Daft ideas....

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

yeh ive played a fair few "friendly" games that were shit. The competition games i've been in i've always enjoyed.

To be fair, in 7 years of playing in FoG:R competitions, they were the only opponents I have ever faced - other than Dick Badly-Shot - who I would not have wanted to socialise with afterwards. There is still a hard core of competition players using these rules - probably about a dozen regulars all told - and I have been seriously contemplating returning to such games as I genuinely miss the camaraderie. They run an ECW day at the Oxford club, and Wessex used to have an early Renaissance (pre-1550) one-day competition that several of them drove down from the Midlands to take part in.

[DougM]

Well, there was an element of world domination going on in the SA guys. Colin wossisname definitely had that power-crazed dictator thing going on, and mind sports sa used to award national caps and springbok jerseys. All a bit serious for my liking.

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

Yes, I remember reading about that in an article submitted to one of the two UK wargames mags - "colours" were awarded and I envisaged appropriately hued tape being sewn around the lapel edges on someone's blazer. It said "We're organised!" in a way that was just a wee bit too 3rd Reichy.

[DougM]

That was my reaction too... we're playing with toy soldiers, not running the 100 metres.

[goat major]

looking at most wargamers its a good job we're not

[DougM]

Hey, no one claimed to be setting any records. Making 100 metres without a heart attack would be a win in my book...

[Jeremy]

Well, there was an element of world domination going on in the SA guys. Colin wossisname definitely had that power-crazed dictator thing going on, and mind sports sa used to award national caps and springbok jerseys. All a bit serious for my liking.

Yup. I qualified for the Bok team but couldn’t afford the ticket to the Osprey Internationals (or whatever it was called)so never got them - I do have EP colours - though that means stuff all . His wife was another story….

[Jeremy]

My only other experience of competition gaming was playing Bolt Action (a game I generally enjoy playing in the right company) at the club in Bolton. It was against a bunch of win at all cost min maxers who built the most improbable Panzergrenadier forces. 18 men supported by King Tigers and Brummbärs, et al. Loved how I was in a maize field and couldn’t see out, but his mortar behind a house knew exactly where my commander was in the maize field. I don’t go to the club anymore.

[FreddBloggs]

yeh ive played a fair few "friendly" games that were shit. The competition games i've been in i've always enjoyed.

Then you’re very lucky. The SAWU league was populated by absolute cheating nobheads without a single redeeming feature amongst all of them

So Kumbayah games at Ayton then?

[FreddBloggs]

That was my reaction too... we're playing with toy soldiers, not running the 100 metres.

I was a prop? you ran marathons like 100ms?

10ms and dead was me! (and the fly half if I timed it right).