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Miniatures Adventure => VSF Adventures => Topic started by: Malamute on November 14, 2007, 05:17:42 PM
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At 5pm today Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Empress of India (Gaud bless 'Er) declared war on Prussia............
(http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc80/nickfutter/londonbygaslight2.jpg)
It has begun!
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God save the Queen!
Hip hip...
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This sounds suspiciously like there will be pictures of British and Prussians thrashing each other about in your astonishing terrain collection.
Now, that is a prospect to look forward to!
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Zu den Fahnen! Für Kaiser und Reich!
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I´d love to see the New York Marxist Commune sending over a steam/clockwork powered expeditionary force.
That palace is frickin´ amazing.
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At 5pm today Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Empress of India (Gaud bless 'Er) declared war on Prussia............
Er, isn't that the Prime Minister's job? Has there been an ultra-Monarchist coup d'etat, as well as all this other business? :)
Great scene. I love the big building.
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who is the Scottish bloke with the guns? :?
the scene is really great! :)
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who is the Scottish bloke with the guns? :?
John Brown, Comforter and Assassin Extraordinaire to Her Majesty. ;) :lol:
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Love the John Brown Conversion. Wish that I had thought of him.
What an amazing building! I am very impressed. Is that Brigadier General Flashman at her left hand? I don't think that he was overly fond of Chancelor Bismark....
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Actually, could you post a close up picture of John Brown?
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fabulous scenery :love:
I also like the well armed highlander protecting Her Majesty. "Mr Brown" I presume.
Maybe HM and Gladstone has had another of their little tiffs and the PM is sulking somewhere.
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Fantabulous! Perhaps the Queen declared war whilst Gladstone was too busy dealing with a prostitute.
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:oops: that's what you get for not clicking on the submit button
was looking for pictures of Gladstone and Lord Granville to see if they were there supporting the Queen Empress
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:oops: :oops: Ye gadz, my spelling is even more atrocious than usual!
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Ein Wiedersehen auf dem Picadilly.
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At 5pm today Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Empress of India (Gaud bless 'Er) declared war on Prussia............
That is lovely, Malamute
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Do the Brits hope that by only declaring war on Prussia, they won't have to fight the other states of the Deutsches Kaiserreich?
Good luck with that! :wink:
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LOL...
Plynkes is right :)
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Do the Brits hope that by only declaring war on Prussia, they won't have to fight the other states of the Deutsches Kaiserreich?
Good luck with that! :wink:
Of course not, we will take them all on, thats why the fighting will end up in Picadilly circus. Thanks Driscoles :lol:
When I get around to painting the Bavarians, Westaphalians etc the might of the German confederation will become too much for the British Empire and the fortress isle of Britain will be breached :o
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Errm, we Westphalians have been prussians since 1815, in parts since 1614 (when Prussia still was called Brandenburg). In the better parts, of course :D
Throwing us together with bavarians is like calling a scotsman a Cockney.
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Errm, we Westphalians have been prussians since 1815, in parts since 1614 (when Prussia still was called Brandenburg). In the better parts, of course :D
Throwing us together with bavarians is like calling a scotsman a Cockney.
Ok so that will teach me for not doing my homework, however my defence is this is Victorian Science Fiction - so anything is possible :lol:
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A real-life 1881 war is an interesting proposition, and it's hard to see how it would be fought. There's no way the tiny British Army could face Germany on the continent on its own, and at that stage the German Navy would have no chance against the RN, so they wouldn't be able to invade England. If either side tries to venture into the other's dominant sphere (land or sea) there's going to be something of a disaster in store for somebody.
Also the Germans didn't really have any overseas possessions yet, so there wouldn't be a colonial proxy war either.
It would all revert to them pulling rude faces at one another across the North Sea!
Great idea for a VSF campaign, though.
I always thought a Westfalia was a camper van! :)
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A real-life 1881 war is an interesting proposition, and it's hard to see how it would be fought. There's no way the tiny British Army could face Germany on the continent on its own, and at that stage the German Navy would have no chance against the RN, so they wouldn't be able to invade England. If either side tries to venture into the other's dominant sphere (land or sea) there's going to be something of a disaster in store for somebody.
Also the Germans didn't really have any overseas possessions yet, so there wouldn't be a colonial proxy war either.
It would all revert to them pulling rude faces at one another across the North Sea!
Great idea for a VSF campaign, though.
