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16 Dec, 3 tweets, 2 min read

Gary, you magnificent bastard.

wot mean?

I must retreat.
And cogitate.

A lesser man might have said "both sides".
Or "one side".
But you...

You left us such wonders to ponder.
#GodBlessGary

Your example uses a 10 vs 20 melee.
And doubles the difference.
You left us the answer.
But made us work for it.
A test?
A gate you kept?
We may never know why, but we #ChosenFew who summit the Chainmail mountain do not lament your games.
We embrace them.
Thank you.

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19 Dec

Imagine:
A group of buds sitting around the fire on a chilly night.
Their charges have settled in for the night, and they gaze down a mountain valley to the bright, warm lights of a small village.

It looks warm down there.
But it's nice here, too, in it's own way.
Hard, honest work, with hard, honest troubles.
Not like the worries down there.
They talk of money problems.
Pressure from the wife to live beyond their means.
Will it be a good year for the price of wool?

They talk of politics, of the pros and cons of the ruling class - men not of their own nation.
Someday, maybe, they'll have a king of their own.
A real king, not like the puppet that sits on the throne today.

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16 Dec

Orcs versus Crusaders in a bigger battle of Chainmail.

Clockwise from the upper left:

ORCS
Heavy Horse
Heavy Foot
Light Horse

HUMANS
Heavy Foot
Light Horse
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A 300 point battle using vanilla Chainmail and 2mm figures.
Each base represents four figures in a more reasonable scale.
The orc figures are actually wolves, but same difference.

With equal parts foot and horse in the fight, this became a sweeping engagement.

Cavalry flew all over the place.
Here you can see that a Crusader charge forced an orc Foot troop almost off the table without striking a blow.
That left them vulnerable to the Orc Heavy Foot sweeping around the north.

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30 Nov

Competitive vs. Co-operative wargames.

Do I really have to choose?

Most games these days are presented as a binary choice, but something tells me there is a lot of room in between those poles for interesting game-play.

These are the bad guys from the TV show "24".
Our plucky hero, Jack Bauer, was forced to work with each of them at times.
Even knowing they were opposed to his goals, he found himself co-operating with them in the short term to achieve a long term goal.

This is close.
You have to trade to win.
Trades are mutually agreeable or wouldn't happen.
But this isn't a wargame.

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