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Sean Bean dumped all his plot armor on this man...
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I say it was worth it.
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Like an uplifted veil the darkness fades from my vision and the truth becomes clear and apparent to behold
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I wish I could say sean bean is the reason he is so impressive. But the novels have him being just as much the super badass as the film series.
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The character who's plot armour is so strong, it stripped away Sean Bean's reserves leading to the characters he portrays dieing in droves.
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>>22968572
Okay, what a fuck are the novels called I need to download some good fiction.
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>>22968594
Sharpe's <verb/adjective>
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>>22968620
Mah Niggah.
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>>22968512

He single handedly ravaged several nations and still found time to be pissed off at his whore wife.
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>>22968594

Heh...Gaunt's Ghosts.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEhtsgu6bJg

I wonder if some player has ever been killed by cows on a cliff.
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>>22968594
Well Sharpes Eagle is the first novel to be written, but chronologically Sharpes Triumph is the first novel.

The novels are fantastic as long as you know what you are getting in to. This is man porn. Sharpe is a super badass who is super-proficient in anything he does. His enemies are those in his ranks who are jealous of him. He generally steals their women and use them up, they generally then take his money and once he gets over them he still doesn't have 2 fucks to rub together, because there is always a higher ranking officer who has a wife ready for the plucking. This is presented with the backdrop of a historically accurate battle. Often Sharpe's actions cause victory. Where it isn't historically accurate the author explains why he took that liberty. So essentially the best possible /tg/ and /k/ escapism.
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>>22968661
Okay I laughed.


>>22968676
Not as heavy on the lady-stealing as might be implied here, but he's not too far off the mark.
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>>22968770
Excelent. Exactly what I am looking for right now. Thanks to all pointers, downloading first chronological novel to my cell right now.
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>>22968789
Fantastic. I love the series myself, and the fact he is easy to stat up in pathfinder makes it all the better.
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Sounds like what everyone else thinks of Flashman.

They have no idea...
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A guy who lived in my flat last year used to start thinking he *was* Sharpe when he got drunk enough. Then he'd text his ex ranting about how he sold secrets to France for her or some shit.
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I'd dumb my armor on him too if you know what i mean/
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>>22969061
Sharpe is to Ibram Gaunt as Flashman is to Ciaphas Cain, or so I've been told.

>>22968676
Surprisingly accurate descriptor.
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Yay sean bean!
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Sharp Practice is basically Sharpe's Rifles the miniature game.
I could upload the .pdf in a few hours if the thread is still online by then.
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Sharp's Rifles: Your mum has masturbated to it.
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>fa/tg/uys who have never heard of Sharpe
DAMN YOUR EYES MAN! I'll have the lot of you flogged
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>>22969159
Young Liz Hurley... and she gets her tits out in that episode
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>>22969348
>>22969348
GOD SAVE IRELAND!

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xa9942_elizabeth-hurley-topless_sexy#.UQ-S1fJIQXw
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god damn it how the hell did I end up on /tg/
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>>22968496
>Sean Bean dumped all his plot armor on this man...
>implying he doesn't save it all for real life
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31749_162-20071083-10391698/sean-bean-stabbed-in-london-bar-fight/
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>>22969336
I know that feel bro
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And Duty and Honour is Sharpe: the RPG

http://www.mediafire.com/view/?f7xs76rmi8lemlk
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>>22969366
Did you miss /tv/?
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I remember my dad always getting the show from the library when I was little. I always fondly remembered it as being badass, but figured it was because I was young.

I went back and re-watched it all recently. Even with the dated special effects, it's still better than the sort of shit they're making today, even with massive cable budgets.

