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The following pictures aren't of the game, but show some of the pirate stuff present: image22 and image23: Lindsay Braun's Gloire. We didn't use this in the game (though I might have brought it out if the pirates needed a severe spanking... image24: (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Abe Friedman's Brickfest Pirate Game Pictures
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Ok, I'm going to follow up with comments on other folks pictures, so we'll start with Abe Friedman's pictures: (URL) Island is visited by three ships. That's Chris Weeks's ship in the upper left (and I think those are Chris's legs), Stephen (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | My Brickfest Pirate Game Pictures
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Ok, I've uploaded my Pirate Game pictures to here: (URL) brief description of each picture: pgame-01: Here we are on turn 2 I think. Around the room clockwise starting in the upper left are Stephen Roberts, Abe Friedman, Jameson, Lindsay Braun, Tim (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Siege Mortar Pics (Was: Re: Brickfest 2000 Pirate Game Postmortem)
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OK, pics of the Pirate Game Siege Mortar are up: (URL) provide more info if needed, but I'm dead tired right now...just back from MI. I'm crossposting it to .build given all the questions I had about the things at Brickfest, but followups will (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Brickfest 2000 Pirate Game Postmortem
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(...) Must..... restrain.... evil.... cackle....... (...) Plunder! Arrr!!! (...) Arrr! Y' see, matey, if'n y' lives long enou', y' learn how t' keep on livin'! Franklin (24 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.wa)
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| | Re: Brickfest 2000 Pirate Game Postmortem
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(...) big train event at the Seattle Center. I figured since there will be a lot of AFOL's here for the event we could have a Brickfest of sorts right along with it. Interested? Anyone? (...) sure I can count in one or two more as well from the guys (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.wa)
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| | Re: Brickfest 2000 Pirate Game Postmortem
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(...) I like the way the mortars are shaping up. Opportunity fire for a fort really is an appropriate advantage, as long as normal initiative time between shots isn't violated, simulating load/reload time. Sean, the pirate mad (24 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: Brickfest 2000 Pirate Game Postmortem
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(...) Go ahead and upload to Brickshelf. Please do some dissassembly if there is anything which might not be clear from the final model. (...) At this point, it will be early July before I get a chance to read the seige mortar rules in depth and (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: Brickfest 2000 Pirate Game Postmortem
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(...) The writeup looks excellent. It really summarises everything quite well. One quick comment: (...) Just to get it on the table, as it were, I'm currently in MI and so both the mortars and the digital camera are in NJ. I'm not yet very facile (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: Brickfest 2000 Pirate Game Postmortem
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Seattle? Well I'd like to try to get a game going this summer during PNLTC's big train event at the Seattle Center. I figured since there will be a lot of AFOL's here for the event we could have a Brickfest of sorts right along with it. Interested? (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.wa)
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| | Re: Brickfest 2000 Pirate Game Postmortem
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(...) Well put. The first campaign I played allowed for a Class 1 with a cannon or a Class 2 without (this was Evil Stevie's fleet so there were no shortages) I took a Class 2 with extra crew and intimidated a few fishermen into 'donating' thier (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: Brickfest 2000 Pirate Game Postmortem
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(...) to (...) much, but it would be fun. (...) Arr! Having faced the amassed fleet of Capt'n Stevie before, I can safely say that ye won't be needing ta' bring anything but lots of caffinated beverages! As a survivor of the 12 hour battle during (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: Brickfest 2000 Pirate Game Postmortem
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(...) ...woohoo! (...) ...Well, despite all our missteps and problems, everyone seemed had fun, which is the #1 goal of the game. And most people seemed to accept the little problems as just part of the game so didn't even mind them :-) (...) (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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Steve Jackson wrote in message ... (...) Hooray! Welcome aboard matey, or should that be captain... (...) Probably the best thing to do is just let the younger player do as they will, so long as they don't do something which directly affects (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: Brickfest 2000 Pirate Game Postmortem
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(...) Ahoy, there Cap'n Steve! Welcome aboard!!! :-D Franklin (24 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: Brickfest 2000 Pirate Game Postmortem
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Aha! It looks like I can now read/post to the Lugnet web interface! Unless of course this message does not show up, in which case, ignore the above. I enjoyed reading Frank's writeup. Yes, as far as I know, this is the first major "blindtest" of the (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: Brickfest 2000 Pirate Game Postmortem
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(...) Well, that makes two of us. I've actually hardly unpacked. I really need to take a picture of my work area. My computer right now is in a little cozzy cubby made up of all the boxes of stuff. I've maybe unpacked two boxes, and then I've gotten (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) I have not yet done so. I might do it tomorrow morning...I'd meant to get it done before now. Chris (24 years ago, 19-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: Brickfest 2000 Pirate Game Postmortem
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One other thing, I'm working on a writeup of the game. I've looked at all the pictures posted so far (has anyone yet to post pictures besides myself?), and I got through about an hour or so worth of the web cam, selecting out good pictures. I still (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: Brickfest 2000 Pirate Game Postmortem
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(...) ...I still think we should have lunched at Long John Silver's to get lots of little paper hats :-) ...you can go back to ignoring me now... wubwub stephen f roberts wamalug guy ((URL) Guide ((URL) the wildlink ((URL) #160 (24 years ago, 19-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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