Yes, but the BEF was so small, you could regard the whole thing as Elite. Certainly, the post-1st Ypres recruits were never as well trained as their dead...
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Steven Flanagan
steve@xxxxxx.xxxxx.xx...
Sep 1, 1999 7:33 am
I, too, like the Barrett scale. But the really annoying thing is when reviewers (other than in the Courier) don't specify what they are measuring when they...
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Bill Landrum
WLandrum@xxxxxxxxxx.x...
Sep 1, 1999 7:43 am
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Ruggero Romano
r.romano@xxxxx.xxxxxx...
Sep 1, 1999 8:44 am
In the movie "The unforgiven" with Clint Eastwood ,in the italian version of the movie, Clint says: "It is a big thing to kill a man" I don't know if the word...
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Ruggero Romano
r.romano@xxxxx.xxxxxx...
Sep 1, 1999 8:33 am
Some people cannot see any differences between a game and real life: they consider winning in a game as a personal success in real life and a defeat on the...
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Ruggero Romano
r.romano@...
Sep 1, 1999 8:52 am
True. I would add a note , just a little bit off topic,maybe. I am reading the book "Soldier citizens" by S(?) Ambrose. He tells that fully trained american...
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Entil Zha
entil.zha@...
Sep 1, 1999 9:53 am
I know, I can't believe it either. That we as adults should choose to exercise our minds! What are we thinking of? Still, one concession that my gaming group...
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Entil Zha
entil.zha@...
Sep 1, 1999 10:12 am
I think this goes to prove my earlier point. There are gits EVERYWHERE and, being a reserved and lesser built (6', 16 stone) Englishman, am glad that you put...
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Entil Zha
entil.zha@...
Sep 1, 1999 10:16 am
It's not only the Prussians that are that thick-skulled! Look at any account of the British assault on Bunker Hill. Sheesh! Now there were guys that didn't...
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Tony Barr
A.S.Barr@...
Sep 1, 1999 9:22 am
... Worstershirans? Or ... I would call men from Worcestershire (Wuss-te-sha) Worcestershiremen. Though, not being from there (one of my ancestors was though,...
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Gerald Harris
harrisgwjr@xxxxx.xxxx
Sep 1, 1999 11:57 am
If it'll make you feel any better, these guys are probably Type A personalities and chances are will stress themselves into an early grave. ... === Gerry...
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CGS
michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxx...
Sep 1, 1999 11:55 am
I think they were the Worcesters, as in the Royal Worcesters (though I pronounce it Wo-sters, I have no idea at all if this is correct and I am infamous for...
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Gerald Harris
harrisgwjr@xxxxx.xxxx
Sep 1, 1999 12:00 pm
They did win, though … ... === Gerry Harris Æther Traveller Times http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Galaxy/6316/aethertrav.html "Cry 'Havoc,' and let...
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Bob Rodgers
brodgers@xxxx.xxxx
Sep 1, 1999 12:29 pm
I was playing a western skirmish game with some guys a few years ago. The game was about as "Beer & Pretzely" as you can get. My command was a cavalry...
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Tod_Creasey@xxx.xxxxx...
Tod_Creasey@xxx.xxxxx...
Sep 1, 1999 12:54 pm
Dear Angle.... I played in that game too! I was one of the Boxer generals who had to sit off board as the range of all of the weapons the Europeans had mowed...
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Carol S Glavin
glavins@xxxx.xxxx
Sep 1, 1999 12:09 pm
When I return home in the spring we intend to have a campaigne game hsf with a Ansar\Beja theme, and we let the units build a track record of their own and...
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babblecom@xxxxx.xxxxx...
babblecom@xxxxx.xxxxx...
Sep 1, 1999 1:16 pm
MAL! WHERE IS THIS WENCH OR WENCHES AT? AND just how "saucy" are they? Elizabethan and earlier bouncing bawds? Or Amish hurly hurly girls? Or nasty looking...
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Philorej@xxx.xxx
Sep 1, 1999 1:24 pm
In a message dated 9/1/99 5:34:42 AM Pacific Daylight Time, brodgers@... writes: << To this day we can't understand why the guy got mad. >> It must be...
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RCOOK
rcook@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Sep 1, 1999 1:40 pm
... I agree with Nate here. I think most of us start painting a new period because of some *elite* unit we read about somewhere. We've all heard of the Black...
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Nathan Mitchell
mnemitch@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Sep 1, 1999 1:56 pm
... Good point! Does anyone know why the Redoubt resin stuff, like the Rorke's drift set, Colonial steamer, etc. cost so darn much? I keep gazing at both of ...
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babblecom@xxxxx.xxxxx...
babblecom@xxxxx.xxxxx...
Sep 1, 1999 2:01 pm
MAL! There I was sleepily reading through my digest, and suddenly YOU are talking "saucy". WEEEEL NOOOOOOO, that woke me up as I do know the Aussies, even...
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Gerald Harris
harrisgwjr@xxxxx.xxxx
Sep 1, 1999 2:02 pm
They cost so much because our wealthy brethren are more than willing to pay the cost. The rest of us must simply look on and sigh. ... === Gerry Harris Æther...
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Jerald_R._Tracy@xxxxx...
Sep 1, 1999 2:13 pm
I'm sure many on this list are familiar with it, but I read _Our Bones Are Scattered_ by Andrew Ward a couple of years ago and strongly recommend to anyone...
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Peter Douglas
peter_douglas@xxxxxxx...
Sep 1, 1999 2:36 pm
Ruggero Very good point on soccer players. The same goes for basketball, hockey, bridge, chess, monopoly, parchesi, and tiddly-wink players! Wargamers do ...
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Ruggero Romano
r.romano@xxxxx.xxxxxx...
Sep 1, 1999 4:04 pm
The best compromise is trying to get clear rules in every meeting. When I was emplyed in Magneti Marelli it was needed to fix the rules for meeting: "no...
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Ruggero Romano
r.romano@xxxxx.xxxxxx...
Sep 1, 1999 4:11 pm
But...you don't invited him any more because he was so "unkind" or because he was the sheriff and he was killed??? (I am joking...but please forgive me ..it is...
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MALCOLM G.WRIGHT
GALLOPINGJACK@xxxxxxx...
Sep 1, 1999 4:12 pm
Calm down RON, calm down!! No Huly Huly girls in this one. Worcestershire 'sauce' just happens to be my favourite to pour over a juicy steak. Mal.WRIGHT. ...
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Bob Rodgers
brodgers@xxxx.xxxx
Sep 1, 1999 4:49 pm
... Hey ! Everyone KNOWS that a sheriff would NEVER have gotten himself into such a predicament in the first place. So if that guy won't play HISTORICALLY...
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Theangl@xxx.xxx
Sep 1, 1999 5:05 pm
In a message dated 9/1/99 7:53:09 AM Central Daylight Time, Tod_Creasey@... writes: << That guy (the one in the SS TShirt if I recall) has been...
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RCOOK
rcook@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Sep 1, 1999 5:20 pm
... and ... I love the *also rans!* My group mainly does SYW. Each of the main players chose a major power; I chose Freddy and his Prussians. Other picked...
