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(...) yah yah! I remember copying it (shhh, i was young) sector by sector, since my poor apple][+'s 48k memory couldn't do more than that... :) yay locksmith *grin* :) Dan PS. Hope my age isn't showing ;) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.dear-lego)
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These are great! Lots of praise to follow: 1) I am amazed by the green-hilly-mountain-forest area of the scenery - it looks amazing! With the trees and use of those huge baseplate mounds and the water ... *drool drool* Landscaping can make the (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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Ahh, that's it! I looked up vehicle stats in the Brikwars 2000 tome (I'm slowly making the conversion from version '98), and it all makes sense to me. Under the 2000 guidelines, the halftrack is actually a "huge" treaded vehicle, with base stats of (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Well, if you're going to write it, then I won't bother :) (...) Never fear, Adrian is here! I remembered that (after you left, of course) so I at least have hte 4 of us still there. I'll send it to you (or upload it to the brickshelf archive (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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(...) Wolfenstein was created by....ummmmm....dang....that was so long ago even I forget. I mean the ORIGINAL Castle Wolfenstein (Apple ][). Top down graphics, not first person. But yes, the engine by IDG has been copied many times. These guys (...) (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Always. Still is (my question was rhetorical). Bruce (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Blizzard (originally Silicon and Synapse, then Brainstorm, now Blizzard) was founded by Alan Adham (Allen? I forget). Much of his early contract work was for the company he lived near, Interplay Productions. Interplay has been in Orange County (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Inaugural Ohio BrikWar battle report! (...) Oh shoot! You know what we forgot? The group photo at the end, where it shows the players together. :( Drew Lawrence (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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Well, I'm not sure what my brother-in-law did in regards to uploading the pics of BrikWars to BrickShelf, but something went wrong along the line. Yesterday he gave me copies of all the pics he took on floppy disks along with his password for (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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The way this works is a creative company invents a gaming engine and several others copy it. Classic example Wolfenstein/Doom invented by Idg. These guys invented the 3D shooter engine that was copied by many others. Once software engine is created, (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.dear-lego)
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Maybe they're there now. They were in Canada before (where they started). -- Paul Davidson Alex <legowiz@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:Ft6nnL.89v@lugnet.com... (...) take, (...) Blizzard (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) I'm not likely to field another keep any time soon. Re-reading the rules Saturday made me realize that my real strength as a TL2/3 army is in my ability to field fairly fast and powerful units (mounted knights) fairly cheaply. For the cost of (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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(...) Well it does say that you can tow other, smaller vehicles, with a movement penalty equal to that vehicles power rating. (2000 rules 4.1.3 - third from last paragraph) If you treat the Mass Driver MkII as a vehicle in and of itself, you'd only (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Had the tree not obscured my Pilot's vision, I would have just left it there for the duration of the game. (...) I saw that yesterday about the -2 UR for opportunity fire, that and you can't have fired on your previous turn, not on the turn (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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(...) WHAT!!!!!!! It was in Irvine???? I live there! When was it there? (...) would (...) Alex Alex (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Get cracking. Start working up the text and we'll work out a way to merge it with the pics. (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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(...) I like this one. (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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(...) Agreed. I know that Mike is planning some. I've already started one. I actually had a simple one at the battle. But, I think I forgot to show it to anyone. I may email Mike and volunteer to do the charts for BW2000. (...) Those were a lot of (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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Here's my dilemna - how should I treat a WWII-style howitzer in Brikwars rules? The barrel, from breech to tip, is 16 studs long, and it's simply mounted on a two-wheel chassis with which to be towed by my Sd.kfz 251 Halftrack. When we last played (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.gaming)
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(...) That wasn't even a mecha. That was a Terran Marine, from StarCraft. The little guy was a technic scale Marine, even though it had a minifigure's head in it. (There is no way to mount a Technic guy's head like you can a minifig's.) (...) Yeah! (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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