Re: An introduction - Wargame, meet significant other. . .

ScottSaylo@aol.com wrote:

>  Buy a simple miniatures game. Then a more complex one. Be
>  prepared to explain the rules without her having read them before
>  hand. Always have two armies, and ask her what sort of colour
>  scheme (at least) one should have. When you go to buy minis,
>  start off by showing her two (tasteful) ones that you like. Ask
>  her to pick one.(At this point, don't buy both of them).

	I tried that with Gina (the guys who went to GenCon 96 will
remember
her).  I tried to teach her Full Thrust and while she understood the
combat mechanics she could never get the grasp of turning.  She would
usually slow her ships down until they stopped and just pivot the rest
of game.  Strangely enough.... she beat me this way each and every time
we played.

	That was before she decided that men didn't interest her and she
dumped
me for the only thing that mattered to her:  Her education and her
career... yes I'm still bitter!
-- 
Later,
Mark A. Siefert

	"People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, 
	they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest,
	strongest animals among men were always automatically 
	'right.'  Guns ended that, an social democracy is a 
	hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work."
						
					--L. Neil Smith
					"The Probability Broach"

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