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In the 1880's Ratoath Hurling Club was founded by 2 local men, John Caul and Bill Duffy. Duffy utilised his racing colours, (which were green with a yellow, over the shoulder sash), as the first strip used by the club. In 1912 Ratoath won the Senior Hurling League title, the first recorded honour for the Club, and a Junior Hurling Championship followed in 1929 at the expense of Kildalkey.
The Club colours changed sometime during the early twenties and Ratoath began to wear a blue jersey, which had a laced neck front and white collar. It is believed thatcher the Club retained these colours up to the early fifties when a group of clubmen who had attended the 1949 All Ireland final involving Tipperary were impressed with the blue and yellow jerseys that they adopted them and are still used by the club to this day
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In the early years the club used lands at Fairyhouse racecourse, . Shortly afterwards they had the use of Bill Duffy's and later Harry Everard's lands on the Curragha Road, from the mid 1910's up to the '1960's as playing pitches. and all events of any consequence took place here.
In 1960, Ratoath contested it's first Senior Hurling Championship Final, beaten by Trim on the day. Ratoath returned to the Final again in 1963 and faced Dunboyne in a very exciting final.. Down by 11 or more points during the second half, Ratoath battled on to emerge victorious by a score of 9-3 to 6-11 (30pts to 29). Sadly, neither Club has won a S.H.C. since. The score in itself is probably a record, which may stand for quite some time
Ratoath appeared in three other Senior Hurling Championships finals, losing to Athboy in 1967 and1968, and then the 1969 decider to Kilmessan.
Ratoath did win the Junior Hurling League in 1968, beating Killyon 4-4 to 0-4.
A barren period followed in the 1970's but they did get to the final of the IHC only to come up short against Kilskyre and Dunshaughlin respectively in 1982 and 1983. Junior championship honours though were provided with consecutive final victories over Kilmessan and Dunboyne in the late 1980's
Up until 1956, Ratoath were exclusively a Hurling Club and Players interested in Football, generally played with neighbouring Clubs like Curragha, Kilbride and Skryne. In 1956, a Football section with the Club was formed. it wasn't long before football success came to Ratoath with the Meath J.F.C. 'A' championship won in 1961, although actually losing the championship outright to the J.F.C. 'B' winners, Walterstown. In 1970 Ratoath went one one better in beating Cortown (2-8 to 0-6) in the J.F.C. 'A' final in Navan, and then pulled off the double by beating Navan O'Mahonys the 'B' winners.
The next significant trophy was a M.F.C. won in 1977, beating Kells 2-8 to 0-7.
In '79 .we met Navan De La Salles (O'Mahonys) in the final and won this Minor trophy again (1-8 to 2-4). On both occasions Ratoath were amalgamated with Donaghmore.
Subsequently at minor level Ratoath merged with St Martins (Dunshaughlin) from about 1982/83, and this amalgamation lasted some ten years. This amalgamation won the M.F.C in '87 beating Slane in the final
In 1992 Ratoath contested the Junior A Football Championship Final against Gael Colmcille and unluckily the final was lost 2-9 to 2-6. That same team at least had the consolation of beating St. Brigids in the Div. 4 J.F.L final also in 1992 (1-9 to 0-10).
In 1997 Ratoath beat Clonard in the Under 21'A' Football League, score 1-10 to 0-10.
Ratoath returned to the Junior A Championship Football Final in 2003, only to be beaten by a more experienced Wolfe Tones outfit.
Ratoath were finalists again in the Junior Championship Final in 2004 but this time reclaimed the Matthew Ginnity cup with victory over Dunsany.
Ratoath ,captained by Paul Kirwan, now represented Meath in the Leinster Junior Championship. Victories over The Louth, Longford and Carlow representatives meant Ratoath were now through to the Leinster final and would face the Offaly Champions Kilclonfert and managed to beat them in front of their own supporters in Brownstown with Kirwan lifting the Leinster junior cup
In the last 3 years Ratoath has experienced unprecedented success on the football field . It was the minors who kick started this golden era with victory over Moynalvey to win the championship in 2011 and they repeated the feat the following year getting the better of Donaghmore Ashbourne on a 1-11 to 0-8 score-line.
The same club provided the opposition as the junior footballers followed suit in 2012 with final success in Pairc Tailteann on a 1-11 to 1-10 score-line. The Tailteann cup was also won last year They went on to win the division 3 league football final this year with a comfortable victory over Cortown in Pairc Tailteann .It was also in Navan that our under 21 footballers shaded an exciting final again over Donaghmore Ashbourne and so claim Ratoath's first ever title at this grade.
As a result Ratoath has provided players for the inter county side with Eamon Wallace and Bryan McMahon being part of the Meath squad in 2013-a proud achievement given Bill Eiffe was the last Ratoath man to don the Meath colours back in the 1950's
Ratoath GAA ladies section was revived in 1998 and has been going from strength to strength ever since. The ladies section has over 300 members with a number of teams togging out each week. The main success to date has been victory in the junior football championship in 2011 but also has had significant success at underage level.
