Four in a row!

[FierceKitty]

I'm beginning to wonder whether wargaming's for me. Lee's just taken my Roundheads to the cleaners in three moves, and the Canadian colleague's walloped me three times one after the other.  

[Steve J]

Oh dear Alexander . What can one say? Maybe take up macrame instead :-.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Clazwitz is a good read. Sun Zu is also useful. And change your dice 

[Leman]

Go solo. One side that you control always wins and you build your own history of a campaign.

[flamingpig0]

Just keep plodding on your luck will change eventually and if it doesn't just think of it as a character building exercise

[Techno II]

Always look on the bright side of life.

Cheers - Phil

[mmcv]

Maybe you need to start playing with a handicap? +1 to all dice rolls. Or a couple of extra units on the table. Or a free bonus turn at the start of the game.

[FierceKitty]

I'll suggest these ideas to my regular opps.

[mollinary]

Alexander the Terrible?

[d_Guy]

Mental discipline. You need to go through entire days never thinking of the number one (or what ever pip number is universally bad in your game system).
A diet of spinach and boiled mackerel seems to help with this mental exercise. Let us know of it works.

[Techno II]

Or whether you end up with bad stomach ache.



Actually boiled herring would have to taste ten times better than rollmop.

Cheers - Phil

[Orcs]

Or whether you end up with bad stomach ache.



Actually boiled herring would have to taste ten times better than rollmop.

Cheers - Phil

Whats wrong with rollmops?  I like rollmops,

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

So do I, apart from the spikey bit in the middle.

[FierceKitty]

Rollmops are yummy. It would be a shame to waste a mackerel by boiling it, when they're so good grilled or smoked, but I'm not meant to eat them anyway (gout, alas).

[Heedless Horseman]

I'm beginning to wonder whether wargaming's for me. Lee's just taken my Roundheads to the cleaners in three moves, and the Canadian colleague's walloped me three times one after the other.  

Well, that is quite a correct historical outcome!    But...the Round headed...persons... didn't give in when they should have done...(not being Gentlemen and supporters of 'Parliament', to boot!)..and things will probably change as 'experience' accumulates.

Pre-combat 'Feasting' and possibly 'Carousing' for the Royalist side could also help to tip the balance? But...would porridge, hard-tack and water be worth the 'win' for puritan cause? 

And, for really 'Sneaky Parliament' forces...the lure of a 'hand-baggage' train in the near future 'could' distract attention...although, I rather think Your Lady is made from sterner stuff than to have such a Cavalier attitude...and might just wallop you harder next time!   

Seriously...or not...glad to hear you are enjojing things!   

[Heedless Horseman]

Or whether you end up with bad stomach ache.



Actually boiled herring would have to taste ten times better than rollmop.

Cheers - Phil

'Boiled' Herring??? WHO ON EARTH WOULD EAT THAT?   Now, Herring fried in crumbs with New Potato's...'Tatties 'n Herrin'...has become an aquired fancy in my later years! Like the taste but hate the bones! 

Rollmop looks like the jars of 'creatures' in a Sci-Fi film...ABSOLUTELY no way! 

[Steeleye]

I used a spell when I was in a similar situation. The spell was to give me 'knowledge of warfare', oddly after doing the spell I started to win battles.

Now this could have been something to do with the spell...OR...something just clicked, or I changed my dice, or I'd just learnt all the tricks my regular wargames partner used.

[Techno II]

Rollmop looks like the jars of 'creatures' in a Sci-Fi film...ABSOLUTELY no way! 

They'd probably taste better. 

It was at a birthday party in Eindhoven, when I got dragged over there by Target/Heartbreaker to some European Games Fair.
I think the chap whose birthday it was, was Swedish....And rollmop was his favourite.

Cheers - Phil  (Shudder)

[d_Guy]

Living a sheltered life I was forced to look up rollmop. Oh my! Still I have never let looks dissuade me from trying a new dish (although smell is another issue).

Sorry about the gout, Kitty. Despite the the cartoons of Gillray, et. al, a flare up is no laughing matter. My sympathies.

[FierceKitty]

It's under control, thanks. But I need to watch my diet a bit; bacon's off, mussels, spinach, and mackerel a rare treat. Thank Heavens I'm not a drinker. But it's true, it's no joke at all when a slight twitch of movement leaves you feeling as if your foot were strapped in a brazier.