And still some of the best intro theme music you'll find:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWuFfRMi6zU
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>>22969412
>the dated special effects
That's the only real flaw, they had to do their best with the battle scenes despite only having twelve guys, three flags and a lot of smoke.
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Here's forty shillings on the drum
For those who volunteer to come.
To 'list and fight the foe today -
Over the hills and far away.
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O'er the hills and o'er the main,
Through Flanders Portugal and Spain
King George commands and we obey -
Over the hills and far away
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>>22969487
why did you post that pillock?
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When duty calls me I must go,
to stand and face another foe
But part of me will always stray -
Over the Hills and far away.

O'er the hills and o'er the main,
Through Flanders Portugal and Spain
King George commands and we obey -
Over the hills and far away
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If I should fall to rise no more,
as many comrades did before
Then ask the fifes and drums to play -
Over the hills and far away

O'er the hills and o'er the main,
Through Flanders Portugal and Spain
King George commands and we obey -
Over the hills and far away
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Then fall in lads behind the drum!
With colours blazing like the sun
Along the road to come what may -
Over the hills and far away
O'er the hills and o'er the main,
Through Flanders Portugal and Spain
King George commands and we obey -
Over the hills and far away

Over the hills and far away.

Ah, a soldiers life for thee.
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>>22969336
I am sorry, sir. I was born behind Iron Curtain and when I was growing up we were forced to read samizdat SF&F books typewriter copied by some guys who got their hands on translations from Poland or somewhere else. So no - I havent read or watched Sharpe yet. I am going to amend this slight, don't worry, sir.
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>>22969439
This mofo here! Obadiah has been the template for a few awesome NPC's in games that I have GM'd.
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>>22969433

You forgot a village and a castle. One of each.
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>>22969609
They both deserved Oscars for the amount of work they put in
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>>22969647

Considering I'm pretty sure there was a movie where Sharpe attacked FROM that village...back into that village half an hour later, they really had their work cut out for them.
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>>22969513
It's better when sang around a campfire with a lot of drunk people. Have another song:

The Rochester Recruiting Sergeant

A recruiting sergeant marched through the crowded streets of Rochester,
Bound for the wars in the Low Country.
And he sang as he marched and played upon a kettledrum,
"Who'll be a soldier for Marlborough and me?"
Chorus:
"Who'll be a soldier,"
"Who'll be a soldier,"
"Who'll be a soldier for Marlborough and me?"
And he sang as he marched through the crowded streets of Rochester,
"Who'll be a soldier for Marlborough and me?"
[The choruses follow this pattern with the last two lines of each verse.]
For the Queen she has ordered fresh troops for the Continent
Bound for the wars in the Low Country.
So if you'd be a soldier, all in a scarlet uniform
Take the Queen's shilling for Marlborough and me.
Chorus
"Not I", said the butcher, "not I", said the baker,
Most of the people they would not agree,
To be paid in the powder and rattle of the cannonball.
Wages for soldiers for Marlborough and thee.
Chorus
"But I," said the young man,"have long endured the Parish dues.
No more charity for the likes of me.
Starvation and danger, they shall be my destiny.
I'll take the Queen's shilling for Marlborough and thee."
Chorus
So forty recruits marched through the crowded streets of Rochester.
Bound for the wars in the Low Country.
And they sang as they marched through those crowded streets of Rochester.
"Who'll be a soldier for Marlborough and me."

Singing the "Who'll be a soldier" line, fucking shivers down the spine.
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>>22968496
Dumped? Son, you just went full frog. I think this is like the only role in which Sean Bean didn't die (not on camera, at least).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sGR1-Wgo1M
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>>22969717

It's of a gentleman soldier
As sentry he did stand
He saluted a fair maiden
By a waiving of his hand
So then he boldly kissed her
And he passed it off as a joke
He drilled her up in the sentry box
Wrapped up in a soldier's cloke

And the drums are going a rap a tap tap
And the fifes they loudly play
Fare you well polly my dear
I must be going away

All night they tossed and tumbled
Till the daylight did appear
The soldier rose, put on his clothes,
Saying, fare you well my dear
For the drums they are a beating
And the fifes they so sweetly play
If it weren't for that polly my dear
With you I'd gladly stay

