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Re: Let's discuss: Reenacting!
« Reply #1560 on: March 11, 2015, 07:18:41 am »
After you guys get "killed", what do you do? When are you allowed to move? Is there respawning or something?

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Re: Let's discuss: Reenacting!
« Reply #1561 on: March 11, 2015, 08:16:59 am »
Lol, respawning xD
Once you go down generally you don't get back up until the end of the battle, you just lay there and look dead. It's why, in Napoleonics anyway, the sides start to lose men when tge battle is in ffull swing. How long you can be laying there depends when you die and how long the battle will take.

For example, in Napoleonics, most of the redcoat units move veeeeeery slowly on the battlefield, so going down early could mean you're laying there a while, especially if the redcoats are supposed to die, because they take their sweet time.
Or they do what they did a Ickworth last year and refuse to die at all.


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Re: Let's discuss: Reenacting!
« Reply #1562 on: March 11, 2015, 10:35:49 am »
After you guys get "killed", what do you do? When are you allowed to move? Is there respawning or something?

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Re: Let's discuss: Reenacting!
« Reply #1563 on: March 11, 2015, 11:08:31 am »
Re-enactors and nice people only.

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« Reply #1564 on: March 11, 2015, 11:13:50 am »
Re-enactors and nice people only.

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It's a shame the latter doesn't rule out the former...
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Re: Let's discuss: Reenacting!
« Reply #1565 on: March 11, 2015, 12:38:14 pm »
I hate those moments when the officer wants you to die at some point in the battle but then puts you in the second line.....
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Re: Let's discuss: Reenacting!
« Reply #1566 on: March 11, 2015, 03:19:24 pm »
I hate those moments when the officer wants you to die at some point in the battle but then puts you in the second line.....

Yeah, that's silly. When I joined the 85e for Wavre, we'd actually move back, switch places, and then move up again.

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Re: Let's discuss: Reenacting!
« Reply #1567 on: March 11, 2015, 03:55:13 pm »
Yeah best way to do it, we have the problem too sometimes in 21e, because our firers are usually in the front rank whilst non firers and members with depot kit are in the rear rank.


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Re: Let's discuss: Reenacting!
« Reply #1568 on: March 11, 2015, 08:16:49 pm »
Yes, which is why in Wavre he switched us around, when we were told to die.
Shame though that I was ordered to die infront, or rather, inside a big puddle of cow shit. But whatever.

Anyway, best thing is ofc if you tell one of your buddys to pick you up after a while. So you can die, and he picks you up, carrys you to the back of the line and you can "respawn".
In wavre, the 85e moved forward and backwards, to pick up all the dead people lying on the field. Makes it less obvious and you can have a constant steam of dead people.

Sounds so weird...

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Re: Let's discuss: Reenacting!
« Reply #1569 on: March 11, 2015, 08:26:59 pm »
At ironfest, the british last year took no causalities (We were meant to win :P ) ,and after the entire 21eme was knocked out of action, the 73rd and 95th passed over us, then we just got annoyed and stuffed it all and rose up and acted like zombies and attacked from behind (we died just before reaching them) , yes it looked wrong..but it wasnt half funny....

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Re: Let's discuss: Reenacting!
« Reply #1570 on: March 11, 2015, 08:29:04 pm »
Yep. Seeing people fall is much more entertaining then seeing people laying on the ground.

The silly thing is that units are usually knocked out of action entirely at once. It's would be more accurate for units to take a volley, lose one or two guys, break order, and flee. Because fleeing is what these guys did a lot more then dying  :P

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Re: Let's discuss: Reenacting!
« Reply #1571 on: March 11, 2015, 08:44:20 pm »
ye, the brits were meant to die...so they didnt, and it looked stupid, so eventually we were all dead...was quite amusing actually seeing the last guy look around and then he started to fake cry haha...

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Re: Let's discuss: Reenacting!
« Reply #1572 on: March 16, 2015, 12:11:51 am »
Ohh And Duuring you will be happy, Soviet Impression next after Italian and Napoleonics finished hehe

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Re: Let's discuss: Reenacting!
« Reply #1573 on: March 16, 2015, 01:29:31 am »
Nice. Please tell me it's normal infantry and not partisans/cossacks  :P

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Re: Let's discuss: Reenacting!
« Reply #1574 on: March 16, 2015, 10:52:28 am »
it's glorious partisan cossack guard volunteer Political commissar with captured stg44 and katana captured from the japs always wearing uschanka. He lso rides on a bear wich carries a Maxim MG 1910  and wears some SS-Stahlhelme as a chain around his neck .
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