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Miniatures Adventure => Age of the Big Battalions => Topic started by: FierceKitty on September 12, 2019, 02:15:16 AM
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I have lost too many battles to my wife recently, so yesterday I insisted we reset to the 18th century, where so far I feel most unlikely to lose. It was, however, a close thing, with the Austrian foot putting up a tough fight and the Prussian artillery unable to roll anything like the statistically probable number of hits. Prussian musketry saved the day, but it wasn't easy (which is as it should be for SYW; if you walk all over any but the stupidest opponent, there's something wrong with the rules).
As a bonus, she took me to Turandot afterwards. Not a bad birthday treat.
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She plays wargames with you AND takes you out to eat. She is a keeper!!!
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Yes, I've come to that conclusion too. :) Though Turandot is an opera, not a restaurant. I cooked us dinner first.
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Women that game are very few and far between. Women that will turn a blind eye are rare enough.
Back in the day, many was the young women I'd lead up the stairs to the closed door of a spare bedroom and, before opening it, I'd say "Darling, I have a dark, dark secret." :-X
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Sort of wargaming Bluebeard, eh?
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As my (blind eye turning) wife says "It could have been worse, you could have been a train spotter."
To which I reply "Well, we must keep our really dark secrets."
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I may be on the run from six police forces, but I've never passed a 2-club opening bid.
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There are four sides to every story: Your side; my side; the truth; and the truth as the police would write it down.
Which is why, I'd like to believe, you're on the run.
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Toutes les histoires anciennes, comme le disait un de nos beaux esprits, ne sont que des fables convenues.
(History is the lies people agree about.)
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Keep the wife. Now introduce her to the concept of really nice looking terrain to go along with those nice looking figures. ;)
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Hmmm, the deserty terrain cloth is drying in the storeroom right now; but I'm far from sure that the attempt to get it looking more realistic will be a success. I do have a better river, however; that blue strip is of very limited use!
We're setting up a SYW rematch right now.
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Hmmm, the deserty terrain cloth is drying in the storeroom right now; but I'm far from sure that the attempt to get it looking more realistic will be a success. I do have a better river, however; that blue strip is of very limited use!
We're setting up a SYW rematch right now.
Turandot, eh? Do you think she wanted you to listen to All'alba vinceṛ.. as a subtle hint about who is going to win your next game?
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Actually, she'd never heard the opera; Thai education is desperately low on culture (or anything else, I'm afraid). But she's been hunting down versions of Nessun Dorma since we got home.
Which may be related to my crushing defeat this afternoon. Off-table flank march took out Frederick himself, and our morale went to pieces. Teach me to play on Friday 13th!
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:o :o
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Gentlemen - it is mostly because of comments like yours, that I am a keen reader in this forum - please go ahead...
Cheers Fedja
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if you insist... needless to say the main version of Nessun dorma that almost every Italian knows is Pavarotti's... I hope your wife did not play it to rub it in after the flank march attack.. :o
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She used These Boots are made for Walking to gloat. But I won a rematch yesterday, and have been playing the Hohenfriedburg march more than strictly necessary. lol
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:D :D