Wanted to put something, but didn't think it was worthy of an entire thread to itself, so thought I'd start this one for those quick questions.
Just finishing 3m50 of n gauge hedge, most of it in 10cm strips - about the same amount of wall to do (that flexible sponge stuff). While given the caveat a wargamer never has enough of anything, do people think that will be adequate amount?
Course not, but it's a good start.
IanS
Adequate for what?
1944CE Normandy - not nearly enough.
1944BCE Mesopotamia - way, way too much.
To determine how much you need get a suitable sized piece of string - that's how much you need ;)
No, unless you can grid your table into 4" square fields and line every bit of possible road or lane in both fence, hedge or wall you need more.
Also you'll definitely need more trees and more destroyers, these are things I've learnt you can never have too many of.
Strangely you don't see them all on the same table though. :-\
How big is you table?
I've got another one for you.
How big should I make an iron age village? I'm making my own earthworks. I'm thinking probably 2' x 2'.
Usual 6x4 size - I can do a lot bigger, but not as wide if I use our Ikea dining table rather than Sunjester's, or a club board - its about 42"/102cm, by 6 feet, but 9 foot if I put the leaves in! Given you only need 2 hedges per field - the adjacent fields provide the other 2 - I have enough for 18 10cm/4" square fields, so 3 x 6 = 1 foot by 2 foot. Only another 22 square feet to do then!
2x2 should be plenty big enough or it will dominate too much- town fighting is slow and bitty, no matter what period
Quote from: fsn on 22 May 2016, 01:11:21 PM
How big should I make an iron age village? I'm making my own earthworks. I'm thinking probably 2' x 2'.
You'd never get the 40-50 inhabitants in that space.
IanS
As someone who has lots of terrain I can honestly say:-
"whatever you have, will on some occasions not be enough" and/or the right stuff.
I also prefer to have lots of similar stuff as it looks less "bitty" on the table, although I realiase real life is "bitty"
I'm not a fan of terrain that gets in the way. This is why I eschew the Viet Nam war. (Stereo)Typically too many trees that inhibit your ability to move figures for it to "look" right.
String...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qNj-QFZbew (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qNj-QFZbew)
Cheers
Ian
What if the Bird, really is the word.....?
Quote from: Last Hussar on 22 May 2016, 12:35:15 PM
While given the caveat a wargamer never has enough of anything, do people think that will be adequate amount?
My random answer would be 27.
Not 42?
Probably too much for 1642AD and 216BC.
Extra olives, anchovies are good, hold the capers.
Somebody has a good idea of what a pizza should be.
Capers are great, and so are anchovies. Pineapple, on the other hand - :-&
My wife threatens me with violence if I leave out the coppa (Italian ham). Buddhist or not, she's a serious carnivore.
Pizza - black olives, capers, chillies, green and red peppers, red onions, extra cheese. No dead animals thank you.
And I hereby proclaim this thread derailed! ;D
Who?
(just a random question)
i think he invented a type of bicycle gearing system.
Oh dear, someone's bound to be offended. FK!
Quote from: ianrs54 on 25 May 2016, 05:37:06 AM
Not 42?
:) The procedure for arriving at 27 was much simpler then for 42.
Has d_Guy heard of Arthur Dent?
I think not, nor Ford Prefect.
IanS
Not to mention Arty Blartfast.
Slartibartfast
Can someone tell me where I have put my glasses please.
On top of your head....
IanS
Anyone spot that I'm not really a Hitchhiker afficcianado. (probably spelt that bugger wrong as well.
Yep.
Quote from: Leman on 26 May 2016, 12:49:14 PM
Anyone spot that I'm not really a Hitchhiker afficcianado. (probably spelt that bugger wrong as well.
Surely you mean H2G2 :)
Quote from: Leman on 26 May 2016, 07:10:27 AM
Has d_Guy heard of Arthur Dent?
Quote from: ianrs54 on 26 May 2016, 07:12:27 AM
I think not, nor Ford Prefect.
IanS
No - neither one - and I can't find my towel either.
Hello all
I'm glad I've got your attention because I've got some Vogon poetry that I think should be recited at this point.....
