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Old 01-07-2010, 06:53 AM
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bodyarmor is allmost allways better than movability...

the rule is ...it's more fun for the gm to spray bullets against your character and hit...than to not hit...so get those old armors up ....

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Old 01-07-2010, 05:40 PM
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He looks like a robot out of a 1950s sci-fi B-movie.
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The caption says 1917-1918, but it is more like 1817-1818 as he has a flintlock rifle on his shoulder
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That's quite possible. "Repeating" rifles had only been around as standard issue for a short period at the time of the Great War. Flintlocks, while completely unsuited to the "modern" battlefield, would probably have still been quite common in civilian hands.
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The caption says 1917-1918, but it is more like 1817-1818 as he has a flintlock rifle on his shoulder
To me, it looks like a wooden equivalent of a "rubber ducky."
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The caption says 1917-1918, but it is more like 1817-1818 as he has a flintlock rifle on his shoulder
Photography hadn't been invented in 1818. According to Wikipedia "Louis Daguerre took the first ever photo of a person in 1839 when, while taking a daguerreotype (early type of photograph) of a Paris street, a pedestrian stopped for a shoe shine, long enough to be captured by the long exposure (several minutes)".
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I have to say the gun looks more like a percussion lock than flintlock.
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Photography hadn't been invented in 1818. According to Wikipedia "Louis Daguerre took the first ever photo of a person in 1839 when, while taking a daguerreotype (early type of photograph) of a Paris street, a pedestrian stopped for a shoe shine, long enough to be captured by the long exposure (several minutes)".
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The Force is strong in this one......(google fu)
(He means... someone needs a life.)

I was thinking that during the crisis of WWI when the Brewster Body Shield was developed... they used various weapons to test AGAINST the armor and maybe one of them was an old flintlock rifle.
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I must admit I'm a happily divorced man....

as for GP ...his latest spouse died of undisclosed reaseons...

(something like accidently cut of her head while brushing her hair)
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I must admit I'm a happily divorced man....

as for GP ...his latest spouse died of undisclosed reaseons...

(something like accidently cut of her head while brushing her hair)
Glad to hear you say it .

As for GP - didnt he end up with "a medieval royalty" amount of kids ?

I think I recall there were 17 heirs apparent ,not counting unrecognized claims ?

Oh well,thats all in the past .There is trouble in most families.Not civil war with 3 different factions that hate eachother and try to kill eachother fielding armies with artillery and shock troops ,but then again every family has its own way of relating to eachother.
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Damnit... that was suppose to be our secret...

But now its out in the open...

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