RE: [GZG-ECC] [FMAS] First CanAm (Trouble with Colonials)

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> From: Barclay, Tom [SMTP:tomb@bitheads.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 8:33 PM
> To:	'gzg-test@csua.berkeley.edu'; 'gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu'
> Subject:	[GZG-ECC] [FMAS] First CanAm (Trouble with Colonials)
> 
> Aside:This convention was superb. Jon D and Indy are owed a lot by the
> participants. Especially when poor Prince Jerry couldn't make it down
due
> to
> the abscense of papers to confirm he wasn't an illegal alien....
> The Command Staff did an amazing job of organizing it, and Jon has
secured
> us reasonable facility rates for the next three years. Three cheers
for
> the
> Organizers! Hip Hip Hooray! Hip Hip Hooray! Hip Hip Hooray!
> And three cheers for Geohex and BR Snasis... they were great vendors,
both
> in terms of their loot and their attitudes! Cheers to you too guys! 
> 
> Aside 2.0: It took the Canadians 11 hours on the road (plus Adrian
another
> 5+ today I imagine) to get home due to the Nor'Easter in force. A
> Jacknifed
> rig on I-81 near Frackville kept us in Pennsylvania for a long time.
Picks
> of this situation will also be on my web page shortly. No regrets
though,
> we
> all loved it and will be back! 
> 
> To the event itself:
> 
> A brief AAR. A more complete one with 25 or so digital images shall be
> available as soon as I can get it together. 
> 
[snip]
>  A grenade was rolled down the
> corridor, killing a member of Sgt. Rutherford's force (hiding behind a
> doorframe) [snip] This proved to be typical of the night.
> Anyone with cover shifts pretty much died from grenades, those in the
open
> lived. End of night total: people in the open: 6, hand grenades: 0.
Three
> or
> four guys using doorframes or other hard cover died in the same
blasts. 
> 
[Bri] OK. New FMASk weapon: Door Frame projector. Mounts just under
the GL on AARs. Expels a doorframe at the target providing just enough
cover that the automatically fired, follow-up grenade is devastating.
;-)

[snip]

> At this time, the Canadian position looked secure on the right flank,
and
> weak on their left with Magic and Rick pushing. Then the Canadians got
> lucky
> and got a powerful random event - a traitor. The turncoat Cpl. Brian
Bell
> (obviously with some distant relation to Jim Bell) pulled off his
> Star-Spangled Banner revealing a Maple Leaf! He turned on Cpl. Goodall
> with
> his SAW and proceeded to fire a belt of blanks.... (how do you miss at
2"?
> bad dice). He then fled to join the Canadians, changing the dynamic of
> that
> front somewhat and weakening the US team while strengthening the
Canadian
> Team. 
> 
Hey! Wait a minute! I've been slandered! It must have been someone else!
Anyway, that's what you get for recruiting a Nihilist.

[snip] 
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