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Central Blue -> helpful kittens discover new keys -- help please (6/27/2010 9:37:39 PM)

I now have a screen full of capital R's in every hex. What have the kittens discovered? And how can I make it go away?

thank you



Grollub -> RE: helpful kittens discover new keys -- help please (6/27/2010 9:53:10 PM)

My guess is that they have pressed the "3" key, showing the weather forecast for the hexes. R=Rain.



LoBaron -> RE: helpful kittens discover new keys -- help please (6/27/2010 10:58:20 PM)

Say 'thank you' to the kittens. These map overlays are great help. [;)]



Central Blue -> RE: helpful kittens discover new keys -- help please (6/28/2010 1:04:19 AM)

thank you kindly gents.

Anyone besides me remember cats and creased paper maps and stacks of cardboard counters?

Imagine what the rule book and dice tables would look like for this game.



Kitakami -> RE: helpful kittens discover new keys -- help please (6/28/2010 1:44:48 AM)

Imagine how much time it'd take to clip the corners of the counters :P



Lifer -> RE: helpful kittens discover new keys -- help please (6/28/2010 2:31:37 AM)

Just about the time that last counter was in place to start the game the cat would pounce, everything would bounce and that would make it that much more fun for it.



Kull -> RE: helpful kittens discover new keys -- help please (6/28/2010 3:09:01 AM)

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ORIGINAL: Central Blue

Anyone besides me remember cats and creased paper maps and stacks of cardboard counters?


Back in the day I had the spare bedroom reserved for some massive pacific war "map and counter fest". More than once - and coincidentally right after some marital spat - the first ex would "accidentally" leave the door open. With cats, you might luck out with a few tipped stacks and some repositioned counters. But with kittens? Nuclear Holocaust.



Mynok -> RE: helpful kittens discover new keys -- help please (6/28/2010 3:13:05 AM)


Kittens have no sense of anachronism. I mean really. Nukes in 1940 France in my World in Flames game?!? [:D]



mike scholl 1 -> RE: helpful kittens discover new keys -- help please (6/28/2010 5:40:36 AM)



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ORIGINAL: Central Blue

Anyone besides me remember cats and creased paper maps and stacks of cardboard counters?


I had a pro-German cat who several times decided the stacks of counters for WAR IN THE EAST would make a nice backrest. Poor Soviets would have a huge cat-shaped bulge pushed into their lines...



Central Blue -> RE: helpful kittens discover new keys -- help please (6/28/2010 8:18:21 AM)

lots of fellow aficionados I see...

I had the whole S&T Central Front Series. I had all of the games and all of the maps laid out, and it took for ever to set up all of the freaking units.

I was really looking forward to computers after the kitty nuked that set up.



m10bob -> RE: helpful kittens discover new keys -- help please (6/28/2010 8:24:04 AM)

Eventually somebody came out with magnetic counter holders, and you would mount the map on the wall, over a huge sheet of tin.

I brag that I had Drang Nach Osten and Terrible Swift Sword with maybe a thousand of those magnetic clips??

A requirement when living with my buddy Tonto,(Brown and gray tabby)..



sprior -> RE: helpful kittens discover new keys -- help please (6/28/2010 9:01:47 AM)

My copy of VG's NATO got catted. The counters still have teeth marks in them.



michaelm75au -> RE: helpful kittens discover new keys -- help please (6/28/2010 10:05:14 AM)

When I was younger, my budgerigar use to come out for a flight round the dining room, and it never failed that if I had my latest S&T game set up, he would land on the map and re-arrange my counters.
Plus try to put little bit marks around the sides of the counters.
Plus leave little 'land mines' scattered on the map.

He wasn't prejudiced against wargames. He especially like putting  perforations on my opened text books while I was studying.



captskillet -> RE: helpful kittens discover new keys -- help please (6/28/2010 11:00:01 AM)

We had the Longest Day on a sheet of plywood set up on saw horses............before the cat-hurricane hit.........looked like the beach after that storm hit the channel in 1944!!!!



RevRick -> RE: helpful kittens discover new keys -- help please (6/28/2010 1:16:04 PM)

We, at one point in my life, had a room dedicated to the proposition that Dad and his friends should be able to wage war undisturbed over a long period of time - and even had the Mark 0.0 version of War in the Pacific set up on two pieces of plywood. There was supposed to be no need for a "Paw of CAT" rule, as there was when playing in the dining or family room. No Kids or Kats allowed in the room unsupervised - as if that would work with a cat.. (Ah, the good old days of FTF on a card table with a bottle of Turkey 101 to make sure we didn't take advantage of each other....we usually stopped when the bottle was empty!) We still have cats, but my days of having a designated War Room flew out the window with Seminary. But, I do miss my big red tabby. 19 pounds of part Maine Coon cat and all purr ball...



crsutton -> RE: helpful kittens discover new keys -- help please (6/28/2010 2:41:49 PM)

Been there.  As my wife would say. "Could you go any deeper into the dork forrest?" [;)]



Central Blue -> RE: helpful kittens discover new keys -- help please (6/28/2010 2:50:35 PM)


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ORIGINAL: crsutton

Been there.  As my wife would say. "Could you go any deeper into the dork forrest?" [;)]


My wife probably wishes I had a cat when I was a kid. I might never have caught the bug if I'ld never been able to get through Blitzkrieg with my oldest brother home from college.



The Gnome -> RE: helpful kittens discover new keys -- help please (6/28/2010 2:54:24 PM)

In high school, when I did the bulk of my board gaming, I had no pets, but I did have a younger brother. Worse than a cat, trust me. I just finished a setup of France 1940 when it got "Ryan-ized"



morganbj -> RE: helpful kittens discover new keys -- help please (6/28/2010 3:44:31 PM)

My daughter scribbled with a crayon all over my DNO game map that was only the floor in the spare bedroom when she was two. She almost didn't see three.



Canoerebel -> RE: helpful kittens discover new keys -- help please (6/28/2010 4:24:13 PM)

I played Terrible Swift Sword (Gettsyburg) on plywood and I was the greatest threat.  A slight bump of the hip against the board and Longstreet's Corps suddenly ended up behind Hancock.



Mynok -> RE: helpful kittens discover new keys -- help please (6/28/2010 5:22:28 PM)


But isn't that where you wanted him? [:'(]



Canoerebel -> RE: helpful kittens discover new keys -- help please (6/28/2010 5:24:54 PM)

Well, yeah, but his supply wagons ended up in Taneytown...



m10bob -> RE: helpful kittens discover new keys -- help please (6/28/2010 6:18:31 PM)

We must be old farts to even remember those games!..LMAO..



Mynok -> RE: helpful kittens discover new keys -- help please (6/28/2010 6:42:11 PM)


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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Well, yeah, but his supply wagons ended up in Taneytown...


Tell Hancock you'll trade. [:D]



RevRick -> RE: helpful kittens discover new keys -- help please (6/28/2010 8:53:08 PM)

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ORIGINAL: m10bob

We must be old farts to even remember those games!..LMAO..


Yup!!! Although I prefer "Antique Flatulant Ones" or "AFO's" for short.. Hey, this hearkens back to the Geezer thread....



Herrbear -> RE: helpful kittens discover new keys -- help please (6/29/2010 1:49:57 AM)

Such a nice kitty.



Kubel -> RE: helpful kittens discover new keys -- help please (6/29/2010 2:55:25 AM)

An old teacher of mine had a persian cat that who "swipe the table" whenever the war was going poorly for him... we still laugh about it 35 + years later. The game was Game Designers Workshop's DNO/UNT.

Ahh clipping corners old memories.[&o][&o][&o]



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