Should rules distinguish between cataphracts and kittenaphracts?
My magic 8 ball says, "signs point to yes".
Only if you still play WRG 6th or 7th edition Ancients and have a PhD in Barkerese interpretation.....
I assume that no mushrooms were harmed in the making of this thread ?
Why not- DBMM has rules for shipwrecked elephants
Thought EHC were 1/2 armoured, or with none metallic armour (ie Assyrians), SHC were in full metal armour, then there were EHK, and SHK.....
And that's why WRG went the way of the dodo, the steam helicopter, the British empire, and Harry Potter.
Ok!
Don't diss steam helicopters!
I heap cinders on my contrite head.
If you are not careful I'll root out my copy of 6th and put the definitions on here !
Maybe the question should be "How many weights of cavalry is too many?"
Much will depend on your era of warfare.
But if light and heavy is sufficient for your chariots, and Indian and African is sufficient for your elephants, I struggle to see why 7 or 8 grades of horseman are really necessary.
My experience of Napoleonics shows a correlation of "More cavalry weights" => Worse rules.
I agree, but was only making a silly pun, though it seems to be in danger of turning into a real discussion of a rules issue.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 05 April 2020, 09:22:00 AM
. . . and Harry Potter.
There was a fad that lasted far too long. The films seem to have been designed to provide a large number of aging British thespians a comfortable retirement.
Cataphracts should be fielded as an element of Knights, Kittenaphracts are fielded as a Rider element.
Either may dismount, counting as Sneakers if they do so, but must start the game as such and may not remount.
FK may be fielded as either a God or Dragon element - powerful but erratic and unreliable troop types :P
:D :D :D :D
Quote from: Raider4 on 05 April 2020, 01:45:18 PM
There was a fad that lasted far too long. The films seem to have been designed to provide a large number of aging British thespians a comfortable retirement.
Loved the books, as did almost all of the family and many friends. Enjoyed the films. Looking forward to the next Fantastiic Beasts film.
Any author who can get as many children reading, and parents reading to children, as J K Rowling did is to be applauded, in my book.
Then there was that 5th edition old favorite - "Hostile Huns" ... always a good one to pull out of the bag on your opponent.
I think just one element/unit in an army was good enough to justify the effect (which was something totally disproportionate but I cannot remember what - just that every army that had even so much as heard a rumor about huns had to have at least 1 base in the list).
You could apply something similar for Kittenfracts ... which should not be confused with Kittencrads of course.
Then there was Berserkers - or maybe that is just the Greebo effect (switching from JKRowlin to Terry Pratchett ... gourd rest is soul gov'ner)
Quote from: Big Insect on 05 April 2020, 05:40:07 PM
which should not be confused with Kittencrads of course.
Do you mean Kittenrads - the semitracked motorbikes of the Furred Reich?
Quote from: Ithoriel on 05 April 2020, 07:13:04 PM
Do you mean Kittenrads - the semitracked motorbikes of the Furred Reich?
The world has gone insane
https://youtu.be/LOVgONphbJo (https://youtu.be/LOVgONphbJo)
It was widely known that they formed a part of all armies, hence the phrase 'the whole kitten caboodle'. I'll get my coat!
Quote from: Ithoriel on 05 April 2020, 01:57:56 PM
Any author who can get as many children reading, and parents reading to children, as J K Rowling did is to be applauded, in my book.
Seconded =D> =D> =D>
I remember a schoolteacher's telling us in his Latin class that a bootlegged Lady Chat did the same thing in his schooldays. In his words, "When you picked it up, it fell open at the appropriate pages."
One of the laziest teachers I remember, and one of the best. They often go together.
Pity they didnt bar the rest of D.H. Lollipop's out put, along with Charlie Dickens, two of the most boring authors in the world....
Quote from: ianrs54 on 06 April 2020, 06:49:11 AM
Pity they didnt bar the rest of D.H. Lollipop's out put, along with Charlie Dickens, two of the most boring authors in the world....
I tend to agree with you about Dickens I find iit little short of action.
Also. I have never ever forgiven my school for forcing me to read Pride ad Prejudice as it was the set text for the educational year.
WE wuz forced to read sons and lovers, utterly tedious....and Dickens - never use one word when 100 will do.
Austen - one of the fifty greatest artists ever; nobody else has so affectionately hated the human race.
Dickens - mix of solid gold and broken polystyrene.
Lawrence - have to agree there; only thing to make his fiction look good is his poetry, which is even worse.
We were supposed to do Sons & Lovers too.
Didn't think much to it, so picked exam questions where I could do Lord of the Rings instead.
Got an A ... so I guess that worked out OK.
I got a B for saying Lawrence was too obsessed with his mother's failings and fall from station to middle class...
And that the rocking horse was awful!
Quote from: Ithoriel on 05 April 2020, 07:13:04 PM
Do you mean Kittenrads - the semitracked motorbikes of the Furred Reich?
Exactly, my dear Watson - spot on!
Shouldn't kittenaphracts be subdivided into light and heavy armoured kitties?
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Top one is clearly for getting action on Saturday night at the Nine Lives singles and catnip bar.
Light Heavy Kittenphracts, in loose order?
Quote from: Scorpio_Rocks on 06 April 2020, 06:21:38 PM
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You expect me to go out dressed like
THIS?!
:)
The arms race is on .... :D :D :D
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See.... :D
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A matched pair Leon? Cat and mouse?
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Quote from: Ithoriel on 07 April 2020, 02:18:19 PM
The arms race is on .... :D :D :D
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The rat race, isn't it?
Oh, the things one does when too tired to go to sleep....
Kittys would have to be open order, ever tried herding them ? :D
Quote from: ianrs54 on 07 April 2020, 03:03:33 PM
Kittys would have to be open order, ever tried herding them ? :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTwJzTsb2QQ
Quote from: Ithoriel on 07 April 2020, 02:37:40 PM
A matched pair Leon? Cat and mouse?
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No thanks, cats are devil creatures...
*... runs off to hide before FK sees that and throws Aztecs at me...