Camogie has only been established in Ratoath since 2004 and for such a young club we have enjoyed considerable success on the playing field and have won numerous county titles in all age groups.
The main highlight in the short history of camogie in the club is the recent success of the Intermediate camogie players as they beat Kilmessan on a 1-6 to 1-4 scoreline. This accomplishment in October 2013 is all the more significant in that the club achieved senior grade for the first time since the mid 1960's in any grade. With continued success at juvenile level and Adrienne & Lauren McCann representing Ratoath on the Meath senior squad we have a lot to be proud of and a bright future is in prospect for Ratoath camogie.


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Despite it being a year on (Time! Where did you go!), revisiting my notes and screes of photos had me once again dreaming of being a resident and member of their crew.
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A young, artistic Leanne left school at 17, boosting quickly out of her regional New Zealand home of Palmerston North direct for Wellington. Having excelled in art she found work in the art department of Wellington Newspapers, Spectrum Illustrating and as a graphic designer at Mike McCulloch Design.
This was the 1980's. Graphic design was a labour intensive industry creating type by using wax, scalpels, epidiascopes, development in darkrooms and screens. Leanne relished this work and by the age of 21 she was an in demand freelancer working hard in the advertising industry.
At 25 she launched her own business based in a terrific old stone, cubist building. Specialising in corporate identities led to an extension of her design work and invitations to develop corporate spaces as well. This naturally progressed and soon enough Leanne was squeezing in set design, weddings and event styling!
Around this time she was asked to offer some interior advice to the film company based upstairs from her own studio owned by one; Brian Culy.
It was love!
A world adventure and marriage followed with the arrival of their daughters Jacobina and Billie in 1990 and '93. It was only natural that Brian and Leanne would begin combining their creative talents, allowing for great collaboration and projects within the film industry. However a change was on the horizon and when the opportunity to purchase a grand old homestead in the Wairarapa popped up – they grabbed it, heading away from their city base and straight for country life.
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"In its current form, the implementation of the Pre Conception, Pre Natal Diagnostic Technique (PCPNDT) Act has deprived the community of life-saving and essential ultrasonography which has now become an extension of clinical practice for all specialities globally, being a well-known non-invasive, cost-effective and accurate diagnostic tool," said Dr K K Aggarwal, Secretary General of the Indian Medical Association (IMA).
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Calling for amendments in the existing form of the Act, IMA said the rules need to be simplified and implemented uniformly across the country, and ad hoc changing of rules by each local authority should be strictly prohibited.
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Anyone see Harper getting kidnapped by the angels using her to raise the dead and using their angel grace to turn them into angels or Harper getting kidnapped Michael using her to raise the dead to build an army of zombies.No, what I can see is Jack dying as Harper bringing him back. That cough is not good. Normal angels cannot create angels. They brought Lucifer in to do it as he was an archangel, but he had no idea how to do it. There is nothing to say Michael can create angels either. Michael does not need a zombie army, he has all the vampires, werewolves etc on his side now anyway.It would be great if they bring back Eve and give her allot more to do to. If Michael brought Eve back to life she'll be the best chance in getting more monsters on her side to join Michael to in his army against the hunters. For Eve's good work on Michael's side her gift would be Michael bringing back her first born's.
There's plenty of monsters in Purgatory for Michael to set free to join his army of monsters.
I could see Amy Pond son returning wanting to kill Dean for killing his mother and joining Michael freely to be in his army or Michael seeking her son to be one of his traps killing hunters to get get at Dean.0
I have to admit Season 14 does have a bit of a Season 10 vibe about it. As in the previous Season's final left it with a fantastic cliffhanger - which is resolved in two episodes.
I know they couldn't have Dean being possessed by Michael for the whole season but... two episodes guys??? I wouldn't mind so much if they'd done a bit more with it, like shown some flashbacks. Instead, all we've got is the admittedly intriguing sooped up Monster plot. It's okay.... but it's nowhere near what, yano, the most dangerous Archangel in existence possessing Dean could have given us!
And the episodes themselves have been a bit... naff. Like typical Monster of the Week... but just mostly average. Which is a shame, as Seasons 12 and 13 have really felt like a return to form for me. It's even more frustrating that the overall story arc is progressing so slowly as we only have 20 episodes this year.
That being said, the Nick stuff is fantastic and really intriguing. Jack being really ill also has potential - guessing the loss of his grace hasn't done him many favours. Supernatural is always good at this to be fair - actions have consequences, and you don't get to be as powerful as Jack with nothing to show for it.
Wonder if things are a bit slow because we were supposed to have had a few Weyward Sisters crossovers by now? Hmmm...0
Now we have it kicking off.
Nick calling Lucifer back and it looks like he is coming. It was interesting the black oil as when Cass was in nowhere that the angels and other things went to it wasn't like that. So, is it a special place just for pure evil ie Lucifer? Nick was really getting his serial killer groove on. The priest was a nice touch.
