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Immediately upon completion of your game, you will of course repair to your computer desk and upload no fewer than a dozen clear and well-defined digital images of said gaming adventure, will you not?

We should expect no less of you, my good fellow.

cama wrote:And due to unforeseen circumstances, there was no demo.

Maybe in a couple of weeks.

sorry to hear that...

Cama, just out of curiousity, was it due to attendance or location or what?

Troy

cama wrote: Flames of War incidentally has died a miserable and well deserved death at our club, so there might be a hole for historicals. FoW suffered from a shoddy US distributor - the local shop said he would rather keep ordering from New Zealand than deal with the US office. Also, the problem from the FoW marketing end was once you have your 1500pts done, you're done. Very little scaleabilty. Big games are very tough to do, unless you want your table to look like a mall parking lot at Christmas. ...Grant

I used to use 15mms for a few years,loved the minis,the detail,but like you mentioned the scale was not friendly to the overall presentation,no matter the rule system. Now I'm back to the micro Armour. Large battles,small areas,wonderful minis,and of course presentation. I use a 1"=100m for even 1 to 1 scale,and this still doesnt give the "parking lot" look. Maybe those Flames of warriors will check into micro armour. After all its their minis not their game that is eating up their maneuver room(and money)...

Howdy,

Keep plugging away with this, Grant... it will take hold

And I would like to hear more about this interesting 'adopt a little gamer' day, very intriguing!

cama wrote:
Flames of War incidentally has died a miserable and well deserved death at our club, so there might be a hole for historicals. FoW suffered from a shoddy US distributor - the local shop said he would rather keep ordering from New Zealand than deal with the US office. Also, the problem from the FoW marketing end was once you have your 1500pts done, you're done. Very little scaleabilty. Big games are very tough to do, unless you want your table to look like a mall parking lot at Christmas.

Grant

I always have had good response to the US office in washington state <US> as for the 1500 points being done when you achieved that point...I build a variety of armies out of that...either panzer...grendadier or even Luftwaffe...I do agree tho nothing beats micro armor

I tried to get up to Red Deer and was hoping to do so as well as I've been wanting to play the GHQ ruels to get a handle of how the system works. But unfortunately, the in laws were in town for the weekend.

Let me know when it is ahead of time and I will try to get there.

Coming from the other end, I'm interested to try to get down to Red Deer. (Though I"m pretty rusty, haven't played Micro-armour for a couple years now...)

Unfortunatly I work for Blockbuster, so my week-ends are pretty tight. But with some warning (2-3 weeks), I might be able to do something.

cama wrote:

Vagabond Elf wrote:Coming from the other end, I'm interested to try to get down to Red Deer. (Though I"m pretty rusty, haven't played Micro-armour for a couple years now...)

Unfortunatly I work for Blockbuster, so my week-ends are pretty tight. But with some warning (2-3 weeks), I might be able to do something.

I'll be posting a date here soon, so stay posted.

Grant'

Just as long as its not Oct. 15, I'm gone that weekend up to Grande Prairie.

Grant,

When you do pick a day, let me know. I may be able to come down from Edmonton.

Kevin Barrett.

Grant: Sorry to hear things didn't shake out. My own attempt to teach a wargaming course via the public school system just tanked (they were going to charge $115 for 3 nights of gaming--I wouldn't pay that to hang out with me).

Vagabond Elf: The www.edmontonwargamegroup.com occasionally hauls out the micro armour (although we haven't yet tried the GHQ rules). We meet the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month and have some WW2 stuff going on October 3 if you're in town.

Bob in Edmonton

Hey Bob,

Stop selling yourself short! I don't know of a wargame geek in the city who wouldn't shell out $40 a night to hang with you!

...Oh, I guess that would include me too then, eh? Well, if you threw in pizza and a case of beer, I'd consider it!

Best,
Kevin in Edmonton.

P.S.: Now when is Grant ever going to get his butt up here anyway?

bobbarnetson wrote: Vagabond Elf: The www.edmontonwargamegroup.com occasionally hauls out the micro armour (although we haven't yet tried the GHQ rules). We meet the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month and have some WW2 stuff going on October 3 if you're in town.

Bob in Edmonton

Thanks for the info. That particular day is my 2nd wedding anniversary - so you can see why I'm not coming - but Tuesday in general is in fact my wargaming nght (because I usually open), so I'll see if I can make it down in a week or two just to check it out.

Cheers, Davyd

Vagabond Elf mentioned:
That particular day is my 2nd wedding anniversary - so you can see why I'm not coming

I can't see why he wouldn't come for wargaming. Can you?