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Eric, What a great idea and product. I cant wait to see it. I think you might be selling this too cheap however. If it is something someone can run every ship...
James
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Mar 24, 2006
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... I wasn't sure on the pricing. The danger is that the people who really want it will buy it, which will probably represent only a handful of people, and...
Eric Hotz
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Mar 24, 2006
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Well, I'm interested in the period, but hadn't considered getting into gaming it, so you've added one new player, at the very least. The pdf format seems to...
Al Hazlett
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Mar 24, 2006
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Hello, My name is Chris, and I saw your ship and site listed at the 10mm Yahoo group or Classical Hack's site or somewhere and was very amazed and happy to...
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Mar 24, 2006
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From: "Eric Hotz" Subject: Re: I do not know about you but I am very excited about this! I wasn't sure on the pricing. The danger is that the people who really...
Charles Duggie
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Mar 24, 2006
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After getting back from a dinner engagement (had relatives from Switzerland show up) at 2am, I was looking over the 15mm scale Liburnian model sitting on my...
Eric Hotz
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Mar 24, 2006
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As you can see, the problem with scaling has little to do with the Roman Seas models themselves. Because Roman Seas models are rendered in vector art, as...
Eric Hotz
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Mar 24, 2006
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Hello Chuck, ... Originally we started this whole project by making Elizabethan ships, and these started to work very nicely, although information on the ships...
Eric Hotz
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Mar 25, 2006
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Hi Eric, Some people will use say 1/600th (2-3mm scale) scale ships simultaneously with 6mm or 10mm or even 15mm figures on land, and some fellow told me this...
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Mar 25, 2006
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Hello Chris, I play ACW in 6mm and use 1/600th scale transports and gunboats. Works and looks fine. The cost of 1/300th scale figs for Roman Seas is not a lot....
Eric Hotz
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Mar 25, 2006
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Hi Eric, I figured you were wise to that. I would stick with the 1/300th for ancients. You have made a Veneti ship, and I bet you can use the Saxon ships in ...
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... The Saxon ships are designed after Saxon ships, not Viking, so I think they are probably late Gaelic ships. Not sure what the Gaelic ships looked really...
Eric Hotz
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Mar 25, 2006
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Everything that I have read, and there is not all that much info. anyway, about the Veneti or Veniti Gallic ships was that the large ones were larger, at least...
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Mar 25, 2006
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Do each single thing as if you know nothing else. - The Tao of Shinsei - Eric wrote: <Why do books and Hollywood always leave <the Roman navy stuff out of...
naismith@...
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Mar 25, 2006
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... The first ship models I ever built were Ironclads... fun to game, and because few of these ships actually had their hulls showing, not that difficult to...
Eric Hotz
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Mar 25, 2006
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... and ... that ... Yes, the angular shape lends itself very well to paper modelling. ... into ... all ... wouldn't ... Offhand I don't know a good resource -...
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I owuld have remained an archaeologist if we had stuff like that on the westcoast of North America! Hi; Where are you? I'm in Los Angeles. Chuck ... Blab-away...
Charles Duggie
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Mar 26, 2006
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You can get all 3 of Connolly's books rolled into one with a lot more added info. in his book 'Greece and Rome at War', and John Wary's 'Warfare in the...
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Mar 26, 2006
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Here are some reference links for you Eric. Chris: http://navis.terraromana.org/Forum.php5 Click on the pics at the bottom, and there are some other links down...
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Here is another reference links for you Eric. Chris: http://home.tiscali.nl/meester7/engheavier.html The biggest galley ever built In the Hellenistic era (from...
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Re: [roman_seas] Where are you Eric? I would have remained an archaeologist if we had stuff like that on the westcoast of North America! Hi; Where are you? I'm...
Eric Hotz
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Hi Eric, Great looking models. I'm very anxious to try putting a few of them together. I was wondering though, if you (or anyone really) makes 6mm "stand- up"...
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Mar 27, 2006
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Tom, here is a link to some paper soldiers: http://juniorgeneral.org/paper.html#ancients why not try printing them "scaled" to fit the ships. He has quite a...
Steve DeYoung
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Mar 27, 2006
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... I will ponder making 6mm paper miniatures... hmmm (in ponder mode). The trick to painting 6mm figures, especially medievals and ancients is to black base...
Eric Hotz
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Heh heh hee. Good move with the cast away paints/inks!! Here is a place where very innovative and field expedient people visit to share their methods of...
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I think the roman mile fort and estate I have has some that were done in 6mm or 10mm I will have to check. It should not be hard to do something in that scale...
James Mattes
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... I'm really looking forward to the release of your ships and rules, Eric. Don't keep us waiting *too* long! ;-) In the mean time, I thought I might get a...
Michael DAuben
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Michael, the figures used by Eric are H&R, not Baccus so there might be some gaps. Baccus does not make a heavy ballsta at the moment, but as a suggestion what...
Steve DeYoung
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... Yes, I saw that. It was just that Eric was praising the Baccus figures so much on his website I thought I would go with them. :-) ... Sounds reasonable....
Michael DAuben
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Michael, Oh... thats my fault. The 80 strips is the old packaging which I am transfering over to the new 24 strip packs. sorry for the confusion. It would be...
Steve DeYoung
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