FoG Euphemism & Acronym Shortage

MarkSieber · Post by **MarkSieber** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 5:05 pm

Real Cavalry as distinct from Mounted. ("Not Cavalry, Cavalry!")

When my Indian Unprotected Cavalry with Light Spear failed to perform well, we began to refer the troop type as "crummy cavalry with pointy sticks".

philqw78 · Post by **philqw78** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 5:15 pm

Whenever I lead with 3 BGs, I call them Barry, Robin, and Maurice

ROTFLMAO

DaiSho · Post by **DaiSho** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 6:40 pm

madaxeman wrote:
"rolling a bucket of 3's with your elite (or superior + general) troops"

A friend of mine used a term for this last night, but I think me I will be banned if I share it with you guys.

Ian

P.S. - my Average Protected Pike destroyed his Superior (Elite because of General) Heavily Armoured/Heavy Weapon guys because of said 3's.

madaxeman · Post by **madaxeman** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 12:13 am

babyshark wrote:Some horrid soul once told me that CMT stood for "Country Music Test" and now I can't get it out of my head. No matter how hard I pound it on the wall.

Marc

That's good. Passing does often allow you to perform maneuvers more likely to be seen in a line dancing competition than a battlefield after all

rtaylor · Post by **rtaylor** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 3:53 am

babyshark wrote:Some horrid soul once told me that CMT stood for "Country Music Test" and now I can't get it out of my head. No matter how hard I pound it on the wall.

Marc

That horrid soul might be me. <evil_grin>

benny · Post by **benny** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 5:39 am

I'm hardly a regular player but, around these parts (NZ), the Joint Action Phase is often ushered in by a mimed drag on a 'cigarette'.........

OldenTired · Post by **OldenTired** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 8:18 am

benny wrote:I'm hardly a regular player but, around these parts (NZ), the Joint Action Phase is often ushered in by a mimed drag on a 'cigarette'.........

really? i've always thought it referred to that dream outflank coming on, and the game dissolving into some weird three-way tie.

grahambriggs · Post by **grahambriggs** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 1:12 pm

madaxeman wrote:Recently I've become quite concerned over the lack of development of a comprehensive set of acronyms and/or euphemistic phraseology building up around FoG.

Other rulesets enjoy a healthy ecosystem of linguistic creativity surrounding the core rules, with slang and alternative ways of describing core rule components, tactics, strategems and army compositions.

But with FoG having been out for I guess a year or so now, we have developed the paltry additional vocabulary of just 2 phrases - the "Dom Rom Swarm", "Shooty Cavalry", and (arguably) "The Santa, Herm and Doo-dah Thingy".

I believe the correct term for the latter is Santa Monica Beach Club. You've missed some I believe:

"units" for BGs, or "sub units" for small BGs, "rally" for bolster. Best used in earshot of writers to provoke reaction. In fact any borrowed term from previous rules can be substituted.

"Benny Hilling" for that futile chase round the table.

"Generals Phase" for the Joint Action Phase.

"Assorted crud" - a small battle group of whom the only requirement is that they are the right morale class to give support. Usually they have 4 bases and are sufficiently weak that the opponent is not really interested in what they are armed with or what armour class they are.

"proper knights" saves having to say "knights. Heavily Armoured. Superior. Lance. Swordsmen" Can be drilled proper knights or undrilled proper knights.

"double dropped" for a unit losing two cohesion levels at once - accompanied by the sick realisation that they are going to run away sooner than you can react.

"zombie wing" a wing that has no generals. It may look tough but get it engaged and it will fall apart faster that a B movie extra.

"zombie army" an army that has lost all of its generals. It may still do damage but will come apart like tissue paper.

philqw78 · Post by **philqw78** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 1:20 pm

"zombie army" an army that has lost all of its generals. It may still do damage but will come apart like tissue paper.

Also known as a "GrahamBriggs" I believe

davem · Post by **davem** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 1:25 pm

philqw78 wrote:
"zombie army" an army that has lost all of its generals. It may still do damage but will come apart like tissue paper.
Also known as a "GrahamBriggs" I believe

Ah, I remember the days of the Brigg's Gambit and the McNeil manouver......

timmy1 · Post by **timmy1** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 10:54 am

Oh! You all seem to have fallen for this transparent attempt by Mr MadAxeMan to obtain (for free) extra phrases for his wargamers buzz phrase generator. You watch, most of the above will appear on the site some day soon.

Lycanthropic · Post by **Lycanthropic** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 10:27 am

