This is the problem with 28mm gaming.

[Raider4]

The tune is MUCH older and acquired Welsh lyrics along the way  - although what they were singing G_d alone knows!

There's also the National Anthem of the Ancient Britons

[Techno II]

If that's going to be an ear-worm, Martyn...I'm not clicking on it.

Cheers - Phil. 

[FierceKitty]

I don't care if this thread was supposed to be humourous or serious. There is no problem with 28mm gaming if that's what you want to do, like (sic) there's no problem with 10mm gaming.

It can become a problem when new gamers don't see the own true scale in action on account of aggressive competition, and then give up after a few years, bored and impoverished. It's like religion; an adult's choice - fine, it's your life, sir. But what you can do to kids with fear of the All-Seeing Eye or what Kali will do to you if she catches you....

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

If that's going to be an ear-worm, Martyn...I'm not clicking on it.

Cheers - Phil. 

It's a wiki file - no singing Phil - even you will be safe.

[d_Guy]

It's a wiki file - no singing Phil - even you will be safe.

I don't know about that. I was compelled to sing my way through it (and dang funny lyrics they were mind). 

[d_Guy]

These days, now that my eyes are shot and my hands tremble so much (coz I'm old an' had a shitty life) I prefer to use 28mm figures because I can actually see them and they're not to fiddly for my old fingers. I still have (and use loads of 10mm stuff) but I still have a lot of 10mm stuff that's unpainted and that will probably remain unpainted because I now find them too small to work with.

This is very relatable point to me (I'll be 74 soon). For much the same reason I have had to give up on my 10mm's (they have now joined my 25/28mm's in final storage for executor to deal with). I am making Peter Dennis paper soldiers now because I can hold them in focus with my large magnifier and can actually see what unit is what on the board.

I still use Minibits MDF for bases (the latest order arrived yesterday) so feel I am still a Pendrakenite.

[Techno II]

It's a wiki file - no singing Phil - even you will be safe.

That's alright, then. I've got an ear-worm already. (Bruce Springsteen....Glory Days.)

Cheers - Phil.

[FierceKitty]

I had to give myself radical therapy to get The House of the Rising Sun out of my head yesterday. Ugh.

[d_Guy]

Sharing who's voice was singing it in your head would tell us much about you, Kitty.

[Heedless Horseman]

To go off on ANOTHER tangent, lol...
I have not actually VISITED many battlefields... wish that I could!
But now, from DVDs, I am amazed at the sheer areas and distances in which combat took place! To MY mind's eye, a battle took place on a table top... with 20/25mm figures... later 'expanded' when I found 10mm, or, for armoured fighting, 6mm. The REALITY of advancing under fire, and the ranges for such fire, on a real battlefield, is astounding... and very humbling.

[FierceKitty]

Sharing whose voice was singing it in your head would tell us much about you, Kitty.

The Animals. But this just reflects that it was a listening exercise in a textbook the school uses.

[d_Guy]

The Animals. But this just reflects that it was a listening exercise in a textbook the school uses.

The famous version but your introduction to it is interesting (and unexpected).

Woodie Guthrie, since I'm a Hillbilly.

[FierceKitty]

The book is UK-produced. They are very reluctant to admit the existence of America as a region of note in the English-speaking world (except for the inevitable listening exercise featuring an idiot with a California accent getting lost in London). Aussies - about as rare. Indians - never. Africans - never.

I've just listened to Joan Baez singing it. Not a fan, myself, but she has a good voice for a ballad like that.

[Gwydion]

Writ 1880 after the Zulu war

Pedantry ain't what it used to be  -

There are many versions of Men of Harlech - one at least written in 1830 - slightly before the Zulu War and the music was first written down in 1794. (but words and music are probably a much older folk song).)

[Gwydion]

Doh! Missed page 2.
Sorry

[d_Guy]

Doh! Missed page 2.
Sorry

No worries, mate. Most of us here (and every other forum on any subject) suffer from advanced Pendanitis. I myself am martyr to it. In fact thinking I can offer absolution is one of the 427 known signs of the condition.

Like your screen name btw.

[Ithoriel]

Most of us here (and every other forum on any subject) suffer from advanced Pendanitis.

[pedant] Shouldn't that be pedantitis? [/pedant]

[FierceKitty]

[pedant] Shouldn't that be pedantitis? [/pedant]

I s'pose it depens on whether you could only get into Oxford, so got a inferor ejucayshun.

[d_Guy]

Gentlemen - you need to hear the diphthongs and skipped consonants to fully appreciate the word.
You are speaking of the University of Mississippi at Oxford? I muhtrcoolae'd at'ah eqwvant but faeld to take a doo-gree.

[FierceKitty]

Gentlemen - you need to hear the diphthongs and skipped consonants to fully appreciate the word.
You are speaking of the University of Mississippi at Oxford? I muhtrcoolae'd at'ah eqwvant but faeld to take a doo-gree.

That poor, harmless infinitive. You've been boldly watching Startrek!