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Gothic Horror / Re: Il Carnevale di Scattocaso

« Last post by Mad Lord Snapcase on Today at 12:48:02 PM »

Quote from: Sunjester on April 20, 2024, 11:56:08 AM

Very nice!
I must object however, just when I thought I had all the buildings I would ever need for Venice, you post a picture of this!

Yes, it is a good one. Just about to complete the third part of it. Thanks all for your comments, it's keeping me motivated.

With our 'What A Cowboy!' campaign complete, I have finally been able to get out my sea mat and start a trial layout. Plenty more painting required yet, but it's nice to put what is assembled onto the table.

It's been a wild night in La Serenissima!

Age of Myths, Gods and Empires / Re: Help with Latin pronunciation of the 'c' in Principes.

« Last post by Red Orc on Today at 12:45:28 PM »

But they don't use 'b'. Or 'f', or anything else, they use 'ou' consistently for 'v'.

What we're arguing about is whether latin had two values for 'v'. Because if you think the name Julius was pronounced 'Iv-livs' I can't help you. So your argument must be that sometimes 'v' was pronounced 'u' and sometimes 'v', but the difference only exists in spoken latin.

But because Greek consistently transliterates 'v' as 'ou', you'd have to posit that those transliterating the latin were doing so entirely on the basis of the written language and never the spoken language. That doesn't seem feasible, that Greek scribes never heard any spoken latin. That they would give placenames in a transliteration of the official spelling (so, Ouiktoria for Victoria and NEVER Biktoria or Fiktoria, even though you're positing that people called it Victoria-with-a-v and not Wictoria-with-a-u).

The only evidence we have for the sounds of spoken latin is by comparison with other languages. You're right that you're not going to chat to any Ancient Romans, neither are any of the rest of us; but then, it seems peculiar to invent a second pronunciation of 'v' for which we have literally no contemporary evidence - only the much later 'evidence' that later on, some 'v's were pronounced as 'v' and some as 'u'.

Ocham's razor suggests classical latin was not pronounced like modern Italian. Weni, wedi, wiki, not veni, vedi, vitchi.

Medieval Adventures / Re: Here's the Ruckus

« Last post by Muddlingthrough on Today at 12:44:21 PM »

Quote from: Wilgut Spleens on Today at 07:20:55 AM

Brilliant! You really dont need to know anything about WotR to enjoy Ruckus, you dont even need to use historical figures if you dont have them. Ruckus is based in WotR because it kind of follow Billhooks and because it was easiest as I had the figures, you can make it what you like!

Well the good news is that, of my two friends I've just recruited, one has his PhD and is employed as a military historian. Like, for the actual military. The other has his Masters in military history and has a shelf full of books on the War of the Roses, which is one of his favourite periods. So I"m sure they'll be able to give me a few pointers.

And 12 miniatures a side is a very low barrier to entry. My military historian friend has never wargamed before and is onboard.

I'm just getting back into the hobby after a long absence and am gonna have to get to work making some suitable terrain: hedgerows and muck and whatnot.

Old West / Re: Marshal Grin Duster

« Last post by Tom Dulski on Today at 12:41:08 PM »

Indeed, I can't fathom how you got the outline around the mustache.

Old West / Re: 28mm American Indian Wars 1700-1900

« Last post by Tom Dulski on Today at 12:38:47 PM »

Looks great, now you need some pale faces for them to fight.

Age of Myths, Gods and Empires / Re: Fooling around with 6th Edition WRG

« Last post by macsen wledig on Today at 12:37:04 PM »

a lot of the issues with 6th can be eradicated by the use of grids

great set and yes it had its issues but the rules are quite simple in reality its just they were written in Barkerese!

Am still playing it and although ruleset design has come on since then including reduction of overlylong factor lists, some of the mechanisms are very clever and well thought out. Whoever came up with the idea of opposing dice rolls for combat and shooting as well as the averaging dice concept for regulars was genius...