And the drums are going a rap a tap tap
And the fifes they loudly play
Fare you well polly my dear
I must be going away

Now come you gentleman soldier,
Won't you marry me?
Oh no my dearest polly
Such things can never be
For I've a wife already
Children I have three
Two wives are allowed in the army
But one's too many for me

And the drums are going a rap a tap tap
And the fifes they loudly play
Fare you well polly my dear
I must be going away

If anyone comes a courting you,
You can treat them to a glass
If anyone comes a courting you,
You can say you're a country lass
You needn't ever tell them,
Nor pass it off as a joke
That you got drilled in a sentry box
Wrapped up in a soldier's cloke

And the drums are going a rap a tap tap
And the fifes they loudly play
Fare you well polly my dear
I must be going away

Oh it's come my gentleman soldier,
Why didn't you tell me so? my parents will be angy
When this they come to know when nine months had been and gone
The poor girl she brought shame
She had a little militia boy
And she didn't know his name

And the drums are going a rap a tap tap
And the fifes they loudly play
Fare you well polly my dear
I must be going away

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21dRPu_v1xU
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>>22969238
"They call her The Needle. Don't ask why."
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And we sailed out of England, bound for Lisbon harbour
With bayonets a-gleaming and pride to the fore
We'd little to hope but we tried hard to cherish
The thoughts of our loved ones on England's fair shore

And soon we were transported through hell and its fury
Through smoke and through fire, through shot and through flame
And at Telavera we stole Boney's Eagle
And in that short time we were heroes of Spain

And I met with a maiden hair black as the raven
Her eyes they did glister like two diamonds bright
We spoke not a word at our very first meeting
And I lay in her arms all that long Spanish night
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>>22969761

And we travelled together o'er mountain and valley
And she by my side through many's the fight
She tended my suffering and she salved me of pity
And bore me a daughter for my heart's delight

And we marched into Lisbon proud Wellington's army
The war being over it's homeward we're bound
And all on the quayside - the weeping and wailing
Four thousand women left on that cold ground

Farewell and adieu to you Spanish lady
Farewell and adieu to you ladies of Spain
For we're under orders to sail home to England
But I know in some time we'll return once again

And if ever I'm returning it's with gold in great plenty
And if I return it's with gold in great store
I'll search far and wide for my Spanish lady
Who brought me such peace in the midst of such war

Farewell and adieu to you Spanish lady
Farewell and adieu to you ladies of Spain
For we're under orders to sail home to England
But I know in some time we'll return once again
Once again
Once again
Once again
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>>22969743
>1,000 Ways to Die
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some brilliant bastard put some of the show on youtube.

get educated on manliness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaJXMHWN4bI
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>>22969717
Well yeah. Why do you think they used that part of the melody for the ghost's words in Waltzing Matilda?
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The show had a little bit of everything for everyone.

Even NTR. But at least he didn't take that shit lying down, and got a nice, down-to-earth French lass later (that he steals from his friend).
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>>22969928
that's one of the few parts that doesn't sit well with me. That dude did not deserve to get his romance fucking torpedoed by sharpe.
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>>22969939
Poor old Frederickson was just a hard-luck story, and anyway Sharpie can't help his magnetic pull. Perhaps by warped way of compensation, the later movies they made deviated from the books by killing Lucille off.
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>>22969298
>you will never have a companion as awesome as Harper.

I love that they kept sending him into battle with this rifle.
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>>22969989
>dat Nock Gun

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nock_gun
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Somebody archive this thread. STAT!

As an old fa/tg/uy, I remember reading the novels back in college. And then creaming all over myself when I found the series at the library.
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The Nock Gun was the BFG of its time
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>>22969372
I remember that being in a Yorkshire local paper. It's the only time something's happened in London that has ended up in it. Then again, Sean Bean is pretty much Yorkshire's spiritual liege, so if he gets stabbed we pay attention.
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In every film/show where Sean Bean does not die something horrible happens to his family.

