Warlord Games General Historical Discussion

[Guindyloo]

1 hour ago, Rob Dean said:

@buglips*the*goblin I recall one convention game sponsored by my club with endless sandbag emplacements made from varnished Chiclet gum pieces.  I have no idea how that would hold up over the long term, whatever long might be in your context…

 

That's what I told him they looked like. 

[lowlylowlycook]

You might also be able to make them with air drying clay which would be even cheaper.

[buglips*the*goblin]

4 hours ago, Rob Dean said:

@buglips*the*goblin I recall one convention game sponsored by my club with endless sandbag emplacements made from varnished Chiclet gum pieces.  I have no idea how that would hold up over the long term, whatever long might be in your context…

 

I haven't seen chiclets in years, now that you mention it.  

 

3 hours ago, Guindyloo said:

 

That's what I told him they looked like. 

 

Also dirt pillows.  

 

2 hours ago, lowlylowlycook said:

You might also be able to make them with air drying clay which would be even cheaper.

 

$1.80 is cheap enough and the material source is only four houses away so if I misjudge how much I have on hand I can rectify it within 5 minutes.  13 of these will do 6 feet, so 26 is a full table end to end of a "trench" if necessary, or whatever combination of fortifications and revetments are required.  It's basically $40 and two weeks of low effort work for permanent modular fortifications of known durability.  Given that my resin T-35 by itself was near $100, this is not a comparitively egregious enough expense to be worth additional effort to save a few dollars.

 

***Bearing in mind that this is $1.80 in Canadian dollars, which presently is probably less than a small bag of chips.  Or, put another way, it is 1/10th the price of a pack of cigarettes.  

Edited October 21, 2021 by buglips*the*goblin