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Awards for Stupidity

The Hussars are not without their sense of humour. Not only do we award ourselves medals for generally silly behaviour during games, but we also came up with a series of special awards for both our own members and the general gaming public for more unique activities that we felt should be recognised for that special quality that sets them apart from the more mundane players.

Here then, are the best of those awards:

The Blind Pew
Awarded for all those who take off in their aircraft with all guns blazing. Extra cluster for those who do it right at the start of the game, blow up the friendly aircraft taking off ahead of them and then crash into the wreckage killing themselves.
 
The Military Lemming Cross
For those who repeatedly kill themselves by trying to run down a steep slope instead of sliding down.
 
The 'Womans Auxilliary Balloon Corps Award' (WABCA)   
A lovely small bouquet of little pansies wrapped around a shiny (but heavy) ball n'chain assembly. Given to each aspiring member of the '20 Minuters Squadron' for the extraordinary amount of time wasted waiting for a single aircraft to respawn despite the fact the front is falling to pieces and their comrades are being overwhelmed by the enemy.
The Distinguished Air Lemming
Awarded to those who put their bomb release and eject button too close together on their joystick and are seen to throw themselves from the aircraft instead of a dropping the bomb.
Special mention should also go to those who accidentally press the "use" key and thus remove themselves from the aircarft while airborne.
The Crispy Speckled Jim 
Awarded for stunning aviational incompetence where the pilot manages to blow themselves up on their own bombs, normally by banking as the bomb is released and without any intervention by enemy forces.
The George
(also known as the gorgeous Georgina)- a flashingly bright and sunny looking medallion that shouts “Cambridge!”- awarded each game to the most ENTHUSIASTIC player. “Last one out of the bunker” and all that.
This is not actually a display of stupidity unless they persist upon doing it until their own side turn on them to shut them up!.
Melchett Armoured Division (Reserves) 
Naturally the WABCA has its cousin for the armour corps campers, the members of the rear echelon Melchett Armoured Divison (MAD). This award is simply a cluster of daisies wrapped around a shiny (but heavy) ball n'chain assembly given out to each MAD member who waits the whole game in a team’s rear base patiently playing croquet while sipping champers and awaiting the arrival of a tank.
The Order of the Rear Entry Carrot with Mallet 
This is the flip side of the George award, where an individual's keen sense of urgency to see action is exceeded (by a long way) only by their complete stupidity.
Created in honour of a panzer driver in Market Garden, who on spotting two Kubelwagons ahead of him racing to take the Stonebridge flag before the allies got it, chose to blow both Kubalwagons up so that he could get the flag. Was then too slow getting there and blew himself up on the freshly dropped allied mines.
The Mustachioed Melchett Mayhem Medallion
Awarded to the team that loses control of their main base at least eleven times during a single round