Wargaming pet hates

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

I hate annual events. Only The Beano retains any of its old charms...

[Techno]

That's the first coat to be looked for, this year.
Cheers - Phil

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Thought wee'd sacked you Phil ?

Due to tooth marks on the coats.

IanS 

[Leman]

Pet hate: pets on the wargames table.

[howayman]

Pets on wargaming tables don't get me started.  Once set up a huge 6mm modern game on a mates lounge floor when his parents were away, first day great, but...
During the night their dog got in and wee'd on the green base sheet.
A Soviet  flank attack suddenly found themselves in a unmapped marsh. 
Ah the good old days.

[Leman]

  - if you didn't laugh you'd have to cry.

[Techno]

Thought wee'd sacked you Phil ?
Due to tooth marks on the coats.
IanS 

I thought we cleared that up......It was forensically proved that it was Nobby who'd chewed them. 
Cheers - Phil.

[fsn]

It's how I know who owns each coat. 

By the way, I don't like the taste of tweed.

[Leman]

It's quite lovely if the laird has spilled his best single malt down it.

[Hertsblue]

Yes, but whose is the dandelion and burdock?

[Raider4]

Back to the subject at hand . . .

New rules (*cough* Victory At Sea) coming out that still use Imperial measurements. Come on people, we're in the 21st century now.

Especially irritating - rulesets that mix & match between metric & Imperial. I'm looking at you Kings Of War (base sizes all measured in millimetres, everything else in inches).

I appreciate that this particlular gripe may not meet with universal approval 

Cheers, Martyn

[sunjester]

Back to the subject at hand . . .

New rules (*cough* Victory At Sea) coming out that still use Imperial measurements. Come on people, we're in the 21st century now.

I think there are two aspects to this.
Firstly, there is the fact that a large number of wargamers (rules writers?) are old farts like me who grew up using imperial and still think that way, I certainly still think in terms of feet and inches (6x4 wargames table, 4x2 lump of wood for settling arguments in the car park etc), miles and gallons.

Secondly, I believe that USA have doggedly refused to adopt this French system of measurement so rules produced in the States or hoping to sell in quantity there use the good old imperial system.

[Orcs]

Secondly, I believe that USA have doggedly refused to adopt this French system of measurement so rules produced in the States or hoping to sell in quantity there use the good old imperial system.

I KNEW the french would be to blame !!!

[Leman]

Yes, those bloody French with their 100 of this in  that and 100 of that makes this instead of the much more sensible 12 of these makes one of these and three of these makes one of those and 1756 of those makes one of those. What the hell is up with the French sense of logic? (Then again I'm sitting here listening to Yelle so says it all really.)

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

It's to do with the length of a light wave...