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Re: Upcoming Releases Volume XIII: Unlucky Release Edition
« Reply #930 on: 31 October 2018, 10:13:45 »
That sucks that the China freighter has to go to New York not LA.

Just to be clear: not going to New York. I'm being cagey only because the last thing I need to parse is a thousand "where is the ship now???" questions every day for the next month. I don't even have access to that info.

The distributor is not on the West Coast. Driving the boat directly into the first landmass due east from China seems like it'd be faster, but very much isn't.
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Re: Upcoming Releases Volume XIII: Unlucky Release Edition
« Reply #931 on: 31 October 2018, 11:44:13 »
That sucks that the China freighter has to go to New York not LA.

Very glad they are on the boat and on the way. Now to figure out what ship they are on and stalk the ship on Shiptracker!!!

It is a ship from China, there can't be too many of them... right? :)
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Re: Upcoming Releases Volume XIII: Unlucky Release Edition
« Reply #932 on: 31 October 2018, 22:10:50 »
It is a ship from China, there can't be too many of them... right? :)

Sure.

I bet there can't be more than 3-4 other crates on the ship either.

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« Reply #933 on: 31 October 2018, 23:40:37 »
Sure.

I bet there can't be more than 3-4 other crates on the ship either.
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« Reply #934 on: 01 November 2018, 00:29:42 »
Want to track a ship ……

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:143.4/centery:34.1/zoom:7

Just need the name of this ship and you junkies can watch it until it docks!   LOL
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« Reply #935 on: 01 November 2018, 09:02:16 »
That's a lot of boats!

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« Reply #936 on: 02 November 2018, 16:37:57 »
Got the ComGuard WoB and Regis Roost pdfs this morning a couple of nice pieces of work thanks to those involved

I'd sort of echo a comment I read before about it being weird that they were so concentrated in the Republic I know that's where they had caches and finance but pre Blackout a unit with their equipment could gave done very well on open market.  I guess with most of them pretending to hold down regular jobs with Comstar restricted their movement a bit

Regis Roost I scanned over I'll look again in the next day or two but it sounds like a serious gem for the Taurians from what I read

EDIT nice to see a return of the Choir just a shame they didn't concentrate their Omni units in that formation
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Re: Upcoming Releases Volume XIII: Unlucky Release Edition
« Reply #937 on: 02 November 2018, 17:14:15 »
That's a lot of boats!

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Re: Upcoming Releases Volume XIII: Unlucky Release Edition
« Reply #938 on: 02 November 2018, 17:17:06 »
Want to track a ship ……

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:143.4/centery:34.1/zoom:7

Just need the name of this ship and you junkies can watch it until it docks!   LOL

i like how a lot of them are like

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« Reply #939 on: 03 November 2018, 20:00:09 »
The Port of Shanghi is one of the largest container ports in the world. It was just a bad joke saying I need to track the ship, like a FedEx order.

I'm just very glad and exicited that there is some forward movement on a new box set. It will gover nicely with the other boxed sets I have
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Re: Upcoming Releases Volume XIII: Unlucky Release Edition
« Reply #940 on: 07 November 2018, 19:39:29 »
At the crossroads of the Inner Sphere, some secrets are better left buried.

Coming this Friday - Touring the Stars: Hall!

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Re: Upcoming Releases Volume XIII: Unlucky Release Edition
« Reply #941 on: 08 November 2018, 07:39:08 »
At the crossroads of the Inner Sphere, some secrets are better left buried.

Coming this Friday - Touring the Stars: Hall!



Please note he said "Hall" not "Hell" which is how I first mis-read that title.
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« Reply #942 on: 08 November 2018, 10:48:36 »
I was hoping for a typo, making seem like Necromo nightmare.  ::)

Please note he said "Hall" not "Hell" which is how I first mis-read that title.