The Dastardly Prussians will use flying machines and that tunnel they have been digging under the channel since the end of the Franco/Prussian war. :wink:
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A real-life 1881 war is an interesting proposition, and it's hard to see how it would be fought. There's no way the tiny British Army could face Germany on the continent on its own, and at that stage the German Navy would have no chance against the RN, so they wouldn't be able to invade England. If either side tries to venture into the other's dominant sphere (land or sea) there's going to be something of a disaster in store for somebody.
Also the Germans didn't really have any overseas possessions yet, so there wouldn't be a colonial proxy war either.
It would all revert to them pulling rude faces at one another across the North Sea!
Great idea for a VSF campaign, though.
I always thought a Westfalia was a camper van! :)
Yes, and the factory has been around 25km from here.
You're right, of course, with the problems of a would-be-war in 1881. It would have ended in a sea blockade, and perhaps an british attempt on Hamburg. On the other hand the frenchies wouldn't have missed the possibility. I guess it woould have ended in WW1 with different frontlines - the three Emperors against France, Britain and the turks, perhabs the austrians switching sides.
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That's a great picture there, very inspiring. Now knock it off, I have enough on my plate already!
Is Mr. Brown is from Crusader's "furriner" cowboy pack?
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That's a great picture there, very inspiring. Now knock it off, I have enough on my plate already!
Is Mr. Brown is from Crusader's "furriner" cowboy pack?
Yes, with a little conversion done to the beard and hair to make him look more like Billy Connelly :)
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Nice job. I really like the bushy beard and the paint job you did on him.
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Is that a certain time traveling physician observing events in the right foreground?
Rule Brittania,
Soaps.
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Is that a certain time traveling physician observing events in the right foreground?
Rule Brittania,
Soaps.
Good grief, you're right :o 8) 8)
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Even better! I hadn't noticed him. Big fan of that model.
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That's a great picture there, very inspiring. Now knock it off, I have enough on my plate already!
Is Mr. Brown is from Crusader's "furriner" cowboy pack?
Yes, with a little conversion done to the beard and hair to make him look more like Billy Connelly :)
Glad you steered clear of painting a crimson goatee, though :lol:
Just mentioning Billy Connolly reminds me of his cameo appearance as "Hawkeye MacGillicuddy" in the film Bullshot. That scene still makes me laugh :)
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Is that a certain time traveling physician observing events in the right foreground?
Rule Brittania,
Soaps.
Good grief, you're right :o 8) 8)
Well spotted Vanvlak :)
he seems to crop up in all the right places!
I think this image is shortly before the incident with the Werewolf in Scotland :wink:
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Is that a certain time traveling physician observing events in the right foreground?
Rule Brittania,
Soaps.
Ha, yes! If Mr Smith is there, it must be serious...
Nick, you're really going to _have_ to do a Martha [or Donna?] to accompany him........
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who is the Scottish bloke with the guns? :?
John Brown, Comforter and Assassin Extraordinaire to Her Majesty. ;) :lol:
But he hasn`t got his bannana shoes on :D
(http://www.moviegoods.com/Assets/product_images/1000/369914.1000.A.jpg)
(http://www.homesteadpalace.com/images/A-Mrs_Brown.jpg)
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Is that a certain time traveling physician observing events in the right foreground?
Rule Brittania,
Soaps.
Good grief, you're right :o 8) 8)
Well spotted Vanvlak :)
he seems to crop up in all the right places!
I think this image is shortly before the incident with the Werewolf in Scotland :wink:
Nope - well spotted Soapy. :)
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I thought I was failry up to date on British pop culture but this one whizzes right over my head.
OK, so exactly who is John Brown, Comforter and Assassin Extraordinaire to Her Majesty except what you learn from his title?
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The real John Brown was a ghillie who became Queen Victoria's personal servant after the Death of Prince Albert. The two struck up quite a close relationship, and he helped her somewhat to overcome the grief she was stricken with.
There were rumours of them ... well, you can imagine.
All this is depicted in the film "Mrs Brown" with Judi Dench and Billy Connolly. The stuff about him being an assassin is a bit of VSF gamer fun.
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Thanks!
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Errm, we Westphalians have been prussians since 1815, in parts since 1614 (when Prussia still was called Brandenburg). In the better parts, of course :D
Throwing us together with bavarians is like calling a scotsman a Cockney.
