I read quite a lot of military history, and have found that there are certain terms or phrases that stick in my mind and I retain some degree of affection for. I realise this puts me very much in the line for more comments about my medication, but I have just taken the crunchy brown ones so I should be OK - unless I've been eating snails again.
Anyway, my favourite terms include
Liby-Phoeniecian (Carthaginian), FunkWagen (German radio vehicle), enfilade (to fire into the flanks) and Grenzer (Austrain border troops).
I also like Raupenhelm (Bavarian headgear).
Don't ask me why. They're just words and term that I find attractive. 8-}
Anyone else going to admit to such silliness?
As usual:
WHERE ARE THE PILLS!!!!!!
I like the words redoubt and breech and storming party
Revetment also has a nice ring to it, as does Vauban
But the best words are "My God I finally won a game"
You need anything but a 1!
This is gonna hurt!
How do you unjam a mitrillures?
Pass the wine gums!
"leichter panzerspahwagen"
"rasputitsa"
"pseudocomitatenses"
"chevau-leger lanciers"
Nothing in English immediately springs to mind - wonder what deep psychological flaw that reveals ;D
Gastraphetes, escalade and pickelhaube.
Cataphracti and Clibanarii pronounced Clibinarii. (who's fault is that ? :-\)
Bogging, Minging, Gopping :-&
and REMF ;)
Homunculus and Gazebo.
Quote from: Techno on 19 October 2013, 09:11:20 PM
Homunculus and Gazebo.
How do those apply to wargaming? "The 6th Jaegers will advance on the homunculus in the gazebo"?
... actually now getting a scenario idea!
Quote from: fsn on 19 October 2013, 09:42:42 PM
How do those apply to wargaming?
... actually now getting a scenario idea!
Oops sorry....Didn't read that bit ! :-[
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Fenton on 19 October 2013, 06:59:03 PM
I like the words redoubt...
I like "redoubt" too :)
Also:
Charging in the open;
Landsknecht;
Panzerschrek;
and Katyusha.
I really don't seem to get any further than 'breastworks' somehow...
Cheers,
Rob
;D ;D ;D
Oh I don't know. How about "percussion nipple"?
Quote from: fsn on 20 October 2013, 10:53:30 AM
;D ;D ;D
Oh I don't know. How about "percussion nipple"?
Nasty,
tinny sort of word.
Schwerepunkt - point of main attack
Razee - frigate cut down from a two-decker
Canonier - French gunner
Larboard - left-hand side of a ship facing forward.
Yes, mine seem to be mainly foreign too. :-\
Isn't it just wonderfull how we managed to derail this topic even on the first page into another immature, sexist thread...?
I think we can be mightily proud of ourselves! :D
Cheers,
Rob
Mound City - Union river ship which seems appropriate somehow.
My favourite term was always summer because of the holidays at the end of it.
Quote from: Ace of Spades on 20 October 2013, 11:55:30 AM
Isn't it just wonderfull how we managed to derail this topic even on the first page into another immature, sexist thread...?
I think we can be mightily proud of ourselves! :D
Cheers,
Rob
You are of course correct
Wolf nipple chips is a great set of words
I haven't got a clue what 'wolf nipple chip' could be... :-\ please enlighten us Fenton!
Also, to keep it military; I always wondered what the Americans meant during the ACW when they said they were going to give the enemy 'a good licking'... :o
Cheers,
Rob ;)
Quote from: Fenton on 20 October 2013, 05:12:52 PM
You are of course correct
Wolf nipple chips is a great set of words
"Get 'em while they're hot...they're lovely!" :D
Vernichtungschlacht!
Reiter, Panzerschreck, and some of the more obscure German vehicle names make for interesting punctuation.
Outside of wargaming, that ..nge sound, so sponge, blancmange, flange, etc.
Quote from: Ace of Spades on 20 October 2013, 05:51:29 PM
I haven't got a clue what 'wolf nipple chip' could be... :-\ please enlighten us Fenton!
Ace....Just in case you
haven't got your tongue wedged firmly in your cheek... ;)
It's from the "Life of Brian" by Monty P.
Cheers - Phil.
DAKKA! DAKKA! DAKKA!
"Tommy, For you Ze War iz over..."
"Achtung! Spitfire!!!"
"Take that you Sausage Eating Hun!"
Fick meine alten stiefel ;)
Quote from: Nosher on 21 October 2013, 07:57:19 AM
DAKKA! DAKKA! DAKKA!
"Tommy, For you Ze War iz over..."
"Achtung! Spitfire!!!"
"Take that you Sausage Eating Hun!"
Are you sure your posting on the right forum Nosher :D
Quote from: Fenton on 21 October 2013, 07:59:55 AM
Are you sure your posting on the right forum Nosher :D
Yes they are, they all come from the Commando comics.
Doppelganger
Barkereese (the way things are written in DBX rules)
Panzerfaust
Thrice
Commando Comics - the most politically correct adventure stories for boys - Got in Himmel!
Ah! Commando comics. Not forgetting War, Battle and Air Ace, as well as the Victor, Hotspur etc.
I always thought it odd that Europeans (dirty Hun) when visited by some catastrophe such as a bayonet to the guts or a hand grenade up the bunker always responded with "arrrgh!", wheras for the oriental (nasty Nipponese) it was "aieee!".
Quote from: fsn on 21 October 2013, 11:35:31 AM
I always thought it odd that Europeans (dirty Hun) when visited by some catastrophe such as a bayonet to the guts or a hand grenade up the bunker always responded with "arrrgh!", wheras for the oriental (nasty Nipponese) it was "aieee!".
Sounds like part of a Monty Python sketch " Stop killing me ... I've come here for an argument!..Sorry this is being hit on the head lessons..you want next door on the left"
Quote from: Dour Puritan on 21 October 2013, 11:10:54 AM
Commando Comics - the most politically correct adventure stories for boys - Got in Himmel!
And the good news is they're bringing them out again as repros. ;)
Quote from: Hertsblue on 22 October 2013, 07:50:24 AM
And the good news is they're bringing them out again as repros. ;)
Saw them in WH Smiths at £2 each !!!!!!!