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Welcome => Intro's and Welcomes => Topic started by: Enigmatic Gamer on 07 June 2023, 12:38:55 PM

Title: Hello
Post by: Enigmatic Gamer on 07 June 2023, 12:38:55 PM
Hi
Thanks for allowing me to join the forum.
I hope I'm doing this correctly.
I'm just starting in 10mm Napoleonics after a lifetime of wargaming with 15,20,25 and 28mm figures.
A downsizing move to beautiful Scotland has meant a reduced gaming area and so 10mm is perfect.
Please expect to get plenty of questions about all aspects of the 10mm world.
My project is 1809 French and Austrian conflic and my first Pendraken order is on its way as I post this!
Exciting times😀
Cheers
Keith
Title: Re: Hello
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 07 June 2023, 12:54:10 PM
Enjoy, its totally nuts on here...
Title: Re: Hello
Post by: FierceKitty on 07 June 2023, 01:11:28 PM
Welcome to the party. It is traditional that new arrivals stand all officers of captain's rank or higher one drink every evening until they overtake them in seniority.
Title: Re: Hello
Post by: Ithoriel on 07 June 2023, 01:12:06 PM
Welcome to the madhouse forum :)

Also welcome to Scotland! :)

1809 is  not a period I'm in to personally - 1809 BCE maybe - but I wish you well with your project.

Pictures of your progress are always welcome here.

Title: Re: Hello
Post by: Leon on 07 June 2023, 01:52:49 PM
Welcome to the Forum!
Title: Re: Hello
Post by: mmcv on 07 June 2023, 02:43:50 PM
Welcome!
Title: Re: Hello
Post by: Steve J on 07 June 2023, 03:28:12 PM
Welcome on board Keith! 1809 has piqued my interest and I'm reading Gill's trilogy on the campaign at present.
Title: Re: Hello
Post by: fred. on 07 June 2023, 04:49:04 PM
Welcome on board!

You already doing things right if you are here and buying Pendraken figures!

After years of avoiding Napoleonics over the last couple of years I've built up a few skirmish forces using Pendraken Peninsular figures to game with Sharpe Practice. 
Title: Re: Hello
Post by: fsn on 07 June 2023, 07:27:21 PM
Quote from: Enigmatic Gamer on 07 June 2023, 12:38:55 PMHi
Thanks for allowing me to join the forum.
To be fair, there's a pretty low bar. You'll find that when you've interacted with some of the denizens.

Quote from: Enigmatic Gamer on 07 June 2023, 12:38:55 PMI hope I'm doing this correctly.
Good so far ...  :)

Quote from: Enigmatic Gamer on 07 June 2023, 12:38:55 PMI'm just starting in 10mm Napoleonics after a lifetime of wargaming with 15,20,25 and 28mm figures.
A downsizing move to beautiful Scotland has meant a reduced gaming area and so 10mm is perfect.
Indeed, 10mm is perfect, and very suitable for the Napoleonic period. I took the plunge after many years of dithering and am very happy with the optics.

Quote from: Enigmatic Gamer on 07 June 2023, 12:38:55 PMPlease expect to get plenty of questions about all aspects of the 10mm world.
My project is 1809 French and Austrian conflic and my first Pendraken order is on its way as I post this!
Exciting times😀
I envy you that excitement of the first order. Having said that, I still get excited when I have an order in. Once I get that email from Leon saying my order has despatched, I spend hours with my nose pressed against the window looking for the mail delivery operative.

I've gone a little later than you - I think Napoleon was in some ways at his best in 1813 (Oooh! Controversial) and I have elements of Poles, Austrians, Russians and Prussians from Leipzig, Wurttemburgers and Bavarians, and Danes form elsewhere in 1813. I also have British and Brunswickers from 1815 and am in the middle for an Ottoman project. After that will be the Swedes or maybe the Portuguese or the Spanish. Then maybe the French?       

Welcome to the Forum. Lots of very clever people here, and me too.
Title: Re: Hello
Post by: Techno 3 on 08 June 2023, 11:06:27 AM
Welcome, Keith !  :-h
Title: Re: Hello
Post by: Enigmatic Gamer on 08 June 2023, 11:17:38 AM
Thanks for the warm welcome.
Can anyone please explain how exactly do I post a reply to a specific message?
I did say you could expect some questions. I promise they won't all be like this 🙄
Title: Re: Hello
Post by: Ithoriel on 08 June 2023, 11:36:50 AM
QuoteThanks for the warm welcome.
Can anyone please explain how exactly do I post a reply to a specific message?
I did say you could expect some questions. I promise they won't all be like this 🙄

If you are logged in there should be a "Quote button which opens a new reply and inserts the message you are trying to quote.

If you highlight a piece of text it will quote only that.

Does that help?

