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Re: Shiver Your Mainbrace - LAW going Nautical
Posted: Thu May 03, 2018 10:48 am
by Essex Boy
Paul wrote: ↑Wed May 02, 2018 10:26 pm
I used to play WS&IM about thirty years ago.
It is very much meant for one ir two ships a player or it gets 'unweildy' (Although it may be the mists of time or impatience of youth that makes me think that?)
I think AH or maybe someone else later published a hexless version for miniatures but I never played that as my interests had moved on.
I love the idea of making players wave signal flags to each other
You were a youth thirty years ago?
Re: Shiver Your Mainbrace - LAW going Nautical
Posted: Thu May 03, 2018 1:06 pm
by World2dave
Some members were born after the 50s Iain, and don't even remember rationing.
Re: Shiver Your Mainbrace - LAW going Nautical
Posted: Thu May 03, 2018 1:35 pm
by Paul
Essex Boy wrote: ↑Thu May 03, 2018 10:48 am
Paul wrote: ↑Wed May 02, 2018 10:26 pm
I used to play WS&IM about thirty years ago.
It is very much meant for one ir two ships a player or it gets 'unweildy' (Although it may be the mists of time or impatience of youth that makes me think that?)
I think AH or maybe someone else later published a hexless version for miniatures but I never played that as my interests had moved on.
I love the idea of making players wave signal flags to each other
You were a youth thirty years ago?
Git
I was at sixth form if that counts?
Re: Shiver Your Mainbrace - LAW going Nautical
Posted: Thu May 03, 2018 1:57 pm
by Essex Boy
World2dave wrote: ↑Thu May 03, 2018 1:06 pm
Some members were born after the 50s Iain, and don't even remember rationing.
I was born five years and six days after rationing ended in the UK.
Re: Shiver Your Mainbrace - LAW going Nautical
Posted: Thu May 03, 2018 2:14 pm
by World2dave
Inter-war period?
Re: Shiver Your Mainbrace - LAW going Nautical
Posted: Thu May 03, 2018 2:34 pm
by Paul
Essex Boy wrote: ↑Thu May 03, 2018 1:57 pm
World2dave wrote: ↑Thu May 03, 2018 1:06 pm
Some members were born after the 50s Iain, and don't even remember rationing.
I was born five years and six days after rationing ended in the UK.
Marvelously non specific given the different timescales involved
Earliest I can think of is bread in 1948 and the latest one I know is coal in June 1958 were there any later?
If not EB has aged rather well!
Re: Shiver Your Mainbrace - LAW going Nautical
Posted: Thu May 03, 2018 3:53 pm
by Essex Boy
Paul wrote: ↑Thu May 03, 2018 2:34 pm
Essex Boy wrote: ↑Thu May 03, 2018 1:57 pm
World2dave wrote: ↑Thu May 03, 2018 1:06 pm
Some members were born after the 50s Iain, and don't even remember rationing.
I was born five years and six days after rationing ended in the UK.
Marvelously non specific given the different timescales involved
Earliest I can think of is bread in 1948 and the latest one I know is coal in June 1958 were there any later?
If not EB has aged rather well!
Clearly, I haven't.
I Googled 'end of rationing in uk' and got 4 June 1954.
Dave - git.
Re: Shiver Your Mainbrace - LAW going Nautical
Posted: Thu May 03, 2018 4:32 pm
by goat major
World2dave wrote: ↑Thu May 03, 2018 2:14 pm
Inter-war period?
Siege of Troy ?
Re: Shiver Your Mainbrace - LAW going Nautical
Posted: Thu May 03, 2018 4:37 pm
by Jeremy
Simon, don’t be so rude to Iain. It was clearly the Viking siege of Paris
Re: Shiver Your Mainbrace - LAW going Nautical
Posted: Thu May 03, 2018 4:46 pm
by Paul
June '54 was the end of food rationing.....coal rationing went on for another 4 years whilst the country built up large reserves. Ending, ironically, on midsummers day I think?