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ORIGINAL: wdolson

So you're more an architect for building wiring? That's cool, I misunderstood.

From the way you described it, it sounded like you were in R&D which I've done my whole career. Working remotely is becoming more common in high tech. I live near Portland and I've worked in California since 2010. Most of the companies physical locations are together in clumps though. I heard of a programmer who lived in Montana (I think) and telecommuted to Seattle.

Bill

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ORIGINAL: Annagil

Rome, Italy, turning 40 in a few months. Lived for a while in Germany (studying and working) and for an even shorter while in London (studying).

My father passed a massive interest in military history (and geography) to me as a kid and initiated me to SPI and SPI-like (mostly Napoleonic) tabletop wargames. I guess he desperately needed a companion to play in the 80s, when wargames where basically unheard of in Italy and he was probably the only player at all in the small city we were living back then, but maybe he did regret it when I came up with the Ney-Grouchy inversion maneuver on my own (if anyone played Napoleons' last battles know what I'm talking about) a few years later :)

I got slowly to the WW2 in the Pacific, as I started (obviously) with ancient Roman history, then Napoleon, then WW2 in Europe and only then the Pacific. However, naval history was a thread all along (punic wars, the struggles of venice against the Turks, the ill fated attempts of the French to achieve a viable fleet against the British, the Mediterranean theater of war in WW2... I always wished there was a WITM). Plus, I almost ended up with a career in the navy out of high school (served a couple of weeks on the Amerigo Vespucci as a sort of civilian cadet too, some of the best days of my life working the rigging and learning the basics of navigation and meteorology), but it was not to be.

As far as Naval games go, I started with Harpoon (tabletop and computer), then moved to Supermarina (an insanely huge tabletop about just the first few months of the war in the Mediterranean sea) and then I discovered WITP and then WITP:AE. Unfortnately, the latter came too late for me to be able to invest the time necessary for a meaningful human to human game so I've only just played vs AI and I know it's not the same. These days, I'm mostly reading AARs now and then and playing much lighter and faster stuff (Crusader Kings 2, Europa Universalis and Hearts of Iron series and so on).

My greetings.

G

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some Gorizia's in my CA forces that can take a punch

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ORIGINAL: Annagil

Rome, Italy, turning 40 in a few months. Lived for a while in Germany (studying and working) and for an even shorter while in London (studying).

My father passed a massive interest in military history (and geography) to me as a kid and initiated me to SPI and SPI-like (mostly Napoleonic) tabletop wargames. I guess he desperately needed a companion to play in the 80s, when wargames where basically unheard of in Italy and he was probably the only player at all in the small city we were living back then, but maybe he did regret it when I came up with the Ney-Grouchy inversion maneuver on my own (if anyone played Napoleons' last battles know what I'm talking about) a few years later :)

I got slowly to the WW2 in the Pacific, as I started (obviously) with ancient Roman history, then Napoleon, then WW2 in Europe and only then the Pacific. However, naval history was a thread all along (punic wars, the struggles of venice against the Turks, the ill fated attempts of the French to achieve a viable fleet against the British, the Mediterranean theater of war in WW2... I always wished there was a WITM). Plus, I almost ended up with a career in the navy out of high school (served a couple of weeks on the Amerigo Vespucci as a sort of civilian cadet too, some of the best days of my life working the rigging and learning the basics of navigation and meteorology), but it was not to be.

As far as Naval games go, I started with Harpoon (tabletop and computer), then moved to Supermarina (an insanely huge tabletop about just the first few months of the war in the Mediterranean sea) and then I discovered WITP and then WITP:AE. Unfortnately, the latter came too late for me to be able to invest the time necessary for a meaningful human to human game so I've only just played vs AI and I know it's not the same. These days, I'm mostly reading AARs now and then and playing much lighter and faster stuff (Crusader Kings 2, Europa Universalis and Hearts of Iron series and so on).

My greetings.

G

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ORIGINAL: crsutton

Silver Spring, MD near DC. Born in Georgia but this is my home. Ten years as a merchant seaman with the Seafarers Union. Started as a messboy and was a third officer when I quit. Been a realtor for 30 years now. Been playing war games ever since I found the old Avalon Hill Gettysburg (square hexes) in my dad's closet. (Next to the Playboys). That's about it.

Oh, almost forgot. Won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1980 as well as the gold medal in the 1,500 meter run in the Moscow Olympics that same year. That was an especially good year for me.

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ORIGINAL: warspite1

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ORIGINAL: Annagil

Rome, Italy, turning 40 in a few months. Lived for a while in Germany (studying and working) and for an even shorter while in London (studying).

