Too Fat Lardies

Capt Fortier wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 08, 2020 11:38 am

I suspect Munin's house rule - counting doubles as a fizzle - could work either way you read it!

True. A line that has also resonated repeatedly throughout my social life.

Neil Todd wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 07, 2020 1:10 pm

I have read the teams didn't have much training and tended to expose themselves when firing.

I'm amazed that Truscott Trotter hasn't already zeroed on to this line like a shark in dirty water.

OK, I'm hooked. My only remaining decision will be whether I go Caesarian times, or Hellenic/ Persian.

Masters again (same brilliant book): "I said above that we were not to be ruthless. Ruthlessness, however, is relative, and the definition used on the Frontier was the Pathan definition". Excellent comment - when I used to be a guest lecturer at the National Army Museum, I always explained to quest...

IanKH wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 29, 2020 6:10 am

Eat more Spam.

Damn - you beat me to it!

Capt Fortier wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 29, 2020 10:10 am

Had a quick flick through a pdf version online and liked the look of it so much it is already on order!

I guarantee that, at the very least, you will not be disappointed. He is very open about his own failings, and avoids resorting to jingoistic cliches.

I'd not heard/seen "Bugles and a Tiger" before, but what a ripper of a book! Can see how you've been inspired. It certainly lit a pretty fierce fire for me, and I have a plethora of quotes from that book scattered throughout as notes in the rules I am preparing. I will also unashamedly confess that...

He's a great writer, his Chindit one is excellent as well. I actually got this book because of his "Chindit one" - The Road Past Mandalay - which I wanted through my long held interest in the Burma campaign. That book also covered his participation in the Middle East campaigns of 1941, which inevit...

John Masters (my inspiration & go to guy, again from Bugles And A Tiger): "On the government side, armourers removed the propellant charges from cartridges, replaced the low-explosive cordite with a high explosive, and then dropped the doctored clips about. The tribesman, always short of ammunition...

Truscott Trotter wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 27, 2020 11:47 am

Pork - Muslim

(Knew that - my GP is a lapsed Muslima from Pakistan who, despite swinging to a more Marxist interpretation of all religions, still cannot cross deeply entrenched cultural norm and actually taste test a pork product.)