I think this was in Denver, anyway!
I feel certain that I will be corrected if I am wrong.
JAFD (white beard) on left, Comrade Scott’s Agenda of Rage on right.
Maybe next will be at Cold Wars, beginning of March in Gettysburg.
I have to say, Comrade Scott’s Agenda of Rage does not look very rage-y in this photo!
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Comrade Scott was commanding the Samnites (on right side of the picture, vs Medieval French on left)
If someone wants to prove further explanation of what we’re looking at here, I’ll add it to the post.
Open thread. (anything except election or recriminations talk)
Baud
I feel deceived.
sab
I was thinking the same. That rage must be simmering very deep.
Old School
Neat!
Were the Samnites victorious?
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
I would appreciate an explanation. I looked Samites up and they were related to the Sabines and were an early rival of the Romans (and later assimilated into Rome), so how could they be fighting the medieval French? Maybe they were confused with the Saracens (Song of Roland etc.) or maybe I am confused?!?
thruppence
@A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan): Samnites, not Samites, I think
unless I’m missing something which is often the case
Sister Golden Bear
Thanks for the respite thread, WaterGirl.
lollipopguild
Wargames!
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@thruppence: sorry, Samnites, but still, they were in competition with the Romans, so how did the Medieval French fight them? Must be a fantasy whoever you want from history battle
Fun fact: Saladin was a Kurd
Sister Golden Bear
My shoulder is a painful hot mess after the latest PRP treatment, which intentionally induces inflammation to trigger healing. Last round was quite effective, but the first two weeks (the inflammatory period) aren’t fun.
So since it’s a beautiful fall day in SF, I’m playing hooky from house decluttering to hit two of the art museums and hang out in Golden Gate Park.
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@Sister Golden Bear: good for you!
H.E.Wolf
The part I’d like to hear more about is the discovery that you’d known each other ~20 years ago!
zhena gogolia
Very cute!
Shantanu Saha
This was a miniatures war game. People who play minis spend lots of time and money buying, painting, and mounting their own figs (there have been lots of verbal sparring matches on just how to mount them), building terrain, and either coming up with their own rules or playing one of the established rules sets for their army’s time period (and of course, there are rules sets for cross time battles as well). I used to have a Napoleonics army in my youth, but the general cast of the community was too conservative for my taste. I also didn’t like having to estimate distances and then find out I was a 1/16” off when measuring with a tape. But I did visit Fall In with my son on November 2 to play a hex-based game created by an old friend and expose the kid to the hobby. He loved the game, but only bought a board game from the massive dealer area.
ETA: The visual clues and the photo date of Nov. 2 makes me almost certain this was at Fall In in Lancaster PA.
sab
@Sister Golden Bear: You are a trouper. I am glad you still have good weather.
Winter is slowly but surely coming here. Drizzle all day and cloudy with temperatures creeping down towards freezing. Same expected tomorrow…
Annual tiff: I think we will get snow by Turkey Day. Spouse says what with warming we won’t get snow. I always win this one although he is mostly right. We will get early snow and that will mostly be it for the winter. I used to cross country ski in parks around here.
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@Shantanu Saha: thank you for the explanation! I have never heard of Fall In and was only dimly aware of miniatures (aka toy soldiers in my OG brain). Clearly a cross-time battle. Always interesting to learn of an unknown (to me) community
When I visited Brussels a few years ago, there were wonderful Napoleonic toy soldiers for sale and I was tempted to get one (especially after visiting the Waterloo battlefield and museum) but the nice ones were seriously expensive. Contented myself with lace, tapestry, and chocolate.
WaterGirl
@Sister Golden Bear: So you probably can’t take Advil or anything else that reduces pain but also reduces inflammation, right?
cain
These two look like new recruits for the Lincoln Project. :)
Almost Retired
@Sister Golden Bear: Love the deYoung, although otherwise we have better art museums in Los Angeles (ducks and covers head).
JAFD
@Shantanu Saha: Thanks for the explanation, you did it better than I could. If you can make it to Cold Wars (the spring gathering of ‘grownups who still play with toy soldiers’, in Gettysburg next year, see hmgs.org for info) we’ll have a 3-person BJ meetup.
Especially in the ancients / medieval periods, there are a lot of ahistorical ‘crosstime’ matches. “It’s all sharp sticks, big knives, monstrous beasties, slings, arrows, and outrageous fortune”.
(stuf below from last night’s thread)
Hello everyone!
Next weekend will be the Philadelphia Science Fiction Convention, in Cherry Hill, NJ – philcon.org – and I plan to be there, good Lawd willin’ and the creeks don’t rise. So if you want to have a meetup there, Ms. WaterGirl can pass me a message, or just ask around the con suite.
The docs want me to show up on Tuesday the 26th, so they can whack me open and put in a pacemaker. Say they, I should be able to go home, later that day, but this probably disrupts my Thanksgiving travel plans.
Anyway, the docs, nurses, other medical people do, every day, what would have been minor miracles back when I was young, and I’ve been the beneficiary of a bunch of them, this will be the latest. So shall be thankful even if Thanksgivinging alone.
Stay healthy and happy, everyone !
JAFD
@Sister Golden Bear: Hope you feel better soon ! (HUG)
JAFD
@H.E.Wolf: Well, we’d both been attending these gaming conventions for two decades or so, said ‘Hello’ when we met, but didn’t know we were both BJ’ers…
H.E.Wolf
That is so fabulous! Thanks for filling us in.
I once met a cousin I didn’t know I had, when I saw his surname at an athletic event in which we were both participating. Turns out his paternal grandpa and my maternal aunt-by-marriage were siblings!
Lyrebird
@JAFD:
Be well JAFD!!
Best wishes & hopes that your docs are in top form as they put in your ticker assister.
Sister Golden Bear
@WaterGirl: Nope. Although I can take Celebrex, which even though it’s technically an NSAID apparently works differently enough that it has my doctors blessing. But otherwise its strictly Tylenol.
Sister Golden Bear
@Almost Retired: As a former SoCal girl for most of my life, I agree LA has better art museums. Though between the DeYoung, Legion of Honor and SFMOMA, there’s interesting stuff that comes our way. Today was an exhibit on Tamara de Lempicka and Mary Cassatt. While Cassatt gets pigeon-holed as the “mothers and children” Impressionist, she was quite an innovator in her own right, both artistically and technically. This exhibit had a bit of focus on her prints, which are less known, but Cassatt was a huge innovator in that field, essentially reverse-engineering Japanese-style printmaking and applying it Western printmaking techniques.
Albatrossity
Samnite? All these years I thought it was Samsonite.
Gloria DryGarden
@Sister Golden Bear: I love Mary Cassatt. I used to check out books of her art, and gaze at them. We had one here in Denver, amongst a bunch of impressionist guys. I could pick hers out: there’s a way she does light, sunlight. You’re so lucky to see a whole lot of her works.
heal well.