The Nearly Great Game: Our Version

As you've seen from our background :

http://vsf15mm.blogspot.com/2007/06/revised-timeline-of-history.html

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!"