Dean some sweet scenes with Jack who always seemed close to him than Sam even though it was him trying to look after him and teach him from the beginning.
Looks like Micheal's wall is coming down. Dean getting the blurred vision thing. Now thinking he will be the one to save Jack. The sear talking about experimenting sort of gave it away as Micheal has it down with his experiments.
No doubt we will have next week then they break for the holidays and not come back until February.1
RIP Jack
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Ok so Cas gets told Michaels location and presumably tells the Brothers what he has been told, yet they are not freaking out.
So either Cas was given incorrect info or our theory of Michael being still inside Dean is wrong.
Anyone think we'll see the archangel blade so Dean and Sam will try the archangel blade that killed the devil with to kill Michael.
Anyone wonder if we'll see the Colt again and learn what the other four things the Colt can't kill.
The boy with special angel connections powers anyone wonder if we'll ever see him again.0
I caught the trailer for this coming week's episode and we find out where Michael is.
They cannot really do anything against Michael until they get the spear as it seems to be the only thing that can injure or even kill him.
I have a feeling that trailer is a bit tricksy in it's editing.
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LightningIguana Posts: 18,963Forum Member✭✭Amazon Prime has put seasons 1 to 12 of Supernatural up. First time its been on a streaming service in the UK to my knowledge
Did make me wonder if Amazon might be picking Supernatural up in the future if E4 drops it.
It would be nice if someone in this blasted country would pick it up and treat it well. It's been all over the place and shown appallingly. Is it so much to ask for someone to show it within a respectable time frame from the US broadcast?1
I know Jared has said as his children are growing up he would stay if the seasons where shorter. No doubt that is why season 14 is 20 rather than the 23 episodes we have been getting for a few years. Perhaps 15 will be shorter again. Which could mean fewer filler episodes?0
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RIP Jack
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RIP Mary.
I guess this death will last a bit longer than an episode but wouldn't be surprised to see Mary back again before the show ends.
Is Jack going to be the Big Bad for this season now or will Lucy make a come back? I have a feeling the Empty won't be used till next season.
Amused at Mary's door having two sets of dates on it but surely her 2nd life was longer than 2018 - 2019?
I'd forgotten we are only getting 20 eps this season so with only two left I guess it has to be Jack as the Big Bad.
Dan Fortesque Posts: 29,854Forum Member✭✭✭I wasn't expecting Mary to die and so would be surprised if that is it for the character. It did seem like a real ending, though. Never say never with this show.0
Most did not like Mary coming back from the start if you read Supernatural forums. They are famous for killing off female characters though.The final episode of the season An Old Friend is coming. So my theory Chuck comes back and gives Jack his soul back. Then will either make him totally human or reduce his powers to make him no different to Cas.0


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Those of you who follow me on Twitter or Instagram will have seen some rejoicings over the weekend. I have been working on the gold stitched background for the polychrome tent stitch for what seems like forever, but in fact it is less than a year – I began the Elizabethan Ground Stitch in October of last year. A serious shoulder problem interfered with my work at my floor frame at one stage, and then I was all taken with with my ideas for the Head of Nefertiti, so it was only recently that I got back to it. And now I have finished that laborious stage, and I can move on to the more complex and intriguing techniques which were the whole reason for taking the course.
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Tricia tells us to come up through the already occupied hole, to avoid pulling the thread through to the back and reducing the pile. I went a step further and worked it from the back, ensuring that I kept the stitch neat and the stitching going up through the right holes!
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* Add a table for folding laundry at a comfortable 30-inch height. If space is tight, consider a fold-down table instead of a standard one.
* Add a rolling hamper with removable bags that can be wheeled to the washing machine for ease of loading. I find that divided hampers save the most time on laundry day, as clothes can be tossed into their respective "lights" and "darks" hampers as they're shed and avoid the time-consuming sorting chore.
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Photo Note: The laundry room shown here is NOT fully accessible. Someone in a wheelchair would not be able to reach the cabinets above the washer and dryer, and would have a difficult time using the standard 36-inch high counter next to the washer and dryer for folding. (A 30-inch height works far better for the seated user.) However, the rolling laundry cart, cabinets immediately next to the washer and dryer, (especially if they're equipped with roll-out shelves), and pedestal-standing washer and dryer would be very helpful for the wheelchair user. Additionally, GE's SmartDispense sytem means pouring the laundry detergent down into the pedestal, which may be easier for some users, than pouring it up into a tray near the top of the washer, which is the typical detergent location.
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The community is Hardin Valley; Murphy and fellow union member Shane Monroe are stationed on Hardin Valley Road a short distance from the Pellissippi Parkway interchange in front of The Village, an in-progress mixed-use residential/commercial development that will be anchored by a major grocery chain. Murphy and Monroe are seated in fold-out chairs on either end of a 5 foot by 15 foot banner that says, in big red block letters, "Shame on Jake Pinkston." Pinkston is head of Pinkston Construction, the Village contractor.Charlie from UBCNewsroom posted a story about whats happening in New England "N.E. Carpenters Union Hits AvalonBay's CEO, Fliers Target Developer's Hiring Practices" (6/30/08):
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Wednesday, 16 August 2017
Giving it another chance
In fact it was inspired by the suggestion that I might be taking part in a BP game later in the week, so it made sense to get a refresher.
