I thought it might be interesting to have a look at my top forty not for you but for me. Yesterday, Guy was synching his new iPod and showed me something that I didn't know you could do, which was rank all the music you have on iTunes by the number of plays. Its my birthday today and I have just opened my present from my friend A who has managed to get me the rare two disc edition of the soundtrack to The Shadow by Jerry Goldsmith, so I am putting that on my iTunes forthwith. It's mainly film music until we get to Resphigi's Pina di Roma, Milhaud's Le Boeuf sur le toit, Rachmaninov's Second piano concerto (oh no, I am Mr Classic FM) and Circus by Khachaturian.Īnyway, more details on some of my painting specific playlist on the relevant blogs in due course. Just missing the top forty were the Soundtracks to The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Death on the Nile, Murder on the Orient Express, The Great Train Robbery and You Only Live Twice. There is quite a lot of film music but then I do listen to a lot of that, especially when painting, given I have playlists which are, essentially, put together for that purpose. This is the only area where the list doesn't reflect what I listen to at home, I think. I think if I was able to do a top 40 list that eliminated what I listen to on my iPod, which is not the same as I play at home, then it would, as Giles raised, have more classical music on it. Well, all in all something of a surprising list. I have 12 separate jazz playlists but this one, jazz instrumental, has 304 tracks in it. I am convinced the man had at least two extra fingers on each hand. The rules are written for two players but Eric used a Bolt Action-style card draw to randomise the individual forces order of activation during each turn (known as the Swedish method, in this context).ġ Its Alright by Me The Oscar Peterson Trio from Oscar Peterson Plays the Cole Porter Songbook. I suppose a compromise, in battles featuring multiple players, would be that if you fail your first activation then you have a chance to do just one more unit only. This is, however, something of a fundamental change to a set of rules which is designed to move things along quickly, as the dastardly Guy of Gisborne pointed out.
For the latter part of the game, therefore, Eric modified the rules so that if you failed to activate one of your units you could then and try to do the others rather than your turn ending. On our side we had three moves where, basically, none of us could do anything.
Now it took me some time to work out that it was best, therefore, to move a low activation score unit first and save the higher score unit for a little later in the sequence. So, as I found on three moves in a row, if my crossbowmen couldn't fire then none of my other units got to do anything that go either.
One of the key frustrations we encountered was that the rules, like several others I have played, need a dice activation for a unit to undertake an action in a move but if you fail then your move immediately ends. I will just put down a few random thoughts instead not that all my thoughts aren't random anyway. I won't go into great detail about the game itself or its scenario as it will be dealt with much better on the official Shed journal. Still, they seemed easy to pick up, even for me and I would be very happy to play another game with them. One or two people had played the rules before but most, I think, were first timers. We were using the Lion Rampant rules by Daniel Mersey (who kindly gave me my copy as a prize in a competition he ran last year) so each had a force of four units of various sizes depending on the class of troop. We had six players portraying forces commanded by Robin Hood, Little John and Ivanhoe (which was me) against the Sheriff, the dastardly Guy of Gisborne and the Bishop of Lincoln (oddly, the Bishop of Lincoln was one of the original founders of my old college, Brasenose!). Last week saw my latest expedition to the Shed cancelled due to cold weather but the shedizens regrouped for the planned Robin Hood game yesterday.
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