clifton seeney wrote:
What ?????
What does your buddy know the Empire rules by Scott Bowden! Are you saying my twenty years of playing I don't know what am talking about I dare you!
I have forgotten a lot of the details over the years since a job transfer (and marriage) drove me away from HMGS. I cannot easily research the rules either, as my Empire game is boxed in the attic with my miniatures and a veritable library of my books. Not to mention all my Avalon Hill games and other invaluables. I am, however, reasonably sure that we never used a 30-40% criteria to determine our victories. As I recall, we simply played the battles and by the end of them it was usually obvious who was the Victor. Of course, in those years, Cliff, I wore the red, white, and blue of France. I assure you that many an Allied fig was capped when opposing my troops on the table top. Mike knows all this as well. He was quite the formidable miniatures player himself.
Ah, how well I remember the battle when Mike Peccolo charged through every rank of the Young Guard, from front to back and, when passing through the rear of the Division, turned his horses 180 degrees and charged through them yet again, only this time from back to front! A magnificent day for Der Wurger!! Jeff Hester was your opponent that day in Columbia, Mike. I kept telling him, "Form square, form square." I think it probably got to the point of my saying, "For God's sake, Jeff, Form Square!" To which he kept replying, "No, I got him this time. I really do. Trust me, I've got him this time."
Cliff, don't get offended by my comments. I am not one to attack you, or anyone else for that matter really. I am here to have fun. When is ceases to be fun, I won't be here any longer. No more of the Hanoverian posts that everyone seems to hate so much. No more of the "Clown" that you currently have for a Club President. No more of the boring, bragging, swaggering, insipid, intolerable Hanoverian Brigadier…but until that time I am afraid that everyone here is simply 'stuck' with me. I am not now, nor will I ever become, morbidly serious. I do not feel compelled in any way to prove my 'intellectual superiority' regarding all things Napoleonic. I enjoy the humor, as I also enjoy the esoteric debates. I am an amateur military historian, a loyal comrade, an inveterate foe, and a very experienced wargamer. I am a “Clown” quite often, because I honestly think you fellows need to remember how to smile and laugh. A great many of you seem to have forgotten that important aspect of life. It is never my intention to offend, but neither is it my intent to change. I am what I am. At least some of you must have liked what you have seen, or you never would have elected me to my current position by a popular vote. As I have said before, I work for you. I don’t just say that, I really do mean it. I think most of you really do know that about me, but if you don’t, well, I cannot really help you with that. You will just have to come to grips with it on your own.
NWC
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