This is the problem with 28mm gaming.

[d_Guy]

Maybe they were demoing the chorus prior to publication.

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

See your pendant, Ian, and raise you two pendants! 

[mollinary]

Writ 1880 after the Zulu war

Actually, Ian, the tune was 18th century, and a number of versions of the words were in circulation in the 19th, before Thomas Oliphant's version combining both was published in 1862. However, it appears the particular words used in the film were commissioned specially for it! Does that make me pedant in chief, or merely a lowly Wikipedia reader?

[d_Guy]

I think you raised my raise!

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

I'll try harder in future

[Steeleye]

It's 'horses for courses' really.

For 'Big' battles I tend to use 10mm, for 'small' battles where the individual is more important I use 28mm.

It's simple really,no scale is 'right' or 'wrong', it's down to practicality and personnel preference.

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.

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 there's no problem with 10mm gaming.

Sure even I have a 'problem' with 12 figure battalions. But, in the 28mm games I play I use 12 figure units, but they represent 12 actual warriors/soldiers, so, no problem.

Whatever...

[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.