Re: (TFT) notes+ The Mysterious Geometry of Swordsmanship, Gorgeously Illustrated

["Edward Kroeten" <ekroeten@farmersagent.com>]

Did you get in trouble for using mom's scissors?  It was 1981 and we had 
a single pair of orange handle Fiskers that I borrowed from my sister (wi
thout her permission) who was in college. This eleven year old got yelled
 at from older sister then whacked by dad (open palm to top of head) for 
taking without asking to this day it was still worth it.
   

   

   

   

     

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   ------ Original Message ------
     Received: 08:22 PM PDT, 09/25/2014
     From: EA Press <ototeman@pacbell.net>
     To: tft@brainiac.com
     Subject: (TFT) notes+ The Mysterious Geometry of Swordsmanship, Gorg
eously Illustrated
     

     

     

     

       25 September 2014
         

         TFTrippers:
         

         Hey y'all!
         This is my first post to the list, yet I've been receiving such 
for just about a year now.
         A reminiscent niche of comfort for me, yes. Thank you all.
         

         Today I came across a Slate article which made me sit up and go 
En Garde!
         Article referring Girard Thibault’s *Académie de l��Espée* (1628) which I had never heard of before.
         Check it out.
         

         "The Mysterious Geometry of Swordsmanship, Gorgeously Illustrate
d"
         http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2014/09/25/history_of_fenci
ng_geometrical_images_of_sword_fighting_by_gerard_thibault.html
         

         The notion of swordplay proxemics proportionate to a combatant's
 personal geometry is fascinating and brought immediately to mind GDW's *
En Garde!* rules chapbook from 1975. I have a sharp specimen of this in m
y archives yet I have not played it. Still *En Garde!* came to mind like 
a bolt from a crossbow at 15-feet, from a different rulebook.
         [*En Garde!* game design: Frank Chadwick, Daryl Hany, John Harsh
man, Loren Wiseman]
         

         "Retrospective: En Garde!"
         http://grognardia.blogspot.com/2009/11/retrospective-en-garde.ht
ml
         

         However, what rose top to mind looking at these Thibault images 
from 1628, was the lace of intersecting geometry, the line-cut ink deline
ations of his visual thesis.
         

         Ha! Reminded me of the 7-hex dragon from the *Wizard* micro-game
 cut-sheet and my experience cutting those counters off the card.
         It all circled-up. Thus my first post here.
         

         Yeah, 1978 13-years old in suburban-edge Baltimore and our two p
air of house scissors both had blades too thick for the task. A different
 time: no Fiskars at the Rite-Aid; no scrapbookers' supplies from Michael
s stored in some fidget room. Yes I had x-acto knives from doing airplane
 and car models. No I didn't think to use them, having not yet gained the
 insight of tool cross-purposes. Idiot. However I was resourceful on my "
scissors needed to cut paper or card" stuckness. Counters needed to be cu
t.
         

         What about my mom's nail scissors? Fine edge, yes. Very sharp, y
es. Curved tip at point... urgh, yes.
         Let's make lemonade!
         A thousand little cuts to free the 7-hex dragon. Yup.
         What a long strange fantasy trip it's been...
         

         Thanks TFT list-members for for all your sharing to enable mine.

         Best Regards...
         En Garde!
         Enjoy.
         -EAP
         

         

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