The Martians have invaded, time to return the favor!

The Martians have invaded, time to return the favor!

Monday, February 4, 2008

The Nearly Great Game: Our Version


As you've seen from our background :
You get an idea of how we have broken
down the history and factions of that
time.
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What you may not have gleaned is who is playing what.
Also or gaming philosophy about the composition of the
various factions.
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The main point is this, each of our players has two nations
or factions, one on each side of the alliance.
This is done deliberately to divide loyalties.
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Yours Truly :Don M, I own a large collection
of most of the factions we play however, my joy
is creating the scenarios and campaigns. I then
moderate the games play. I also take on the role
of pirates/natives/rebels/beasts etc.
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Bill: Plays Russians and Germans when here,
otherwise he designs some entertaining games!
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Joe : Plays Germans and Confederates
Just A Decurion : Plays Russians and Americans
La Coloniale: Plays Japanese and French
whoa mohomed : British and (he doesn't know it yet) Italians.
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Associate members
Tas: The masked man behind Yours in a White Wine Sauce!
penguin133 : Great scenarios that inspire us on...)
Tim M : Some great games that we follow !
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Our gaming philosophy is summed up best by
"Computers and Gaming"From: dnhelber
at the Ouargistan Group***Show me a computer***
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-- that will say, "Really beautiful paint job on those Pathans."
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-- that will pull its hair and make gargling sounds when its
crack unit fires a volley and gets zero hits.
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-- that will stop at a Middle Eastern food store to get snacks
for the Colonials game
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-- that will supply everybody with funky hats appropriate to
the game's period
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-- that will stay up all night painting weird figures and making
props for some scenario inspired by a Monty Python skit
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-- that will say, "remember that game where Lord Gordon
charged the baggage train and got pulled off his horse and
strangled with a bowstring by some nameless archer in
pajamas?"
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-- that will shoot your hotshot gunfighter off the roof of
the saloon, and insist that you replay the fall in slow
motion, Sam Peckinpaugh-style.
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-- that will take a pottery course with his wife and come
back with a kiln-fired ceramic Foreign Legion outpost
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-- that refers to your Dixon samurai as
"the Elmer Fudd ronin"
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-- that will pass out broomhandle-Mauser water pistols
to the German players
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-- that will humor your fetishes by building a cardboard
steam-tank for the great landships game because he
knows you will humor his with a cardboard native sailboat
for the giant Nile battle.
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-- that will notice that inverted Yoplait containers would
make perfect towers for that native hill-fort
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-- that will cry out in despair, "They're all dead, and I
only painted them last night!"

2 comments:

Bill said...

-- that will cry out in despair, "They're all dead, and I
only painted them last night!"

LOL, God have I ever been there!

Joe said...

We've done allot of that ;-)