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/39/Vogon_poetry2.jpg)
Oh freddled gruntbuggly,
Thy micturations are to me,
As plurdled gabbleblotchits,
On a lurgid bee,
That mordiously hath blurted out,
Its earted jurtles,
Into a rancid festering confectious organ squealer. [drowned out by moaning and screaming]
Now the jurpling slayjid agrocrustles,
Are slurping hagrilly up the axlegrurts,
And living glupules frart and slipulate,
Like jowling meated liverslime,
Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turling dromes,
And hooptiously drangle me,
With crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or else I shall rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon,
See if I don't.
Next we have something from Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Sussex...........
Cheers
GrumpyOldMan
"Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now."
I've just been looking up Miss Shilling's Orifice.
Very interesting.
Quote from: fsn on 26 May 2016, 07:41:51 PM
I've just been looking up Miss Shilling's Orifice.
Very interesting.
You were using the Whitepages, correct?
A small factoid* - Lewis Carol practiced the Vogon style and is thought by many to be its ultimate practitioner. Or was it James Joyce? Now I'm confused.
* A very small fact which has a large probability of not being
Reversion to normal status then ? :d :d
IanS :)
The Vogon's a better poet than Chaucer, anyway.
Quote from: d_Guy on 26 May 2016, 07:54:37 PM
You were using the Whitepages, correct?
No. I was listening to a radio program about women who ought to be famous, and remembered the story of the female engineer who added a thingy into the Merlin engine so that Spitfires and Hurricanes didn't conk out when diving. I was just refreshing my memory on the story.
http://www3.hants.gov.uk/biographies/shilling.htm (http://www3.hants.gov.uk/biographies/shilling.htm)
So many fighter pilots had a good experience going down because of Miss Shilling's orifice. (Should that go in the rude punch lines thread?)
Definitely.
:D
Good story, Nobby.
And I bet she was paid washers.
:)
Quote from: ianrs54 on 27 May 2016, 05:21:47 AM
Reversion to normal status then ? :d :d
IanS :)
Yes - wait! No - uh, maybe. :)
Miss Shilling's orifice
Why I love this forum!
I have a question for you all.
I have two cats. That means I have an almost unlimited supply of (blonde/ginger) cat hair.
Can you think of a wargames related use for this free resource?
Spin and weave into a unique desert-effect cloth?
Block up the Dyson.
Antennae for elves?
Coloured smoke.
Donald Trump conversion kits.
;D ;D ;D ;D
Not sure of the wargaming use of that, but I can see where you're going with it.
One of the blokes at the Aylesbury club used to use Cats whiskers as Aerials for his vehicles. ( he did wait for them to drop off naturally).
I think it would be fun to trim off the length you want from the cat :d :d
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 01 June 2016, 11:27:17 AM
One of the blokes at the Aylesbury club used to use Cats whiskers as Aerials for his vehicles. ( he did wait for them to drop off naturally).
I think it would be fun to trim off the length you want from the cat :d :d
Do you have any friends?
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 01 June 2016, 11:27:17 AM
I think it would be fun to trim off the length you want from the cat :d :d
Depending on the cat this may not turn out well. :)
When Mrs T and I had over a dozen cats in our home in Nottinghamshire...You could pick cat whiskers off the floor without ever having to think about 'snipping' them from any of the cats.
Damn useful for conversions/additions to a model, though.
Cheers - Phil
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Quote from: FierceKitty on 01 June 2016, 01:16:24 PM
Do you have any friends?
It's a renewable resource :)
He has plenty of friends. Right up until they meet him.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 01 June 2016, 09:33:42 PM
He has plenty of friends. Right up until they meet him.
"I'm friends with the monster lives under my bed,
Get along with the voices inside of my head"
:)
Quote from: Last Hussar on 01 June 2016, 09:33:42 PM
He has plenty of friends. Right up until they meet him.
I disagree, Orcs has plenty of friends....it's just that other people cannot see or hear them!
Quote from: sunjester on 01 June 2016, 10:00:53 PM
I disagree, Orcs has plenty of friends....it's just that other people cannot see or hear them!
That means all those wargame figures and Terrain up in my garage loft must belong to my "imaginary freind".
As he is imaginary I am sure he won't mind if I e-bay them :d :d
Quote from: FierceKitty on 01 June 2016, 01:16:24 PM
Do you have any friends?
Cats are not my friends.
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