My father passed a massive interest in military history (and geography) to me as a kid and initiated me to SPI and SPI-like (mostly Napoleonic) tabletop wargames. I guess he desperately needed a companion to play in the 80s, when wargames where basically unheard of in Italy and he was probably the only player at all in the small city we were living back then, but maybe he did regret it when I came up with the Ney-Grouchy inversion maneuver on my own (if anyone played Napoleons' last battles know what I'm talking about) a few years later :)

I got slowly to the WW2 in the Pacific, as I started (obviously) with ancient Roman history, then Napoleon, then WW2 in Europe and only then the Pacific. However, naval history was a thread all along (punic wars, the struggles of venice against the Turks, the ill fated attempts of the French to achieve a viable fleet against the British, the Mediterranean theater of war in WW2... I always wished there was a WITM). Plus, I almost ended up with a career in the navy out of high school (served a couple of weeks on the Amerigo Vespucci as a sort of civilian cadet too, some of the best days of my life working the rigging and learning the basics of navigation and meteorology), but it was not to be.

As far as Naval games go, I started with Harpoon (tabletop and computer), then moved to Supermarina (an insanely huge tabletop about just the first few months of the war in the Mediterranean sea) and then I discovered WITP and then WITP:AE. Unfortnately, the latter came too late for me to be able to invest the time necessary for a meaningful human to human game so I've only just played vs AI and I know it's not the same. These days, I'm mostly reading AARs now and then and playing much lighter and faster stuff (Crusader Kings 2, Europa Universalis and Hearts of Iron series and so on).

My greetings.

G

warspite1

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Hi Annagil, may I ask what your avatar is of please?

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ORIGINAL: Annagil

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some Gorizia's in my CA forces that can take a punch

That didn't help them much at Matapan, sadly. Most accounts state they did last less than 5 minutes under point blank fire from the 15 inches of 3 BBs...

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ORIGINAL: oaltinyay

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ORIGINAL: Annagil

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some Gorizia's in my CA forces that can take a punch

That didn't help them much at Matapan, sadly. Most accounts state they did last less than 5 minutes under point blank fire from the 15 inches of 3 BBs...

what exactly can survive that is a wonder...beautiful ships though....

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ORIGINAL: warspite1

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ORIGINAL: crsutton

Silver Spring, MD near DC. Born in Georgia but this is my home. Ten years as a merchant seaman with the Seafarers Union. Started as a messboy and was a third officer when I quit. Been a realtor for 30 years now. Been playing war games ever since I found the old Avalon Hill Gettysburg (square hexes) in my dad's closet. (Next to the Playboys). That's about it.

Oh, almost forgot. Won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1980 as well as the gold medal in the 1,500 meter run in the Moscow Olympics that same year. That was an especially good year for me.

warspite1

Wow - talented individual. Out of interest, which country were you running for at those games - and how did that obvious fraudster Sebastian Coe get away with claiming he'd won the 1,500?

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ORIGINAL: crsutton

Silver Spring, MD near DC. Born in Georgia but this is my home. Ten years as a merchant seaman with the Seafarers Union. Started as a messboy and was a third officer when I quit. Been a realtor for 30 years now. Been playing war games ever since I found the old Avalon Hill Gettysburg (square hexes) in my dad's closet. (Next to the Playboys). That's about it.

Oh, almost forgot. Won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1980 as well as the gold medal in the 1,500 meter run in the Moscow Olympics that same year. That was an especially good year for me.

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ORIGINAL: warspite1
Wow - talented individual. Out of interest, which country were you running for at those games - and how did that obvious fraudster Sebastian Coe get away with claiming he'd won the 1,500?

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ORIGINAL: crsutton

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ORIGINAL: warspite1

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ORIGINAL: crsutton

Silver Spring, MD near DC. Born in Georgia but this is my home. Ten years as a merchant seaman with the Seafarers Union. Started as a messboy and was a third officer when I quit. Been a realtor for 30 years now. Been playing war games ever since I found the old Avalon Hill Gettysburg (square hexes) in my dad's closet. (Next to the Playboys). That's about it.

Oh, almost forgot. Won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1980 as well as the gold medal in the 1,500 meter run in the Moscow Olympics that same year. That was an especially good year for me.

warspite1

Wow - talented individual. Out of interest, which country were you running for at those games - and how did that obvious fraudster Sebastian Coe get away with claiming he'd won the 1,500?

Well, the US team of course. But I seem to have been the only American there in Moscow that year. It was strange. They put me up in a cheap hotel instead of the Olympic Village and had me run my race solo at a local high school track. Then they told me that my time was the best and that because of the embargo they had run out of gold so that was why my medal was made of wood. I treasured that gold medal until the day I lost it when by "accident" my wife threw it onto the fire....

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ORIGINAL: oaltinyay

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ORIGINAL: Annagil

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some Gorizia's in my CA forces that can take a punch

That didn't help them much at Matapan, sadly. Most accounts state they did last less than 5 minutes under point blank fire from the 15 inches of 3 BBs...

what exactly can survive that is a wonder...beautiful ships though....