11-25-2018, 12:58 PM | #31 |
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Cumberland, ME
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Re: Fencing Game Preferences
Adua / the Midderlands, in the aftermath of the second war with the Gurkish Empire and the coronation of High King Jezal I.
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11-30-2018, 02:46 PM | #32 |
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: near Houston
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Re: Fencing Game Preferences
Government agents as Olympic fencers in 1936.
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12-01-2018, 04:35 PM | #33 |
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: near London, UK
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Re: Fencing Game Preferences
I knew a chap who would certainly have been on the British fencing team in the 1940 Olympics, had they happened. He was almost recruited for what was probably SOE, but the chap who came round to give him the talk (he was a student at Oxford at the time) saw the large poster of Karl Marx on the wall and talked about something else instead. He then went to India with the Signals as a dispatch rider, and got crippled (he insisted on the term) by an experimental polio vaccine. And that wasn't even the important part of his life.
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12-03-2018, 02:53 PM | #34 | |
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Alsea, OR
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Re: Fencing Game Preferences
Quote:
Mean shots between failures, a flintlock is about 100. Most modern firearms are in the 1000 to 10000 shots range. Wheellock firearms are also around 100 shots. Matchlock are in the 20 to 50 shots between failures range, simply because the match cord is unreliable; modern commercial match cord is much more consistent than period, but it is still unreliable. All the above presumes suitable periodic maintenance (oiling and cleaning). Further, all of them are unreliably charged until the addition of premeasured charges You bite the bullet off the pack, pour the powder, use the paper wrapper as a wad, then the bullet, and ram it. Much more consistent powder charge. |
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12-03-2018, 03:38 PM | #35 |
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Reykjavķk, Iceland
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Re: Fencing Game Preferences
Uh, I just have to ask, how is this a historical game?
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12-03-2018, 06:50 PM | #36 |
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Cumberland, ME
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Re: Fencing Game Preferences
I don't see why it necessary should have to be Earth's history, and the question was about what I would be hoping. I took "historical" to mean "general theme of the setting on the relative TL scale" and didn't even consider that it might be limited to mundane Earth history.
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