Consequently I dug out my War of Spanish Succession Airfix plastics, and filled the table full of terrain. On this occasion the Anglo Dutch are defending the top right of the picture, the French attacking from the bottom left. I had the French, Phil the Anglo-Dutch.
I advanced steadily on my left, volleying the troops occupying the small village out there.
They returned fire, and I got the worst of it. Still, plenty more subjects of the French King to fill their spaces.
As I said, Phil was playing the Anglo Dutch, and I had the French. We were a bit thin on the ground for a regular evening. He opened up with his artillery as I threatened the right hand bridge.
Regardless of this barrage, I was able to bound forward and seize the river line. My right flanking manoeuvre has stalled due to bad command rolls.
The musketry exchange continued on the left, and I was getting the worst of it.
The moment had come to launch my massed cavalry charge in the centre. Unfortunately my Guard cavalry were bounced conclusively by some countercharging Dutch cuirassiers.
Phil followed up with a "Sweeping Charge" or whatever it is called...
... and overran my second line too, although this time I inflicted some hits.
Meanwhile, back on my left one of my infantry units broke under musket fire.
I was able to rush up reinforcements and using a combination of front and enfilading fire did for the British infantry in the village.
Time to step back and survey the full picture. My artillery deployed on the hill couldn't hit a thing. To protect my flank on the river assault I had formed up an infantry unit to their left. The loss of the cavalry fight had rather opened up my centre quite badly. Over on the left I've got more infantry lined up, enfilading Phil's British again.
Having achieved fire superiority Phil counter-attacked across the river on the right, inflicting a lot of damage.
He was also able to counter attack on the left, hitting the flank of my line with a cavalry charge. You will be astonished to hear that I survived this attack.
Up until this point BP had been behaving itself fairly well, although the poorly written rule book doesn't help if you have any rule queries. Important rule points are buried in paragraphs of rambling text, and cross referencing in any sensible fashion is largely absent. The book really needs a proper index. However we had a couple of bizarre outcomes such as the flank charge here mentioned, and another on one of my lines on the left.
We ended the game with the armies looking like this. I had failed Brigade Morale for two out of three Brigades, so my army was done for presenting Phil with a win.
BP continues to infuriate me. The command sequence has a lot of merit, but it clearly works better when you have a lot of units to enable the random (I use the word advisedly) effects to even out. On the plus size you can use any size units with it, as long as you are consistent. Of course that does mean that the ground scale is complete garbage, but you can't have everything.
I know that for a WSS game I should have used the "Last Argument of Kings" supplement, but I've seen that and it's mostly garbage*, putting sticking plaster over an already flawed system. Bear in mind, of course, that the basic rule book promises to cover the WSS** anyway, - something the writer of LAOK makes clear isn't the case, as units under BP perform in a way that is alien to the start of the 18th century.
On the other hand it passed the evening pleasantly enough, with a lot of figures and terrain on the table, which is pretty much the justification for BP. I just tend to think that there's more to wargaming than only that.
*Although it is an absolute gem compared with the total waste of paper that is "Zulu".
** Note, however, that it refers to it as "The Spanish War of Succession", which is a thing that doesn't exist.
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Too bad Black Powder doesn't seem to work out for you. In my gaming group, we have used it repeatedly for the Great Northern War, and it suits our style of play very well.ReplyDelete
I do agree it strongly depends on the unit density and manouvre space available. E.g. we don;t use the 3-move possibilities, except for Follow-the-leader actions. That makes movement a bit more predictable, and the opponent can better anticipate certain troop movements.Replies
Phil says that t its best you can regard BP as a tool kit and select the bits and pieces you like, tweak, adjust and so on. I think he has a point. I would also guess that amongst a group of friends that once you have adjusted to its eccentricities that they custom and practice of how you play moulds it to your shape and takes off the bits I find annoying.Delete
But the layout & text is a dog's breakfast.
Bit of a fanboy when it comes to BP , think you have to alter the stats and special rules to try and portray a period . My friend uses the Pike & Shotte rules for the Marlburian period as it makes the armies more ponderous to move about , TonyReplyDeleteReplies
Good to see someone has found a use for P&S as it has nothing to do with 17th century warfare.Delete
As you say, with BP you have to alter the stats and mess about with it to make it work, which is really one of my points. It isn't what it purports to be. There's an element of Emperor's New cloths with the whole lot of it.
