Re: An introduction

Good to see you post again, Tom.  You ever gonna reply ot my last ideas
email?	:o)

Though I have you beat in infancy when it comes to minaitures.	;o)

I am 18, and I've already posted my RPG experience (I won't go into my
computer game experience in detail.  I started at age 3, my dad's run a
computer company since 85, and I've actually worked here for almost as
long
as I've role-played), but my miniatures experience is much, much
shorter.  I
discovered all those beautifully painted WAB minis last May on the 'net.
 I
was drooling, to say the least.  Visions of just as well painted
miniatures
with just as good scenery on *my* dinig room table floated through my
head.
I found a local group who had just dropped WFB for 40K.  I demoed one
game
with them and found myself sorely disappointed both with the game and
the
local group.  I still decided to pursue it.  I bought 10 Terminators and
10
Marines and two Jetbikes (it was a slightly illegal hybrid army.
heheheh).
I then went to Origins'98, which was my first con ever, and was like a
kid
in a toy store on their birthday.  there I discovered the relative low
prices of historical miniatures.  I also discovered Warhammer Ancient
Battles (not a GW product, just made by some of their employees).  So, I
went home with a dozen Normans and immediately switched my plans to
ancient/midieval wargaming.  From there I found that I really, really
enjoy
painting.  I ended up getting a deal with Mr. KR of GeoHex to paint the
New
Israeli Assault Troops (now visible on his web site), and in return he
thrust a copy of SGII into my hands.  I was skeptical, due to it's
general
lack of popularity, but I thought I'd give it a try.  This was last
month or
so.  I sat down and played a game.  Then I proceeded to play tow more
games
the next day.  I was hooked.  SGII is by far the best modern/sci-fi
infantry
game I've played yet. (which include it and 40K and Combat Zone)  For
me,
while I like the heroics of role playing, the realism of SGII is just so
addicting.  <shrugs & grins>  So there...  I bet I'm one of the newest
players on this list.  :o)

God bless,
- Buddy

---------------------------------------------
Get paid for surfing the Web!
(I'm dead serious!)
www.alladvantage.com
Referal #: BXL-474
---------------------------------------------
----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Anderson <thomas.anderson@university-college.oxford.ac.uk>
To: <gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 3:32 PM
Subject: Re: An introduction

> On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, -MWS- wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, John Kovalic wrote:
> >
> > > I've been a gamer for about 20 year now (gaaah!). I'm 36, which
bemuses me.
> > > A year ago, someone referred to me as a "veteran of the gaming
industry,"
> > > which scares the hell out of me.
> >
> > Hiya John!	Don't worry, there are quite a few of us in the "over
40"
club on
> > this ML.  No need to be scared . . .
>
> there are some of us who are barely embryonic, too. it's sort of a
meeting
> of two worlds out here ...
>
> btw, i am laughing my sitting organ off at this thread, so i've
archived
> some of it:
>
> http://users.ox.ac.uk/~univ0938/gzg/dinosaurs.html
>
> i'll add more if it continues.
>
> > Since everyone is doing a gaming bio in response to your "hello"
post, I
might
> > as well toss my info into the void.
>
> heh, maybe us youngsters should do the same. "i learned to read six
weeks
> ago and started off playing Gorkamorka ...".
>
> i'm only just 19 (but i have learned to walk, and i can just about
write
> my own name :), but i bought Full Thrust first edition, when it came
out
> as the little orange rulebook plus the starter pack of nac and esu
minis
> along with the little cream-coloured scenario sheet (which clearly
> indicates that japan was highly integrated into the NAC, and as such
is
> now considered heretical :), which must have been 1992 or something. i
> played it once or twice, then took up GW's Space Marine (first edition
-
> special actions for elite troops! off-table fire support! a genetic
> engineering lab in the scenery kit!) until i was cured by
rediscovering my
> long-lost FT stuff. i never looked back.
>
> tom
>
>