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Author Topic: Lake Placid or Lake Wobegone?  (Read 4023 times)

Offline fastolfrus

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Lake Placid or Lake Wobegone?
« on: June 02, 2012, 05:06:32 PM »
The school club are gearing up for an 1812 encounter, starting with something amphibious.
They don't want a straight historical scenario, and only have small forces available  (especially boats), so are opting for a semi-fictional approach (composite of several historic actions from 1813-14 on a fictional map).
Our question is, what lake to choose (hence the title) as our fictional setting:
Lake Placid 1812
or
Lake Wobegone 1812?
Gary, Glynis, and Alasdair (there are three of us, but we are too mean to have more than one login)

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Re: Lake Placid or Lake Wobegone?
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2012, 06:32:28 PM »
Wobegone. Do you even need to ask?
I told you so. You damned fools.
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Re: Lake Placid or Lake Wobegone?
« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2012, 06:50:51 PM »
Wobegone. Do you even need to ask?

I'm with you 100% on that one.

Offline fastolfrus

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Re: Lake Placid or Lake Wobegone?
« Reply #3 on: June 02, 2012, 08:22:35 PM »
They need to ask.
And who would argue with a committee of teenage boys?

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Re: Lake Placid or Lake Wobegone?
« Reply #4 on: June 08, 2012, 08:09:44 AM »
Got to be Wobegone  lol


Offline fastolfrus

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Re: Lake Placid or Lake Wobegone?
« Reply #5 on: June 13, 2012, 10:03:13 PM »
Looks like we'll use the order of battle from Queenston Heights, but with British attacking and Americans defending.
We'll start with Brock leading a first wave of 50 against 60 US regulars & militia.

British reinforcements at Queenston will appear as successive waves of boats on the shoreline, US will get reinforcements based on their original attacks, although they'll also get the additional (reluctant) New York militia that refused to cross the river in 1812.

Offline leadfool

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Re: Lake Placid or Lake Wobegone?
« Reply #6 on: June 14, 2012, 07:16:53 AM »
Lake Wobegone, where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking and all the children are above average.

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Offline fastolfrus

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Re: Lake Placid or Lake Wobegone?
« Reply #7 on: June 17, 2012, 09:47:01 PM »
Don't suppose anyone has some 28mm US flags as PDFs?
Or a suggested supplier of printed flags for 1812?

Offline fastolfrus

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Re: Lake Placid or Lake Wobegone?
« Reply #8 on: June 29, 2012, 08:59:38 PM »
For anyone visiting the Scarborough show this weekend, Lake Wobegon will be seen just in front of the Old Glory stand.
Stop by and say hello.

Now I've just got 110 American militia to try and base before breakfast....

Offline fastolfrus

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Re: Lake Placid or Lake Wobegone?
« Reply #9 on: July 03, 2012, 10:45:42 AM »
Bezzo - Did you get to the show?

Offline fastolfrus

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Re: Lake Placid or Lake Wobegone?
« Reply #10 on: July 06, 2012, 02:43:15 PM »
If the walls are duck egg blue will you be painting the ceiling in camo colours with RAF roundels?

There are some pics from the show here:
http://www.scarboroughcollege.co.uk/2012/07/war-games-at-the-spa-result-in-a-british-vistory/

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Re: Lake Placid or Lake Wobegone?
« Reply #11 on: July 06, 2012, 06:33:27 PM »
There wasn't a specific naval aspect but we did have boats - it was a river crossing, so attackers started on the river bank.
We used the boats as scenery/staging area for reinforcements coming in/casualties going off etc.
We might get around to actual naval fighting on the next one.

 

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