In Sharpe his wife (wives?) die, and in both Silent Hill and The Dark his wife and child go through utterly crazy shite.

The only expection I can think of off the top of my head is Ronin where Robert DeNiro ambushes him with a cup of coffee, calls him a fucking idiot and kicks him out the group and he is never seen again.
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>>22970332
I think he died in the second Silent Hill Movie
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>>22970290

Fun fact - Sharpe was originally written as a Londoner, hence joining the South Essex regiment. Richard E Grant was supposed to play the role on film, but he got injured on set after 7 days of filming. Sean Bean took over the role, and was so successful, Sharpe was retconned, in the books, to be a Yorkshireman who fled to London.
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Is there something morbid about his agent, or does Sean generally like getting death scenes?

What if he's an immortal, has tried to kill himself centuries ago but can't, and now experiences the sweet release of death vicariously through acting roles.
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>>22970647
He plays a lot of baddies in a lot of action films. He's going to die a lot. There are other actors in the same position I'm sure, they're just not as well known for it. How many times have guys like Billy Drago or Michael Ironside lived through a movie?
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One of the things I never really liked in the book was how the author hates to make war impersonal. Sharpe always has to know the bad guy he's fighting.
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>>22969222
I'd appreciate this at least.
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>>22968676
>is a super badass who is super-proficient in anything he does
Should his name be Mary Sue then?

ba dum tss
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>>22971187
nah, plenty of people hate him, he get's beaten the shit out of repeatedly, he can't fix everything, he gets betrayed, he loses friends all the time... he's just a typical swashbuckling action hero.
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>>22970426
>Richard E Grant as Sharpe

wut
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>>22971309

It's true.

Someone out there has a week's worth of raw footage of it.

Also, BUMPING FOR KING AND COUNTRY!
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>>22971309
I could see it easily. He would have been a much closer match physically for the book-Sharpe (black hair, swarthy, wiry).
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>>22971112

Here it is.

Also going to dump some related pictures.
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They should make a novel called Beanquake... like a sequel to Shatnerquake, that book where all of William Shatner's characters come to the real world and go after the real thing. But of course it's all Sean Bean's characters and they instead have to save the world.

And all of them die except Sharpe. Who winds up taking over for the real Sean Bean, who also dies.
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>>22971613
>dose manly sideburns
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Between Sharpe and Hornblower, I sorely wish the 1800's were more prominent in Roleplaying settings today.

Good times, going through all the Sharpe Audiobooks in chronological order.
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>>22969196
...Is he posing triumphantly over his wife/daughter's grave?
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>>22971666
mom
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>>22971664

But anon, then we'd have to suggest that muskets are heroic, and the tabletop gaming community can't have that!
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>>22971666

The guy in back is his childhood friend who is also his brother.

And it's not really "triumphantly", they're both just sort of there.
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>>22971685

Sharpe's men use rifles. That's sort of why they're called Sharpe's Rifles.
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>>22969196
That's his mum's grave.
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/tg/ has all the best literature recommendations. I learned about Flashman from you guys, and now this? I'm hella stoked.
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>>22971753

/tg/ can suggest lots of fun reading when /lit/ isn't here to get all pretentious, snobby, and condescending.
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>>22971571
Sweet. Just came across this blog btw, using that for War of the Roses (with modifications).

wargamingwithsilverwhistle blogspot co uk/2013/02/war-of-roses-sharp-practice-game
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>>22971701

Those fields, that amazing quality, I think we're looking at the same blog.
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>>22969091
That is just awesome. Closest I know is a guy who gets steadily more upper-class as he drinks. By the time he's had a fifth of vodka, he's ranting about the "dashed bastard foreigners" despite being a second-generation Pakistani immigrant.
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>>22971956

Yes, the photos are from the same guy.
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>Sharpe thread
Mah niggas!

Time to go play some M&B Napoleonic Wars as an officer of the 95th.

