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(...) ...Woohoo! Great pics and walk thru! It was almost as if I was there... oh wait, I was there (at least mostly :-) ...Thanks for the write up, and thanks again for running it (cant wait till next year!) (...) ...Those emergency cutters were (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jul-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) I'm not sure you can with SC3K. I'm still working it out. If I have to do some hacking to utilize an option that was released with previous versions of the program and not this one, I'll be miffed :( Later, Mike (24 years ago, 2-Jul-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.ideas, lugnet.gaming)
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Steve Jackson wrote in message ... (...) Of course all the people who posted their pictures must also be thanked, I just searched them out and added commentary. I still need to finish processing the web cam pictures, I'll be referencing a bunch of (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jul-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) I didn't know you could import customized objects into the recent versions of SimCity -- I wonder if they have a Linux version of it out yet. :) --Todd (24 years ago, 29-Jun-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.ideas, lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Glad you liked it Mike, and thanks for the rulebook - much as we didn't use every page, it was definitely consoling to have a copy (or three) of it lying around (oh and top marks on the writing style - this rulebook would be required reading (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au.nsw.syd, lugnet.org.au, lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Hm, ask and ye shall receive, I guess. ;) Since I haven't taken the ketch apart (yet), I set it up for a few quick pictures while I had the digital camera set up. The ketch is a pretty simple design, based on the idea that it had to be the (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) It really has! I can't believe that SHAG had the audacity to field both the Village People *and* ABBA - I've never seen such a diabolical maneuver. (Although there was one time we had a sorceror start summoning Britney Spears clones all over (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au.nsw.syd, lugnet.org.au, lugnet.gaming)
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Here's another thanks to Frank for posting all the pictures. There are some great islands there . . . and I like what I can see here of the bomb ketch design! ROFL at Timmy and Jar Jar marooned . . . (24 years ago, 26-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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Frank, I just wanted to say thanks for posting all of these comments about the pictures from the Pirate game at BrickFest. I'm sure it took quite a bit of time to do, and I wanted to let you know that it was appreciated. :-) -Andy Lynch ----- (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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Did I miss anyone's pictures besides: Dan and Jennifer Boger's Chris Weeks (not posted yet) Web Cam (lots of work, a couple hundred pictures were taken) (24 years ago, 23-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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Shiri Dori's Pictures: (URL) Courtney is getting psyched for the game. pirates2: I'm confused about something (standing). Jeff Stembel, Andy Lynch, Chris Weeks, Jameson, Lindsay Braun. pirates3_mike: Mike Shamu in the center. Stephen Roberts is (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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Tim Courtney's Pictures: (URL) Roberts p6100075: Lindsay Braun and the assembled fleet. Lindsay's ship is by his foot and the Eldorado Fortress is beside him. p6100076: Jeff Stembel, Andy Lynch, Jackie Lynch, Chris Weeks, and Stephen Roberts's legs. (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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The island Chuck Rex shows in this picture: (URL) be featured in a later pirate game... (24 years ago, 23-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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Here's Jason's pictures: (URL) looks like turn 1. People clockwise from the left are Jackie Lynch, Chris Weeks, Stephen Roberts, Abe Friedman, Jameson, someone's legs, the back of Shiri's head, Andy Lynch's legs. This is a nice picture of the (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) (URL) image22 and image23: (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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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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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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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) ...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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(...) Ahoy, there Cap'n Steve! Welcome aboard!!! :-D Franklin (24 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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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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(...) 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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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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(...) ...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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(...) ...I think cutters worked well enuf for our general level of cluelessness :-) Tho perhaps it would have been nicer with size 2 ships so we could at least have a spare gun about :-) ...you can go back to ignoring me now... wubwub stephen f (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) ...BTW: I thought your 'instant cutters' with 2 end to end boat pieces worked quite well. U should ship off pics to Evil Stevie for reference in emergencies like we had (too few cutters!) (...) ...I agree the 18" worked great as a way to limit (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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I know John expressed interest in playing again. We just need to work out a date. Jason (...) WAMALUG (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) And dice and pirate props. Good point. I will need to make a check list for preperation and packing. (24 years ago, 19-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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