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Hey Thanks friends... - 1/20/2017 5:51:39 PM

Macclan5

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Just a brief note..

Not intended to be a bragging note!

Almost exactly 1 year to the date .... I achieved status as a 1 star Admiral if that is a term.

Santa brought me the game.

Read manual ! Played Guadalcanal Scenario ! Started GC verses the AI! Made many mistakes !

1 Decisive Victory as SAC-Pacific August 12 1944 / Stormed Tokyo July 7 1945.

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Above all:

This is an amazing game that anyone with even a passing interest in history and WW2 should play.

Its value is far beyond "pennies per turn" or "wargamers with OCD only".

It is in itself almost a hobby.

This community has been: 1) Helpful, 2) Supportive, 3) Patient, 4) Informative about the game 5) Informative in many areas of history and 6) Humorous

Thank you for the welcome and support.

I look forward to growing with the game and community.

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RE: Hey Thanks friends... - 1/20/2017 6:07:01 PM

BBfanboy

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Glad to have you join us. You, in turn have done your part to help newcomers and stoke the humour.

But when you get to be my age you will have to be content with shrinking with the game and community.

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RE: Hey Thanks friends... - 1/20/2017 6:13:35 PM

btd64

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Been playing since WPO and STILL learning something new every day....GP

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RE: Hey Thanks friends... - 1/20/2017 6:37:48 PM

Trugrit

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Live long and prosper.

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RE: Hey Thanks friends... - 1/20/2017 8:57:26 PM

rustysi

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Macclan5

Just a brief note..

Not intended to be a bragging note!

Almost exactly 1 year to the date .... I achieved status as a 1 star Admiral if that is a term.

Santa brought me the game.

Read manual ! Played Guadalcanal Scenario ! Started GC verses the AI! Made many mistakes !

1 Decisive Victory as SAC-Pacific August 12 1944 / Stormed Tokyo July 7 1945.

--
Above all:

This is an amazing game that anyone with even a passing interest in history and WW2 should play.

Its value is far beyond "pennies per turn" or "wargamers with OCD only".

It is in itself almost a hobby.

This community has been: 1) Helpful, 2) Supportive, 3) Patient, 4) Informative about the game 5) Informative in many areas of history and 6) Humorous

Thank you for the welcome and support.

I look forward to growing with the game and community.

+1

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In every party there is one member who by his all-too-devout pronouncement of the party principles provokes the others to apostasy. Nietzsche

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RE: Hey Thanks friends... - 1/20/2017 9:30:14 PM

LeeChard

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+1+1

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RE: Hey Thanks friends... - 1/20/2017 11:54:55 PM

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+1+1+1

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RE: Hey Thanks friends... - 1/20/2017 11:57:51 PM

Canoerebel

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It's easy to like friendly, polite people.

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RE: Hey Thanks friends... - 1/21/2017 2:02:08 AM

geofflambert

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

It's easy to like friendly, polite people.

Stop it with the name-calling.

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RE: Hey Thanks friends... - 1/21/2017 2:10:06 AM

Canoerebel

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Southerners kindly smile
Melting Yankee sourpusses
Constipated folks

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RE: Hey Thanks friends... - 1/21/2017 2:13:17 AM

BBfanboy

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Southerners kindly smile
Melting Yankee sourpusses
Constipated folks

Yankee sourpuss melts
Look what you have created -
Verbal diarrhea!

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RE: Hey Thanks friends... - 1/21/2017 3:54:23 AM

geofflambert

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Wants to be liked
Primps and polishes his scales
Rejection again

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RE: Hey Thanks friends... - 1/21/2017 4:17:11 AM

pontiouspilot

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Wow....and this is from a fellow from the big smoke!!....glad to have you on board!

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RE: Hey Thanks friends... - 1/21/2017 4:29:22 PM

Schlussel

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Macclan5

Just a brief note..

Not intended to be a bragging note!

Almost exactly 1 year to the date .... I achieved status as a 1 star Admiral if that is a term.

Santa brought me the game.

Read manual ! Played Guadalcanal Scenario ! Started GC verses the AI! Made many mistakes !

1 Decisive Victory as SAC-Pacific August 12 1944 / Stormed Tokyo July 7 1945.

--
Above all:

This is an amazing game that anyone with even a passing interest in history and WW2 should play.

Its value is far beyond "pennies per turn" or "wargamers with OCD only".

It is in itself almost a hobby.