But that was the Victorian British view - there was the English and "Jonny Foreigner" :wink:
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But that was the Victorian British view - there was the English and "Jonny Foreigner" :wink:
In an era where the last souveraign with british blood died 200 years ago...
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But that was the Victorian British view - there was the English and "Jonny Foreigner" :wink:
In an era where the last souveraign with british blood died 200 years ago...
Ah but that was a view of the Aristocracy and the upper classes and impressed on the working classes by the press and education :D
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But that was the Victorian British view - there was the English and "Jonny Foreigner" :wink:
In an era where the last souveraign with british blood died 200 years ago...
Longer for the English maybe 1066, 1415 for the Welsh. It's the Scots who kept their kings longest.
That guy with the Prussian? blue coat in the background, could that be a bomb in the bag?
Very impressive! :)
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But that was the Victorian British view - there was the English and "Jonny Foreigner" :wink:
In an era where the last souveraign with british blood died 200 years ago...
Everyone in UK is descended from someone who came from elsewhere originally - it's just a question of time.
Being of ‘British blood’ thankfully means being born of British parents (a legal definition) and avoids discredited theories on eugenics.
:)
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Most Brits come from the Basque region of Spain. Considering the number of non-Brits in living history for my family I take the view that a man born in Hackney is from Hackney. :wink:
Did the Scots keep their Kings? The Kings were Scots weren't they? Whilst the majority of their subjects were Picts. And lets not even think about Lowland/Highland or the men on the Marches.
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Actually, most Brits have always been here, they've just changed their identity to fit in with each new lot of invaders.
They dug up some preserved prehistoric chap in Devon or somewhere a while back, DNA-tested him, and then DNA tested all the locals near where he was found. Some of said locals were found to be relations of his!
So we're most of us not Normans, Anglo-Saxons, Romans or even Celts. We're all from some nameless prehistoric tribe!
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So we're most of us not Normans, Anglo-Saxons, Romans or even Celts. We're all from some nameless prehistoric tribe!
Beats being somehow related to the nameless git who managed to "lose" that CD with the social security data sets, huh?
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Most Brits come from the Basque region of Spain. Considering the number of non-Brits in living history for my family I take the view that a man born in Hackney is from Hackney. :wink:
Did the Scots keep their Kings? The Kings were Scots weren't they? Whilst the majority of their subjects were Picts. And lets not even think about Lowland/Highland or the men on the Marches.
Not even remotely true I'm afraid. I think this idea came about when people tried to decide where the Celtic languages came from. Only later did they understand the Celts spread from Hallstat in Germany into West Europe and the Middle East, possibly reaching Western China. The Basques are a Celtic people, along with the Galicians and Asturians in Spain. And by Celt I mean the culture, not a distinct racial group.
The 'Scots', an Irish tribe landing in Dalriata, had Welsh, Irish, Pictish and Viking subjects. These are the ancestors of the modern Scots.
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Enough with the UK tribalism, lets see some more pics of those fantastic minis and terrain! :)
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Actually, most Brits have always been here, they've just changed their identity to fit in with each new lot of invaders.
They dug up some preserved prehistoric chap in Devon or somewhere a while back, DNA-tested him, and then DNA tested all the locals near where he was found. Some of said locals were found to be relations of his!
So we're most of us not Normans, Anglo-Saxons, Romans or even Celts. We're all from some nameless prehistoric tribe!
Living under the glasiers during the last Ice Age then were we - sorry but we're all blow-ins.
Now there's an idea for a wargame - the return of the Ice Pack circa whenever you like!!
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The ice didn't get as far as Devon, did it?
Anyway, I didn't say pre-Ice Age, I said "prehistoric." Yeah, we're all blow-ins, seeing as mankind is a tropical animal from Africa. But none of this has anything to do with what I said, I was merely making the point that we aren't all quite who we think we are, ethnically-speaking.
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The ice didn't get as far as Devon, did it?
Anyway, I didn't say pre-Ice Age, I said "prehistoric." Yeah, we're all blow-ins, seeing as mankind is a tropical animal from Africa. But none of this has anything to do with what I said, I was merely making the point that we aren't all quite who we think we are, ethnically-speaking.
I'm not even from this planet, I'm from the Empire of Helium. :lol:
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Does that mean you speak with an hilarious high-pitched squeaky voice? :)
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Oh yes! :lol: