RE: FMAS names

I'll take the bait.

Apocalypse Now, "...Charlie don't surf....." said by Col Kilgour (Robert
Duvall). The whole purpose in the movie of the air assault onto the
beach/village was so that Kilgour could have his boys surf on that
particular beach!

Way back when, we used to have a guy who would get drunk on bourbon and
sit
in semi darkness in his room in barracks (he was a Corporal - US Army
Sergeant equiv- Section Commander so had his own room - called a Jack
Room)
and watch Apocalypse Now with the sound turned off but reciting much of
the
script......not really weird ....but creepy...

Owen G
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> [mailto:owner-gzg-l@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU]On Behalf Of Allan Goodall
> Sent: Sunday, 18 February 2001 8:48 AM
> To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> Subject: Re: FMAS names
>
>
> On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 23:31:46 +0000, Ground Zero Games <jon@gzg.com>
wrote:
>
> >I think that may be FireFIGHT, but will have to check.
>
> By golly, you're right. "Fire Fight", copyright 1985. "Firefight"
> was an SPI
> modern tactical board game, and "Firepower" was an Avalon Hill
> skirmish game.
> There was a PC game called "Fireteam" that came out in the late
> '90s. West End
> Games also had a tactical combat board game called "Fireteam".
>
> Here are a couple of my name ideas.
>
> "Overwatch" - I like this one, but don't know if you'd have
> problems with GW.
> GW likes to think it invented the term (though I first came
> across the term in
> the '70s when discussing infantry tactics).
>
> "Reaction Fire" - The name is based on a term in Stargrunt, so it
> has that SG2
> connection.
>
> "Target Rich Environment" - Kind of cumbersome, but it's a known
> phrase, has a
> simple acronym (TRE) and fits in with a three word title like "Bugs
Don't
> Surf".
>
> "Die Shift" - Okay, this is frivolous, but at least it fits the
> two syllable
> theme, and it has the word "die" in it!
>
> By the way... Everyone knows where the term "bugs" comes from
> when regarding
> aliens (Starship Troopers or Aliens, take your pick). I remember
> talking to
> someone who didn't realise that "Bugs Don't Surf" is a take off
> on a phrase in
> a war movie! I know the movie (don't have it on DVD yet), but can
> anyone else
> name the movie, the actual phrase, and the name of the character
> saying the
> phrase? *G*
>
>
> Allan Goodall 		 awg@sympatico.ca
> Goodall's Grotto:  http://www.vex.net/~agoodall
>
> "Now, see, if you combine different colours of light,
>  you get white! Try that with Play-Doh and you get
>  brown! How come?" - Alan Moore & Kevin Nolan,
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