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28/08/2018 at 22:30 #97976
hammurabi70
Participanthttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45337091
Time to update COD WARS?
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2mm Group Forum: https://groups.io/g/2mm28/08/2018 at 23:24 #97980Patrice
ParticipantHope everything will calm down.
More pics and same video on this French newspaper site.
Notice the small grey-white boat with tricolour stripes right of picture top of page it’s Gendarmerie Maritime (trying to enquire or negociate or whatever they do in such cases).
http://www.argad-bzh.fr/argad/en.html
https://www.anargader.net/29/08/2018 at 02:34 #97984grizzlymc
ParticipantWell, scallops wars are classier than cod wars. But beware, it could escalate to prawns and even lobster.
What next? The airforce shooting down migratory ducks and geese?
29/08/2018 at 04:26 #97986DM
ParticipantDefinitely a game in there.
29/08/2018 at 05:16 #97988Gustav
Participanta shell game ?
I’ll get my coat ….
29/08/2018 at 13:47 #98014Brendan Morrissey
ParticipantWell, scallops wars are classier than cod wars. But beware, it could escalate to prawns and even lobster.
Surely langoustines sounds more French?
29/08/2018 at 15:18 #98020Darkest Star Games
ParticipantWhat next? The airforce shooting down migratory ducks and geese?
Careful there, just remember how a bunch of Emu defeated an army… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War
"I saw this in a cartoon once, but I'm pretty sure I can do it..."
29/08/2018 at 19:30 #9804629/08/2018 at 19:41 #98047MattH
Participanta shell game ? I’ll get my coat ….
Yeah, I think you should clam up with your awful puns.
29/08/2018 at 21:00 #98060Jim Jackaman
ParticipantA bit of a pincer movement?
29/08/2018 at 21:59 #98062Hafen von Schlockenberg
Participanta shell game ? I’ll get my coat ….
Yeah, I think you should clam up with your awful puns.
Definitely scraping the bottom there. . .
29/08/2018 at 23:20 #98068Patrice
Participant(Not saying who is right or wrong, but…) I don’t think it could ever become an equivalent of the UK/Icelandic Cod Wars.
Iceland public opinion and government supported their fishermen. No French government never had any interest about its fishermen, and that’s a BIG difference with Iceland. Any troubles (right or wrong) that could occur would be quite a social riot led by fishermen themselves, probably against the will of French authorities – the Gendarmes Maritimes (the boat on one picture) probably being very uneasy to be involved in there.
Not saying it couldn’t be bad. Fishermen work hard, and when they are angry it can turn bad. One of their street demos in Rennes, Brittany, 1994 is bitterly remembered: one very important historical building caught fire by a flare fusee (no responsability was ever proved) and several riot policemen were wounded.
http://www.argad-bzh.fr/argad/en.html
https://www.anargader.net/30/08/2018 at 10:25 #98092DM
Participant30/08/2018 at 17:43 #98106Darkest Star Games
ParticipantNice!
"I saw this in a cartoon once, but I'm pretty sure I can do it..."
03/09/2018 at 16:38 #98408Brendan Morrissey
Participanta shell game ? I’ll get my coat ….
Yeah, I think you should clam up with your awful puns.
Definitely scraping the bottom there. . .
That’s a bit shellfish – there’s some razor-sharp wit on display here.
04/09/2018 at 06:05 #98457Etranger
ParticipantYes, the world is
a shell game ? I’ll get my coat ….
Yeah, I think you should clam up with your awful puns.
Definitely scraping the bottom there. . .
That’s a bit shellfish – there’s some razor-sharp wit on display here.
The world is their oyster.
04/09/2018 at 07:08 #98459grizzlymc
ParticipantSeem to be coming the raw prawn.
11/09/2018 at 13:14 #99106Patrice
ParticipantThis thread reminded me of some other ruleset I had seen long ago in a magazine… but I couldn’t remember where…
I just found it again! It’s Wargames Illustrated 195 (December 2003) pages 42-46 under the title “There’s something wrong with our bloody fish today – Wargaming the Cod Wars” by David Manley, a simple ruleset with suggestions of additional rules and mini campaign, short scenarios, ship tables, and a record sheet.
http://www.argad-bzh.fr/argad/en.html
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