Help With First Battle

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 1:29 pm

dave_r wrote:
True but there are 138 points of knights against 63 of longbow.....
That doesn't matter. In fact if you know where the Longbow are, they should be your target with all the dismounted knights if they are in rough going. Just because that is where all your points are doesn't mean to say it is the wrong thing to do.

My money is on the longbow not being there when the men at arms decide to go visit.

If the longbow are in rough going then once the men at arms advance within 4 MU they can turn round (which is automatic being drilled) and then when the men at arms don't charge them (because they will be too far away) the longbowen simply nip off into the distance leaving the men at army standing in the mud looking silly

mikekh · Post by **mikekh** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 1:32 pm

Plenty of options there John!

You could, as advised, just stand in a field and clench your buttocks!

Anyway, either Nick of me will be on your side... so you are doomed!

See you later.

dave_r · Post by **dave_r** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 1:39 pm

My money is on the longbow not being there when the men at arms decide to go visit.

Bit girly light horse though!

Why not go the whole hog and put difficult going everywhere so that you are guaranteed a draw!!!

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 2:04 pm

dave_r wrote:Bit girly light horse though!

Of course you would never do anything so girly as shoot and run away would you Dave

nikgaukroger · Post by **nikgaukroger** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 2:12 pm

In Helsinki when we played all he did was run ...

dave_r · Post by **dave_r** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 2:21 pm

In Helsinki when we played all he did was run

I resemble that remark. Anyway. In Skythia we refer to that as "manoever"

I wouldn't do anything as girly as that with 100 YW English.

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 3:05 pm

dave_r wrote:
In Helsinki when we played all he did was run
I resemble that remark. Anyway. In Skythia we refer to that as "manoever"

I wouldn't do anything as girly as that with 100 YW English.

Most likely because you don't have a 100YW English army I suspect

nikgaukroger · Post by **nikgaukroger** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 5:34 pm

I'm sure he'll just use his Skythian horse archers as stand-ins ...

dave_r · Post by **dave_r** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 8:03 pm

Well actually, I have a 100YW army - although it is in 25mm!

ner ner ner ner nerrrr nerrr

carlos · Post by **carlos** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 11:47 pm

dave_r wrote:I resemble that remark.

I don't think you are using the right word here...

dave_r · Post by **dave_r** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 8:29 am

dave_r wrote:
I resemble that remark.

I don't think you are using the right word here...

I most certainly did

I regularly use Skythians....

lawrenceg · Post by **lawrenceg** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 9:23 am

dave_r wrote:
dave_r wrote:
I resemble that remark.

I don't think you are using the right word here...
I most certainly did

I regularly use Skythians....

Note for non native English speakers: This looks like a deliberate use of a wrong word (resemble instead of resent), intended to be humourous. Dave does not literally resemble the remark, that would make no sense.

carlos · Post by **carlos** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 9:55 am

Oh well, I've seen people use expressions like "for all intensive purposes", "little alone" (instead of let alone) and "paint calling the kettle black" so nothing surprises me any more online.

timmy1 · Post by **timmy1** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 6:49 am

'Carlos, 'I resemble that remark' rather than 'I resent that remark' is English humour. To say that you resent a remark would suggest that the conversation was confrontational and not 'nice'. By saying that you resemble a remark, you accept the criticism (implied or otherwise) in the original remark in a way that is self depricating (sp?) and the conversation remains polite and the whole exchange returns to being 'nice'. For those of us raised by parents born in Britian before the 1960, the worst social crime it is possible to commit it to do something that was not 'nice' and the easiest way to do something not 'nice' was to embarass the person you were communicating with by being confrontational.

Sorry for the off topic social history. Not sure it applies to Nik, James and Dave as they are Northerners.

mikekh · Post by **mikekh** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 8:18 am

timmy1 wrote: ... they are Notherners.

I resent that spelling, though at first glance it does resemble 'Northerners'.

timmy1 · Post by **timmy1** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 9:03 am

I have corrected my error, would not want to insult someone unintentionally.