Your role on a medieval battle field?

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  • Cunobelin
    Cunobelin Posts: 11,792
    Once saw this on the back of a wagon...............


    Pikemen do it with bigger weapons!
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    He that buys flesh buys many bones.
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  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    I appear to have stumbled onto some sort of Warhammer type games site for single virgins.. Our role on a medieval battle field? A corpse, most probably..
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  • Mithras
    Mithras Posts: 428
    Cunobelin wrote:
    Mithras wrote:
    Only one place to be......deep in the shield wall....luckily I get to do it at weekends. It's very much like Valhalla Arrive....Drink mead and ale...fornicate (well some of the lucky ones do)....get up in the morning...fight til you die...and repeat



    In the shield-wall we stand to defend our land
    Holding on till the end

    Brace the storm and keep the shining blades at bay
    Fight to let our kingdom live another day
    Heed the old ones' cries, we mustn't let them down
    We will slaughter them to keep them from the crown

    Also been there - I was a pikeman in Sir Nicholas Slanning's Regiment of Foote for some years...... A few years late, but I suspect that there was little difference in the technique!


    Shrinks in terrror.....No not the Sealed Knot................
    I can afford to talk softly!....................I carry a big stick!
  • Mithras
    Mithras Posts: 428
    Actualy I've always thought there was a role for the archer in Modern Policing...Firing "TAZER" tipped arrows from my mountain bike really appeals.
    Actually a great idea for crowd control. A regiment of officers pulling up and firing volley after volley of my new tazer arrows into errant groups of (insert most disliked group here).
    I can afford to talk softly!....................I carry a big stick!
  • natrix
    natrix Posts: 1,111
    Ho ho, once I've captured all you archer types I'll chop off your fingers like the French used to do.

    Incidentally, once somebody has been convicted of gun crime, would it be a good idea to chop of their trigger finger???
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  • Stewie Griffin
    Stewie Griffin Posts: 4,330
    barnesr wrote:
    Ho ho, once I've captured all you archer types I'll chop off your fingers like the French used to do.

    Incidentally, once somebody has been convicted of gun crime, would it be a good idea to chop of their trigger finger???

    Urban myth. Perhaps they did try, but when the first Frenchman who tried to capture an Archer died due to all the arrows sticking out of him, I would imagine that they gave up on it :P .
  • unclemalc
    unclemalc Posts: 563
    Mithras wrote:
    Actualy I've always thought there was a role for the archer in Modern Policing...Firing "TAZER" tipped arrows from my mountain bike really appeals.
    Actually a great idea for crowd control. A regiment of officers pulling up and firing volley after volley of my new tazer arrows into errant groups of :
    .

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  • heavymental
    heavymental Posts: 2,094
    Did anyone else watch Braveheart and think of this thread last night!?
  • richk
    richk Posts: 564
    I like the idea of being able to let a trebuchet (sp?) rip...
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  • knedlicky
    knedlicky Posts: 3,097
    At school, I played Pistol in Shakespeare’s Henry V. I might chose the same role again.

    Pistol’s a commoner who goes to France to supposedly help fight the French, but mainly shows himself as bragging coward, avoiding battle at Harfleur. At Agincourt, Pistol does accidentally capture a French nobleman, whom he spares for a ransom, after a lot of confused talking between the two of them.

    When, in fear of being killed, the Frenchman cries “O Seigneur Dieu” (a shortened version of ‘Oh Lord God help me’), Pistol takes it that the Frenchman’s name is Senor Dew and asks Senor Dew for money as a bribe not to kill him. When the Frenchman says “Ayez pitie de moi” (‘Have pity on me’), Pistol interprets ‘moi’ as a unit of money, as if the Frenchman had said ‘Have a moy’, and replies that one moy isn’t enough, rather 40 moys are required to spare his life. Then, when the Frenchman says “Pardonnez-moi” (‘Spare me’), Pistol, still thinking 'moi' is a unit of money, asks ‘Is that a lot of moys?’. Eventually through an interpreter, they settle on 200 gold coins.

    Pleased with the outcome of the transaction, Pistol decides on his return to England, to continue the same lucrative life, i.e. threatening people with his sword for money (which he does in Shakespeare’s later play The Merry Wives of Windsor).
  • singlespeedexplosif
    singlespeedexplosif Posts: 1,564
    I'd like to think the crazy feller. But probably more like Blackadder in 'The Foretelling'.

    Turn up late, kill the king, that sort of thing.
  • stage_fright
    stage_fright Posts: 218
    Following on with the Blackadder theme...who gets to wander round afterwards to calculate the Battle Averages?

    As I recall you scored points for number of nobles killed, with peasents left for dead only counting in the case of a tie?
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  • meddyg
    meddyg Posts: 2
    I think I'll just helpwith the oranges at half time.

    Then when it's all over, serve the shandy; or mead.
    If we win it'll be red wine.

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