I must admit to being one of BP's detractors for similar reasons to yourself.ReplyDelete
Most people seem also to have changed the turn sequence to prevent units moving up and shooting without being shot at on the way in. For a published rules set to have a flaw needing such a 'repair' still seems a little surprising. I've managed to sell my rules off on amazon - though have retained the AWI and 18th century sourcebooks for 'reference'.Replies
There aren't many of us. We should form a secret society and have special handshake.Delete
BP has some of the most redundant text ever written. I quote "Any dice scoring 4 or more indicate that the shooters have inflicted a hit on their target. So, three dice scoring 1,5 and 6 = 2 hits; 4,5 and 6 = 3 hits; 1,3, and 3 = 0 hits."
Phew, I'm glad they gave me examples of numbers the equivalent of 4 or more, and some that are less as I was well confused up to that point.
Haha - yes good point; 'The Treason Club' has a certain 17th century ring to it ;) .Delete
BP seems to make a meal of the simple stuff, then manage to disregard (1) proper rules for doing 'stuff' in the battle and (2) have an activation system which bears little/no resemblance to historic accounts of battles.
If it's any consolation, I have universally started to use 'Field of Battle' - which is a significantly simpler derivation of the infamous 'Piquet' for all Horse and Musket...but don't let that put you off. It's quite a unique, card driven system - but a little less well known and although not as professionally produced as BP - is streets ahead in terms of the 'battle narrative' that is produced.
Brent Oman produces the pdf for $10 - email me at ducdegobin (at) gmail (dot) com if you want to pursue?
We used it for an ACW battle today for instance - and I commented on how the flank attack would have taken hours of modifier calculation with BP for absolutely no gain.
Your second paragraph hits one of the major problems smack bang on the head. Reading back over my BP posts I have got to like the rules less and less over time.Delete
I didn't want to inflict them on anyone else so mine went in the recycling binReplyDelete
I keep being tempted by Black Powder, mainly I suspect due to its glossy look, but I am maintaining a proper "stiff upper lip" as I can't buy yet another set of rules that will never be played. I also don't have a large enough house to put up the table big enough to play the game. I did succumb to both Hail Caesar and Pike & Shotte and I did like the look of the former - it also seems to have learned the lessons of BP by providing a concise rule book to complement the flowery text. Again though, I fear I need to move house or build the extension (so jealous of Shedquarters!) to be able to find the space to play it - which seems a bit extreme.ReplyDeleteReplies
It is all sold on the gloss. The rules are distinctly average and the break test mechanism is much too swings and roundabouts. We will be looking at HC in the near future. As someone who has a real love of the renaissance period P&S will not be filling my bookshelf anytime soon.Delete
Not all rulesets work for every style of play, but to give credit to BP, it does what it says. It's a quick game, that can produce some good results. Focus is on movement and manoeuvre, not on combat resolution, which is rather a straightforward mechanism.ReplyDelete
In order for BP "to work", you need lots of manoeuvre space. That means either a big table, or scale the game down (as we did with 2/3 and eliminate the 3-moves).
The rulebook is indeed a bit confusing, but is more a "here's how we play the game" conversational book, rather a tome of precise rules.
Anyway, approach it with the right mindset, and you will have a good light-hearted game. :-)Replies
I have written elsewhere that I liked the mechanisms. However, on further playings it isn't really doing what I want from a game.Delete
I do, of course, have a big table in Shedquarters that we can fill with figures if we want to, and I recognise that this is where the strength of the system lies. If you use enough stuff in a big enough space then the imperfections in the rules get smoothed out.
I also agree that the rule book is confusing and the style and layout is difficult to defend, even in the terms you use. They have nearly 200 pages and couldn't find the space to put in a decent, coherent, rules summary.
I have also been told that it is all about the mindset before, and "having fun". I get a lot of fun from playing historically accurate games that challenge me with a series of problems to solve and decisions to make. That doesn't mean our games are sober minded, dour affairs, - we laugh and joke as much as anyone. I can do amusing throwaway fun games both with and without figures and have had some published.
One of the side effects of the BP phenomenon - and I can't blame the authors for this - is that some of the fan base that is most vocal take the view that BP and 28mm figures is the only way to wargame and you can forgive ANYTHING if the kit looks nice. To which I say "NO".
Don't get me wrong, I am certainly not trying to "defend" BP in any way. I do believe there are different styles of wargaming - neither is right or wrong, it just depends on what you're looking for in a game and what a specific gaming group feels more comfortable with.Delete
But I do think that rules often get criticized when people expect things from them that are not there. BP is indeed a light-hearted ruleset without too much finesse. Whether that's anyone's cup-of-tea or not, is a matter of personal preference, nothing wrong with that.
