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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/6/2006 8:45:19 PM

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How goes it Brother Speedy?

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/6/2006 9:12:34 PM

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Subchaser's back!

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/6/2006 9:16:56 PM

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Subchaser's back!

Been a long time...

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/6/2006 9:17:22 PM

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I'll say...

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/6/2006 9:21:06 PM

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How goes it Brother Speedy?

Hi Brother Niceguy.

In short BUSY.

With the run upto Christmas Work is manic and the social calendar is pretty full also.

I'm looking forward to my Christmas break since i've booked holiday off from 19th December - 2nd January

How are you all Brothers?

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/6/2006 9:28:41 PM

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With the run upto Christmas Work is manic and the social calendar is pretty full also.

I'm looking forward to my Christmas break since i've booked holiday off from 19th December - 2nd January

How are you all Brothers?

Trouble juggling all the GF Units?

I myself am good, but "the product" release is supposed to be this week and I still have one piece of software I still cant make work. Darned Runge Kutta 4/5 adaptive step size integrators.

Who really wants one of these things anyway?

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/6/2006 9:31:15 PM

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How are you all Brothers?

Losing speed with altitude...

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/6/2006 9:34:45 PM

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Trouble juggling all the GF Units?

Nope...just the married ones.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/6/2006 9:35:39 PM

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With the run upto Christmas Work is manic and the social calendar is pretty full also.

I'm looking forward to my Christmas break since i've booked holiday off from 19th December - 2nd January

How are you all Brothers?

Trouble juggling all the GF Units?

I myself am good, but "the product" release is supposed to be this week and I still have one piece of software I still cant make work. Darned Runge Kutta 4/5 adaptive step size integrators. Who really wants one of these things anyway?

You can probably sell it to somebody if you come up with a snappier name...

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/6/2006 9:40:57 PM

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Darned Runge Kutta 4/5 adaptive step size integrators. Who really wants one of these things anyway?

Sounds like something that goes with the Plutonium Q-38 space modulators... maybe Mynok needs some.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/6/2006 9:51:16 PM

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You can probably sell it to somebody if you come up with a snappier name...

We wanted to use the XQ-36 Space Modulator, but it was already taken.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/6/2006 9:53:47 PM

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I see Subchaser has come to visit the Thread. I hope he doesn't try to start at the beginning.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/6/2006 10:10:33 PM

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I see Subchaser has come to visit the Thread. I hope he doesn't try to start at the beginning.

And in the beginning there was page one and then came page two, and then...well you get the picture.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/6/2006 10:19:38 PM

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I see Subchaser has come to visit the Thread. I hope he doesn't try to start at the beginning.

And in the beginning there was page one and then came page two, and then...well you get the picture.

And the page was full of much great knowlede...well maybe not great, but it did contain some knowledge and factoids, yes, yes there were factoids...well not so much knowledge as information about things and stuff and trivia, there was definitely trivia...and pictures of nuns and ugly naked dogs...so,

And the page was full and this was good and then came page two...

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/6/2006 10:44:48 PM

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Must be the former, because pad tabby has a light-colored sauce.......

EDIT: Once again, posting before catching up.......

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/7/2006 12:00:04 AM

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Good afternoon tithe.

I have already turned around a turn. I may be getting better at this

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/7/2006 12:13:02 AM

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afternoon bruce.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/7/2006 1:03:25 AM

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Any of you gameheads bought Forge of Freedom yet? I bought Crown of Glory, but was disappointed in the PBEM play method. Round robin sucks for multi-player.

Gameplay was quite fun, however. With a strictly two-person strategic scenario like the ACW, it might work. Would be very curious to get feedback. The forums seem to boil down to: it's a little lacking in action because offense is so difficult........which sounds kinda realistic for the period actually.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/7/2006 1:03:44 AM

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Good afternoon Niceguy.

It has been an hour and Terminus has not sent back a turn says the guy who is one of the slowest at turning a turn around

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/7/2006 1:04:46 AM

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I have not bought any new games lately.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/7/2006 1:12:50 AM

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Mynok, I asked a similar question in the FOF forum. Most of the feedback has been very positive, though I understand it can be a little tricky to learn. How hard can it be compared with WitP?

I'm just not sold on a strategic level game about the ACW. In my experience they are poor. To get much excitement you either need a scenario like COG where diplomacy is a key feature, or it needs to be a tactical level game about out manuvering your opponent in battles. I'm just not sure strategy was really an over-arching concern in that war, as Grant well proved.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/7/2006 1:15:45 AM

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Good afternoon Niceguy.

It has been an hour and Terminus has not sent back a turn says the guy who is one of the slowest at turning a turn around

Finished prepping for exam tomorrow and went to see Casino Royale at my local cinema. Fine piece of moviemaking, that...

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/7/2006 1:16:47 AM

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Any of you gameheads bought Forge of Freedom yet? I bought Crown of Glory, but was disappointed in the PBEM play method. Round robin sucks for multi-player.

Gameplay was quite fun, however. With a strictly two-person strategic scenario like the ACW, it might work. Would be very curious to get feedback. The forums seem to boil down to: it's a little lacking in action because offense is so difficult........which sounds kinda realistic for the period actually.

Haven't bought it, no... I'm still quite familiar with it, though, as my sig will testify... Good game, but the learning curve is a little steep for some...

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/7/2006 1:48:02 AM

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Mynok, I asked a similar question in the FOF forum. Most of the feedback has been very positive, though I understand it can be a little tricky to learn. How hard can it be compared with WitP?

I'm just not sold on a strategic level game about the ACW. In my experience they are poor. To get much excitement you either need a scenario like COG where diplomacy is a key feature, or it needs to be a tactical level game about out manuvering your opponent in battles. I'm just not sure strategy was really an over-arching concern in that war, as Grant well proved.

I saw your thread after posting here. Read through it and it sounds pretty good. I hear exactly where you're coming from on the strategic vs tactical issue. COG had a pretty fun tactical battle option, however, and apparently FOF has one too.

I've always loved the strategic element of the ACW much more. That was where the critical decisions were made that determined the outcome of the war. Victory Games' old board game was the best by far I have ever played on the subject--tactical or strategic. It still defines the standard IMO.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/7/2006 3:57:59 AM

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Night time tithe.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/7/2006 11:14:26 AM

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Tithe...

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/7/2006 12:23:07 PM

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Good morning Tithe...

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/7/2006 1:10:33 PM

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Well, I'm off to face the firing squad in my first oral exam. It's apparently Bring-Your-Own-Blindfold-Day... Damn budget cuts!

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/7/2006 1:33:01 PM

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Morning tithe

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/7/2006 1:38:33 PM

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Glory to the Thread......

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