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Offline Cholmondely Percival IV

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Re: Bloody Big Battles Napoleonics
« Reply #15 on: September 22, 2024, 06:42:40 PM »
The worst accident - at least hobby-related -  I’ve experienced is a cut - well, several - from a craft blade. It’s sobering to hear of those less fortunate.

Offline vtsaogames

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Re: Bloody Big Battles Napoleonics
« Reply #16 on: October 03, 2024, 02:18:22 AM »
Many years ago when still in high school (don't know the UK equivalent) I was transporting a copy of Avalon Hill's Stalingrad board game. The two armies were in glass jars in my back jeans pockets. I slipped on ice crossing Union Square and fell on the Wermacht bottle broke, damaging my bight butt cheek. T'was a bloody mess. But didn't lose any fingers.
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Offline ChrisBBB

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Re: Bloody Big Battles Napoleonics
« Reply #17 on: October 03, 2024, 08:50:51 AM »
Wow, so you have scars from the Battle of Stalingrad!

Online Harry Faversham

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Re: Bloody Big Battles Napoleonics
« Reply #18 on: October 03, 2024, 09:54:26 AM »
That, I have to say, is not quite as amusing as my own anecdote and indeed most regrettable, particularly for your mate. What, may I ask, is MLAGB?


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Offline Cholmondely Percival IV

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Re: Bloody Big Battles Napoleonics
« Reply #19 on: October 03, 2024, 07:25:12 PM »
Many years ago when still in high school (don't know the UK equivalent) I was transporting a copy of Avalon Hill's Stalingrad board game. The two armies were in glass jars in my back jeans pockets. I slipped on ice crossing Union Square and fell on the Wermacht bottle broke, damaging my bight butt cheek. T'was a bloody mess. But didn't lose any fingers.

You were probably lucky it was the Wehrmacht you fell on, though why you chose to transport your armies in glass jars or bottles escapes me - were grip top bags not around then?

BTW the UK equivalent of high school is secondary school, though these days some such establishments describe themselves as high schools or academies, presumably in order to set themselves apart from the rest.

Offline Cholmondely Percival IV

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Re: Bloody Big Battles Napoleonics
« Reply #20 on: October 03, 2024, 07:29:57 PM »

Muzzle Loading Association of Great Britain...
a right good bunch of loonies!
 ;)

Fascinating. Is it still in existence? (I’m not planning to join it, merely curious). Also, is / was it focused on muskets and the like, or display equal enthusiasm for artillery?

Offline vtsaogames

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Re: Bloody Big Battles Napoleonics
« Reply #21 on: October 03, 2024, 11:09:25 PM »
You were probably lucky it was the Wehrmacht you fell on, though why you chose to transport your armies in glass jars or bottles escapes me - were grip top bags not around then?

It was a long time ago, in a galaxy far away. I was very young. Never transported counters in glass jars again.

Online anevilgiraffe

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Re: Bloody Big Battles Napoleonics
« Reply #22 on: October 04, 2024, 08:04:52 AM »
I'm more intrigued by the size of your back jean pockets that could hold a bloody jar...

Offline vtsaogames

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Re: Bloody Big Battles Napoleonics
« Reply #23 on: October 05, 2024, 08:21:09 PM »
I'm more intrigued by the size of your back jean pockets that could hold a bloody jar...

 lol T'was a small jar. Not that many counters in the AH Stalingrad game. Misnamed, it was a game of the whole East Front from 1941 to May 1943. Each counter was a corps or more, as far as I recall.

 

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