I agree. The problem is often with some elements of the fan base who latch on to a set of rules and then fill the forums with why they're the best thing ever. For example, never try to cross the Basic Impetus fans.Delete
Put me down in the ambivalent camp as far as BP goes. On the plus side I didn't buy the rules and so haven't spent all that money on them. Also I get to play with the HUGE 28mm figures of a colleague which is a nice visual treat compared to my usual 6mm smudges. Finally within the (very frustrating) rulebook some of the basic mechanisms are okay. With some tweaking and additions from Hail Caesar (turn order, halve movement rates, upgrade artillery slightly, morale/disorder modifications) it has been possible to put together a reasonable game with some nice narrative to it.ReplyDelete
However I have yet to be able to put together a functioning scenario for a whole battle which can be played in the three hours I generally have available to me. It seems to demand too many units of too many types over too large a table to represent a battle in that time. Curiously where it has been successful has been reproducing elements of larger battles. Around June of last year we spent three evenings doing three key elements of Waterloo (d'Erlon's charge, La Haye Sainte and Ney's Cavalry assaults) as individual battles and, with each side stripped back to fewer types and a restricted focus it worked surprisingly well. It's almost a big skirmish set of rules.
Finally the last personal peeve of mine (with any set of rules) is the 'special abilities' available to different types. There are dozens of these for Napoleonics and it is a pain trying to keep track of which units have First Fire, which are bloodthirsty (or sthg like that), which get bonuses to their Command rolls (but only when in attack column) etc. These are in the supplements to add flavour but change so much of the basic mechanism as to thoroughly clog it. In the end we tend to forget all the special abilities and just play the vanilla version with the tweaks we make for all units. Which makes it an 'okay' set of rules for Napoleonics.
But that then begs the question of why you'd want a poorly organised and poor simulation which requires homemade adjustments to bring it up to 'okay' and even then be unable to play a full battle scenario.
Nevertheless I have had some fun with it - including my worst ever turn in a single game (worse even than any turn of my Northampton 1460 game with you). From being perfectly sound with a few casualties I lost five of my total of seven units. Time for an early bath.
Yes. I think you have nailed it. There's certainly an air of "look at all of our figures" in the rules. They say they're intended to be played on big tables with lots of toys. Some of the playing areas are bigger than Shedquarters, and I have a 14' x 5' table.Delete
I would say it is certainly a set of Napoleonic rules that have spread and the extra rules you ignore are needed to pull the rules into line where you are trying to do something else.
As for the skirmish thing...the "Zulu" supplement has scenarios for both Isandalwhana AND Rorke's Drift.
I also agree on the Hail Caesar point too, - they certainly dealt with some issues, - vis the rules summary I mentioned above. What is clear, however, is that a lot of people are prepared to forgive a lot because it looks nice.
I have a sneaking suspicion that a lot of the fanbase don't play a lot of games, and are "theoretical" wargamers, who collect and paint and don't play. You get a lot of them on TMP, who get together once a quarter for a game. We're playing at least weekly and any rule set with problems soon gets shown up.
As you know I'm a great tweaker of other people's rules as well as a writer of my own. I do sort of object when you are paying a lot for the base set.
On a foot note, Monday Night regular Chris A has both BP & HC which he got thrown in for free with armies on bring and buy stands. Draw your own conclusion.


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Ames, Iowa — Peter Anthony Effertz had a profound religious experience at age 14 during a convention for Lutheran youth in Orlando, Fla. He felt on fire for God. It was also the time he realized he was gay. "It was the first time I even recognized [I had] feelings for guys," Effertz said. "I remember promising God that I was going to change and get rid of these feelings."
Christine Louise Peterson, aka "Petey Peterson," was a cradle Catholic who took pride in being more conservative than her parents. But during her junior year, when she realized she had feelings for women, she knew she had to leave the Catholic church.
Brian Vanderheyden was raised Catholic in Green Bay, Wis., but currently identifies as agnostic or atheist, something he believes is more pejorative to some than identifying as gay. He has not returned to the Catholic church.
Effertz, Peterson and Vanderheyden have taken a path all too familiar for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender young people: In the midst of their spiritual and identity development, they felt compelled to choose between their church and their sexuality.
Michael LaSala, a clinical social worker and psychotherapist who works with LGBT individuals and their families, said he believes that "in general a person's comfort with his or her homosexuality is inversely related to religious involvement if the person is involved in a religion that is openly and publicly oppressive toward gay and lesbian people."
Loretto Sr. Jeannine Gramick, a pioneer in Catholic ministry to the gay community, said she believes much depends on the connections LGBT youth can make. "If they are in touch with a very sympathetic figure who, to them, represents the institutional church ... a priest or a nun or a minister and they get understanding, they would be less inclined to leave the institutional church."
"If they find no support at all, which unfortunately is the case too often, then they will leave their Catholic identity behind," she said.
"It was either my faith or this [LGBT identity] and I chose that," Peterson said. "I felt that as someone who identified as gay, I should not participate in a faith organization that believes that is a sin. I am someone who believes that when you commit to something, you commit to it wholeheartedly and since I was gay, I felt that I could not honestly, fairly commit to the Catholic faith."
Effertz felt he was losing his faith by the end of high school. "I was almost getting mad at God and thinking: 'Why aren't you changing me?' " During his sophomore year in high school, he went out with a girl, but remembers feeling confused. "I didn't want to think about it even though deep down, I knew [I was gay]," he said.
