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Re: D/FW Mechwarrior's Guild: The endless struggle of brains versus bleach!
« Reply #120 on: 20 February 2017, 11:28:13 »
Naval Command just updated. Not much in the way of rules changes(he did add rules for adverse weather, though), though some nice ship updates. Among other things, the Iowa-class finally has decent range on the main guns, and I know what Dauphin helicopters actually do.
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« Reply #121 on: 20 February 2017, 22:47:57 »
I managed to get copies of the forms for all my plastic Crimson Skies planes today and found the maps in my box of maps.  So, it is ready to go.
The Patton of wargame design, the Berg himself, is being immortally quoted elsewhere.
"Rich Berg once responded to gamers comments about one of his games, "I make this ****** up, so can you.""

"Back in MY day we played Battletech with figures made of LEAD! POISONED LEAD! And the only PAINT we had was RADIOACTIVE! Why, we lost at least THREE or FOUR dear friends every YEAR to BATTLETECH POISONING! But we didn't know any better, and we LIKED IT!
And we rolled DICE for HOURS to play our games! There was none of this plastic clicky nonsense! Our DICE were radioactive TOO! And we had to roll them for hours and hours and hours to track EVERY SINGLE MISSILE! Why, my some of my friends are STILL rolling dice for their last turn when I left Norman THREE YEARS ago! And I don't plan to move back for at least five years and it STILL won't be my turn! But we didn't know any better, and we LIKED IT.
These kids today."  --Jim Butcher, Dresden Chronicles Author

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Re: D/FW Mechwarrior's Guild: The endless struggle of brains versus bleach!
« Reply #122 on: 20 February 2017, 23:56:17 »
What a congruence, I'm finishing up a pair of Devastators in Jade Falcon(or random bird-obsessed air priates, same thing) colors right now. ^-^
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Re: D/FW Mechwarrior's Guild: The endless struggle of brains versus bleach!
« Reply #123 on: 21 February 2017, 08:39:24 »
Show me a picture and I'll try matching them up with a plane from the base set.
The Patton of wargame design, the Berg himself, is being immortally quoted elsewhere.
"Rich Berg once responded to gamers comments about one of his games, "I make this ****** up, so can you.""

"Back in MY day we played Battletech with figures made of LEAD! POISONED LEAD! And the only PAINT we had was RADIOACTIVE! Why, we lost at least THREE or FOUR dear friends every YEAR to BATTLETECH POISONING! But we didn't know any better, and we LIKED IT!
And we rolled DICE for HOURS to play our games! There was none of this plastic clicky nonsense! Our DICE were radioactive TOO! And we had to roll them for hours and hours and hours to track EVERY SINGLE MISSILE! Why, my some of my friends are STILL rolling dice for their last turn when I left Norman THREE YEARS ago! And I don't plan to move back for at least five years and it STILL won't be my turn! But we didn't know any better, and we LIKED IT.
These kids today."  --Jim Butcher, Dresden Chronicles Author

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Re: D/FW Mechwarrior's Guild: The endless struggle of brains versus bleach!
« Reply #124 on: 21 February 2017, 09:52:07 »
I thought Devastators were already in the base set? ???



(I'll also bring an IWM Brigand I painted up a while back when we do this.)
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« Reply #125 on: 21 February 2017, 20:53:16 »
Oh, sorry.  I thought you were talking some type of Omnifighter that shared the name. 

Anyhow, here is the closest I've seen to a video for Crimson Skies (I think the two guys who worked on this must have at least played the video game):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raRGnueg8Lo
The Patton of wargame design, the Berg himself, is being immortally quoted elsewhere.
"Rich Berg once responded to gamers comments about one of his games, "I make this ****** up, so can you.""

"Back in MY day we played Battletech with figures made of LEAD! POISONED LEAD! And the only PAINT we had was RADIOACTIVE! Why, we lost at least THREE or FOUR dear friends every YEAR to BATTLETECH POISONING! But we didn't know any better, and we LIKED IT!
And we rolled DICE for HOURS to play our games! There was none of this plastic clicky nonsense! Our DICE were radioactive TOO! And we had to roll them for hours and hours and hours to track EVERY SINGLE MISSILE! Why, my some of my friends are STILL rolling dice for their last turn when I left Norman THREE YEARS ago! And I don't plan to move back for at least five years and it STILL won't be my turn! But we didn't know any better, and we LIKED IT.
These kids today."  --Jim Butcher, Dresden Chronicles Author

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Re: D/FW Mechwarrior's Guild: The endless struggle of brains versus bleach!
« Reply #126 on: 25 February 2017, 19:13:15 »
So what's the plan for tomorrow? I wasn't able to get the Halo ships converted.
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Re: D/FW Mechwarrior's Guild: The endless struggle of brains versus bleach!
« Reply #127 on: 25 February 2017, 21:01:44 »
I have all the record sheets for Crimson Skies.  There is some character generation involved as each pilot and wingman has five stats and experience points that must be allocated.  I'll try to get there much sooner than my usual 1:30.
The Patton of wargame design, the Berg himself, is being immortally quoted elsewhere.
"Rich Berg once responded to gamers comments about one of his games, "I make this ****** up, so can you.""

