Re: Any possibility of moving from X/Twitter to BlueSky?
I think you are missing the point. ?I want to know what is posted there that I might want to know about, and why is it not posted on the FORUM, or here, or in other places. ?As I have never been on Twitter or BlueSky I do not know what is happening on them, should I?
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I consider your post very unhelpful. ?I think you are showing bad manners that contribute nothing to this discussion.
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On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 05:35 PM, Nick wrote:
If you have no interest in using any of these products that's fine you don't have to the game is as good or as bad without them. You choose to use email someone else may choose to use something else, fine.
However, if you have no interest please don't post on here, sniping at those who do and who want to improve the use of such tools by the group. It is extremely bad manners and contributes nothing to the discussion,
Le 19/11/2024 à 09:29, Chris via a écrit?:
> I am not on X or Bluesky or any such media.? Why should one need to?
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Re: Any possibility of moving from X/Twitter to BlueSky?
To address the initial post, it looks like the Lard community is finally moving wholesale to Bluesky and abandoning Xhitter.?
If you do join the app subscribe to #spreadthelard and also Henry Hyde has built a couple of lists of historical wargaming accounts to follow. Find Henry, find his lists, click "subscribe all"
I find the conversation and socializing enjoyable in the Bluesky wargaming community.?
If you don't,? that's cool to.?
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Re: Any possibility of moving from X/Twitter to BlueSky?
All these medias move on with time, sadly almost no-one is still using the io email group now.? However TFL have Facebook groups for themselves and the various rule?sets have their own pages. I can understand not wanting to go on X? or twitter.its gone downhill fast since mr Musk bought it. But I would definitely recommend?going on bluesky - there's a big Lardie presence on there?or Facebook if you want a medium where its?easier to follow? thread. Hopefully see you there? Egg?
I miss seeing what Richard, Nick and Sidney are up to.
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Re: Any possibility of moving from X/Twitter to BlueSky?
I miss seeing what Richard, Nick and Sidney are up to.
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Re: Any possibility of moving from X/Twitter to BlueSky?
Blue Sky??
Sounds like a real estate ?con
I prefer groups.io using that new eMail ?idea is like writing a letter without a pen but every one’s using face thingy or summat now. ?
Best Regards
Mike Leese
(N. Wales)
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On 19 Nov 2024, at 17:35, Nick via groups.io <nick.meredith@...> wrote:
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If you have no interest in using any of these products that's fine you don't have to the game is as good or as bad without them. You choose to use email someone else may choose to use something else, fine.
However, if you have no interest please don't post on here, sniping at those who do and who want to improve the use of such tools by the group. It is extremely bad manners and contributes nothing to the discussion,
Le 19/11/2024 à 09:29, Chris via a écrit?:
> I am not on X or Bluesky or any such media.? Why should one need to?
+1
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Re: Any possibility of moving from X/Twitter to BlueSky?
If you have no interest in using any of these products that's fine you don't have to the game is as good or as bad without them. You choose to use email someone else may choose to use something else, fine.
However, if you have no interest please don't post on here, sniping at those who do and who want to improve the use of such tools by the group. It is extremely bad manners and contributes nothing to the discussion,
Le 19/11/2024 à 09:29, Chris via a écrit?:
> I am not on X or Bluesky or any such media.? Why should one need to?
+1
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Ronan
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Re: Any possibility of moving from X/Twitter to BlueSky?
Le 19/11/2024 à 09:29, Chris via groups.io a écrit?: I am not on X or Bluesky or any such media. ?Why should one need to? +1 -- Ronan
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I was going to suggest this one. The distinction between the two is 'got the wind up' suggests an isolated event, a reaction to specific circumstances, 'being windy' implies one who is always like that. On Tue, 19 Nov 2024, 03:21 Robert Sulentic via , <rnsulentic= [email protected]> wrote:-
get/have the wind up
British, informal :?to become/be afraid or nervousWhen they started questioning him, he?got the wind up.
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Re: Any possibility of moving from X/Twitter to BlueSky?
I am not on X or Bluesky or any such media. ?Why should one need to?
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Avoir des engelures aux yeux?(having frostbitten eyes)to be afraid during an attack
Une Rafale?(A gust)A frightened soldier.
That last might?be related to?British, informal :?to become/be afraid or nervousWhen they started questioning him, he?got the wind up.
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I need your help. What term would have been used in Napoleonic times if someone had "the jitters"? Like a new recruit being very nervous in battle.
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Lardies --
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I need your help. What term would have been used in Napoleonic times if someone had "the jitters"? Like a new recruit being very nervous in battle.