>mfw skewering frogs with a heavy cavalry sabre
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Napoleon's Campaigns in Miniature - http://www.mediafire.com/view/?6vyss2ry7yat8yk

Wargamer's Guide to Napoleonic Armies - http://www.mediafire.com/view/?ks9rw01nlsnpapn

Osprey BO 02 - Wellington's Army in the Penninsula - http://www.mediafire.com/view/?l1gudd2558m88gu

Osprey WAR 020 - British Redcoat 1792-1815 - http://www.mediafire.com/view/?7medx8d2gu036md

Osprey WAR 022 - Imperial Guardsman 1799-1815 - http://www.mediafire.com/view/?0vd6vaw6mvd45l6

Osprey WAR 027 - British Rifleman 1797-1815 - http://www.mediafire.com/view/?hq8mu0j7f1atsn6

Osprey WAR 057 - French Napoleonic Infantryman 1803-1815 - http://www.mediafire.com/view/?m7x9hpviychy1kp

I have other related period Ospreys if anon has a specific interest
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>>22972028

Don't forget to shoot one of your own royals in the back!
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>>22969439
No names for the firing squad, Sharpy!
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[about the first defeat of the South Essex]
Wellesley: This is a report from Major Hogan, which differs somewhat from your account, Sir Henry.
Sir Henry Simmerson: Major Hogan is merely an engineer, sir.
Wellesley: Major Hogan's coat buttons up tight over a number of other duties, Sir Henry. Major Hogan reports a number of losses, Sir Henry. He says you first lost your head, and instead of destroying the bridge, you marched over it. He says you then lost your nerve, and ran from a small French patrol. He says you lost ten men, a Major and two sergeants. He says you finally lost your sense of honour and destroyed the bridge, cutting off a rescue party led by Lieutenant Sharpe. Major Hogan leaves the worst to the last. He says you lost the King's Colours.
Sir Henry Simmerson: [nervous] The fault was not mine, sir. Major Lennox must answer.
Wellesley: [shouting] *Major Lennox Answered With His Life!* As you should have done if you had any sense of honour! You lost the Colours of the King of England! You disgraced us, sir. You shamed us, sir. You will answer.

Wellesley: The South Essex is stood down in name. If I wipe the name away, I may wipe the shame. I am making you a Battalion of Detachments, you will fetch and carry. The Light Company put up a fight, so I will let it stand under the command of a new captain.
Sir Henry Simmerson: To be commanded by the newly-gazetted Captain Gibbons, sir?
Wellesley: To be commanded by the newly-gazetted Captain *Sharpe*, sir.
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>>22972182

Simmerson's story arc is one of the more amusing ones out of the whole saga, in the movies anyway. It's hard to believe you can ever wind up feeling sorry for him or liking him, but when that last movie hits...
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Greatest bromance ever
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>>22972443

Hm, I dunno, man, that's a big stateme-

Aw who am I kidding. Holmes and Watson can't even hold a candle to that shit.
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>>22972443
>>22972454
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>>22972443
It's funny, because the actors fucking HATED each other. Like, apparently it almost ruined production.
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>>22972490

What, really? That's weird. How come?
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>>22972490
What? Really? Source?
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bump for decent thread
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>>22969261

Nice cuckoo!
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>>22972182
The guy who played Wellington in the first two was super awesome, far better than the guy they got to replace him, who just wasn't fierce enough
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>>22972490
Source on that claim?