"Back in MY day we played Battletech with figures made of LEAD! POISONED LEAD! And the only PAINT we had was RADIOACTIVE! Why, we lost at least THREE or FOUR dear friends every YEAR to BATTLETECH POISONING! But we didn't know any better, and we LIKED IT!
And we rolled DICE for HOURS to play our games! There was none of this plastic clicky nonsense! Our DICE were radioactive TOO! And we had to roll them for hours and hours and hours to track EVERY SINGLE MISSILE! Why, my some of my friends are STILL rolling dice for their last turn when I left Norman THREE YEARS ago! And I don't plan to move back for at least five years and it STILL won't be my turn! But we didn't know any better, and we LIKED IT.
These kids today."  --Jim Butcher, Dresden Chronicles Author

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Re: D/FW Mechwarrior's Guild: The endless struggle of brains versus bleach!
« Reply #128 on: 27 February 2017, 17:14:41 »
There is a HUGE clicky tech collection of nine Crimson skies planes sets for $175 on Ebay I would be willing to chip in for.  I just want the Aces Wild and Sky Enforcers packs.
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The Patton of wargame design, the Berg himself, is being immortally quoted elsewhere.
"Rich Berg once responded to gamers comments about one of his games, "I make this ****** up, so can you.""

"Back in MY day we played Battletech with figures made of LEAD! POISONED LEAD! And the only PAINT we had was RADIOACTIVE! Why, we lost at least THREE or FOUR dear friends every YEAR to BATTLETECH POISONING! But we didn't know any better, and we LIKED IT!
And we rolled DICE for HOURS to play our games! There was none of this plastic clicky nonsense! Our DICE were radioactive TOO! And we had to roll them for hours and hours and hours to track EVERY SINGLE MISSILE! Why, my some of my friends are STILL rolling dice for their last turn when I left Norman THREE YEARS ago! And I don't plan to move back for at least five years and it STILL won't be my turn! But we didn't know any better, and we LIKED IT.
These kids today."  --Jim Butcher, Dresden Chronicles Author

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Re: D/FW Mechwarrior's Guild: The endless struggle of brains versus bleach!
« Reply #129 on: 27 February 2017, 17:48:46 »
(Just a reminder, any further discussion of this needs to go to PM.)
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« Reply #130 on: 27 February 2017, 21:09:43 »
My apologies.  Anyway, the book with the airplane quirks is "Behind the Crimson Veil", Yazhuk cleaned them up a bit in his fanbook on Bombers:

http://montanaraiders.com/yahzuksbomberrules.pdf
The Patton of wargame design, the Berg himself, is being immortally quoted elsewhere.
"Rich Berg once responded to gamers comments about one of his games, "I make this ****** up, so can you.""

"Back in MY day we played Battletech with figures made of LEAD! POISONED LEAD! And the only PAINT we had was RADIOACTIVE! Why, we lost at least THREE or FOUR dear friends every YEAR to BATTLETECH POISONING! But we didn't know any better, and we LIKED IT!
And we rolled DICE for HOURS to play our games! There was none of this plastic clicky nonsense! Our DICE were radioactive TOO! And we had to roll them for hours and hours and hours to track EVERY SINGLE MISSILE! Why, my some of my friends are STILL rolling dice for their last turn when I left Norman THREE YEARS ago! And I don't plan to move back for at least five years and it STILL won't be my turn! But we didn't know any better, and we LIKED IT.
These kids today."  --Jim Butcher, Dresden Chronicles Author

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What's the plan for this weekend?
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I can bring my planes again.
The Patton of wargame design, the Berg himself, is being immortally quoted elsewhere.
"Rich Berg once responded to gamers comments about one of his games, "I make this ****** up, so can you.""

"Back in MY day we played Battletech with figures made of LEAD! POISONED LEAD! And the only PAINT we had was RADIOACTIVE! Why, we lost at least THREE or FOUR dear friends every YEAR to BATTLETECH POISONING! But we didn't know any better, and we LIKED IT!
And we rolled DICE for HOURS to play our games! There was none of this plastic clicky nonsense! Our DICE were radioactive TOO! And we had to roll them for hours and hours and hours to track EVERY SINGLE MISSILE! Why, my some of my friends are STILL rolling dice for their last turn when I left Norman THREE YEARS ago! And I don't plan to move back for at least five years and it STILL won't be my turn! But we didn't know any better, and we LIKED IT.
These kids today."  --Jim Butcher, Dresden Chronicles Author

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Sounds like a plan. O0
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The Patton of wargame design, the Berg himself, is being immortally quoted elsewhere.
"Rich Berg once responded to gamers comments about one of his games, "I make this ****** up, so can you.""

