Originally posted by eagles54Mostly salted beef or pork, dried biscuits and cheese with five pints of beer. No beans or rice, which wouldn't have lasted anyway. Often, the salted meat would be so salty, the cooks would tow it behind the ship in the sea to remove some of the salt. S'true.
In my days of sailing the high seas, the galley was the place where the crew's swill was prepared.
And there's nothing quite like supping on gristly ham hocks. black-eyed peas and rice, washed down with bug juice, whilst sailing o'er the Bounding Main, I'll tell ya.
The cheese would get hard enough to carve buttons from.
Originally posted by eagles54If you're drunk, you feel no fear. Oh, and scurvy killed more men in the 100 Years War than enemy action - something like a factor of 10:1, but I can check those figures. Still keen on enlisting?
Hell, if they'd seen fit to give me five pints of beer, I wouldn't have left.
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Originally posted by buffalobillI bet constipation was at least 4 of those 10. Dropping a load must have been torture for those poor Vikings.
If you're drunk, you feel no fear. Oh, and scurvy killed more men in the 100 Years War than enemy action - something like a factor of 10:1, but I can check those figures. Still keen on enlisting?
What is bug juice?
Originally posted by Freddie2006There was an odd conversation between Rob and no1 in the NE thread about this sort of thing. No1 claimed that it would take 2 MP to retake a province that one owned at the beginning of the turn if it had been taken in an earlier Phase. Is this true?
I have a question which I can't find an answer to the rulebook.
If an army were to land in Kent in the 2nd phase and win in that phase, but then I landed a much bigger army which defeated his army so I was still in control at the end of the turn, would my troop building orders still work or would they have been cancelled?
Originally posted by SuzianneIf your opponent is of choleric temper, try to irritate him. If he is arrogant try to encourage his egotism. (If the enemy troops are well prepared after reorganization, try to wear them down. If they are united, try to sow dissension among them.
Sorry, not responding, lest I seem a 'bitch'. We wouldn't want that.
(And no, I have never beaten my wife, either. Jerk!)
General Tao Hanzhang, translated by Yuan Shibing, Sun Tzu's The Art Of War
http://www.psywarrior.com/quotes.html
I think no1 lives by this passage. Keep that in mind, people.
Originally posted by AThousandYoungYep, the Heathers sure are "united"; it's all for one and one for all. Ask Poland, Arles, Roum, etc. etc. etc.
[b]If your opponent is of choleric temper, try to irritate him. If he is arrogant try to encourage his egotism. (If the enemy troops are well prepared after reorganization, try to wear them down. If they are united, try to sow dissension among them.
General Tao Hanzhang, translated by Yuan Shibing, Sun Tzu's The Art Of War
http:// ...[text shortened]... psywarrior.com/quotes.html
I think no1 lives by this passage. Keep that in mind, people.[/b]
Originally posted by no1marauderOh, you're so right. Yes, you're always right. What a keen mind and intellect. It's almost like you're reading our minds.
Yep, the Heathers sure are "united"; it's all for one and one for all. Ask Poland, Arles, Roum, etc. etc. etc.
How long is it going to take you to finish off the Mamlukes anyway? I'm doing my part... (Oh, hmmmm, did I say that out loud? Pssst, it's okay, he can't hear us in here...)
(For those who still don't get the joke, see ATY's Sun-Tzu quote.)
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Originally posted by eagles54Kool-Aid? Top Ramen flavor packet?
Powdered, flavored chemical mixed with evaporated, distilled seawater and consumed with ham hocks or with any other fine nautical cuisine.
EDIT - It IS Kool-Aid! That's the best you Norsemen can do for beverages?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_juice
Originally posted by SuzianneIf "your part" against the Mamulukes was getting your entire fleet and most of your army destroyed and losing every single one of your annexed provinces, you have performed it splendidly. You might want to check the map; the armies and navies of Italy are in the same provinces and seas as the Mamulukes - we have not and will not betray them. We're not Heathers after all.
Oh, you're so right. Yes, you're always right. What a keen mind and intellect. It's almost like you're reading our minds.
How long is it going to take you to finish off the Mamlukes anyway? I'm doing my part... (Oh, hmmmm, did I say that out loud? Pssst, it's okay, he can't hear us in here...)
(For those who still don't get the joke, see ATY's Sun-Tzu quote.)