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Hi thread! I'm putting together a (very) light strategic board game for a friend, based on the wars of medieval Europe. For balance purposes I need to divide the bit covered by today's Germany into two seperate regions/zones/provinces. Any thoughts on the least worst way to do this? Also I have learnt that maps of the HRE are literally incomprehensible.
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Jun 13, 2016 12:15
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High medieval- no gunpowder, plenty of interestingly dreadful stabby things.
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Jun 13, 2016 12:31
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Thanks, looks like I'll be going with the sausage equator method! It might be an Australian thing, but I have real problems getting my head around the history of any region that can't be defined by its coastline. Maybe if I start imagining the Alps as just a taller, rockier ocean with very few sharks?
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Jun 13, 2016 13:04
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HEY GAL posted:The Empire is...uh...it's a Okay, that works, there's a fair bit of coastline there. And I'm digging the bite taken out of the south east border by the Most Serene Republic... Again, apologies for butchering the history & culture of an entity ten times older than my home town for the sake of a board game, but if it's any consolation, even Byzantium had to be left out entirely.
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Jun 13, 2016 13:24
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This thread is very frustrating: it has made my standards too high. I am now stuck with the urge to retroactively smack the head of every history teacher I ever had that made ww1 boring, and every poster on the net waffling about how Tolkien's works are Bad because they celebrate a regressive culture and were written by a sheltered academic. Sigh. E:for the grammars Tree Bucket fucked around with this message at 04:38 on Jun 19, 2016 |
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Jun 19, 2016 04:30
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Kemper Boyd posted:Tolkien was also incredibly poor for a long period of his life. That's interesting. Like, genuinely poverty-stricken? There's a really heartbreaking line after Sam helps Frodo escape the tower, and tells Frodo that thinking about the ordeal will only make it worse. (Can't remember the exact wording.) It's easy to imagine a young Tolkien being given the same advice in the trenches. Tolkien always comes across as such a sensitive person. I will never understand how he came out of the war with his sanity and genius intact.
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Jun 19, 2016 09:47
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I need those hats in my life
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Jun 19, 2016 21:16
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Pershing posted:Re: the Somme, didnt see this posted yet. Wow, powerful stuff. I imagine the singing would be pretty hair raising to behold. Incidentally I've been following the excellent ww1 blog, especially since Tolkien got on board, and there is something so unsettling about seeing the words "actions in progress: Armenian Genocide" day after day after day after day after day...
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Jul 2, 2016 04:09
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Grenrow posted:I have the sudden mental image of Mad Max: Thirty Years War Edition, where you have the guitar guy on the drummer truck, but instead it's a flag twirling guy on a wagon full of drummers. I was thinking the exact same thing. How do you say "witness me, bloodbag" in German?
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Jul 13, 2016 22:46
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wdarkk posted:Russian scare? Was there a fear of Imperial Russia invading New Zealand? I don't know about New Zealand, but just next door, the fear of Russian invasion contributed to the Australian states federating. Because clearly Russia was suffering a shortage of mineral-rich, sparsely inhabitated wastelands??
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Jul 19, 2016 09:37
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chitoryu12 posted:My favorite part is how it starts by saying that chain mail was virtually impervious, then says that knights' swords were designed specifically to make it pervious. "Pervious" is my new favourite word, thanks! On that note, sort of, when I was 11, I misread the caption on a picture and concluded that pikemen were mounted troops....
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Aug 1, 2016 14:14
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