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« Reply #943 on: 08 November 2018, 11:04:03 »
I can easily see someone naming a planet Hell.
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« Reply #944 on: 08 November 2018, 11:22:22 »
Please note he said "Hall" not "Hell" which is how I first mis-read that title.
Given how much of a meat grinder this planet has been since the Chaos March first formed in 3057, hell would be good nickname for it.
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Re: Upcoming Releases Volume XIII: Unlucky Release Edition
« Reply #945 on: 08 November 2018, 11:22:37 »
You would be wrong if you thought troops had not already named places 'Hell' . . . as in a 'green Hell' . . . or a 'frozen Hell' . . . or 'desert sand-blasted Hell.'  Considering troops generally are given the most unwanted slice of land, it generally gets called some sort of Hell.
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Re: Upcoming Releases Volume XIII: Unlucky Release Edition
« Reply #946 on: 08 November 2018, 15:59:03 »
If you're looking forward to the release of "Touring the Stars: Hall" tomorrow, have you checked out Jason Schmetzer's excellent novel "Embers of War"? All the action in that novel takes place on Hall during 3067, on the eve of the Jihad. It's available in all formats, including audiobook!

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Audiobook: tinyurl.com/EmbersOfWarAudible (Also available on Apple, Nook, Audiobooks.com and many others!)


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Re: Upcoming Releases Volume XIII: Unlucky Release Edition
« Reply #947 on: 08 November 2018, 16:43:38 »
*All* formats? Catalyst Game Labs continues to disregard those of us who prefer to consume content via hand-chiseled stone tablet!

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« Reply #948 on: 08 November 2018, 16:53:10 »
*All* formats? Catalyst Game Labs continues to disregard those of us who prefer to consume content via hand-chiseled stone tablet!

Hardly! Catalyst is eager to meet all customer needs, and has been assured that Bill Keith should be finished chiseling "Decision at Thunder Rift" any year now.
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« Reply #949 on: 08 November 2018, 17:14:57 »
Hardly! Catalyst is eager to meet all customer needs, and has been assured that Bill Keith should be finished chiseling "Decision at Thunder Rift" any year now.

That's fine for him, but I still want my player-piano-roll version of the NAIS Fourth Succession War, Volumes 1 and 2!  ;D

More seriously, I'm happy to see more of the TTS coming out -- I love those supplements  :thumbsup:

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« Reply #950 on: 08 November 2018, 20:54:06 »
If you're looking forward to the release of "Touring the Stars: Hall" tomorrow, have you checked out Jason Schmetzer's excellent novel "Embers of War"? All the action in that novel takes place on Hall during 3067, on the eve of the Jihad. It's available in all formats, including audiobook!

 ;D That was the first thing I thought of when I saw the product.  Loved that book, he did a great job!
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« Reply #951 on: 09 November 2018, 03:09:17 »
;D That was the first thing I thought of when I saw the product.  Loved that book, he did a great job!

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« Reply #952 on: 09 November 2018, 04:31:05 »
*All* formats? Catalyst Game Labs continues to disregard those of us who prefer to consume content via hand-chiseled stone tablet!

Surely there must be some software available that allows you to have the ebook mobi file to be printed on a 3d printer to give you an acceptable facsimile.
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« Reply #953 on: 09 November 2018, 10:04:28 »
*All* formats? Catalyst Game Labs continues to disregard those of us who prefer to consume content via hand-chiseled stone tablet!

Pfft...Hand Chiseled Stone Tablet...I'll see your Table and raise you: QUIPU!

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« Reply #954 on: 09 November 2018, 10:11:45 »
Pfft...Hand Chiseled Stone Tablet...I'll see your Table and raise you: QUIPU!

The truly UNIQUE Form of 'Written' language!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu

Please, that's totally knot a language.
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Re: Upcoming Releases Volume XIII: Unlucky Release Edition
« Reply #955 on: 09 November 2018, 11:52:01 »
I won't be satisfied until we get a version semefore'd by the author

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« Reply #957 on: 09 November 2018, 12:21:36 »
Surely there must be some software available that allows you to have the ebook mobi file to be printed on a 3d printer to give you an acceptable facsimile.

When we have to start worrying about pirated files being distributed to 3d print stone tablet novels, that's when I'm going to walk into the sea.
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« Reply #958 on: 09 November 2018, 12:24:40 »
When we have to start worrying about pirated files being distributed to 3d print stone tablet novels, that's when I'm going to walk into the sea.

that's the Beauty of the Quipu system...can't be replicatecd by printers ;)
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« Reply #959 on: 09 November 2018, 12:28:34 »
And now...Touring the Stars: HALL in Interpretive Dance Format:

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