RE: Stargrunt "one" points system?

I'm a fried egg sandwich and ramen man myself, with frijoles cheese and
rice burritos for some variety. 

Remember that styrofoam bits and sand are free terrain materials...
I've spent many a winter (I was a contract Archaeologist, working during
the 'good' weather, starving in the Winter, most years) making terrain.
Styrofoam, 'stucco-ed' with sand and spray-painted makes nifty 25mm and
1/285 /300 scale buildings......
Scrap balsa, model parts, those disused crappy minis, you'll never
paint.... Use 'em in your terrain... 
It sucks to be poor, I know, but don't worry keep on plugging and you'll
be able to enjoy a 'real' life someday. 
I thought it would never happen, but I'm working at a good job, with hip
folks that pay me what I'm worth (hell, maybe more than that......)

 Anyway, the upshot of the whole thing is that I'm no longer a pauper,
and can sometimes buy not only a couple of cool games, but, sometimes
the mini's to go along with 'em ! I still keep building lo-cost terrain
for fun, but that's just 'cause I'm a cheap bastard, not 'cause I can't
afford it.

Gene

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>From:	"Phillip E. Pournelle"[SMTP:pepourne@nps.navy.mil]
>Sent:	Thursday, May 01, 1997 12:09 PM
>To:	FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
>Cc:	George,Eugene M
>Subject:	Re: Stargrunt "one" points system?
>
>At 09:44 AM 5/1/97 -0500, you wrote:
>>>I like them both a great deal. I think I've gotten the most mileage
>>out
>>>of DSII, though. There is more "web support" and It's very fun
>>collecting
>>>a nice army configured the way YOU want it built. We've >>been doing
a LOT
>>>of Bring-n-battle games at about 20,000 points per >
>>This an average sized battle force in your neck of the woods?
>>
>>Do others have forces of this size? Do I have to go out and buy more
>>minis now?? <sigh>
>>
>>>side. If you can live eating hot dogs and rice for a couple weeks,
>>I'd
>>>recommend buying both. They interface very nicely.
>>
>>Macaroni and cheese w/hot dogs works well, too, and is cheap. I can
>>get 2-3 meals out of one box of M&C, and then have source materials
>>(eg, the empty box) for building terrain for my DS2/SG2 stuff.  :-)
>
>Spoken like true bachelors....  Right now I'm hard pressed to weedle
$35.00
>out of our budget to buy 5 TaunTaun figures.  Good thing I bought my
armies
>back when I was single.
>
>Phil P.
>
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