I find it hard to believe given how many they did together, and the fact they both came back to do the Indian episodes
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Holy crap this thread is still alive

Bump for sharpe
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>>22975406
I hafta see if I can find these movies at the library or something.
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>>22975476

You can get 'em from Netflix.
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I fapped to this as a child
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>>22976140

The Sharpe movies do have some quite nice tits in them.
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>>22970004
>who needs a shoulder?!
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>>22969548
...James Bond?
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Napoleonic minis thread?
I just purchased a box of 28mm french hussars and a 40mm french hussar, both from Perry.
I'm thinking of painting both as the 7th, and the most challenging thing is going to be freehand painting. Specifically on the Sabretache. The flags will be hard as well, unless I can get a transfer. This is where you folks come in. Perry doesn't have any napoleonic transfers, and I would really like to get a flag for the 7th. If someone could point me to a quality place to get transfers, that would be awesome.
It would be even more awesome if I could get a transfer for the Sabretache, but if not, I can just paint a 7 on it and call it a day. Because FUUUCK painting the Sabretaches as the 7th had them.
Pic related, I'm organizing them as they were under Lasalle in the campaign against Prussia
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>>22968592
It all makes sense now!
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>>22982151
if you're happy with printout flags there should be some free ones around?
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like Sharpe himself, this thread seems indestructible!
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>>22983179
I don't think I'd be happy with a simple paper printout. Perhaps I could find a place that could make a printout in a good quality on plastic.
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>>22972041

>Napoleon's Campaigns in Miniature - http://www.mediafire.com/view/?6vyss2ry7yat8yk

I've been wanting a copy of this ever since I found it at the library. Thank you!
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>>22988893
My pleasure. I too sought it for many years, eventually scanned my own poor.

It's a cute, idiosyncratic set of rules. Ol' Bruce Quarrie was quite the eccentric (he never allowed flamethrowers in his WW2 games because he considered them barbaric!). The campaign resources, though, are stunning, as a reference guide for wargaming/roleplaying the Napoleonic Period it can't be beat.
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>>22988972
>>22988972
>eventually scanned my own poor COPY
I mean to say
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>>22972041
You are a true gentleman.

And I am a filthy pirate it seems. FREE BOOKS, HO!
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>>22968496

I've always wondered what happened if Sharpe met Flashman.
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>>22968496

Sharpe's Sword is actually my personal favorite book in the series.
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>>22977512
Yes. Craig plays a bad guy in one movie.
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While we're having a nice Napoleonic thread, /tg/, can anyone recommend anything from the other side of the conflict? I just have the most massive French Empire boner and I'd like to read awesome adventures feat. the Grande Armee
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I've desperately wanted to watch all the episodes/movies/whatever they are of this ever since I saw the first one a while back, but I just can't find a good torrent..

Could some kind, kind fa/tg/uy point a lonely uneducated soul in the right direction, to partake in this most important of rituals?
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>>22989117
Its all on YouTube. Start with Sharpe's Rifles.
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>>22989117
Is this good enough?
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/3645084/Full_Sharpe_Collection
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>>22969743
He lived through cleanskin.
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>>22989164
thank you! I think I found a few which were downloading exceedingly slowly and couldn't deal with it, this one seems to be going well though
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>>22989065
Napoleon's own letters and journals (as biased as they are)
The memoirs of Larrey (Boney's personal surgeon)
Francis Loraine Petre wrote in the 1850s, but his histories of Napoleon's campaigns are superb.
The memoirs of Heinrich von Brandt give a vivid front-line veteran's perspective from
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>>22989231
>The memoirs of Heinrich von Brandt give a vivid front-line veteran's perspective from
...from 1807 to 1813 (sorry posted too soon)
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>>22989238
You are a gentleman and a scholar, sir, and I thank you. But dare I ask for some fiction?
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Hey guys, can I join in this thread too?
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>>22989259
>But dare I ask for some fiction?
Virtually non-exist from the French side, sadly. There are the Alain Lausard novels by Richard Howard, but they are really a third-rate attempt to copy Sharpe (with none of Cornwell's skill).
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>>22989484
I feared so. It bugs me because it's not like crazy shit didn't happen on the French side. Fuck, a Bartolomeo Bosco-expy could get into some good espionage shenanigans .
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>>22989506
>knifed by Cossack
>left for dead
>Cossack starts looting you
>pick his pockets

All that DEX
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>>22969108
Cain isn't an irredeemable bastard, though. He tries to be good, and that's the main difference



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