Thread: Questioning chirine ba kal

Originally Posted by Dulahan

More excellent stuff! And I am grateful for when you cite things too, it gives me a good reason to track down missing pieces of my collection. PDF of both the Journals procured. And my order of the Seal of the Imperium 2.1 and 2.2 just arrived too. Lots of good new stuff to read and it's exciting.

Man that must have been something to experience all that, I know it bleeds out even in your writing how wondrous it was, but it's been great just to experience some more of this.

You're welcome! It is what I am here for, I think. As the Glorious General can tell you, back in the days of the Akbar and Jeff Traveling Tekumel Road show, I'd be answering these kinds of questions and holding up the appropriate book for you - and we'd have them all ready for you, too. Generally. I do not type out long extracts of books, nor do I do 'cut-and-paste' of them; I'll refer to to them, and let you look them over, on the assumption that you have two (or more) brain cells that rub together and you don;t need your hand held with some sort of 'interpretation' having to be done for you. I can tell you what we did, back in the day...

It was, which is why we stuck with it for a dozen years of every Thursday night for five hours. Phil was simply astounding when he was allowed to be creative, and our group let him be creative. as for my writing, I'd suggest asking the folks hereabouts who have slogged their way through my cure for insomnia how it reads...

(I'm too close to the thing, myself...)

Originally Posted by Greentongue

Wait till he has his book finished.
I plan to take some vacation days from work just to read it.
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Well. That's a compliment, if ever I heard one...

Thank you!

Originally Posted by Dulahan

That should definitely be a treat!

And now for Chirine: In your accounts of the battle (I forget the name of it, but the one you and the Glorious General pulled off an amazing victory to prevent a dual TPK and all) you wrote a bit about military formations, the Bow of Someone or another, and a different one as well.

Are those formations shown somewhere? Or were they just based on Real Life ones you two were both quite familiar with to the point you could do a Tekumel sounding proper noun in it and make it work?

Third Mar. The formations are right out of the book - as several people replied. Phil had a wealth of this kind of thing, and we used it a lot. I even did a version of the formations on parchment paper, in Tsolyani, and Ken Fletcher also did a version that we handed out at conventions at our game demos.

Originally Posted by Shemek hiTankolel

Take a look at Dragon 7, they are completely detailed in there, and The Eye of All Seeing Wonder, Issue 4, Spring 1995 (on Tekumel.com) has a nice little article on the Qadarni.

Shemek.

Yep; the Dragon article is the original, and he later gave it to Dave for his rules...

Originally Posted by Zirunel

As Shemek says, the Professor described them in an article in the Dragon. The same article was reprinted as an Appendix in Sutherland's Legions of the Petal Throne (and possibly elsewhere?). He named and described 12 army formations and 21 unit formations. Great article.

... and it's in my "Qadardalikoi" as well. Carl Brodt may still have copies, too. I am working on an updated second edition, but it'll be a while. It will be fully illustrated with color photos of the miniatures in action, though...

Originally Posted by Dulahan

Awesome, I'll get those. Thank you!

Like I say, Carl at Tita's may still have copies of my rules. I have spare copies, as well.

Originally Posted by chirine ba kal

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It was, which is why we stuck with it for a dozen years of every Thursday night for five hours. Phil was simply astounding when he was allowed to be creative, and our group let him be creative. as for my writing, I'd suggest asking the folks hereabouts who have slogged their way through my cure for insomnia how it reads...

(I'm too close to the thing, myself...)

Chirine is being super modest. The book, even its unfinished form, was, for me, a sheer pleasure to read. I can assure you no slogging was involved.. Talk about a ring side seat at the Thursday Night Game. If you want to read about some great adventures in "ye olden dayes" then this is the book. I can't wait for the finished version.

Shemek.

Chirine,

I like the new look of the blog, even if it was unintended.

Shemek