Howzit Dorian and fellow Scottish campaigners.
I have located a map of Scotland/Northern England from 1603-1688. It even
has dividing lines to show the main...
The Lord Montross taunts the Presbyterians for bad hair cuts and uninteresting religious services. Come out and fight me like men. You keep running away (I...
If you wish to crow, you scurvy cockrell, we will find you a pretty perch- swinging in a gibbet, your guts all agley from being drawn over a trestle. Argyll ...
Chris has made the following two arguments which are both ruled admissable: Harry and Marcus may now make their two arguments (one apiece). They may thrust or...
Earl Balcarres Warden of the Northern Marches High Sheriff of the Commonwealth does hereby parry the thrust of the Godless Cur The foppish Poppinjay calling...
Montrose's Thrust: 1. Montross sends word to the Clans that an army was defeated at Inverlochy. He requests that they use their residual forces to hunt these...
Montrose's Thrust: 1. Montross sends word to the Clans that an army was defeated at Inverlochy. He requests that they use their residual forces to hunt these...
Montrose made the following Thrust: Meanwhile the main army quickly moves on Inverness. The government troops there are not expecting visitors so when Montross...
Boo hiss to the Royalist ref and his average dice throwing ability. Dorian, please phone Hollywood. I had organized Marlon Brando to play me (Butcher Bally) in...
Harry, you are back in Durham, awaiting any news at all, cursing the bad roads, the damp and your mistress for being so infernally cheerful! Dorian Love ...
Ah yes, I forgot about victory points. This was very silly of me, as their use is rather similar to the Morale system in my own games, and I was always...
WOW! What a parry! If it goes through then I fall on my own sword! The dice gods will tell, but I think it unlikely to succeed. (But then I would say that!) ...
... Ah...but if my thrust works then that residual force at Inverlochy was dispatched before we marched on Inverness... Still what do I know. Secretly I want...
... I think you will have to make that move part of your thrust. Right now the parry failed so it is as though nothing happened. (Otherwise what would a ...
My understanding of Matrix arguments is that a failed argument doesn't happen at all. In effect, the only possible results are yes or no. But what about cases...
John, Your statement that the only possible results in a Matrix Game are yes and no is only partially true of the Engle Matrix Game, and not true at all of the...
Dorian, I take it you are now waiting for Chris' next round of Thrusts. I note that no deadline was imposed for these in the last results. Was that by way of...
MessageI did send a message with deadline, must have been mislaid in the post! It basically said Chris had until Good Friday but could send arguments before...
We kicked it around and some folks thought arguments shouldn't completely fail, but the purists who act like any intervention by a referee in an argument is...
When failing an argument in Matrix why not use the dice to decide. As in the recent scenario in Dorian's present Scottish game. Balcarres needed a 5 or 6 to...
I like this idea, but it still involves the referee in the deciding the options. But to play with this idea a bit, and as it stands it is a good one, you can...
We must bear in mind Balcarres' Argument was a Parry- ie not an initiating Argument (Thrust) but any attempt to modify such an Argument. Allowing "partial...
... John, this is what I've said in my version of Matrix Game rules but people have tried other approaches. The challenge is how to mechnically run partial...
A more interesting variation for Thrust and Parry would be that if a ... In Fencing you thrust, the defender parries and does a "coupay" (a quick attack back)....
... Ah...I thought it was the other sides turn to thrust. I was waiting till they moved to parry them. My bad. Here are some arguments. 1. Guerilla war breaks...
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