Re: [SGII] Ghurka Pipers - military trivia for the day - TERROR

On Fri, 29 Jun 2001 00:53:30 +0200 (CEST), Derk Groeneveld
<derk@cistron.nl>
wrote:

>Naw, I sill don't think bagpipes would generally get the bonus. But in
>specefic scenario's they could (e.g. out of the mist comes this eery
>noise... As opposed to 'across the parking lot comes rushing a bunch of
>guys, one of whom is playing a bagpipe' ;)

I think it has more to do with the implication of what's around those
bagpipes. The reason bagpipes gave deliterious morale effects had
everything
to do with the troops associated with them. 

Give my favourite comedian's favourite regiment, The Queen's Own
Deserters (no
one knows what they look like, as they are always seen from behind
heading
over the horizon) a set of bagpipes, and you may end up improving enemy
morale. :-)

Allan Goodall		       awg@sympatico.ca
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