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Post by jdesmond on Aug 6, 2018 13:08:29 GMT
Salutations, gentlefolk !
Went to a fancy high school, studied Latin and classical Greek at an impressionable age. Figure I'm entitled to have some fun with them.
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Post by Vic on Aug 6, 2018 13:19:38 GMT
I think I like a focus away from the modern armies because I like the variety of the armies coupled with the combinations of a limited amount of basic elements in terms of troops and tactics over large periods, plus I'm generally interested in the history of the period. There's an additional spot of interest for me in non-Western societies and their traditional social structures, so that extends naturally to their military; DBA was probably the first wargame I encountered, back then, that included and took seriously the armies of traditional cultures instead of focusing only on the centralised states and armies of large empires with other peoples being merely their tribal enemies to be defeated.
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Post by HectorBlackwolf on Aug 9, 2018 3:47:34 GMT
Pageantry and romance. The same goes for wargaming any period prior to the First World War. Skulking about in khaki doesn't really do much for me. Lace and muskets have their own charm, but I enjoy the directness of charging at each other with pointy sticks. Plus, its a chance to explore many different periods of history.
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Post by davidjconstable on Aug 9, 2018 7:30:23 GMT
Pageantry and romance. The same goes for wargaming any period prior to the First World War. Skulking about in khaki doesn't really do much for me. Lace and muskets have their own charm, but I enjoy the directness of charging at each other with pointy sticks. Plus, its a chance to explore many different periods of history. Pointy sticks?
The following is I believe genuine, probably a translation. The place to go to, country and date have not been given deliberately. To help I believe half of you will probably get the wrong millennia.
WAR DECLARED All men able to carry a spear go to ??. Every married man will bring his wife to cook and wash for him. Every unmarried man will bring any unmarried women he can find to cook and wash for him. Women with babies, the blind, and those too aged to carry a spear are excused. Anyone who qualified for battle and is found at home after receiving this order will be hanged.
A curiosity question, to set you thinking.
David Constable
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Post by HectorBlackwolf on Aug 10, 2018 1:50:02 GMT
Pageantry and romance. The same goes for wargaming any period prior to the First World War. Skulking about in khaki doesn't really do much for me. Lace and muskets have their own charm, but I enjoy the directness of charging at each other with pointy sticks. Plus, its a chance to explore many different periods of history. Pointy sticks?
The following is I believe genuine, probably a translation. The place to go to, country and date have not been given deliberately. To help I believe half of you will probably get the wrong millennia.
WAR DECLARED All men able to carry a spear go to ??. Every married man will bring his wife to cook and wash for him. Every unmarried man will bring any unmarried women he can find to cook and wash for him. Women with babies, the blind, and those too aged to carry a spear are excused. Anyone who qualified for battle and is found at home after receiving this order will be hanged.
A curiosity question, to set you thinking.
David Constable
Perhaps I've overly reductionist, but much of the history of human conflict boils down to men of property jabbing at each other with long sticks surmounted by something and unpleasant; over the possession of livestock, as often as not.
I believe the quote is attributed to the Emperor of Ethiopia's call up of men in response to the Italian invasion in 1935
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Post by davidjconstable on Aug 10, 2018 5:51:03 GMT
Quite correct, interesting since it is 1935AD only four (4) years before the start of WWII.
David Constable
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Post by greedo on Sept 18, 2018 5:55:04 GMT
It was the book "Greece and Rome at War" by Peter Connerly, as well as "Warfare in the Classical World" that did it for me. Read them when I was a kid. Loved the colorful shields of Hoplites and Romans, and War Elephants.
I started actually wargaming doing Warhammer Fantasy Battle 2nd Ed., but then while looking for alternatives ("Fantasy Rules!" is a fantasy derivative of DBA), I stumbled upon DBA in college, and was hooked ever since.
The ability to teach my aging dad how to play DBA and have 2 games of BBDBA when I go visit is a huge win.
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