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Post by elliesdad on May 24, 2023 19:11:02 GMT
I know a few My Philistines Colin took Philistines with Phoenecian allies Martin took Phoenecians Paddy took Medians Phil took Midiantes John had neo-Assyrians that takes you most of the way there For a few seconds I assumed this was a haiku… No idea why. It was only when I got to the third line I started to think “hang on, this line is going on a bit” when I realised my mistake. I think it’s time I had a lie down. 😞 Cheers, Geoff
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Post by elliesdad on May 10, 2023 17:04:29 GMT
Khurasan make some tempting Iroquois for Eastern Forest Americans. Pity its a royal PITA trying to get their figures in the UK . So, what I need then is a relative who’ll be visiting the USA regularly to see friends and who can bring back certain << ahem>> “presents” when she returns to the U.K. Hmmm… Geoff 😎
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Post by elliesdad on May 4, 2023 11:12:15 GMT
The guy down the local chippy , he does bostin orange chips . …and I bet he ‘swears he’s Elvis’…. Uh hu-huh 😉
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Post by elliesdad on Mar 14, 2023 20:17:03 GMT
Geoff Is that a 'Saxon' common land approach that lingered on in England or just unique to England of medieval period onwards? Another possibility for your strip, might be a varied use: pigs in pens on poorer land (or even brambles for fruit berries?) and other parts divided between vegetables and cereal crops? Perhaps even one cow or goat tethered to patch of grassland? In economies with wealthy landowners, large estates with open fields (and probable slaves attending it in Roman times), might have seen large open field systems; but this might be true of city states with rich agricultural land like Greek colonists in Bosporan kingdom? Interesting aspect of human geography that I know little about... CarlL To be fair CarlL I have absolutely no idea and know little about it either. It just set me off wondering why fields & crops are what they are. I suspect most gamers believe “a field is a field is a field” and would probably use the same representation of a wheat/barley/oats/grassy crop from the Nile valley in 1300 BC through to 1st century Gaul, 11th century Byzantium or 20th century Ukraine. But surely that’s not correct/right/appropriate? Wikipedia explains the English strip system better than I could but, as you say, if someone has a number of strips of land of varying quality then it makes sense to utilise the land to best effect - so the “poorer” land is used for pigs and animals or root crops. Chickens roam free and fruit & berries are taken from hedges. The long and short of it though is that I absolutely approve of Brian Boru’s terrain modelling. 👏👏 Cheers, Geoff
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Post by elliesdad on Mar 14, 2023 19:48:24 GMT
Boldly go where noone has gone before! I’m hoping you’re referring to Peter Noone (lead singer of Herman’s Hermits). That would be another “claim to fame” for DBA & for wargaming as a whole, if we could count a 1960’s British pop star as “one of us”. 😉 Cheers, Geoff 🤣😅
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Post by elliesdad on Mar 13, 2023 21:26:21 GMT
Your field looks lovely Brian Ború. I appreciate we currently have large & very uniform fields - but back in the Middle Ages the “fields” were subdivided into numerous strips (ensuring everyone got a fair share of the good land as well as a share of the less fertile ground). Perhaps we ought to consider modelling wheat/barley etc with some areas of good growth but other areas - the less fertile soil - with medium or low quality crop growth. And I agree with previous comments about adding a variety of other plants/flowers/crops etc. Cheers, Geoff
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Post by elliesdad on Jan 18, 2023 19:39:45 GMT
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Post by elliesdad on Jan 10, 2023 10:05:34 GMT
I'm waiting (it should be today ^^) Palaeo Diet: Eat or be Eaten. I'll try to post some battle report in the future. Kaptain Kobold has blogged about quite a few games of Paleo Diet on his blog - The Stronghold Rebuilt. It’s well worth checking out. Cheers, Geoff
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Post by elliesdad on Jan 9, 2023 16:37:33 GMT
I completed the Murong Hsien-pi(Xianbei) 4x6Cav complete with chains today bar the basing which I do when I complete an army.Up next the 3x4Kn including General.🙂 Excellent. Please may we have pics when the army is completed. Cheers, Geoff
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Post by elliesdad on Jan 3, 2023 19:29:19 GMT
And Late Imperial/Patrician Romans and enemies wouldn’t go amiss either… Geoff 😉 These are much like a Volvo Car - good for another 100,000 km. 🙁🙁☹️
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Post by elliesdad on Dec 31, 2022 19:41:49 GMT
And Late Imperial/Patrician Romans and enemies wouldn’t go amiss either…
Geoff 😉
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Post by elliesdad on Dec 29, 2022 22:35:38 GMT
Nice work but those lads dont look comfortable For a split second - and a split second only - I read the above comment as “… those ‘nads don’t look comfortable”. 😵💫 Aaaarrghhhh… no, they don’t I thought. Anyhow, I then re-read Baldie’s comment correctly. 😉 Phew… Cheers, Geoff
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Post by elliesdad on Dec 3, 2022 8:24:11 GMT
As a Yorkshireman I was immediately drawn to the picked up off floor for nowt approach. Think it is the only army I have where basing material cost more than the figures. I do have a more cost effective force I will dig out tomorrow. Ha ha 😂🤣 Many moons ago it occurred to me that I could easily build an army of swarms ( hordes presumably) of ants, supported by angry bees or wasps. And all of this for free - utilising the dead insects found in our conservatory and/or back garden. They’re already pretty much “mummified” and the only real drawback is the fact that the bodies are so fragile. Project shelved. Cheers, Geoff - a fellow Yorkshireman. ps/ maybe we can find two more Yorkshiremen to add their comments too, shades of Monty Python.
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Post by elliesdad on Dec 3, 2022 8:14:57 GMT
quite right stevie and no one cares if they are lost. If I was a medieval Lord and all my servants, vassals, underlings were dead then I might be more than a tad concerned as to who exactly would be looking after all the crops, paying taxes and basically just doin’ the menial stuff I can’t be bothered with… cheers, Geoff
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Post by elliesdad on Nov 18, 2022 11:06:31 GMT
50 years old? Now that’s old school - although the clue might’ve been in your username “ilkleyoldschool”… As todays “yoof” might say “Respect!”.
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