Imponderables: That Old Timey Feeling
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UPDATED: Monday, January 31, 2011 19:03
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Cold here. Not much snow. Hope it does not snow Christmas. Mom lives 75 miles south of here.
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Best wishes for the holiday.
Edit: I'm getting bad. It took me three trys to get spelling correct on my Christmas Card. My brain must be freezing up.
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Kinda excited to get on the train again. Sure beat the drive...
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The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.
-Loretta Lynn
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Snow in Salt Lake, More to come. Yay!
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The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.
-Loretta Lynn
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It snows in the morning to snarl up traffic and then the Sun pops up and it warms up the day and melts any snow that collected. The rest of the day is just cloudy.
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Christmas is near its end. We get on the train after 10PM Sunday and get to see the sun rise to our backs over the Nevada desert. Yay!
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The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.
-Loretta Lynn
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Got lluckt and had good weather for Christmas. Drove to mom's and spent the day with her. Did not like the drive home. It was dark and the wind blew snow over the county roads. Could not wait till I got on the interstate and the traffic kept the roads clear.
I had to be back today because I am involved in a military campaign game. The year is 1561 and I am the Tartars and I invaded the Cossacks. To my surprise the Cossacks got help from a small force of Poles, so I was outnumbered. But my opponent went to ground and I showered him with arrows from my massive light cavalry contingent. He tried to advance, but it was to late. One unit after another of the Cossacks fell apart and as the day ended I had won. This is the first turn in the campaign, so I am off to a good start.
You don't mess with the Tartar Khan.
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Okay, that just sounds like too much fun. What format is the battle?
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-Loretta Lynn
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I'm with NVG, it does sound like fun!
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They are 15 millimeter lead figures mounted two to four figures to a stand. We can buy the lead figure and paint them ourselves or if we are not very talented there are people who will paint the for a price. You are given a list of units that existed at that time for your army. Each unit is given a value. So if your army is supposed to be 1500 points you select the units you want until it adds up to that point value. I was allowed only four heavy cavalry units so my army consisted mostly of light archers on horseback. The gunpowder weapons were not very good in 1561 and my arrows had longer range then the Cossacks early muskets. Since I had all cavalry I was more mobile then the infantry army I was facing I had an advantage. The real trick was not to let the Cossacks get close. I got lucky when the Cossack commanders rolled to give orders to their units and failed. They could not move and I was able to stay out of range of their gunpowder weapons as my light horsemen filled the sky with arrows. A lot of luck. The poor Cossacks rolled poor dice for commanding their troops most of the game and I just picked them off. The results of the battle gives me control of the Cossack territory of Astrakhan. The Cossacks will probably attack with a greater force to try to get it back.
I like this period. The armies army just bands of men who bring all their own gear, so the are no uniforms. They are dressed in their finest clothes and that means bright colors of every combination. Their horses are small and quick. We scale down the size of the units. My army only had about 150 men. you would have to multiply that by 50 to get the true size of an army. But that that takes up to much space and costs a fortune. As long as you get the feel of commanding an army and all the disasters or glory that may befall you. No matter how good your plan is you still have to roll dice to see how well your troops will perform. Roll small numbers when giving orders and big numbers when shooting or in hand to hand combat.
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