This community has been: 1) Helpful, 2) Supportive, 3) Patient, 4) Informative about the game 5) Informative in many areas of history and 6) Humorous

Thank you for the welcome and support.

I look forward to growing with the game and community.

Cheers on the decisive victory!

Like previous posters, I echo your sentiments on WitP:AE and this forum, but know that you have been a part of why it is such a great game community. What forum couldn't benefit from some Canadiens, Eh?

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RE: Hey Thanks friends... - 1/23/2017 1:58:43 PM

Revthought

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Macclan5

Just a brief note..

Not intended to be a bragging note!

Almost exactly 1 year to the date .... I achieved status as a 1 star Admiral if that is a term.

Santa brought me the game.

Read manual ! Played Guadalcanal Scenario ! Started GC verses the AI! Made many mistakes !

1 Decisive Victory as SAC-Pacific August 12 1944 / Stormed Tokyo July 7 1945.

--
Above all:

This is an amazing game that anyone with even a passing interest in history and WW2 should play.

Its value is far beyond "pennies per turn" or "wargamers with OCD only".

It is in itself almost a hobby.

This community has been: 1) Helpful, 2) Supportive, 3) Patient, 4) Informative about the game 5) Informative in many areas of history and 6) Humorous

Thank you for the welcome and support.

I look forward to growing with the game and community.

A one star Admiral, depending of course on the national armed forces, is a Commodore

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RE: Hey Thanks friends... - 1/24/2017 1:08:02 AM

geofflambert

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A Commodore is like a Stevedore, difference being he cleans out commodes. Term disappeared because of the difficulty distinguishing abbreviations between it and Commander. I hate that RA upper and lower half stuff, though. Somebody needs to fix that.

Gilbert and Sullivan suggest we have modern major admirals, and below them brigantine admirals.

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RE: Hey Thanks friends... - 1/24/2017 1:17:03 AM

geofflambert

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When a covey of admirals forms, they stand around telling each other how much they admire the other's uniforms.

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RE: Hey Thanks friends... - 1/24/2017 6:29:57 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

When a covey of admirals forms, they stand around telling each other how much they admire the other's uniforms.

Oh? Didn't Gilbert and Sullivan reveal that they spent their time "polishing knobs" to get promoted?

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RE: Hey Thanks friends... - 1/24/2017 6:22:18 PM

Schanilec

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Welcome aborad my Northern friend.

And for the rest of you American's. Noooo, North Dakota is NOT a Canadian province. Just barely though. South Manitoba.

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RE: Hey Thanks friends... - 1/24/2017 7:56:44 PM

geofflambert

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quote:

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

quote:

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

When a covey of admirals forms, they stand around telling each other how much they admire the other's uniforms.

Oh? Didn't Gilbert and Sullivan reveal that they spent their time "polishing knobs" to get promoted?

I never let anyone see me polishing my knob. That must be why I never get promoted.

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RE: Hey Thanks friends... - 1/24/2017 7:58:58 PM

geofflambert

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ORIGINAL: Schanilec

Welcome aborad my Northern friend.
And for the rest of you American's. Noooo, North Dakota is NOT a Canadian province. Just barely though. South Manitoba.

There are no Seven-Elevens in N Dak. You have to cross the border to get your beef jerky.

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RE: Hey Thanks friends... - 1/26/2017 4:26:35 PM

Macclan5

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quote:

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

quote:

ORIGINAL: Schanilec

Welcome aborad my Northern friend.
And for the rest of you American's. Noooo, North Dakota is NOT a Canadian province. Just barely though. South Manitoba.

There are no Seven-Elevens in N Dak. You have to cross the border to get your beef jerky.

Disagree Ser Lizard - I was at one albeit a few years ago.

I can personally attest that a large number of citizens of Minot and Bismark North Dakota are (1) great Americans, and (2) some of the friendliest people I have ever met.

The jerky was fine.

Now the mosquito'es (insect / pest / not war plane) are as large as an F4F in June as I recall making them potentially even larger than those in "Friendly Manitoba and Land of the Living Sky (Saskatchewan)" (licence plate motto). I have heard rumor they can sprint off small animals and unattended children.

I think it has to do with the watershed filtration headwaters lands building the Missouri and eventually Mississippi Rivers.

Either that or they blow in from secretive "lost worlds" in mountain cauldrons from Helena Montana

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RE: Hey Thanks friends... - 1/26/2017 4:45:57 PM

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