Also, no stupid questions here only stupid answers. You will see the latter here, in profusion :)

Title: Re: Hello
Post by: fsn on 08 June 2023, 11:37:55 AM
QuoteThanks for the warm welcome.
Can anyone please explain how exactly do I post a reply to a specific message?
I did say you could expect some questions. I promise they won't all be like this 🙄


It's not really a nested system so you can reply to specific messages. On the right hand side of all messages is the "quote" button. We just insert the previous message into our reply.


Title: Re: Hello
Post by: fsn on 08 June 2023, 11:40:30 AM
QuoteIf you are logged in there should be a "Quote button which opens a new reply and inserts the message you are trying to quote.

If you highlight a piece of text it will quote only that.

Does that help?
Dammit! I said that ... just 2 seconds after you did.

QuoteAlso, no stupid questions here only stupid answers. You will see the latter here, in profusion :)
Hello.



... and that is how we respond to specific messages.  :D


Title: Re: Hello
Post by: Ithoriel on 08 June 2023, 11:46:11 AM
65 seconds between us? Honours even I think, fsn.
Title: Re: Hello
Post by: Enigmatic Gamer on 08 June 2023, 12:02:33 PM
QuoteIf you are logged in there should be a "Quote button which opens a new reply and inserts the message you are trying to quote.

If you highlight a piece of text it will quote only that.

Does that help?

Also, no stupid questions here only stupid answers. You will see the latter here, in profusion :)

Yes it does, thanks very much. Assuming this reply appears where it should, that is.
Title: Re: Hello
Post by: Ithoriel on 08 June 2023, 12:18:12 PM
Looks pretty good to me.

If you move down below the quoted text before typing it would be perfect. But what you did definitely works!
Title: Re: Hello
Post by: Enigmatic Gamer on 08 June 2023, 12:20:08 PM
QuoteLooks pretty good to me.

If you move down below the quoted text before typing it would be perfect. But what you did definitely works!





Thanks again!
Title: Re: Hello
Post by: Ithoriel on 08 June 2023, 12:21:51 PM
Clearly, you are a natural :)
Title: Re: Hello
Post by: paulr on 09 June 2023, 08:24:15 AM
Welcome Keith  :-h
Title: Re: Hello
Post by: Enigmatic Gamer on 09 June 2023, 09:48:54 AM
Quote from: paulr on 09 June 2023, 08:24:15 AMWelcome Keith  :-h


Cheers mate!
Title: Re: Hello
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 09 June 2023, 10:05:16 AM
Hello and welcome
Title: Re: Hello
Post by: Orcs on 09 June 2023, 05:05:52 PM
Quote from: FierceKitty on 07 June 2023, 01:11:28 PMWelcome to the party. It is traditional that new arrivals stand all officers of captain's rank or higher one drink every evening until they overtake them in seniority.

 ;D  ;D  ;D
I second that
Title: Re: Hello
Post by: Enigmatic Gamer on 09 June 2023, 05:17:50 PM
And here's me thinking you were all members of the Temperance League 🤣😂
Title: Re: Hello
Post by: Ithoriel on 09 June 2023, 05:31:42 PM
"The very next day, as the dawn it did break,
I went to the vestry the pledge for to take,
But when I got there they were sat in a bunch
Round a big roaring fire drinking tumblers of punch!"

I'll have a shot of Smokehead, barman, put it on Enigmatic Gamer's tab. :)
Title: Re: Hello
Post by: FierceKitty on 10 June 2023, 12:35:58 AM
Quote from: Enigmatic Gamer on 09 June 2023, 05:17:50 PMAnd here's me thinking you were all members of the Temperance League 🤣😂

One drink? Pretty temperate, surely?
Title: Re: another dumb question?
Post by: Enigmatic Gamer on 11 June 2023, 09:03:37 AM
Hello again

Can you please explain how I go about posting a new topic?

I have now received my first Pendraken order😁

I have some questions about basing sizes and unit organisation for Napoleonics but can't seem to work out how to start a topic and make the post🙄

Cheers
Keith








Title: Re: Hello
Post by: fsn on 11 June 2023, 09:15:22 AM
On the "Home" page, pick the area you want to post in ... e.g. "Genre/Period Discussions", then "Firelocks to Maxims"

From that, you can pick "new topic", and off you go.
Title: Re: Hello
Post by: fsn on 11 June 2023, 09:18:28 AM
(https://s3.memeshappen.com/memes/Wait-A-Minute---meme-28501.jpg)
Wait a minute ... you must already have created at least two new topics?
Title: Re: Hello
Post by: Enigmatic Gamer on 11 June 2023, 09:25:58 AM
Got it!
My next question will be along shortly...
Thanks
Title: Re: Hello
Post by: fsn on 04 July 2023, 06:30:37 PM
:-w  :-w  :-w  :-w  :!!
Title: Re: Hello
Post by: Orcs on 04 July 2023, 09:17:08 PM
Welcome to the forum.
Title: Re: Hello
Post by: Enigmatic Gamer on 05 July 2023, 09:23:36 AM
Cheers mate!