Hi all,
I'm Chieftain, and i'll be lurking about, mostly fielding queries regarding Pendraken's new venture into the world of wargames rules - Warband.
I'm looking forwards to spending time with you all - you seem a nice bunch!
NO WAY
Hi - will give your rules a look later...
IanS ;)
Welcome, Chief. :-h :)
Cheers - Phil
Greetings and welcome to the forum.
cheers Bob
Welcome aboard
Welcome aboard.
Hi Chieftain, welcome to the Forum!
8)
Hi Chieftan!
I feel you may be dipping your toe into a pool of crocodiles.
Welcome.
Welcome!
Thanks you guys. I like crocodiles.
[God help you]
Quote from: Chieftain on 21 January 2015, 07:22:36 PM
Thanks you guys. I like crocodiles.
Flame throwing Churchills? Me too! :x
Quote from: fsn on 21 January 2015, 07:55:49 PM
Flame throwing Churchills? Me too! :x
A Winston character wielding a mighty flame thrower incinerating Germans sounds like a special rule for Bolt Action
You would have thought Leon would have made him be called Centurion.
I left to join the foederati.
Welcome
Hail, Chieftain. I predict that whatever you get asked with regard to the rules will quickly degenerate into a discussion of how to pickle beetroot, why postage stamps only have glue on one side, or which way up you store elephants. That's the way this crazy forum works. ;) ;) ;)
Quote from: Hertsblue on 23 January 2015, 01:13:58 PM
which way up you store elephants.
Upside down.
In custard.
With the soles of their feet painted yellow.
Is it homemade custard or the instant stuff...
I think I can help you there.
I'm fairly sure the rules don't have any elephants in.
There are mammoths, but they get very upset if you confuse them with their un-wooly cousins, custard covered or not.
That's not to say that people's armies won't have elephants lurking about though. Or custard.
'Cave horrors' could include various gelatinous cubes, puddings, and other nefarious dungeon-based beasties I suppose? I don't recall ever having to beat a 'custard pudding' to death with a 10' pole...i wonder how much XP they'd drop?
I think there are different storage requirements for the various Pachyderms...
They all need a fume extractor to remove the smell though....
IanS (owner of at least 20 assorted pachyderms)
"I'm looking forwards to spending time with you all - you seem a nice bunch!"
He obviously doesnt know us yet!
So how do you actually Pack a Derm?
Or if you speak Welsh. Pack Y Derm?
accordin to the i quiz last Saturday, Pachyderm is now a redundant term.
You see what I mean? :D :D :D
Quote from: Fenton on 23 January 2015, 04:21:05 PM
Or if you speak Welsh. Pack Y Derm?
Llamedos ! :P
Cheers - Phil
Just cause it's in Welsh dont mean you can use foul language.
IanS
Thought thT was elf bread from The Lord Of The Rings?
Whatht thT?
Bloodyphønethinksitssodamedsmart
;D
Felly dyna beth mae'n ei olygu.
[Elvish* for "So that's what it means"]
:P
* Welsh actually :-[
French, Welsh and German. Is there no start to your talents?
:P
Yes (there is no start!). I even astounded a workmate (who can speak bit of the Irish) when I told him that when I tune into BBC Alba, most of the time I can understand the Gaelic.*
BTW fsn (this is like texting =)) I read in another thread (can't be bothered searching for it) that you had peremptorily dismissed the idea of Pendraken introducing bandsmen figures :o. I wonder if the following may change your mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7nIWKApT30 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7nIWKApT30)
P.S. Sorry for hi-jacking your thread, Chieftain (its not actually a hi-jack - only a slight tangent - that's what happens here). Give my regards to the Pudding race.
Davy
*I read the subtitles ;)
Quote from: Westmarcher on 23 January 2015, 08:36:20 PM
P.S. Sorry for hi-jacking your thread, Chieftain (its not actually a hi-jack - only a slight tangent - that's what happens here). Give my regards to the Pudding race.
No problem. :D
No hijack encountered, just interesting banter. ;)
Where ? When ? Damn missed it again.
Google translates that as "dessert hair". Unless it isn't Welsh...
Quote from: Westmarcher on 23 January 2015, 08:36:20 PM
BTW fsn (this is like texting =)) I read in another thread (can't be bothered searching for it) that you had peremptorily dismissed the idea of Pendraken introducing bandsmen figures :o. I wonder if the following may change your mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7nIWKApT30 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7nIWKApT30)
Hmmm. Just makes me want more Centurions. :-[
Quote from: fsn on 24 January 2015, 04:05:56 PM
Hmmm. Just makes me want more Centurions. :-[
Anything wants you want MORE centurions......
ianS
Quote from: Hertsblue on 24 January 2015, 04:00:27 PM
Google translates that as "dessert hair". Unless it isn't Welsh...
