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    28 Oct '11 13:53
    Originally posted by greenpawn34
    This is what I did indeed want.
    I now need the collective term for a gathering of Assassin Mates...
    a School of Assassin Mates...a set of Assassin Mates...a scheme of Assassin Mates...
    The obvious one would be a "hashashin" of assassin's mates...

    I only have one I can remember offhand, and it is almost a carbon copy of the first example you give in your blog (aside from the fact the villain fell on his sword just before the assassin struck):

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    28 Oct '11 14:461 edit
    I'd suggest a Thrush of Assassins Mates. Thrush from the archnemesis organization in the Man from U.N.C.L.E. series. Perhaps I'm revealing my age with that one. 😉

    I've rummaged through about a third of my games here and came up with this additional example.

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    28 Oct '11 14:53
    There are a couple once you start digging, eh?



    A "murder" of assassin's mates?
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    28 Oct '11 14:571 edit
    Originally posted by greenpawn34
    This is what I did indeed want.
    I now need the collective term for a gathering of Assassin Mates...
    a School of Assassin Mates...a set of Assassin Mates...a scheme of Assassin Mates...
    Apparently we're not the first to go down this route of intellectual thought...

    http://loummorgan.wordpress.com/2011/09/06/collected-assassinations-2-a-stab-in-the-dark/


    I love the "sleeve" of Men-at-arms one 😀 😀 😀
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    28 Oct '11 15:02
    Originally posted by greenpawn34
    I now need the collective term for a gathering of Assassin Mates...
    a School of Assassin Mates...a set of Assassin Mates...a scheme of Assassin Mates...
    A mountain of Assassin mates.

    Richard
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    28 Oct '11 16:13
    Originally posted by Shallow Blue
    A mountain of Assassin mates.

    Richard
    A dagger or a stabbing of assassin mates.
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    28 Oct '11 16:56
    Originally posted by Bebop5
    A dagger or a stabbing of assassin mates.
    A surfeit of assassin mates.

    Borrowed from:
    http://hotgiraffe.narod.ru/books/1066.html

    1066 AND ALL THAT

    W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman

    1066 and all that

    A Memorable History of England, comprising all the parts you can remember, including 103 Good Things, 5 Bad Kings and 2 Genuine Dates

    The Story of Blondin

    Richard is also famous for having a minstrel boy (or Touralour) called Blondin who searched for him under the walls of all the dungeons in Europe. This was when Richard had been caught by the blind King of Bohemia during a game of Blind King's Bluff and sold to the Holy Roman Terror. Blondin eventually found him by singing the memorable song (or 'touralay'😉 called O Richard et mon Droit ('Are you right, there, Richard ?'😉 which Richard himself had composed. Richard roared the chorus so that Blondin knew which dungeon he was in, and thus the King easily escaped and returned to the Crusades, where he died soon after of a surfeit of Saladins, and was therefore known in the East as Richard Coeur de Laitue.
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    28 Oct '11 19:35
    Originally posted by greenpawn34
    This is what I did indeed want.
    I now need the collective term for a gathering of Assassin Mates...
    a School of Assassin Mates...a set of Assassin Mates...a scheme of Assassin Mates...
    A Conspiracy of Assassin Mates
  9. Standard membernimzo5
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    28 Oct '11 19:37
    Originally posted by wolfgang59
    A Conspiracy of Assassin Mates
    I like that.
  10. Standard memberchessicle
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    30 Oct '11 10:121 edit
    Here is my Conspiracy:







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    31 Oct '11 12:29
    Originally posted by JS357
    A surfeit of assassin mates.

    1066 AND ALL THAT

    W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman

    ...where he died soon after of a surfeit of Saladins...
    But Salah-ad-Din was not an Assassin - in fact, he was more or less the opposite of one. Even the English king of the time admitted that he fought honestly.

    Richard

    (Also, by referring to that pirate site, you are doing yourself the grave disservice of missing out on the illustrations by Mr. John Reynolds, Gent.)
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    31 Oct '11 16:071 edit
    Originally posted by Shallow Blue
    But Salah-ad-Din was not an Assassin - in fact, he was more or less the opposite of one. Even the English king of the time admitted that he fought honestly.

    Richard

    (Also, by referring to that pirate site, you are doing yourself the grave disservice of missing out on the illustrations by Mr. John Reynolds, Gent.)
    Correct on Saladin. I had the book when I was a teenager. There are several surfeits mentioned in it, including a surfeit of surfeits. At your suggestion I will see if it is at my library.
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    31 Oct '11 19:45
    Loads of good suggestions but I do like 'A Conspiracy of Assassin Mates.'
    from Wolfgang.

    The first game from the blog.

    "The White Queen and Knight conspire to mate the Black King with a pawn.'

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    31 Oct '11 20:242 edits
    Here's two of my assassin mates:

    Black's King taken for a walk, then assassinated.


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    31 Oct '11 20:47
    Four more. If your King is on g5 against me, prepare to die! 😀







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