X & Y?

Started by Leon, 07 October 2018, 02:30:40 PM

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Westmarcher

Powder & Plop ~ Warfare in the Age of Sail and Gunpowder

Bible & Throat ~ The 30 Years War and other Wars of Religion.

Cotton Buds & Techno Plasters ~ The War of Jenkins' Ear
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

mollinary

Pike and Pot - ECW
Pike and Peltast - Ancient Successors
Pike and Plaid - Flodden
Pike and Prejudice - The Wars of Religion

Musket and Morion - TYW
Matchlock and Minion - ECW
Marsin and Marlborough - WSS
Mitre and Musket - WAS/SYW

Billhooks and Balls - 15th Century Warfare
Byzantines and Bashi-Bazouks - The Fall of Constntinople
Berbers and Bedouin - French Foreign Legion
Brigs and Barquentines - Coastal Warfare in the Age of Sail

2021 Painting Competition - Winner!
2022 Painting Competition - 2 x Runner-Up!

paulr

 =D> =D> =D>

"For King" & "Parliament"  ;)
Lord Lensman of Wellington
2018 Painting Competition - Runner-Up!
2022 Painting Competition - Runner-Up!
2023 Painting Competition - Runner-Up!

Chris Pringle

How about this range of rules, each tailored to a particular segment of the wargamer market:

Pettifogging & Pedantry
Dither & Dally
Beer & Bombast
Heads Down & Mindless Charge

And geared especially to denizens of this forum

Facetiousness & Frivolity

Leon

I'm liking the alliteration going on here!
www.pendraken.co.uk - Now home to over 7000 products, including 4500 items for 10mm wargaming, plus MDF bases, Battlescale buildings, I-94 decals, Litko Gaming Aids, Militia Miniatures, Raiden Miniatures 1/285th aircraft, Red Vectors MDF products, Vallejo paints and much, much more!

mollinary

The theme I was working on was actually existing abbreviations, so:

P&P. postage and packing

M&M  chocolate buttons

B&B.  bed and breakfast.
2021 Painting Competition - Winner!
2022 Painting Competition - 2 x Runner-Up!

Leon

Quote from: mollinary on 08 October 2018, 10:16:28 PM
The theme I was working on was actually existing abbreviations, so:

... I'd not noticed that bit...  :-[  I'm not going to do very well when the new series of Only Connect kicks off...!
www.pendraken.co.uk - Now home to over 7000 products, including 4500 items for 10mm wargaming, plus MDF bases, Battlescale buildings, I-94 decals, Litko Gaming Aids, Militia Miniatures, Raiden Miniatures 1/285th aircraft, Red Vectors MDF products, Vallejo paints and much, much more!

fsn

Centurions and Aztecs - competing gamers try and get their favourite range released by the best miniature figure supplier in the worldB)
Lord Oik of Runcorn (You may refer to me as Milord Oik)

Oik of the Year 2013, 2014; Prize for originality and 'having a go, bless him', 2015
3 votes in the 2016 Painting Competition!; 2017-2019 The Wilderness years
Oik of the Year 2020; 7 votes in the 2021 Painting Competition
11 votes in the 2022 Painting Competition (Double figures!)
2023 - the year of Gerald:
2024 Painting Competition - Runner-Up!

Chris Pringle

The ideal super-detailed WWII tank rules for us trackheads and rivetcounters:

Protractor & Percentile Dice

(You only need two tank models to play the game, but it will take you a whole weekend.)

Ithoriel

Distractions & Denizens - gaming the Pendraken Forum :D
There are 100 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who can work from incomplete data

Westmarcher

Boots & Saddles .... American Plains Wars

Blades & Saddles  .... the spoof version

Mills & Boom ..... romantic trench warfare

Mortar & Pistol ... siege warfare for chemists

Assault & Petard ...... siege warfare for foodies

Pick & Mix .... siege warfare in Ireland

Grab & Run ..... me and my coat ......
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

Terry37

I'd share my ideas, but I'm laughing too hard just reading what's already been posted. So I'll just Read & Chuckle!

Terry
"My heart has joined the thousand for a friend stopped running today." Mr. Richard Adams

fsn

Bonnie and Clyde - The Young Pretender's exploits in the Glasgow area.

Blame Westmarcher. He put me up to it!

Rock and Roll - a dice based game amongst neanderthals. (i.e. any game played by Forum members)

Boosey & Hawkes - Drunken revelry with falcons
Lord Oik of Runcorn (You may refer to me as Milord Oik)

Oik of the Year 2013, 2014; Prize for originality and 'having a go, bless him', 2015
3 votes in the 2016 Painting Competition!; 2017-2019 The Wilderness years
Oik of the Year 2020; 7 votes in the 2021 Painting Competition
11 votes in the 2022 Painting Competition (Double figures!)
2023 - the year of Gerald:
2024 Painting Competition - Runner-Up!

Ithoriel

Tea & Symphony - adding the RASC and ENSA to your WW2 games
There are 100 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who can work from incomplete data

Matt J

Rock & A Hard place - game of marital challenges
2012 Painting Competition - Winner!
2014 Painting Competition - 3 x Winner!
2014 Painting Competition - Runner-Up!
2015 Painting Competition - 2 x Winner!
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