Froonp
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Joined: 10/21/2003 From: Marseilles, France Status: offline
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Hello, I am Patrice, from southern France (15 miles north of Marseilles, hex 1221 on the Western Europe map, hex 64,31 on the CWiF map). I use to work as a system engineer in servers & networks since 2002. I was a trainer in computer softwares before that. I'm married, and have a son born in October 1998. I was born in August 1965, and discovered WiF 5th Edition in 1991. I was playing AH, International Team, Victory Games wargames with my best friend, amongst whom our favorites were Flat Top, Pacific War and Air Force / Dauntless. Since the day we played WiF, we were addicted and nearly played it exclusively. In 1996 I upgraded to WiF FE and discovered the Internet community of the WiF discussion list and subscribed to it. I also decided to create a website about WiF to help clarifying it for beginners and other people lost in the countersheets & rules versions for example. We nearly played about one '39-'45 WiF FE campaign per year, since 1996, so I have a fairly good understanding of how the game plays. In late 1997 I answered a call for help sent by Harry Rowland on the WiF Discussion list, and since that time I give him a hand at shipping the ADG games in Europe. Through that experience and contact, I was often able to ask question directly to him to have clarifications about the rules. Surprisingly, I never met him. In early 1998 I became part of the Alpha testing team for CWiF. The first version I tested was 0.0.27 I believe, and we went up to 0.7.71. A whole lot of work was done by all of us. To be complete about the WiF thing in my life, in late 2002 I was proposed to be part of the so-called "Rule Comitee" of WiF FE. I like participating to it to try to "have it better", but I think my opinions only have little weigth in it. All of this might explain why I'm so dedicated to have MWiF close to WiF FE, and why I'm often asking to "Ask Harry" when important things (changes) are decided. Aside from WiF, I used to play role-playing games (AD&D, not very frequent nowadays), and I also play computer games (Matrix's wargames, WWII flight simulators, WWII SUB simulators, that kind of thing, with some WWII first person shooter). Needless to say that I'm interested in history (mainly around WWII but not exclusively) geography (I love maps and knowing how it all works), computers (surprising) and I'm also interested in geopolitic (I should say, "amazed with"). I'm here on the MWiF forums and on the "CWiF / MWiF experience" to try to put all the experience I gathered in the WiF FE world and in the computer word through my work and my hobbies to help making MWiF great.
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