Hairy Pudding. It's slang. Welsh doesn't have the same breadth as Anglo Saxon, so the sometimes the rude words have to be contrived, but when they can be poetic.
Talking of poets, today is the anniversary of the birth of Scotland's national bard, Robert Burns (born in the same year as Minden).
From the first verse of Address to the Haggis:-
Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain o' the puddin-race!
Aboon them a' ye tak your place,
Painch, tripe, or thairm:
Weel are ye wordy of a grace
As lang's my arm.
I much prefer Burns' poems to Minden's.
Adding Scots to your language skills. Are you, Westmarcher, in fact a bored Rosetta Stone program?
Am I only the one that thinks Burns was a bit crap, and he only gets attention because he wrote in dialect?
I think Matthew Arnold expressed a similar opinion, didn't he?
Quote from: Westmarcher on 25 January 2015, 10:22:00 AM
Talking of poets, today is the anniversary of the birth of Scotland's national bard, Robert Burns (born in the same year as Minden).
From the first verse of Address to the Haggis:-
Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain o' the puddin-race!
Aboon them a' ye tak your place,
Painch, tripe, or thairm:
Weel are ye wordy of a grace
As lang's my arm.
Google doesn't translate that at all.....
Quote from: Last Hussar on 25 January 2015, 11:42:04 AM
Am I only the one that thinks Burns was a bit crap, and he only gets attention because he wrote in dialect?
Yes
Quote from: Hertsblue on 25 January 2015, 12:09:32 PM
Google doesn't translate that at all.....
Nice seeing your honest, chubby face,
Great chieftain of the sausage race!
Above them all you take your place,
Belly, tripe, or links:
Well are you worthy of a grace
As long as my arm.
I think we just get to hear the acceptable verses. I prefer his more earthly stuff - like "Come Rede me dame".
'Come rede me dame, come tell me dame,
My dame come tell me truly,
What length o' graith when weel ca'd hame
Will sair a woman duly?"
The carlin clew her wanton tail,
Her wanton tail sae ready,
"l learn'd a sang in Annandale,
Nine inch will please a lady." '
It's a delightful tale of a carpenter, asking about the dimensions of a shelf that his female client has asked to have installed in her wardrobe, but she is more interested in a Chinese take away. It roughly translates as:
'Come tell me dame, come tell me dame,
My dame come tell me truly,
What depth of shelf when well fitted
Will accommodate a woman's hats?"
The lady said her wonton take-away
Her wonton take-away was ready,
"l learned from Kirstie Alsopp,
Nine inches is a suitable depth for a shelf." '
Aye, Nobby, he was quite a man wi' the lassies.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 25 January 2015, 11:42:04 AM
Am I only the one that thinks Burns was a bit crap, and he only gets attention because he wrote in dialect?
A bit like Shakespeare I suppose (in terms of dialect to our modern ears). I admit to having trouble with both, usually succeeding in getting the gist of the story and sometimes completely lost (particularly Shakespeare) and then getting back on track again :-/. In my younger years, I annually attended many a Burns Supper, an affair where the levels of inebriation start at "mildly drunk" then "very drunk" and finally "Boris Yeltsin." [Curiously, at the first stage, Burns poetry starts to become clearer but alas, that is usually short lived and thereafter one's senses are more like Tom Hanks storming the beach at Omaha.]
It sometimes amazes me how popular Burns is worldwide. I already knew that his work is held in high esteem in Russia (a workmate used to go to Burns Suppers in Moscow). A business colleague used to organise Burns Suppers in Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur. But, on a visit to the Tredegar Arsenal in Richmond, I was very surprised when the American lady at the desk (on recognising my Scottish accent) started spouting poetry from Burns - she was a member of the local Burns Club :o. Burns also wrote in standard English (pre "BBC English" - another dying dialect) and apparently had a great influence on the works of Wordsworth, Coleridge and Shelley.
Sometimes McGonagall's work is confused with Burns - many say he was crap (e.g.,
"As I was walking down the road, I met a coo. A bull b'goad!") - I suppose its all a matter of taste.
....... oh, hello again, Chieftain, welcome back to your Intro thread and the Pendraken Forum ( aka "Tangents'R'Us"). :)
It's also remarkable how many of his poems have been transformed into quite melodic songs. Usually verse set to music has all the appeal of the shipping forecast in morse.