Loss of the SS Pendraken, and a desert island

[Leman]

French - Prussian 1870
French - Spanish early C16th
Belgian - German 1914
Late Roman - Sassanid

[FierceKitty]

Not many to be honest.

As to making them up ...
Sumerians and Old Kingdom Egyptians I'm pretty sure you know about!
Amurru - the biblical Amorites, known to the Sumerians as the MAR.TU. The Sand People.
Gutians/ Lullubi - The wild hill tribes from the foothills of the Zagros mountains
Meluhhans or Melukkans or even Meluhkhkans - the Sumerian name for the people of the Indus Valley Culture (with capital cities at Mohenjo-daro and Harrappa)
Elamites - the culture from what is now western and south-western Iran, it's most important city was Susa
Eblaites - from the eponymous city of Ebla in what is now Syria, a major player in the area ... when not being smacked flat by some passing invader or another.

I used to have a half-and-half Elamite-Babylonian alliance army to fight the Assyrians, back in 6mm days.

[toxicpixie]

I'm impressed you're all going for opposing armies that match up!

You're obviously not real wargamers or you'd all have picked something out of period not just for your own selection, but somehow out of period for everyone elses Also, how come no ones managed to slip a scale or two, or argue about basing and rules yet? Surely that's much important than getting off the boar, after all we..

*glub glub glub *splutter *gargle *flail.

[Roy]

 

Toxic', why are you on a boar?

Why does Leon even keep a boar on the SS Pendraken?

Is it alive, or stuffed?

[toxicpixie]

You don't think I'm doing all the swimming to this island myself, do you? I have a robust figure to maintain and can't go spoiling it with muscle tone!

Being only one letter away from BOAT, BOARS are rather buoyant and make excellent platforms for escaping sinking ships.

Although as mine is not even properly undercoated, only 40mm long and made of lead I may have miscalculated...

For armies to rescue can I choose inflatable ones in 1 to 1 scale?! No sniggering at the back!

[DanJ]

Are we limited to current Pendraken Ranges?

[FierceKitty]

Are we limited to current Pendraken Ranges?

Most of our choices deviate from the O.P.'s specifications.

[fsn]

Are we limited to current Pendraken Ranges?

Nope. Any force, any time.

Could be an air force or a naval force. 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

In that case, can I have the Jutland fleet, 1:1 scale, then we could all sail home.

[toxicpixie]

If the SS Pendraken was a part of it it's no wonder it sunk

[Westmarcher]

..... heh! ...... why did the water suddenly get warm there? ....... Nobby!   


[meanwhile, I bags an American Continental/Militia AWI army and a British/Hessian AWI army]

[Orcs]

Hang on! if we are quick with our decisions with 8 armies each  we should be able to take one medium sized army and an opponent from the entire range.#


But in the interests of this post

Italian wars French, Spanish, Italian states
Renaissance  Turkish
ACW Confederates and Union
Early WW2 Germans
Early WW2 British

[Orcs]

If its a desert Island with lots of space and inhabited by only wargamers we could do WW2 western desert in 28mm on the beach.

[fsn]

..... heh! ...... why did the water suddenly get warm there? ....... Nobby!   

Don't blame me! I didn't get invited on the jaunt!   

And you can't have 1:1. Biggest available is 54mm.

[Westmarcher]

Don't blame me! I didn't get invited on the jaunt!   

Heh! Wait a minute! This is getting very suspicious. If you weren't invited, why were you on the ship? And, if not, why would you grab "British armour 1944, German PzGren 1944, Union 1861, Confederate 1861, Anglo-Portuguese 1813, French 1813, Late Greek Hoplite, early Republican Roman" armies before it set sail? 

Ha! Answer that, sirrah!  

[meanwhile, I bags an 1813 French and an 1813 Russo/Prussian army]

btw: all my armies, so far, are in 10mm - seems to me, there's a lot of heresy going on above.

[fsn]

I wasn't on the ship. I would have taken those armies if I had been able.

I just placed the limpet mines.

[Fenton]

I wasn't on the ship. I would have taken those armies if I had been able.

I just placed the limpet mines.

I knew we would finally winkle the truth out if you

[FierceKitty]

He's squids in on the insurance.

[Westmarcher]

I wasn't on the ship.

Damn! I could have sworn that figurehead at the prow with the long .. er ... thingy ..... was you.
[*voice from side* .. eh? ... what? .... that was the bowsprit? .... oh .... ] 
... and OK, the words, "As I waved you all off" was also a clue (damn! I'll never make detective!).

I just placed the limpet mines.

I knew it! Storm indeed! I can see now that it was your and your cockleshell pals' nefarious scheme to get the rest of us out of the way so that it would be your opinion and yours alone that would dominate the Requests page! I can here the evil laughter now ..... (hee, hee, hee) (.... eh? Shouldn't that be a tad deeper and scarier?).

... but .... wait ... who ... if it wasn't you ... why, as we all swam to the lifeboat (or boar .... or goat), did the water suddenly get warm?  ..... Techno?!

[meanwhile, I bags a French 1870 and a German 1870 army] [and some more beer]

[Fenton]

I think Nobby has clammed up