"fragged" - obvious to most, but suprising how many people have never played a FPS (that's first-person-shooter grandpa) and therefore have no idea of the irony.
"the pineapple" - a BG that is about to accept a flank or rear charge.
"the big kahuna" - a BG that is about to accept a flank AND a rear charge.
"yahtzee" - the BG that just got big kahuna'd - rolled 6's, on all dice, all of the time. Always sweeter when followed by the comment "that was all me!"
"theban back tickler" - a BG that "pineappled" a "fragged" BG, got reversed "yahtzee'd" 4 turns ago and has missed all its combat dice since. Not to be confused with the "Abe Lincoln".
"Abe Lincoln" - the general that charged with a BG in a classic "pineapple", won combat but took 2 hits in combat.............and then was double sixed. (yoink!)
"Cheese" - anything that is dubiously legal, not mentioned in the rules, or one players take on the ruleset. i.e cutting a keyhole in impassable terrain and placing a camp inside OR placing a road down one flank.
"Hawaiian Burger" - a dubious flank or rear charge that requires an umpires ruling to be deemed legal.
"Khmer and Cheese" - because 16 elephants will never be enough.
"Horde" - nope, not mob, 26 BG armies.
"Dr Who" - a BG that charges two feet across the table by converting its impact down a flank through six enemy BGs in one impact phase. A wonder to behold and a personal achievement.
"Ghost ship" - a flank march that never arrives.
"Ghost riders" - a flank march that does arrive - but none of the BGs roll high enough to actually arrive on the table, even more entertaining when the enemy flees from the ghost riders declared arrival point.
"Tourist" - the player that plays for draws, always. So he can proudly proclaim "No-one can beat me!"
"Lost Tourist" - now he's playing for time to get his draw, bordering on a "Tard" [edited]
"Muppet" - yes, you are on strings with no free will, that is why you deployed like you did and got a royal big kahuna burger with cheese.
"Geometry Golf Club" - the guys that still can't let go of previous rulesets, and complain about your photocopied army list glued to the lid of your army container, then in the next sentence ask if you've seen the latest episode of heroes they downloaded yesterday while burning music for their friends using a ripped version of roxio on an illegal copy of windows installed on a 2bit clone............

LambertSimnel · Post by **LambertSimnel** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 12:07 pm

"JavCav" - Cavalry Light Spear, Swordsmen
"Saints Huey, Dewey, and Louie" - you know

carlos · Post by **carlos** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 2:16 pm

Lycanthropic wrote: "Dr Who" - a BG that charges two feet across the table by converting its impact down a flank through six enemy BGs in one impact phase. A wonder to behold and a personal achievement.

I thought these were great but the one I'm quoting is not possible. You only fight once in the impact phase. It IS possible to go 2 feet across the table by charging winning and then pursuing into fresh enemy who are then killed quickly and pursued, etc. but it's not as fast as you described even w/ awesome dice.

madcam2us · Post by **madcam2us** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 3:47 pm

Quite right, the next impact is fought in the the following turn, not immediately. Very enjoyabe to read though...

give me one Kahuna burger with a side order of cheese please!

Madcam

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 5:41 pm

madcam2us wrote:Quite right, the next impact is fought in the the following turn, not immediately. Very enjoyabe to read though...

give me one Kahuna burger with a side order of cheese please!

Madcam

I suggest you check your rule book....

If a BG breaks in the impact phase and the pursuers contact a second BG the impact is resolved in that impact phase, not the next one.

If pursuers contact fresh enemy in any phase, this is treated as a charge on the contacted enemy. These must immediately take a Cohesion Test if they are already FRAGMENTED unless the pursuers are light foot. Combat is adjudicated in the next impact phase. (Except that if contact occurred in the impact phase it is adjudicated in the same impact phase).

DaiSho · Post by **DaiSho** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 6:05 pm

hammy wrote:
If pursuers contact fresh enemy in any phase, this is treated as a charge on the contacted enemy. These must immediately take a Cohesion Test if they are already FRAGMENTED unless the pursuers are light foot. Combat is adjudicated in the next impact phase. (Except that if contact occurred in the impact phase it is adjudicated in the same impact phase).

You know what really sucks? When that happens to you when you've just won a combat. I had two BG's of Heavy Cavalry (Cav, Armoured, Undrilled, Bow, Swordsmen) who beat up another BG of Heavy Cav (the same). I charged into them, they evaded, I caught them in the rear, they went to disrupted (in one rank) we duked it out for about 3 turns or similar!!!!! 3 Turns these bastards held on (might have been two). Then when the enemy finally DO break I pursue into a position where I expose a nice flank to the enemy who charge and break my two BG's of Heavy Cavalry in one impact phase. That truly sucks. Bloody Huns. Never trust them (and I was the Hun).

Ian

mikekh · Post by **mikekh** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 7:36 pm

'You're Barkered', 'Take a Barker' or 'Double Barkered' is what we use for disr. and fragged.
'coz we gave up with DBM ages ago and ripped up the rules to use as FoG markers

davem · Post by **davem** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 10:44 pm

mikekh wrote:'You're Barkered', 'Take a Barker' or 'Double Barkered' is what we use for disr. and fragged.
'coz we gave up with DBM ages ago and ripped up the rules to use as FoG markers

Why so anti-DBM? One undeniable positive can be attested to DBM. It united Ancients gamers in a way not seen before and possibly not again at least for a considerable time.
Just because you and most on this list no longer play DBM doesn't suddenly make it a bad game.

Lycanthropic · Post by **Lycanthropic** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 12:29 am

"Santa and his 5 elves" - its Medieval Spanish, say it....Medieval Spanish, dress it up all you want - its not impressing anyone. (pg84 SOA, guess the 5 elves)
"Foxhole Charlie" - a forgotten JAP
"Mexican Soccer Comentator" - the guy that walks past a game and can't help himself with a comment about the geometry of a charge to the unimpressed players. "GOOOOOOOAAALLLLLLL"
"Sports Panel" - group of players that have already finished their games and sit around other players games impressing everyone (themselves included) with rulings.
"Judge Dredd" - the umpire who's married to your opponent, or your ex-wife, or both!

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