Before baseball, before rock music and other pleasures of the flesh, almost before science fiction, I was a wargamer. Today gaming is splintered into a number of subgroups: there are console gamers, PC gamers, people who fiddle with Angry Birds on their phones, card gamers, miniatures gamers (the oldest part of the gaming community) and
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1 - Nisei Richard Sakakida did this to the Japanese after faking his defection (and undergoing enough torture to convince them he meant it). My father, a historian, introduced me to him back in the 70s. Very quiet man. --We never lost a battle after Sakakida delivered that.
2 - Napoleon spent Waterloo in the privy. Wellington went to his grave still twitching about how narrow the victory was.
3 - This restriction did not apply Upon Saint Crispin's Day.
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2) If you want that kind of pointless detail, the RPG and LARP types are over there. ----------------------->
3) Nonsense. There are a number of games about the siege of Bataan, and all of them that I'm familiar with specifically address the 26th Cavalry (PS) becoming dismounted. Rules that call for horse holders in Civil War games also imply horse-shooting, as do games that have separate limber counters for horse-drawn artillery. See also miniatures.
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