Vanderheyden knew very early on who he was, but he was closeted until his early 20s. The conflict of his gay and Catholic identities was the initial reason for further exploring his Catholic faith, but he privately moved away from his Catholic identity after high school and hasn't gone back.
Effertz was raised Lutheran in a church with 2,100 members in Janesville, Minn. He attended parochial school and while he was taught to be tolerant in his views, Effertz said that the subject of sexuality was not really dealt with very much. After his experience in Orlando, he gave God two weeks to rid him of his attraction to guys. Time passed but the feelings remained.
Effertz played the trumpet, sang in the choir, and went to church twice a week. He didn't like sports, but he played football his junior and senior years in high school and hung out with guy friends watching basketball. "I wanted to be straight and continue to be friends with them because I felt a distance," Effertz remembered.
At home, his family did not talk directly about homosexuality, but Effertz felt there was an underlying negative tone. When he approached his home pastor about his feelings, the pastor cried, but said he still loved Effertz.
When Effertz started at Iowa State University in Ames, he set a new goal for himself: to get a girlfriend. He began going to a Lutheran church in town. However, after meeting a girl during freshman year and subsequently figuring out he was not attracted to girls, Effertz still refused to think about being gay. He told himself he was Christian and he was straight, though he knew otherwise.
Peterson's parents raised her in the Catholic faith and she attended a Catholic high school in Iowa City where her father worked as a guidance counselor. She enjoyed going to church and participating in school activities and even was involved as an altar girl, eucharistic minister and liturgical reader through adolescence.
Looking back, Peterson was more conservative than her parents, whom she considered liberal or "cafeteria" Catholics. Both were openly pro-choice and had many friends who identified as LGBT.
"I remember I would eat dinner at the house of one of my best friends and her mom would give me pamphlets to give to my parents about being pro-life," Peterson said. "I would joke about adhering more to the Catholic faith than they did."
Peterson described her Catholic upbringing as typical for a white, middle-class family. She said she felt comfortable in her Catholic identity until she began to have questions regarding her faith and her attraction to women.
"I knew I had certain feelings, attractions towards women probably in sixth, seventh, eighth grade, but I didn't realize I wasn't straight until the winter of my junior year," Peterson said.
Vanderheyden, unlike the rest of his family, didn't like going to church. He was an altar boy just so he could say that he was participating.
"I basically just went to church because it was what my family wanted and not necessarily what I wanted," he said. "I actually felt pretty uncomfortable in church, more related to the gay identity."
In that regard, Vanderheyden grew up in a somewhat hostile environment. He lived in a typical white, upper-middle-class, Catholic/Christian suburb in Green Bay, where there was not much exposure to gay people. His family would say negative things and make jokes about gay people, which motivated him to not bring too much attention to himself.
"I was afraid of people finding out about me being gay and not wanting to identify with a Catholic or Christian identity," he said.
Effertz, as he began to accept his feelings during his junior year, began coming out to select friends and eventually stopped going to church. His gay identity "was such a big question and I didn't know how it was going to fit into my faith yet," Effertz said.
He was very nervous about coming out to his parents. In the end, his father assured him he was still his son and he loved him no matter what, something Effertz believes made their relationship even stronger. His stepmother was also very supportive and told him, "I love you for everything that you are."
Although he still believes there are some very good tenets in the Lutheran faith, Effertz no longer feels comfortable attending Lutheran church services. "I was afraid that they might find out and might confront me about it," he recalled.
Initially, Peterson came out as a lesbian and she remembers feeling terrified about what it would mean to her friends and her parents. It was going to be a big change.
"Things were going to change once I said this out loud," Peterson said. "I realized how comfortable and naive I had been in this space and everything is going to be different."
Once she did come out, in the words of Peterson's mother, "she came out running," embracing it completely. At the same time, Peterson said there were other doubts she was facing regarding her faith. Given those doubts and as she began to embrace her LGBT identity, she unconsciously felt she had to make a choice between being Catholic and being an active member of the LGBT community.
"Everyone was really supportive for the most part, at least to my face, and my good friends are still my friends," Peterson said. Regardless, Peterson said she still felt the need to leave her Catholic faith at home after high school graduation.
Though Vanderheyden moved away from his Catholic identity privately at the end of high school, it took him a while to come out to his family. He envisioned all the possible consequences of coming out for years before actually going through with it.
Although his parents did not know how to react at first, it went better than he had anticipated. Though they are supportive of their son, Vanderheyden said he feels they both still struggle with it deep down.
"I have to recognize that it takes time," he said. He said he knows it will be hard for them to unlearn the negative things it took years to learn. "It's a process for them. They can't just undo that in a day. It just takes time."
Though the conflict between his gay identity and his Catholic identity was the initial starting point of his journey away from religion, he later confronted other problems he had with Catholicism. This ultimately led him to reject organized religion all together.
"I thought that maybe this really doesn't make sense for me," Vanderheyden said. "After a long time, it was just something I couldn't fit."
