If anyone is off to the joy of six in Sheffield tomorrow pop over and say hello. I'll be on the Dennewitz table playing a volley and bayonet game.
New to the forums and relatively new to 10mm but do pendraken run a show like this at all? If so I'll be seeing you there 😄
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Be shoving a Tank Division around - on the CWC table.
IanS
Quote from: Shutuphippie on 16 July 2016, 06:05:46 AM
New to the forums and relatively new to 10mm but do pendraken run a show like this at all? If so I'll be seeing you there 😄
They do the battleground show:
http://www.battlegroundshow.co.uk/
Could a Pendraken show perhaps be called "the Giddiness of Ten"?
How about
Tumultuous knee trembling of Ten
Quote from: Shutuphippie on 16 July 2016, 06:05:46 AM
If anyone is off to the joy of six in Sheffield tomorrow pop over and say hello. I'll be on the Dennewitz table playing a volley and bayonet game.
New to the forums and relatively new to 10mm but do pendraken run a show like this at all? If so I'll be seeing you there 😄
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
And I'll be there showing Pharsalus with To the Strongest rules. Come along and join in the fun!
Mollinary
Quote from: mollinary on 16 July 2016, 03:41:33 PM
And I'll be there showing Pharsalus with To the Strongest rules. Come along and join in the fun!
Mollinary
A game I've been looking at for a while now..can't decide whether to take the plunge or not
Quote from: d_Guy on 16 July 2016, 02:11:03 PM
Could a Pendraken show perhaps be called "the Giddiness of Ten"?
Ten-ptation...?
Quote from: Leon on 16 July 2016, 06:36:14 PM
Ten-ptation...?
and this is why your in the business and we are mere groupies. OK there are some that are over obsessed but you get the idea
Second :)
:-bd
Waves from Attack at Devizes! :)
Had a brilliant time over the weekend, firstly at the Baccus Secret Bunker where Igor and The Marthter gave a brilliant overview of the history and the production processes of Baccus. If you have any interest in the process whereby those little men are created I can't recommend a visit too highly. A great experience definitely enhanced by sharing it with a really nice bunch of other visitors.
Joy of Six itself was everything I'd hoped. I spent money I didn't have on things I didn't need, buying twice what I should have but half of what I'd have liked. There were so many great games being put on it seems a little churlish to single out any of them but I feel that I have to give special mention to Breaking The Line put on by David Elks and Tim Rogers since it was playing their game that got me the winning raffle ticket that saw me walk off with a bottle of Genfiddich and while playing it for a second time that I actually won. Plus they are nice guys and it was a fun game that I enjoyed enough when I lost that I went back for a second game which I won ... more by chance than skill!
Had a chance to meet Shutuphippie and mollinary. Must've met ianrs54 too, without realising who he was. Probably several others too that I'm still too zonked to remember.
Apart from preferring not to cook in the very unBritish hot, humid weather there's not much I'd change about the weekend.
Definitely planning to go back next year!
Pictures taken on my new smart phone, which I have yet to really get to grips with so not the best, here Joy of Six 2016 Album (http://s1335.photobucket.com/user/ithoriel/library/Joy%20of%20Six%20-%202016)
A wonderful report, Ithoriel! I enjoyed the read.
And this... this I call poetry:
Quote from: Ithoriel on 18 July 2016, 12:28:36 AM
I spent money I didn't have on things I didn't need, buying twice what I should have but half of what I'd have liked.
Nice!
Seconded :)
Thirded !
Cheers - Phil
We have probably all done that but never quite explained so well!
A lovely turn of phrase, which could be expressed matehmaticlaly as:
w = 2b = 4s
Where w=what Ithoriel wanted to buy, s=what Ithoriel should have bought and b= what Itoriel actually bought.
Considering my own purchases it's more like:
w = 0.75b = 8s
Nice report Ithoriel. Couldn't make it this year but hope to see you there next year.
85thed!
Looks like you got the hang of the camera pretty well Ithoriel - some nice looking games 8)
Liked the forests in the Britannia game.....
The Somme game looks interesting......did you wander past during the set up as quite a few feet of unmanned allied trenches....guessing if Robert Dunlop was running it they were using GWSH2 rules?
Thanks again for posting the pics.
Cheers
By stint of very poor planning I will be in Sheffield this weekend with hours to kill post lunch, in between ceremony and drinks at a friend's wedding - had he booked last weekend it would have been perfect.
Instead I need to find something to kill 4 or 5 hours next weekend.
Quote from: pierre the shy on 18 July 2016, 09:41:16 AM
Looks like you got the hang of the camera pretty well Ithoriel - some nice looking games 8)
Liked the forests in the Britannia game.....
The Somme game looks interesting......did you wander past during the set up as quite a few feet of unmanned allied trenches....guessing if Robert Dunlop was running it they were using GWSH2 rules?
Thanks again for posting the pics.
Cheers
I'm glad people like the pics.
The Somme game seemed to take quite a while to set up so I took some shots early on, easy to lose track of what you've taken pics of in the heat of the moment, then went back later once the game was in progress.
Not sure what rules were being used ... I'm afraid I was too busy working out what it would cost me to do a scaled down version using the gorgeous Timecast trench systems. More than I ought to spend being my conclusion :-)
Quote from: fsn on 18 July 2016, 07:00:58 AM
w = 2b = 4s
Known here after as the "Ithoriel-Nobby Equality" (or is it the "Ithoriel-Nobby Conjecture").
O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars
Are in the poorest thing superfluous.
Allow not nature more than nature needs,
Man's life's as cheap as beast's.
:) A literate post. Then is doomsday nigh!
The boy stood on the burning deck
His pocket full of crackers,
A spark went flying up his leg
And put us all back on track - hurrah!
