Arab tribes are a form of mob. Any number of bases may be gathered together as one unit. Equally, big Arab 'mobs' can be split with no penalty (although if the big mob had suppression points the satellite mob will also have the same number of points)."

How do you normally gather your Arabs into 'mobs' for firing. Having small 'mobs' at short range would give you lots of extra dice 

The tribesmen for Dilbar (http://www.michaelscott.name/ww1/ww1blog/ww1blogpost009.htm) were split into units of 6 bases, if I recall correctly (but my head is full of Napoleonic rules writing at the moment  ).

'Arabs' in the rules are designed only to be part of an army so I was very impressed that the rules as they stood could accommodate a whole army of tribesmen. I don't think you have to worry about Arab troops becoming too powerful, though, they need all the help they can get. In fact, the one thing I wanted to add to the rules was a time factor (more difficult with card driven turns) that allowed night to fall and the tribesmen to regroup wherever they wanted. There are so many desert accounts of Imperial troops waking up and wondering where the enemy had disappeared to.

[paulr]

Thanks Michael, marvellously helpful as always