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Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 12:07 pm
by peterrjohnston
sergiomonteleone wrote:all english players can drink a lot so the day after we hope they can loose a lot of plays
But Sergio, you tried this on Jim Gibson* in Faenza and it didn't work... indeed I have a picture of him grabbing the
bottle of wine from your hands in his eagerness to participate in your experiment
Regards,
Peter
* Although Jim is Scots, I hasten to add; Italians tend to use "english" collectively.
Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 12:33 pm
by philqw78
peterrjohnston wrote:But Sergio, you tried this on Jim Gibson* in Faenza and it didn't work... indeed I have a picture of him grabbing the
bottle of wine from your hands in his eagerness to participate in your experiment
Regards,
Peter
* Although Jim is Scots, I hasten to add; Italians tend to use "english" collectively.
If he was English he would also have bought some wine
Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 4:02 pm
by sergiomonteleone
peterrjohnston wrote:sergiomonteleone wrote:all english players can drink a lot so the day after we hope they can loose a lot of plays
But Sergio, you tried this on Jim Gibson* in Faenza and it didn't work... indeed I have a picture of him grabbing the
bottle of wine from your hands in his eagerness to participate in your experiment
Regards,
Peter
* Although Jim is Scots, I hasten to add; Italians tend to use "english" collectively.
Peter you are right,
but Jin didn't drink a lot of wine (Steve more ............... so I hope to play against him in Rome)
In any case the match with Jim has been very nice and also tactical ........... a lot of Elephants against my CT's.
Even if I have been very unlike in two combats: 1 BG of LF not broke quickly of a flank charge of my CT's and a Jim fragmented BG of CT's didnt' break against my steady Ct'
................... in Rome if we will go to dinner with some english players I will offer them a lot of Italian strong red wine
Sergio
Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 5:30 pm
by david53
"sergiomonteleone"][/quote]
................... in Rome if we will go to dinner with some english players I will offer them a lot of Italian strong red wine
Sergio[/quote]
Being English I'm sure they'll accept...........
Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 5:45 pm
by peterrjohnston
david53 wrote:sergiomonteleone wrote:
................... in Rome if we will go to dinner with some english players I will offer them a lot of Italian strong red wine
Sergio
Being English I'm sure they'll accept...........
Grappa does seem to scare them though Sergio. Perhaps I should bring that bottle of home-made grappa with me...
Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 9:49 pm
by dave_r
Doesn't scare me. Bring it on. Even if you have moved to Italy, you are still a soft Southern Jessie
In fact the main problem I have is that I WILL drink anything put in front of me. At Dublin I had to make Nik move that flipping Cough Medicine the Finns had put everywhere before I drank all that, which would have ended badly I suspect.
All I ask is that you keep up. I can't promise what state I will be in, but I will keep drinking
Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 12:47 am
by philqw78
Well I'm going to take it easy.
Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 1:47 pm
by dave_r
Take what easy? I am fairly certain you aren't talking about alcohol consumption
WHERE ARE THE RUNNERS AND RIDERS!!!
Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 6:18 pm
by nikgaukroger
A 48 hour delay is added every time you ask
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 6:54 pm
by sergiomonteleone
peterrjohnston wrote:david53 wrote:sergiomonteleone wrote:
................... in Rome if we will go to dinner with some english players I will offer them a lot of Italian strong red wine
Sergio
Being English I'm sure they'll accept...........
Grappa does seem to scare them though Sergio. Perhaps I should bring that bottle of home-made grappa with me...
