Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: nashvillen

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ORIGINAL: Grollub

Afternoon tithe.

Lovely weather here in Stockholm. Sitting in the sun on the balcony drinking coffee, reading and watching people passing.

Ah! People watching, a great pastime. But now, with a laptop, you can do that and play WITP:AE at the same time!

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ORIGINAL: nashvillen

An INP!!!!!

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ORIGINAL: Grollub

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ORIGINAL: nashvillen

An INP!!!!!

Dang, missed the opportunity myself. Congrats!

ETA; Spambot.

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ORIGINAL: Terminus

Didn't say there was a problem, did I?

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ORIGINAL: nashvillen

Let's see... Got there Tuesday, but one of the players were were going to start early with missed his flight to be there that afternoon and didn't get in until late that night. Wednesday around 1500 a transformer overloaded, blew, and caught fire in the back of the convention center. We had to evacuate for 4+ hours while they fixed that. So, were were about a full day behind in our gaming come Thursday morning. We forged on ahead and did as much as we could do the next three days (Thur-Sat). We didn't get as far as we wanted, but still had some satisfactory results and much cardboard was killed.

The dealer area was very full, and I found a couple of deals: Avalanche Press SOPAC and MIDWAY in shrink for $40 each. Found my wife and daughter nice t-shirts for them (tradition). Daughter got a Dr. Who shirt (she is a whovian), wife who is a great Starbucks lover got a Starbuck's Coffee t-shirt but written in Klingon and instead of the woman you normally see in the middle it was a Klingon women with two Bat'leths on each side. She got a chuckle out of it and my daughter wore her's for days before washing it. So, that was a touchdown for both of them! My son came along with me and played in the Federation Commander tournament and did better than he did last year. He also got a little more freedom in moving around the convention center and given a budget of which he kept within. So, that was great also.

Had one mechanical issue with my van, a dodge grand caravan with sto-n-go seating, MRS-1 as we call it, it overheated on an airport run. I tested to the overheating by cranking the heater to full (in 90 degree temps) and the engine temp came down. Thermostat time! Picked up my charge, a college student, and took him to the nearest auto parts store to the airport, and bought a thermostat, gasket, and small took kit, all for under $20. Took the van back to the convention center, parked it underground in a garage and left it there for about two hours. The college student's dad was the next in and we needed to get him, but I needed to change the thermostat first. Showed the college student how to do car repair in a parking garage. It wasn't pretty or nice to the old thermostat, but it worked!

Trip back was uneventful and safe. rjopel and I got a total of two turns done in a week, even though we were in the same room together and next door to each other in the hotel... That is how much we had to do.

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ORIGINAL: Terminus

Welp, Company of Heroes 2 was released at 1AM CET and I played until the sun came up. Then I went to bed for a few hours, got up and played it again. I've gotten nothing done today. NOTHING!

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

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ORIGINAL: Terminus

Welp, Company of Heroes 2 was released at 1AM CET and I played until the sun came up. Then I went to bed for a few hours, got up and played it again. I've gotten nothing done today. NOTHING!

Whadaya mean 'nothing'? You played COH2 for almost 24 hours straight! That oughta count for something, dernit?

AAR, please. I assume that there's still that visceral satisfaction about machine gunning krauts that there was in the first?

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ORIGINAL: Terminus

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

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ORIGINAL: Terminus

Welp, Company of Heroes 2 was released at 1AM CET and I played until the sun came up. Then I went to bed for a few hours, got up and played it again. I've gotten nothing done today. NOTHING!

Whadaya mean 'nothing'? You played COH2 for almost 24 hours straight! That oughta count for something, dernit?

AAR, please. I assume that there's still that visceral satisfaction about machine gunning krauts that there was in the first?

Yep. And mortaring them. And Katyusha'ing them. And sniping them.

I've only played it for about 8 hours. Four hours last night and four more later.