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Re: Any possibility of moving from X/Twitter to BlueSky?
Rich has moved over, under the usual handle. There's a "Too Fat Lardies Games" feed that picks up posts tagged with the usual #spreadthelard (I think that's how it works).
Chris? ? On Thursday 14/11/2024 at 2:10 pm, cscholti via groups.io wrote:
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I'm not on X and I miss all the TFL goodness. ? Chuck
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Any possibility of moving from X/Twitter to BlueSky?
I'm not on X and I miss all the TFL goodness.
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Re: CoC (Chain of Command): Engineer & Medic figures in 15mm / 1:100th especially wire cutters and demolition teams.
I did the walking deployed figures for a while and decided it was too much work.? I just point the gun backwards when moving.? Not perfect but good enough and less hassle than swapping out figures.
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Re: CoC (Chain of Command): Engineer & Medic figures in 15mm / 1:100th especially wire cutters and demolition teams.
A prone MG loader could easily be converted to a guy pushing a bangalor torpedo (but honestly, I just want an identifiable figure).? For a medic I used an AT leader, made a simple bag out of green putty, painted red cross (badly) on helm, armband and new bag and was done.
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Not the best paint job but easy to spot on the table.? This is the goal for 15mm
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Sorry camera decide the base was more important, but you get the idea
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Re: CoC (Chain of Command): Engineer & Medic figures in 15mm / 1:100th especially wire cutters and demolition teams.
On Thu, Nov 7, 2024 at 10:04 PM, Daniel Bamford wrote:
using advancing riflemen figures is good for combat engineers 'on the move', but I think I'll be satisfied with kneeling AT-gun crew figures 'setting to work'!
If you've got the figs to use that sounds like a good plan.? I use something similar with tripod MMGs or mortars: walking/carrying figs for when the team is moving (and therefore can't fire), and then kneeling/in-action when the weapon is in place and able to fire.? Using a double set for engineers when tasks cannot be done in a moving phase may be an easy way to indicate that?
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(and I second Tom's conversion advice: spare pieces-parts from tank model kits make good things to carry.
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Re: CoC (Chain of Command): Engineer & Medic figures in 15mm / 1:100th especially wire cutters and demolition teams.
Dear Tom,
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Thank you. This is very helpful and encouraging.?
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Also, thank you for the photo of your own figure conversions (although - for some reason - I cannot see it now!).
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I guessed that other Chain of Command players must do figure conversions like this, but I could not find any online evidence of this.
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So, I'm glad I asked here!
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I can see that using advancing riflemen figures is good for combat engineers 'on the move', but I think I'll be satisfied with kneeling AT-gun crew figures 'setting to work'!
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(Or maybe some prone figures would look even better?).
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Daniel Bamford.
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Re: CoC (Chain of Command): Engineer & Medic figures in 15mm / 1:100th especially wire cutters and demolition teams.
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Re: CoC (Chain of Command): Engineer & Medic figures in 15mm / 1:100th especially wire cutters and demolition teams.
FWIW in 15mm you don't need to be super detailed.? I made my Bangalore torpedo men by finding a rifleman is a reasonable position then cut off the rifle, and made a bundle of brass wires that his carrying over his shoulder.? Look at your figures and try to imagine how something might be carried.?
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I did the same for my wire cutters.?? I took a rifleman with hand down carrying a rifle, cut off the rifle, used a pin drill to drill a hole in his hand and took some brass wire, folded it back on itself.? Then took a needle nose pliers and bent the ends out a bit.? I slid one arm into the hand and let the other hang down.? A little squeeze with clippers on the fold joint, and you get a notch like the blades.? It's a little over scale, and would you run with the handle flopping? Not likely, but across the table you can see the figures and read them for what they are.
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Re: CoC (Chain of Command): Engineer & Medic figures in 15mm / 1:100th especially wire cutters and demolition teams.
Hello David,
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Thanks for the reply.
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I'm mainly interested in World War Two British and German infantry for NW Europe and the Mediterranean plus paratroopers of both nations.
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The 15mm / 1:100th scale figure manufacturers I'm aware of / have bought from so far include Command Decision (Skytrex / Old Glory), Peter Pig, Eureka, Essex, and QRF (Quick Reaction Force).
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Obviously, I'm aware of Battlefront's Flames of War, but they seem to be in the habit of only doing limited production runs of more unusual / useful figures (e.g. Mediterranean theatre British commandos, German mountain infantry).
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As I wrote, the best idea that I could think of was to convert anti-tank gun crewmen with scratch built wire cutters, satchel charges, detonators and perhaps Bangalore torpedoes.
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Has anyone else done this...?
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