Quote from: FierceKitty on 18 July 2016, 12:56:41 PM
:) A literate post. Then is doomsday nigh!
You know what they say about broken clocks! :)
Quote from: Ithoriel on 18 July 2016, 12:28:36 AM
Had a brilliant time over the weekend, firstly at the Baccus Secret Bunker where Igor and The Marthter gave a brilliant overview of the history and the production processes of Baccus. If you have any interest in the process whereby those little men are created I can't recommend a visit too highly. A great experience definitely enhanced by sharing it with a really nice bunch of other visitors.
Joy of Six itself was everything I'd hoped. I spent money I didn't have on things I didn't need, buying twice what I should have but half of what I'd have liked. There were so many great games being put on it seems a little churlish to single out any of them but I feel that I have to give special mention to Breaking The Line put on by David Elks and Tim Rogers since it was playing their game that got me the winning raffle ticket that saw me walk off with a bottle of Genfiddich and while playing it for a second time that I actually won. Plus they are nice guys and it was a fun game that I enjoyed enough when I lost that I went back for a second game which I won ... more by chance than skill!
Had a chance to meet Shutuphippie and mollinary. Must've met ianrs54 too, without realising who he was. Probably several others too that I'm still too zonked to remember.
Apart from preferring not to cook in the very unBritish hot, humid weather there's not much I'd change about the weekend.
Definitely planning to go back next year!
Pictures taken on my new smart phone, which I have yet to really get to grips with so not the best, here Joy of Six 2016 Album (http://s1335.
.com/user/ithoriel/library/Joy%20of%20Six%20-%202016)
Also had a brilliant time, but as I was putting on a game I didn't really have the opportunity to spend lots of cash. fortunately I came across GS Miniature Workshop at the end of the show, took their card, and have now rectified this oversight! The venue was brilliant, with a lot of inspirational games. I too had a look at Breaking the Line, complimented the guys on both the idea and presentation, but couldn't play because of my own commitment. I am a bit 'husky' today after talking so much for so long, but it was great fun talking to so many pleasant, interesting and interested, people. As I explained TtS to the folks, I realised how much I have come to be a great fan. There was lots of interest in Pharsalus, and we played it through with four players in an hour and a half. Caesar lost a close match, but as he was killed, he probably didn't care! It confirmed my belief that he must have had the Civil Wars ghost written! Thereafter, I played sections of the game to demonstrate the rules to people coming along in ones or twos. They all seemed to enjoy it, which made it all worthwhile. I was also really helped out by another TtS afficionado, Dave Lycett, who came along and kept things moving with his gentle good humour. Overall, it was a brilliant day, and I am already thinking about what I might do next year.
Mollinary
Hi Guys,
Was a great show with some fantastic looking games. I didn't have a chance to get around all the games and introduce myself to everyone who hangs out here so apologies for that.
I've just emailed Leon about a table at Battleground as I have convinced our group to put on a 10mm Marlburian game if Leon has any space left..
The 'temptation of ten' gets my vote as a great name :D
Knowing the person putting git on The Somme game would using Great War Spearhead 2
Quote from: Fenton on 18 July 2016, 06:27:02 PM
Knowing the person putting git on The Somme game would using Great War Spearhead 2
And in English? ;) :-\
Mollinary
The git on the Somme is all mine, all mine;
The git on the Somme is all mine!
Quote from: mollinary on 18 July 2016, 06:29:38 PM
And in English? ;) :-\
Mollinary
Apologies for using "On the bus autocorrect English"
Sorry - you put a git on the bus then?
Great scale, great pics and write up, just too far for me now.
MickS
Quote from: Leman on 18 July 2016, 01:31:56 PM
The boy stood on the burning deck
His pocket full of crackers,
A spark went flying up his leg
And put us all back on track - hurrah!
Leman tried to be a poet.
How the thought appalls!
Thank heavens that a critic therefore
Kicked him on the shin.
;D ;D ;D :-[
The boy stood on the burning deck
The sparks flew like a rocket
One flew up his trouser leg
And set fire to his pocket
The boy stood on the burning deck
His heart was all aflutter
He stood there toasting lumps of bread
And coating them in butter
The boy stood on the burning deck
Whence all but he had fled
When the cannonballs came whistling by
The poor boy lost his head
The boy stood on the burning deck
With his girlfriend Nancy
He'd promised her a red hot night
She'd not expected this, I fancy!
The boy stood on the burning deck,
Shouting brave defiance
At those who favoured WWII
O'er the Aztec Triple Alliance.
"Who wants Leipzig, Waterloo,
Or other gaming stocks?
Come on, Techno, get 'em done,
Or we'll hide the band-aid box."
The boy stood on the burning deck,
Did he flinch Sir? Heck no!
He tended to the wounded there,
He bandaged up our Techno.
The boy stood on the burning deck,
He took no peace nor rest, he
took to him a boarding pike,
and used it on poor Westie.
Homer's first attempt:
Roses are red,
Violets are blue.
I sing the wrath of Achilles,
How about you?
A request on behalf of those going on about Prussians and WWII (I've been one of the former myself recently, I know): How about three German officers crossing the Rhine, parlez vous?, which at the least could make an amusing little vignette?
Quote from: FierceKitty on 20 July 2016, 09:33:23 AM
Homer's first attempt:
Roses are red,
Violets are blue.
I sing the wrath of Achilles,
How about you?
;D ;D
Rage it was
And rage it is
And rage it 'ere shall be
Peleus' son
Was quite undone
By an arrow to the knee
(
or was it the ankle? I can't remember
I used to be an adventurer like you ...
The boy stood on the burning deck,
Playing a game of cricket.
The ball ran up his trouser leg,
And hit his middle wicket.
(Judge Dread.)
Cheers - Phil