Silly War at Ft Mac days in California

[Hibernicus]

Avete

Speaking of very creative anachronisms...

Gotta tell y'al about the Silly War at Old Ft MacArthur Days in Los Angeles Calif.

It all started 4 years ago when Leg IX lined up with the 69th Brigade (ACW) on a whim. The next year we participated in with ACW in a skirmish and again last year.

This year it GREW! 20 LEG IX HSPA with a coupla LEG VI VICTRIX (of California) plus about thirty 16th Scots, one Celt, a handful of English pike and three Saxons attacked the combined might of the ACW Federals and Rebels.. the twist .. we were Zulus!

....Chanting Zulu warcries, pounding shields, advancing at the Zulu pace.. why we wiped 'em out to a man! What a victory it was!! When, all of a sudden, a contigent of WWII US Marines crested the hill with machine guns and rifles and mowed us down!

very silly
very fun
the crowd loved it
the Marines got a standing ovation

just wait til next year!

Old Ft Mac days!

[Tarbicus]

As the crowd joyfully cheer the Marines, an Apache helicopter appears in the distance...... hock:

[Chariovalda]

Oooh...piccies please?

[Hibernicus]

Pics should go up today, Tuesday 12th

[FlaviusCrispus]

Avete, Huberni et al:

As a participant in Sunday's Silly War, I can only offer the sentiment that it was the most fun I've ever had while fully clothed (and armored). If those damned Marines hadn't showed up, we would have owned the field!

Next year we'll get 'em with some nerf bolts and stones from the ballista and onager.

Spectacular bit of choreography (helmet tip to Hibernicus). Ji! Ji! Ji!

[Crispvs]

Hiistory in Action at Kirby Hall always used to end in a 'Big Bash', which was always great fun. In amongst Civil war pike blocks marching into Napolionic scots armed with water pistols and Anglo-Saxons with automatic weapons my favourite memory would have to be a fourteeenth century knight armed with a Brown Bess musket riding a bicycle into the middle of the fray at the final bash in 2002.

Crispvs

[A_Volpe]

now THAT i'd like to see! My brain hurts trying to conjure up such an image, and my belly hurts from laughing about it!

vera nice!

[Tiberius Claudius Vindex]

Hiistory in Action at Kirby Hall always used to end in a 'Big Bash', which was always great fun. In amongst Civil war pike blocks marching into Napolionic scots armed with water pistols and Anglo-Saxons with automatic weapons my favourite memory would have to be a fourteeenth century knight armed with a Brown Bess musket riding a bicycle into the middle of the fray at the final bash in 2002.

Crispvs

Well, heres one of me at Fort Meigs in June;

[Robert Vermaat]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

[A_Volpe]

Ha! Very nice!

I also notice you *don't* have your finger on the trigger, good form!

[Tarbicus]

I also notice you *don't* have your finger on the trigger, good form!

He's an ancient Roman, how would he know what to do with a gun? :wink:

[A_Volpe]

That's the beauty of it! He figured out it pretty darn quickly!

Romans are smart like that. 8)

Hibernicus - Where those pictures at??

[Tiberius Claudius Vindex]

That's the beauty of it! He figured out it pretty darn quickly!

Romans are smart like that. 8)

Hibernicus - Where those pictures at??

Yeah, now I've got to teach the rest of the army how to handle automatic weapons. Ofcourse the Thompson is a bit too complex in manufacture for the Roman's tastes I'd say. I think they'd go with the AKM if they wanted a standard issue gun.

[Comerus Gallus]

well.... well.... well... I delet it (sigh)

[Caius Fabius]

This is getting more and more off topic.