The French claim sovereignty over the Moon

Started by Nosher, 30 October 2013, 07:18:49 PM

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I was blaming one of the dogs !  ;)
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Fenton

Quote from: Sandinista on 31 October 2013, 06:15:42 PM
Singapore is always glossed over when surrender is mentioned

Losing the Hundred Years War is often overlooked as well
If I were creating Pendraken I wouldn't mess about with Romans and  Mongols  I would have started with Centurions , eight o'clock, Day One!

FierceKitty

And Dunkirk. And selling out the Czechs. And the retreat from Kabul. Yorktown. The first Boer War. Having to be rescued by the Prussians at Waterloo. Having to be rescued by the French at Inkermann. And the fact that English armies lost the English Civil War, the Baron's Wars, the Wars of the Roses, Hastings....
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Sandinista

also losing to the Dutch and having their leader made king

Orcs

Quote from: FierceKitty on 01 November 2013, 12:01:47 AM
And Dunkirk. And selling out the Czechs. And the retreat from Kabul. Yorktown. The first Boer War. Having to be rescued by the Prussians at Waterloo. Having to be rescued by the French at Inkermann. And the fact that English armies lost the English Civil War, the Baron's Wars, the Wars of the Roses, Hastings....

So we lost a few battles  :( - but we did end up owning 2/3rds of the world  :D

At least we were on time for the various wars - unlike the Americans :d

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get2grips

Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 01 November 2013, 08:23:15 AM
So we lost a few battles  :( - but we did end up owning 2/3rds of the world  :D

At least we were on time for the various wars - unlike the Americans :d



Polite cough...1 third ;)

FierceKitty

Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 01 November 2013, 08:23:15 AM
we did end up owning 2/3rds of the world  :D

At least we were on time for the various wars...


"Peace for our time." And when that didn't work they belatedly joined in. "On time" my tonsils!

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Quote from: get2grips on 01 November 2013, 09:39:49 AM
Polite cough...1 third ;)
Correctrion accepted if thats the land mass, but I was including most of the seas and Oceans as well, as we ruled them as well

Quote from: FierceKitty on 01 November 2013, 10:29:00 AM
If you really own something, chances are you've still got it a few years later.

We were benevolent and gave it as a gift to our Colonials :)
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get2grips

Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 01 November 2013, 10:40:46 AM

We were benevolent and gave it as a gift to our Colonials :)

:-\  Nope...think the second world war did for us...

Bankrupt;
Lost an Empire;
Rationing;
Bomb damaged cities;
Nearly 500 000 casualties.

And the pride of knowing we stood, ALONE (in the beginning), against THE most evil regime the world has ever seen.

Sandinista


Fenton

Dont forget the 57% increase in the crime rate  ;)
If I were creating Pendraken I wouldn't mess about with Romans and  Mongols  I would have started with Centurions , eight o'clock, Day One!

fsn

Quote from: FierceKitty on 01 November 2013, 12:01:47 AM
And Dunkirk. And selling out the Czechs. And the retreat from Kabul. Yorktown. The first Boer War. Having to be rescued by the Prussians at Waterloo. Having to be rescued by the French at Inkermann. And the fact that English armies lost the English Civil War, the Baron's Wars, the Wars of the Roses, Hastings....

France 1940 was a very small British army being evacuated when a very big French army collapsed. The army at Waterloo was a allied one - more Germans than British (even a big chunk of the "British" army was Kings German Legion) and Wellington was holding until the Prussians could link up.  

Quote from: Sandinista on 01 November 2013, 07:34:14 AM
also losing to the Dutch and having their leader made king
Anything's better than a Catholic. I think Willy 3 was more of an invitee than a proper conqueror. His wife, after all was in line of succession.
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Quote from: Sandinista on 01 November 2013, 04:28:32 PM
Alone?

As a nation, at that time, yes!  This is not to belittle the efforts of thousands of partizans and Nazi resistors.

fsn

Ah! The Resistance!

Why do we never speak of the collaborators?
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Quote from: fsn on 01 November 2013, 04:55:05 PM
Ah! The Resistance!

Why do we never speak of the collaborators?

I watched a documentary the other day and apparently in Northern France in 1940/41 only 1% of the French resisted in any way.

This however is not what i have found - All the French Totty I have tried to conquer have resisted 100%.  ;D

Although there was a quite attractive waitress in Normandy this year who did give me extra helpings of Whipped Cream,  or Chantilly Plus was what she actually said.    ;D ;D
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Quote from: fsn on 01 November 2013, 04:39:47 PM

Anything's better than a Catholic. I think Willy 3 was more of an invitee than a proper conqueror. His wife, after all was in line of succession.

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Fenton

Quote from: fsn on 01 November 2013, 04:55:05 PM
Ah! The Resistance!

Why do we never speak of the collaborators?

I have just been reading about the British Free Corps...Interesting stuff
If I were creating Pendraken I wouldn't mess about with Romans and  Mongols  I would have started with Centurions , eight o'clock, Day One!

Ithoriel

Alone ... so Australia, Canada, India, etc were just no-account colonials not worth mentioning!??

Pretty much every nation has had it's up and it's downs on the world stage. It's moments of heroism and it's times of ignominy.

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