"Back in MY day we played Battletech with figures made of LEAD! POISONED LEAD! And the only PAINT we had was RADIOACTIVE! Why, we lost at least THREE or FOUR dear friends every YEAR to BATTLETECH POISONING! But we didn't know any better, and we LIKED IT!
And we rolled DICE for HOURS to play our games! There was none of this plastic clicky nonsense! Our DICE were radioactive TOO! And we had to roll them for hours and hours and hours to track EVERY SINGLE MISSILE! Why, my some of my friends are STILL rolling dice for their last turn when I left Norman THREE YEARS ago! And I don't plan to move back for at least five years and it STILL won't be my turn! But we didn't know any better, and we LIKED IT.
These kids today."  --Jim Butcher, Dresden Chronicles Author

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I just looked over my stash of Dystopian Wars pieces.

 In addition to the British squadron that I just purchased, I found a "demo" pack with two small squadrons: Federated States of America vs. Covenant of Antarctica (I'll have to kit-bash or borrow some turrets). I also found a large FSA landship that is AMPHIBIUS >:D.

Since the demo pack has a brief set of rules and the Brit set has movement templates, I may see how this plays. O0
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It's a solid game. They have the current rulebook on the site, but they just did a kickstarter for a new one as well. I have a two huge forces of Russians and Japanese for it, and my buddy TC has ze Prussians as well.

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For the Russians I have a Belgorod class land ship and a Tyumen class repair vehicle (x2); for the Blazing Sun I have the tower set; for the Prussians I have the Seydlitz class mobile airfield (complete w/ tiny flyers tokens) O0
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HUZZAH...my X-wing foam trays have arrived; the Hound's Tooth is STILL a pain to fit.
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I've had a pretty bad sore throat with coughing since I came home from school.  So I think I will sit this week out.
The Patton of wargame design, the Berg himself, is being immortally quoted elsewhere.
"Rich Berg once responded to gamers comments about one of his games, "I make this ****** up, so can you.""

"Back in MY day we played Battletech with figures made of LEAD! POISONED LEAD! And the only PAINT we had was RADIOACTIVE! Why, we lost at least THREE or FOUR dear friends every YEAR to BATTLETECH POISONING! But we didn't know any better, and we LIKED IT!
And we rolled DICE for HOURS to play our games! There was none of this plastic clicky nonsense! Our DICE were radioactive TOO! And we had to roll them for hours and hours and hours to track EVERY SINGLE MISSILE! Why, my some of my friends are STILL rolling dice for their last turn when I left Norman THREE YEARS ago! And I don't plan to move back for at least five years and it STILL won't be my turn! But we didn't know any better, and we LIKED IT.
These kids today."  --Jim Butcher, Dresden Chronicles Author

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whats up guys stoped by the shop earlar to find out whats been up

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 :o GOOD GILGAMESH ALMIGHTY YOU'RE ALIVE :o .......(yes, I did an OBIT search).......

I was at the shop at noon to meet Darrell; I left about 2pm. (sorry)

...btw...if you have any Crimson Skies stuff, dust it off and bring it.
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dont have any Crimson Skies stuff,

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whats up guys
dont have any Crimson Skies stuff
AchanhiArusa has plenty for multiple people. Heck, aside from a handful of minis, he's been supplying all the materials for the games we've played.

On a side note, how many people here would be interested in some Age of Sail naval gaming sometime? Won't be anytime very soon, but I've found a cheap way to build up fairly large fleets, and a pdf of Wooden Ships and Iron Men. It's a pretty good-looking system(if old), roughly Battletech-level in its complexity or a bit less. Like I said, it wouldn't be any time soon, as I'd still need time to assemble more ships, and find a good blue map with 2"  hexes.
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BROADSIDES FIRE :D
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New Armada wave [drool]

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On a side note, how many people here would be interested in some Age of Sail naval gaming sometime? Won't be anytime very soon, but I've found a cheap way to build up fairly large fleets, and a pdf of Wooden Ships and Iron Men. It's a pretty good-looking system(if old), roughly Battletech-level in its complexity or a bit less. Like I said, it wouldn't be any time soon, as I'd still need time to assemble more ships, and find a good blue map with 2"  hexes.

....My father had two copies of that game when I was a wee lad.

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...so which one of us should be feeling old?
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...so apparently a new edition of Starmada is going to be coming out, called Unity. It's supposed to be a blend of Admiralty and Nova, but it also means that ADB will cease supporting Klingon Armada in Admiralty.

I am pissed. [madflame]
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...so which one of us should be feeling old?

I vote "Yes", because I remember playing it as a wee lad.

 

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