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"Irv Horowitz" <zippy@fuse.net> wrote in message news:<409e46de$0$49490$a04e5680@nnrp.fuse.net>...
> "M. J. Parks" <parx@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:1f7af36a.0405082336.6ffac77c@posting.google.com...
> > "Irv Horowitz" <zippy@fuse.net> wrote in message
> news:<409cdbe3$0$81191$a0465688@nnrp.fuse.net>...
> > > Here ya go:
> > >
> > > alt.revisionism
> > >
> > > Endless entertainment. Knock yaselves out!
> >
> > Irv,
> >
> > I thought you gave me a good, long, hard plonk. Bored? What have you been
> up to?
>
> I never killfile anyone Mark. I sometimes stop talking to people. Sometimes
> I start again. In your case, I've taken no personal offense, but I wanted
> nothing to do with the threads you were promoting, and have started
> promoting again. I never stopped reading rgmh.
I've simply promoted individual table talk....
> I started this thread to give my opinion on confrontational, divisive
> threads, and where they take a Usenet board. I meant to be laconic, but I'm
> rambling now. Why can't we do political/cultural table talk on this board?
> This isn't your basement Mark, nor is it mine. It's a much more diverse
> group. I'm not sure I'd be welcome in your basement, or you in mine. You
> scarcely know me; I take care not to reveal too much of myself to strangers
> on the internet. I suspect there's much in my beliefs, behavior and personal
> history that you'd disapprove of. So when we meet on this board, we can
> focus on what we have in common, or on what divides us. I prefer the former.
> You'll do what you please. I'm not angry with you, though. If you want
> confrontation and division, I can show you a place where it abounds.
Fear of confrontation is a hippy and cowardly way of saying, "no-mas".
What, did you kill people? What did you do, that would piss me off?
>
> Everything dies, baby, that's a fact,
> But maybe everything that dies some day comes back.
> Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty,
> And meet me tonight in Atlantic City.
>
> - Bruce Springsteen
Bruce is an entertainer. That shouldn't endear him to most.
> It's true that there's not much left lately of rgmh. I post more often on
> The Miniatures Page and on several Yahoo e-lists. Still, I think rgmh has
> potential, as a forum where people can post to a broad audience, rather than
> little clots of gamers subdivided into dozens and scores of specialized
> boards and lists. Right now that broad audience isn't here any more, though
> it seems that there are still many more lurkers than posters. I make the
> occasional post and try to be helpful; I even answer questions about French
> uniforms. If we don't drive newbie visitors away, it's possible rgmh might
> recover, to some degree. Or not. Time will tell.
It's BROAD IRV. It's not gonna be everything you want it to be... But
there is room for both of us, even if you loathe me.
>
> What have I been doing lately? Thanks for asking.
>
> I bought a copy of the latest "Axis and Allies", and my pals and I are
> putting a lot of wear on it. We're big "A&A" fans, have played the various
> editions and extensions for many years. I like the new edition. The map
> changes, especially, seem to make the game better balanced. The Axis has a
> reasonable chance to win, in fact may have an edge over the Allies. Or maybe
> we just haven't figured this version out yet.
>
> I finished writing up wargame scenarios for the battle of Point Pleasant
> 1774, and posted them to the Moccasins Yahoo group. I plan to send them off
> to the HMGS-GL Herald for print publication, so get your subscriptions in!
> (The Herald is on Magweb; you can look my article up there in a few months,
> if you don't care to join Moccasins or HMGS-GL. Look also for my previous
> opus, The Battle of Olentangy, 1782.) Point Pleasant was a major battle on
> the Ohio frontier between the Ohio Nations and the Virginia militia. I've
> GMed this battle many times privately and at conventions under different
> rule sets. I finally got around to formally writing up one scenario for the
> Our Moccasins Trickled Blood rules, and another for Woodland Warfare
> 1754-1763. I hope to continue the series of OMTB scenarios with La Belle
> Famille, 1759 and Monongahela, 1754. If you like flintlock era frontier
> warfare, check out the OMTB rules, available for free download from the
> Moccasins Yahoo group. OMTB was designed to be straight-forward enough to
> support fairly large games with single-mounted 28mm figures in a convention
> atmosphere, and does that very well. The new Perry and Confrontation
> woodland Indian warriors are more good reasons to check these rules out.
>
> I've expanded my Mustangs WWII aircraft collection with several sets of
> 1/144 models from the Bandai Wing Club series. Bandai never marketed these
> in the western hemisphere and HobbyLink Japan can't get them, but a friend
> who travels to east Asia on business has been able to get a few crates of
> them. (I've seen examples go for up to $10 each on E-bay. Ridiculous.
> They're not worth that kind of money to me.) The planes come pre-painted and
> partly assembled, much like the 1/144 Dragon Stukas that are being sold in
> the US. These are great for wargamers. As usual, the problem I find with
> 1/144 kits is putting together a coherant set of planes, bombers and fighter
> for both sides, for a particular theater at a particular time. I don't want
> to fight P-51 Mustangs vs. Bf-109Es. Many fewer subjects are covered in
> 1/144 scale than in 1/72 or 1/300. The Wings Club series adds several
> Japanese and American fighters and a Val dive bomber to my collection, so is
> very useful.
1/144 scale friend? Some friend, beat his butt... Get better prices...
> Bored? Nah, not until I take the dirt nap, and I'll probably find something
> interesting then. What about you, Mark? What have you been playing lately?
Don't die on us Irv. 6mm ACW. 5500 guys. I'll post a paint question
soon.
See Ya,
Mark
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