Napoleonic, WSS & ECW wargaming, with a load of old Hooptedoodle on this & that


Friday, 13 November 2026

Si sapo cadit, eum relinque

We're back, after a few weeks of unavailability. Nothing alarming - I had to remove a few old photos for legal reasons.


The heading of this post is of no significance. An old friend told me that he attended a private school in Wales which was so posh that even the rugby team had its own motto, which was "If you drop the soap, just leave it". 

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  1. I did wonder; you were "invite only" for a while.
    I just thought they'd eventually come for you, so you upped the drawbridge, stocked up on tomato soup and went full Rambo.....☺
    Glad to see you're back...
    Neil

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  2. That brightened up my Friday! Cheers Tony. :-)

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  3. Thank you gentlemen - appreciated!

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  4. Sound advice (which I believe a certain British “comedian” will be following to the letter). Welcome back!

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    1. Well done, sir. That is the exact theme that prompted my memory. If there had been a prize on offer, you would have been through to the play-off, but there isn't. I'd be very nervous about making an explicit reference, since I can get into enough trouble just accidentally using someone else's copyright pics.

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  5. Welcome back Tony! Pretty "cheeky" motto for a sports team, LOL!

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    1. Yes - I guess so. As I recall, it wasn't on their blazers or anything - the boys ran the school rugby team, and it was on the crest on the membership cards. Don't understand it myself, of course.

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  6. Good to see you back up and running Tony.
    I am reminded of Monty Python's 'Contractual Obligation', both the version with the ode in there and the one removed "on legal advice"!
    Best wishes, James

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    1. Thanks James. I am now Compliance Man - nothing to see here.

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  7. Welcome back - was there any gaming in the interlude?

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    1. Thank you. No - no gaming, though I did spend some time thinking about rules.

      The cardless CJ-Lite game is so much better than my original Corporal John that it will change its name to Corporal John at the next upgrade; I have also produced a supplement for (the new) CJ for the ECW, which produces a better game than my C&C based ECW rules. Drunk with success, I have started thinking (again) about extending the format to cover Napoleonics, but (again) I am impressed by how much more complicated warfare became in the 100 years after the WSS; light troops of various types, rifles, flying artillery, attacks in column, skirmishers, squares...

      I have decided (again) that this project would make more sense if I started from CCN than attempting to bolt bits onto CJ. It's OK - the planning is still proceeding, though I think I've done this bit before...

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