Peter, Brazilian Grappa could be better, it's stronger than Italian one
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 5:38 pm
by peterrjohnston
List of players, country, army:
Allen, David Michael, Gran Bretagna, Middle Hungarian
Autolino, Angelo, Italia, Later Crusader
Baratto, Fabrizio, Italia, Later Seleucid
Bodo, Listner, Germania, Sassanid Persian
Bueno , Javier, Spagna, War of the Roses English
Cassas, Jean-Yves, Francia, Sassanid Persian
Cullell-Young, Martin, Spagna, War of the Roses English
Fasoulas, John, Grecia, Early North African Dynasties
Garcia, Carlos, Spagna, Early Sucessor
Gomez Scheele, Christian, Spagna, Arab Conquest
Hammond, Stephen, Gran Bretagna, Tatar
Holmes, Brian, Gran Bretagna, Later Lithuanian
Ierman, Walter, Italia, Principate Roman
LeRay-Meyer, Simon, Australia, Ordonnance French
Lidholm, Tomas, Svezia, Later Lithuanian
Linguerri, Nicola, Italia, Later Seleucid
Lo Moro, C. Andrea, Italia, Norse Irish
Marlia, Guglielmo, Italia, Later Hungarian
Monedero, Ivan, Spagna, Condotta Italian
Monteleone, Sergio, Italia, Komnenan Byzantine
Olausson, Fredrik, Svezia, Later Carthaginian
Pasi, Matteo, Italia, Later Ottoman Turkish
Porter, Tim, Gran Bretagna, Dominate Roman
Powell, Phil, Gran Bretagna, Catalan Company
Ricamo, Roberto, Italia, Early Medieval German
Rocchi, Andrea, Italia, Santa Hermandad Nueva Castilian
Ruddock, Dave, Gran Bretagna, Skythian
Ruestes Virtus, David, Spagna, Late Republican Roman
Sanchez, Pedro J., Spagna, Later Ottoman Turkish
Tortosa, Rafa, Spagna, Catalan Company
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 7:23 pm
by philqw78
Arab Conquest 1
Catalan Company 2
Condotta Italian 1
Dominate Roman 1
Early Medieval German 1
Early North African Dynasties 1
Early Sucessor 1
Komnenan Byzantine 1
Late Republican Roman 1
Later Carthaginian 1
Later Crusader 1
Later Hungarian 1
Later Lithuanian 2
Later Ottoman Turkish 2
Later Seleucid 2
Middle Hungarian 1
Norse Irish 1
Ordonnance French 1
Principate Roman 1
Santa Hermandad Nueva Castilian 1
Sassanid Persian 2
Skythian 1
Tatar 1
War of the Roses English 2
Good mix
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 7:48 pm
by dave_r
Because I am sad and have nothing better to do, I looked at a copy of the world rankings and where possible plugged in the rankings. The results came out as follows:
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Player Army Country Ranking (world)
Phil Powell Catalan Company GB 8
Dave Ruddock Skythian GB 10
Rafa Tortosa Catalan Company Sp 14
Dave Allen Middle Hungarian GB 21
Carlos Garcia Early Successor Sp 70
Jean-Yves Cassas Sassanid Persian Fr 75
Tim Porter Dominate Roman GB 666
Marlia Guglielmo Later Hungarian It 124
Walter Ierman Principate Roman It 191
Nicola Linguerri Later Seleucid It 207
Ivan Monedero Italian Condotta Sp 228
Pedro Sanchez Later Ottoman Turkish Sp 241
Sergio Monteleone Komnenan Byzantine It 269
Stephen Hammond Tatar GB 284
Angelo Autolino Later Crusader It 291
Javier Bueno WoTR Sp 306
Roberto Ricamo Early Medieval German It 307
Brian Holmes Later Lithuanian GB 342
Andrea Rocchi Santa Hooey Doo Dah It 359
Fredrik Olausson Later Carthaginian Sw
Simon LeRay-Meyer French Ordonnance Au
Andrea Lo Moro Norse Irish It
Virtus Ruestes Later Republican Roman Sp
Tomas Lidholm Later Lithuanian Sw
Matteo Pasi Later Ottoman Turkish It
Martin Cullell-Young WoTR Sp
Fabrizio Baratto Later Seleucid It
Scheele Gomez Arab Conquest Sp
John Fasoulas Early North African Dynasties Gr
Listner Bodo Sassanid Persian Ge
This should just about conclusively prove that combined rankings don't work
Whenever I tried to get Tim Porters Ranking it just returned 666. How strange. Only one Dominate Roman - I am presuming it is the 19 BG Monster.
Good spread of armies - six armies picked twice being the most popular vote. Haven't bothered to break it down by book...
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 8:08 pm
by philqw78
by book, I think,
Immoral Fibre 2
Infernal empire 10
Legirons 4
Rise of Foam 5
S&M 3
Swarm of Errors 6
by country of player
Australia 1
Francia 1
Germania 1
Gran Bretagna 6
Grecia 1
Italia 10
Spagna 8
Svezia 2
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 8:13 pm
by philqw78
Also there are three Dave's and 2 Andrea. But no Popular surname. So no interbreeding amongst wargamers, or just no breeding.
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 8:17 pm
by fredrik
I'm surprised to see that I'm the only one who appreciated the symmetry of taking the Carthaginians to Rome...
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 8:33 pm
by dave_r
That probably means you are going to get stopped at customs and not allowed in.
You will then be able to wander around the countryside heading towards the Med sampling all the local hospitality
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:26 pm
by fredrik
That's alright I'm only in it for the booze and the groupies anyway.
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:39 pm
by Kreufeldt
fredrik wrote:That's alright I'm only in it for the booze and the groupies anyway.
Are there FoG-groupes in Italy? How come we don't have any up here? What are we doing wrong?
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:48 pm
by fredrik
Kreufeldt wrote:fredrik wrote:That's alright I'm only in it for the booze and the groupies anyway.
Are there FoG-groupes in Italy? How come we don't have any up here? What are we doing wrong?
I blame Ogge.