LaSala said, "I think people who are spiritually inclined will stay with or find religious traditions that are either accepting of their sexual orientations or gender identities -- or will find a way to reconcile their spiritual beliefs and practices with their current traditions."
Still others, he says, may prefer to maintain their own spiritual beliefs and practices outside of organized religions.
Gramick said that having "a support group of allies and others who are of their identity" is important to keeping LGBT people in the church.
In the summer of 2011, Effertz decided to go church-shopping. "I wanted to find a Christian church that I could marry my future love in," he said. Eventually, he found a church in Ames that is open and affirming to the LGBT community and will perform same-sex marriages. After his life journey, Effertz said, "God made me who I am and wants me to be this."
Peterson is still trying to figure out her religious identity.
"I chose really not to deal with it. My Catholic faith, my identity, I just left it there," Peterson remarked. "I felt that the Catholic faith had many good intentions but it was still very flawed. I felt the churches I had belonged to cared more about money, public perception and persecuting others instead of focusing on community, love and forgiveness."
She does, however, credit the Catholic faith for her appreciation of certain values, such as mission and service, that she still holds dear though she does not see them necessarily through the Catholic lens.
Vanderheyden knows people who have made peace with their gay and religious identities and returned to the church, but he hasn't been able to do that. "I couldn't make the leap of faith back into it at all," he said.
[Eloísa Pérez-Lozano is an NCR Bertelsen intern. Her email address is firstname.lastname@example.com.]


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At a petrol station opposite the Unilever plant, a van driver said: "Listen mate, in Burton we've got our own beer and our own Marmite. Who needs anything else?"


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How's that working out for you?
I have to pray daily that the Lord would help me to seek Him first, above all else. I cannot please everyone all the time anyway! Why bother trying? I love this quote: "I know full well that the world will never see me the way God does, and I've stopped caring." I can quote it...but do I really mean it?
King U wanted to be in control. He wanted everyone to like him and he wanted the power that comes when people think you are "the man". He went into the temple where God specifically said only the priests were allowed to burn incense and insisted on doing it himself. He wanted to be in control of everything and have everyone respect him. He craved man's approval over God's, burned the incense anyway and immediately broke out in leprosy. He died, alone, outside of the kingdom completely separated from the people. What a tragic end to a story that started out so well!
Thank God that when I have fallen into this sin of "people pleasing" I haven't broken out in leprosy! I would have been dead a long time ago. But there are some serious consequences of pleasing people over God. Here are a just few of them:
- Hypocrisy
- Living in darkness and isolation
- Self-reliance
- Paranoia
- Lack of Discernment
- Horrific Decisions
- Lack of Confidence
- Lack of Trust
- Easily Offended
- Bitterness
- Compromise
- Doubt
- Confusion
- Neglecting what matters most
- Health Problems
- Addictions
- Pride
- Frustration
- Discontentment
- Self-Loathing
- Unrealistic Expectations
- Idol Worship
- Fear
- Passive Aggressiveness
- Broken Relationships
If you struggle in this area, here are some tips to help you get to the root of your people pleasing so you can pull the root up and plant a healthier, more stable YOU:
1. Recognize that there is a big difference between "doing good" and "people pleasing".
2. Set priorities and protect them with your decisions. For instance, practice saying "No" when someone asks you to do something cuts into your family time or quiet time with God. There are kind ways to do this, and people respect when you protect your priorities, whether they like it or not.
3. Recognize that you will never be able to please everyone, all the time. You will be exhausted if you continue to live your life for others. There's a difference between serving someone out of love and serving someone out of manipulation or expectation. Seek the Spirit in knowing the difference.
4. Learn to be okay with "negativity". Sometimes, when we don't live up to the expectations people put on us, we have to deal with their opinions, their dis-satisfaction or their negativity. That's okay. Your peace of mind is what matters. Eventually, they should get over it and understand your perspective. If not, this could be a way that God uses to pry the negative person out of your life for a season (or for good). Man's rejection is God's protection!
5. Give yourself grace. One big thing that people pleasers usually do is judge themselves harshly, which will fuel the fire to try to get approval from others. Learn to love yourself - right where you are. Give yourself grace when you mess up!
6. PRAY! Pray that God will reveal the reasons you tend to want to please others. How did you become a people pleaser in the first place? Why are you so afraid to disappoint others? What is it that you get from pleasing others that keeps you in the vicious cycle of doing it? How can you live to please God alone?
Let's realize that God's thoughts of us are pure, lovely, admirable, true, and holy. He will never turn His back on us, He will not put conditions on His love for us and even when we are not faithful, He will still be faithful to us! (2 Timothy 2:13). God knows full well that we will never be able to live up to perfection and He will never put unrealistic expectations on us. He knows we cannot possibly do it...that's why He wants to do it Himself, through us. When we allow Him to be first in our lives, when we seek His approval instead of others' approval, we find peace.
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Obviously, I'm not trying to win the approval of people, but of God. If pleasing people were my goal, I would not be Christ's servant.


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