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

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ORIGINAL: Terminus

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

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ORIGINAL: Terminus

Welp, Company of Heroes 2 was released at 1AM CET and I played until the sun came up. Then I went to bed for a few hours, got up and played it again. I've gotten nothing done today. NOTHING!

Whadaya mean 'nothing'? You played COH2 for almost 24 hours straight! That oughta count for something, dernit?

AAR, please. I assume that there's still that visceral satisfaction about machine gunning krauts that there was in the first?

Yep. And mortaring them. And Katyusha'ing them. And sniping them.

I've only played it for about 8 hours. Four hours last night and four more later.

So? What's your review?

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Dude-did you just 'verb' Katyusha?

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ORIGINAL: Terminus

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

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ORIGINAL: Terminus

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

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ORIGINAL: Terminus

Welp, Company of Heroes 2 was released at 1AM CET and I played until the sun came up. Then I went to bed for a few hours, got up and played it again. I've gotten nothing done today. NOTHING!

Whadaya mean 'nothing'? You played COH2 for almost 24 hours straight! That oughta count for something, dernit?

AAR, please. I assume that there's still that visceral satisfaction about machine gunning krauts that there was in the first?

Yep. And mortaring them. And Katyusha'ing them. And sniping them.

I've only played it for about 8 hours. Four hours last night and four more later.

So? What's your review?

It's good. CoH was good, and CoH 2 is also good.

Prior Preparation & Planning Prevents Pathetically Poor Performance!

A & B: WitW, WitE, WbtS, GGWaW, GGWaW2-AWD, HttR, CotA, BftB, CF
P: UV, WitP, WitP-AE

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ORIGINAL: Terminus

That's kinda comparing apples and oranges there, Leo. Company of Heroes has never sold itself as realistic.

Prior Preparation & Planning Prevents Pathetically Poor Performance!

A & B: WitW, WitE, WbtS, GGWaW, GGWaW2-AWD, HttR, CotA, BftB, CF
P: UV, WitP, WitP-AE

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ORIGINAL: nashvillen

Let's see... Got there Tuesday, but one of the players were were going to start early with missed his flight to be there that afternoon and didn't get in until late that night. Wednesday around 1500 a transformer overloaded, blew, and caught fire in the back of the convention center. We had to evacuate for 4+ hours while they fixed that. So, were were about a full day behind in our gaming come Thursday morning. We forged on ahead and did as much as we could do the next three days (Thur-Sat). We didn't get as far as we wanted, but still had some satisfactory results and much cardboard was killed.

The dealer area was very full, and I found a couple of deals: Avalanche Press SOPAC and MIDWAY in shrink for $40 each. Found my wife and daughter nice t-shirts for them (tradition). Daughter got a Dr. Who shirt (she is a whovian), wife who is a great Starbucks lover got a Starbuck's Coffee t-shirt but written in Klingon and instead of the woman you normally see in the middle it was a Klingon women with two Bat'leths on each side. She got a chuckle out of it and my daughter wore her's for days before washing it. So, that was a touchdown for both of them! My son came along with me and played in the Federation Commander tournament and did better than he did last year. He also got a little more freedom in moving around the convention center and given a budget of which he kept within. So, that was great also.

Had one mechanical issue with my van, a dodge grand caravan with sto-n-go seating, MRS-1 as we call it, it overheated on an airport run. I tested to the overheating by cranking the heater to full (in 90 degree temps) and the engine temp came down. Thermostat time! Picked up my charge, a college student, and took him to the nearest auto parts store to the airport, and bought a thermostat, gasket, and small took kit, all for under $20. Took the van back to the convention center, parked it underground in a garage and left it there for about two hours. The college student's dad was the next in and we needed to get him, but I needed to change the thermostat first. Showed the college student how to do car repair in a parking garage. It wasn't pretty or nice to the old thermostat, but it worked!

Trip back was uneventful and safe. rjopel and I got a total of two turns done in a week, even though we were in the same room together and next door to each other in the hotel... That is how much we had to do.

Mike

"Good times will set you free" - Jimmy Buffett

"They need more rum punch" - Me


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