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Re: My fleet is (emphatically not) bigger'n your fleet!
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Date: 
Mon, 8 Nov 1999 06:53:35 GMT
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Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:

> In lugnet.pirates, Richard Parsons writes:
> > Man you guys have some hardware.
> > 
> > My fleet is based on just 4 RBR and 3 AF.  That gives me the Agamemnon (4
> > centres), the Pequad (2) the something else (2) that hasn't made it off the
> > chocks yet, and two little AF based raider types.
> 
> Ah, but you are using Lego in a fashion more to the conception of what it
> should be: build and display.  Wackos like Frank and myself are using them as
> miniatures for gaming.  I assure you, my stuff doesn't look half as nice as
> yours.

Nor does mine--for some reason, I can't build an attractive sailing ship.  I always
end up having to stuff a funnel on it somewhere.

> > And you could most certainly shake a thingy at my fleet of row boats.

Mine too.  And your thingy would most likely sink them.

> > 
> > Pictures gentlemen - more pictures!  My imagination is getting its neurons
> > in a twist over the sorts of port scenes one could create with two or three
> > 1st raters.
> 
> My mother-in-law is getting a digital camera.  Perhaps I can borrow it in
> return for fixing her computer.

I'm going to try to hijack my mother's thousand-dollar sony digital camera for a
month between Thanksgiving and New Years'--in the hopes that it'll be a mighty
spate o' building for yours truly.  I can dream!  I also dream of getting my own
"cheapie," maybe under $200 with insanely low resolution (352x284 or somesuch).

> > Lord help you all if I can get some (small) parts of your fleets under my
> > guns ;-)
> 
> Arrrr, you be not wantin' to be squarin' off wif me massed fleet.  Port Block
> be doomed and me men'll have thar way wif the horses (Arrrr, they be a confused
> lot).

_The Art of War_ makes that one of its central tenets--not the "manhandle the
horses" thing, but "don't hit them where they're strongest".  Wheel out the long
carronades and circle 'em with sloops!  Arrr...1588 all over again.

I can perhaps understand the horses--after all, there's only one pirate wench.

LFB.



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  Re: My fleet is (emphatically not) bigger'n your fleet!
 
(...) long (...) Them carronades be throwing a big ball a short ways. Good fer poundin' in close. "Long carronades" be what they call an oxymoron (I be an eddicated pyrate). Cap'n Redbeard (27 years ago, 8-Nov-99, to lugnet.pirates)

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(...) Ah, but you are using Lego in a fashion more to the conception of what it should be: build and display. Wackos like Frank and myself are using them as miniatures for gaming. I assure you, my stuff doesn't look half as nice as yours. (...) My (...) (27 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.pirates)

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